<div dir="ltr"><div>[apologies for <span class="gmail-il">cross</span>-<span class="gmail-il">posting</span>]</div><div><br></div><div>Dear colleagues,</div><div><br></div><div>I would like to draw your attention to the attached <span class="gmail-il">call</span> for <span class="gmail-il">papers</span> for the<br>
SLE 2022 workshop proposal <b>"Spatial and social separation of speech communities and language change".</b> Please see<br>
the text below for details.</div><div><br></div><div>Deadline for short abstracts (300 words) is on <b>November 15.</b><div><div><b><br></b></div><div>Feel free to spread the word with those who might be interested.</div><div><br></div><div>Best wishes,</div><div>Ezequiel Koile</div><div><br></div><div>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div></div></div><div><font size="2"><br></font></div><div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:left" id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-7c1469a5-7fff-1178-b0c7-02878d7de734"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Call for papers:</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:left"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Spatial and social separation of speech communities and language change</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:left"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:left"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Convenors: Ezequiel Koile, Michael Daniel, Pierpaolo Di Carlo, Jeff Good, and Susanne Maria Michaelis</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:left"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(HSE University, Moscow; University at Buffalo; and Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig)</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:left"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:left"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Keywords:</span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> language change, linguistic geography, social structure, multilingualism, language contact</span></font></p><font size="2"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(60,64,67);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The consideration of real-world situations of interaction among language users is integral to the study of language contact and change. The geography of an area has potentially significant effects in shaping such interactions, as do social features of the groups interacting, such as marriage patterns and degrees of political centralization and complexity. There is a specific subset of real-world situations that has recently received increasing attention, namely situations where speech communities are characterized by relatively high degrees of geographical and/or social separation from other communities. These include e.g. </span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">mountainous landscapes where villages lie at different elevations, and small island communities.</span></font></p><font size="2"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(60,64,67);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">There have been claims that language varieties used in spatially and/or socially separated communities show a higher degree of grammatical opacity, more elaborated grammatical paradigms, and rarer sounds compared with closely related neighboring language varieties that have been spatially and socially less separated (Trudgill 2011). This effect has been observed in different regions of the world, such as the Caucasus (Nichols, 2013, 2015, 2016), the Andes (Bentz, 2018), as well as in different dialects of German (Baechler 2016), and surveyed in Urban 2020. As for genuinely social factors, it has been proposed that the strongly endogamic nature of some Caucasian speech communities is a relevant factor in the languages of such communities developing distinctive patterns from their neighboring language communities (Pakendorf et al. 2021, Dobrushina et al. 2020, Kirby et al. 2016).</span></font></p><font size="2"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">In this workshop, we aim at investigating whether the claims made by Trudgill, Nichols, and others hold across other scenarios of spatially and socially separated language communities. The main focus is on societies where traditional, pre-colonial cultural traits are still observable, especially those characterized by small-scale multilingualism (i.e. widespread multilingualism in local languages), though work considering this topic from an areal or global perspective where sociolinguistic information is not available at a high level of detail is included as well. Our goal is to stimulate discussion on the ways in which separation of speech communities from each other, whether this is due to spatial factors, social factors, or a combination of the two impacts patterns of language change and whether it is associated with a distinctive profile from language change in other contexts, as claimed by the mentioned authors. </span></font></p><font size="2"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We invite submissions for papers that study how spatial and social structures shape language structure. Both empirical and theoretical studies are welcome, as well as different scales of granularity, such as small-scale, areal, and global studies. A non-exhaustive list of possible topics is:</span></font></p><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Studies of outcomes of language contact in landscapes where settlements exhibit significantly different degrees of accessibility or connectedness (e.g., mountainous landscapes where villages can be at very different levels of elevation, small island communities and similar situations).</span></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Work on the relationship between marriage patterns and linguistic variation, in particular in contexts where some communities show greater degrees of endogamy than others.</span></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The role of spatial and social factors in conditioning structural features of languages.</span></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Spatial factors as contributing to social separation and the ways that they affect languages.</span></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Studies of language complexity as conditioned by social and spatial separation</span></font></p></li></ul><font size="2"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Please send your non-anonymous abstract of max. 300 words to <a href="mailto:ezequielk@gmail.com">ezequielk@gmail.com</a> by </span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">November 15, 2021</span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. The convenors will carry out a first round of review and notify authors of their decision later that week. Accepted abstracts will be sent to the SLE conference organizers as part of the workshop proposal. Notification of acceptance or rejection of the workshop proposal will be by 15 December, 2021.</span></font></p><font size="2"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">References</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Baechler, R. (2016). Inflectional complexity of nouns, adjectives and articles in closely related (non-)isolated varieties. In R. Baechler & G. Seiler (Eds.), Complexity, isolation, and variation (pp. 15– 46). Berlin, Germany/Boston, MA: Walter de Gruyter.</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-align:justify;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Bentz, C. (2018). Adaptive languages: An information-theoretic account of linguistic diversity. Berlin, Germany/Boston, MA: Walter de Gruyter.</span><a href="https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110560107" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110560107</span></a></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dobrushina, Nina , Michael Daniel , and Yuri Koryakov, Languages and Sociolinguistics of the Caucasus, in Polinsky, Ma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