21.1713, Calls: Discipline of Ling, General Ling, Slavic Lang/USA

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Subject: 21.1713, Calls: Discipline of Ling, General Ling, Slavic Lang/USA

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Date: 07-Apr-2010
From: Lenore Grenoble < grenoble at uchicago.edu >
Subject: Slavic Linguistics Society
 

	
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Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2010 11:56:35
From: Lenore Grenoble [grenoble at uchicago.edu]
Subject: Slavic Linguistics Society

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Full Title: Slavic Linguistics Society 
Short Title: SLS2010 

Date: 29-Oct-2010 - 31-Oct-2010
Location: Chicago, Illinois, USA 
Contact Person: Lenore Grenoble
Meeting Email: SlavicLinguisticSociety2010 at gmail.com
Web Site: http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/sls2010/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Discipline of Linguistics; General Linguistics 

Language Family(ies): Slavic Subgroup 

Call Deadline: 15-Jul-2010 

Meeting Description:

The Fifth Annual Meeting of the Slavic Linguistics Society
University of Chicago
29-31 October 2010
http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/sls2010/

The purpose of the Slavic Linguistic Society is to create a community of
students and scholars interested in Slavic linguistics in its broadest
sense, that is, the systematic and scholarly study of the Slavic languages
and the contacts of Slavic with non-Slavic languages. The Society aspires
to be as open and inclusive as possible; no school, framework, approach, or
theory is presupposed, nor is there any restriction in terms of geography,
academic affiliation or status. 

Call for Papers

We are currently accepting abstracts for the upcoming meeting of the Slavic
Linguistics Society, to be held in Chicago, 29-31 October. 

Abstracts submitted by 30 April will be notified of acceptance by 1 June. 
We will hold a second round of abstracts, closing on 15 July, with notification
by 1 September

Special Workshop on Contact Linguistics
In conjunction with SLS2010, we will be running a special 
workshop on contact linguistics and Slavic languages. 

Invited Speakers: 
Jouko Lindstedt (Professor of Slavonic Philology, Department of Modern
Languages, University of Helsinki) 
and 
Aleksandr Rusakov (Professor in the Department of General Linguistics,
University of St. Petersburg & Researcher in Linguistics, Russian Academy of
Sciences)

We invite paper proposals on all aspects of contact and Slavic, diachronic and
synchronic, including such topics as contact and the development of the Slavic
languages, contact between different Slavic languages, and contact between
Slavic and non-Slavic languages. 

Note: if you have already submitted an abstract and wish to have it considered
for the workshop, please send a message to us at
slaviclinguisticsociety2010 at gmail.com

Description: 
For millennia, speakers of Slavic languages have expanded over a considerable
territory, coming into contact with speakers of other languages, both Slavic and
non-Slavic. These contacts have left their imprint on the Slavic languages and
have played important roles in their differentiation over time. By the same
token, many of the Slavic languages have had a significant impact on the other
languages they have come in contact with. The introduction of writing in the
late first millennium brought yet another vehicle for contact influences, in
particular from Greek in the early period, but continuing as a vehicle for
change with the development of the literary traditions of the different Slavic
languages. 

The range and extent of contact-induced phenomena vary according to time and
language and are often difficult to assess. Cases of lexical borrowing are
generally clear, in terms of what is the source and what is the target, but in
other areas of potential contact-induced change, it can be difficult if not
impossible, to prove without question that a given phenomenon or feature is the
result of contact and not independent innovation or shared inheritance. This is
perhaps particularly true for the impact of one Slavic variety upon the other,
where the genetic and typological properties of both are extremely close to one
another. Additional ambiguities are introduced by the fact that some important
contact phenomena occurred during the prehistoric period.





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