27.2508, Calls: Anthropological Ling, General Ling, Historical Ling, Lang Doc, Typology/France

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Subject: 27.2508, Calls: Anthropological Ling, General Ling, Historical Ling, Lang Doc, Typology/France

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Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2016 10:02:23
From: Lameen Souag [lameen at gmail.com]
Subject: From Field to Theory: 40 Years of LACITO

Full Title: From Field to Theory: 40 Years of LACITO 
Short Title: LACITO40 

Date: 15-Nov-2016 - 17-Nov-2016
Location: Villejuif, France 
Contact Person: Lameen Souag
Meeting Email: lacitocnrs at gmail.com

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Language Documentation; Typology 

Call Deadline: 24-Jun-2016 

Meeting Description:

In 2016, the department LACITO ''Langues et civilisations à tradition orale''
(LACITO, French National Center for Scientific Research - Paris 3 Sorbonne
Nouvelle - INALCO) is celebrating its 40th anniversary. We are marking the
occasion with a conference bringing together colleagues from throughout the
discipline.

LACITO was founded in 1976 by Jacqueline M.C. Thomas, with help from
André-Georges Haudricourt. The documentation and description of unwritten
languages within their cultural contexts has always been at the core of its
activities. LACITO has played a pioneering role in the gathering, processing,
and diffusion of data on previously little-known languages. Our members have
published grammars and dictionaries of many dozens of languages, along with a
number of oral literature collections.

All together, we have studied more than 200 languages from many different
families: Abkhazo-Adyghean, Afroasiatic, Arawakan, Austroasiatic,
Austronesian, Basque, Cariban, Dravidian, Eskimo-Aleut, Hmong-Mien,
Indo-European, Japonic, Kartvelian, Korean, Nakh-Daghestanian, Niger-Congo,
Oto-Manguean, Uralic, Sino-Tibetan, Songhay, Tai-Kadai, Tucanoan, Tupi. Since
1994 our field recordings have been made available through the Pangloss
Collection, an online archive of glossed and translated audio recordings.

In both linguistics and anthropology, the comparative dimension (diachronic
and synchronic) occupies a key position in LACITO's research. Our comparative
studies started out by addressing historical developments and universal laws
governing change. In recent decades, the typological perspective has opened up
further research domains in phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics,
which we have explored and helped to refine.
Finally, French ethnolinguistics at LACITO has developed and oriented itself
towards dialogue pragmatics and linguistic anthropology. In this domain,
LACITO has distinguished itself by adopting multiple paradigms (discourse
practices, speech events and utterance events, speech situations, activity
types) and by exploring the cognitive dimension of discourse tropes.
Particular attention has been paid to musical forms, lyrics, lexical
taxonomies, and ethnoscience.

Over the years, LACITO has produced a total of 525 books: 379 monographs
(grammars, dictionaries, etc.) and 146 collective works (see
bit.ly/LACITOOuvrages).

Scientific committee: Sandra Bornand (LLACAN), Guillaume Jacques (CRLAO),
Bertrand Masquelier (LACITO), Alexis Michaud (LACITO), Samia Naïm (LACITO)

Organizing committee: Lameen Souag, Anne Behaghel-Dindorf, Isabelle Leblic,
René Lacroix

Call for Papers: 

We invite submissions from interested researchers, whether or not they have
been linked to LACITO, related to any of the following themes:

Language description
- Methods of data collection: uses and limitations
(questionnaires, audio/video recording, experiments…)
- Language documentation
(corpus processing and annotation, archival, access…)
- Creating dictionaries and grammars

Historical and typological comparison
- Historical linguistics (reconstruction, genealogy, language contact)
- Typological generalisations (universals, tendencies, rarissima…)
- Typology of language change (grammaticalization, panchrony…)

Ethnolinguistics and linguistic anthropology
- Dialogue and reported discourse
- Speech events and speech situations
- Sociolinguistic ethnography

Communications will be 20 minutes long, followed by 10 minutes of discussion.
Proposals (title+abstract) relating to one of the three themes above should be
submitted to lacitocnrs at gmail.com by 24 June 2016.

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