Title: Quantitative Approaches to Areal Linguistic Typology<br>Date: 13-14 December, 2012<br>Location: KNAW, Trippenhuis, Kloveniersburgwal 29, Amsterdam, the Netherlands<br>
<br>WORKSHOP ON QUANTITATIVE APPROACHES TO AREAL LINGUISTIC TYPOLOGY<br><br>Description: The idea that geographically proximal languages share<br>structural features due to contact has a long history in<br>linguistics. Delimiting linguistic areas that arise from contact, and<br>
specifying the linguistics features that define them have, however,<br>typically depended on relatively subjective judgments regarding the<br>boundaries of such areas and the significance of particular linguistic<br>features. Thanks to the increasing availability of large scale<br>
databases of linguistic features, it is now becoming possible to apply<br>statistical techniques and computational models to systematize and<br>render more objective the identification and evaluation of linguistic<br>areal phenomena, and to thereby deepen our understanding of linguistic<br>
areality.<br><br>The workshop invites presentations including, but not limited to, the<br>following topics:<br><br> * Models for objective and systematic assessment and inference of areality<br> * Soft versus hard boundaries of language contact phenomena<br>
* Phylogenetics and separating genetic versus areal origins for linguistic features<br> * Stability and importance of areal versus genetic characteristics of languages<br> * Macro-areality versus micro-areality<br> * The role of population movements and social history in areal typology<br>
* Methods and ideas from dialectology applied to areal linguistics and vice versa<br><br>Plenary Speakers (confirmed):<br><br>* Will Chang (University of California, Berkeley)<br>* Balthasar Bickel (ZAS, Z rich)<br>* Michael Cysouw (Marburg University)<br>
* Mark Donohue (Australian National University)<br>* Michael Dunn (MPI Nijmegen)<br>* Tom Guldemann (Humboldt-University, Berlin)<br><br>Submission: We invite submission of abstracts for 45-minute<br>presentations. The desired length for abstracts is 1 page of text<br>
(plus any amount of pages of references or data tables). Abstracts<br>should be sent to <a href="mailto:arealquantworkshop@gmail.com" target="_blank">arealquantworkshop@gmail.com</a> <<a href="mailto:arealquantworkshop@gmail.com" target="_blank">arealquantworkshop@gmail.com</a>><br>
*BEFORE OCT 15, 2012*.<br><br>Additional Information: The workshop is being held in combination with<br>the KNAW Conference on Language Dispersal in Africa, South-East Asia,<br>and South America and the Workshop on Ritual & Secret Languages,<br>
Amsterdam 11-14 December. Participants are encouraged to attend these<br>events as well.<br><br>The organisers foresee the publication of a proceedings as a special<br>issue of a suitable journal or as a thematic volume with a suitable<br>
publisher.<br><br>Important dates:<br>-Oct 15, 2012: Deadline for submission of abstracts<br>-Oct 22, 2012: Notification of acceptance<br>-Dec 13-14, 2012: Workshop <br><br>Organisers:<br>* Harald Hammarstr m (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen and MPI EVA, Leipzig) <a href="mailto:h.hammarstrom@let.ru.nl" target="_blank">h.hammarstrom@let.ru.nl</a><br>
* Lev Michael (University of California at Berkeley) <a href="mailto:levmichael@berkeley.edu" target="_blank">levmichael@berkeley.edu</a><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
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