28.3458, Calls: Anth Ling, Gen Ling, Historical Ling, Lang Doc/South Africa

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Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2017 13:37:06
From: Florian Lionnet [flionnet at princeton.edu]
Subject: ''Keeping up with Khoisan'' Workshop

 
Full Title: "Keeping up with Khoisan" Workshop 

Date: 01-Jul-2018 - 06-Jul-2018
Location: Cape Town, South Africa 
Contact Person: Lee Pratchett
Meeting Email: pratchle at hu-berlin.de
Web Site: http://www.icl20capetown.com/images/WorkshopSummaries/56.-Keeping-up-Khoisan.pdf 

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

Language Family(ies): Khoisan 

Call Deadline: 31-Aug-2017 

Meeting Description:

''Keeping Up Khoisan'', workshop on Khoisan languages to be held during the
20th International Congress of Linguistics in Cape Town, South Africa (1
July–6 July 2018).

The past few decades have witnessed significant progress in the documentation
and description of so-called “Khoisan” languages. Large documentation
projects, numerous important volumes of work (Vossen 2013, Güldemann & Fehn
2014, a.o.), specialist conferences, and a new generation of scholars are
positive developments in our field at a time when the label “Khoisan”
continues to be misunderstood, misused and misappropriated. Specialists now
agree that Greenberg’s (1963) “Khoisan” is not a single linguistic phylum, but
a set of five unrelated languages and language families sharing specific
linguistic features: Kx’a, Tuu, Khoe-Kwadi, Sandawe, and Hadza (cf. Güldemann
2008, 2014). In a bid to avert confusion or potential conflict, some scholars
employ periphrastic designations, such as “non-Bantu click languages”, or
purely geographical ones, such as “Kalahari Basin Area languages”. But it
seems quite clear, the label “Khoisan” is not going anywhere soon, as
non-specialists in particular continue to use it. Thus, on the occasion of
ICL20 in Cape Town – a place of historical and continued special importance
for Khoisan research – this workshop aims at bringing together researchers
working on all the languages subsumed under “Khoisan,” in the spirit of
reaffirming the term “Khoisan” 90 years after its first use by Schultze
(1928), and redefining it to the broader public as an appropriate term of
convenience, much like “Papuan” or “Australian.”


Dear colleagues,

We would like to invite you to submit an abstract to a workshop on Khoisan
languages to be held during the 20th International Congress of Linguistics.

>From the treasures of the Bleek & Lloyd notebooks to large scale
cross-dialectal comparisons with the aid of computational methods, this
workshop invites contributions pertaining to the study of Khoisan languages,
in particular (but not exclusively) in the following domains:

- Use of legacy materials for the description of Khoisan languages
- Areal phenomena across languages of the Kalahari Basin
- Contribution of Khoisan languages to linguistic typology
- Contribution of Khoisan languages to linguistic theory
- Application of computational methods to the study of Khoisan languages
- Cultural attrition and language change among Khoisan language speakers
- Community-based documentation in action
- Interdisciplinary studies, including anthropology, genetics, archaeology,
etc.

Please submit your abstract online by August 31, 2017
(http://www.icl20capetown.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=172
&Itemid=2643)

For more information:
- on the conference: http://icl20capetown.com/index.php 
- on the workshop:
http://icl20capetown.com/images/WorkshopSummaries/56.-Keeping-up-Khoisan.pdf 
- on the abstract submission guidelines:
http://icl20capetown.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=172&Item
id=2643  

The workshop organizers:
Lee J. Pratchett (lee.pratchett at hu-berlin.de)
Florian Lionnet (flionnet at princeton.edu)




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