26.4773, Calls: English, Historical Ling/Ireland

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Subject: 26.4773, Calls: English, Historical Ling/Ireland

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Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 15:27:04
From: Nikolaos Lavidas [nlavidas at enl.auth.gr]
Subject: ESSE 2016 Seminar: Change from Above in the History of English

Full Title: ESSE 2016 Seminar: Change from Above in the History of English 

Date: 22-Aug-2016 - 26-Aug-2016
Location: Galway, Ireland 
Contact Person: Nikolaos Lavidas
Meeting Email: nlavidas at enl.auth.gr
Web Site: http://www.esse2016.org 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 30-Dec-2015 

Meeting Description:

This seminar explores cases of change from above in the history of English. Change from above refers to the consciousness dimension of linguistic change, to changes that come from above the level of a speaker’s conscious awareness (cf. Labov 1965, 1994). It concerns cases of borrowings from languages which the dominant classes consider prestigious, or conscious selection, such as the retention and the re-introduction of affirmative do in seventeenth century documents (cf., for instance, Rissanen 1991) or the diachrony of negative concord (among others, Nevalainen 2006). The seminar will discuss, among other issues, the (re)introduction of elements by the dominant social class in various stages of the history of English, their correlation with changes in other features, their (non)integration into the vernacular system, formal vs. functional approaches to change from above and the question of the coexistent systems.

References 
Labov, William. 1965. “On the mechanism of linguistic change.” Georgetown Monographs on Language and Linguistics 18, 91-114. 
Labov, William. 1994. Principles of Linguistic Change. Volume 1: Internal Factors. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
Nevalainen, Terttu. 2006. “Negative concord as an English ‘vernacular universal’: Social history and linguistic typology.” Journal of English Linguistics 34.3, 257-278.
Rissanen, Matti. 1991. “Spoken language and the history of do-periphrasis”. In Dieter Kastovsky (ed.), Historical English Syntax. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 321-342.

Convenors:

- Nikolaos Lavidas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, nlavidas at enl.auth.gr
- Jim Walker, Université Lumière Lyon 2, France, Jim.Walker at univ-lyon2.fr

Call for Papers: 

We are glad to announce a Call for Papers for the Seminar ''Change from above in the history of English'' to be held at the ESSE 2016 Conference in Galway (22-26 August 2016).

More information on the ESSE 2016 conference can be found at http://www.esse2016.org/index.html.

Abstract submission and deadlines:

Participants are invited to submit a 300-word abstract of their proposed papers directly to the convenors of the seminar  (Nikolaos Lavidas, nlavidas at enl.auth.gr; Jim Walker, Jim.Walker at univ-lyon2.fr) before 30 December 2015. 

Submission format:

- First name and surname
- Institutional affiliation
- E-mail
- Title of paper
- Abstract (300 words, excluding references)

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