28.746, Calls: Finnic, East Slavic, Baltic, Gen Ling/Estonia

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LINGUIST List: Vol-28-746. Tue Feb 07 2017. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 28.746, Calls: Finnic, East Slavic, Baltic, Gen Ling/Estonia

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Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2017 16:51:37
From: Ilja Seržant [ilja.serzants at uni-leipzig.de]
Subject: Grammar of Non-Standard Varieties in the East of the Circum-Baltic Area

 
Full Title: Grammar of Non-Standard Varieties in the East of the Circum-Baltic Area 

Date: 01-Feb-2018 - 03-Feb-2018
Location: Tartu, Estonia 
Contact Person: Liina Lindström
Meeting Email: liina.lindstrom at ut.ee
Web Site: http://estdiasyn.ut.ee/conference/ 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Language Family(ies): Baltic; East Slavic; Finnic 

Call Deadline: 30-Sep-2017 

Meeting Description:

The conference will offer a forum for scholars interested in grammatical
phenomena from understudied varieties of the Circum-Baltic area and
potentially foster comparative research on border varieties across genetic
boundaries in the area.

While most of the dialect studies rely on questionnaires of various kinds, it
is only recently that usage-based methods have started to be applied in
dialectology such as corpus-based studies on dialect syntax (cf. Szmrecsanyi &
Kortmann 2009; Szmrecsanyi 2013). While not without limitations and
disadvantages, corpus-based methods can hardly be overestimated in the
dialectological research. Variationist linguists have become interested in
dialectal grammars and the ways they interact with each other as well as with
standard varieties.

The effect of these new and positive developments have been felt less for the
East of the Circum-Baltic area in general. This is despite the creation of a
few important corpora, such as: the morphologically annotated corpus of
Estonian dialects (www.murre.ut.ee/murdekorpus); the TriMCo dialectal corpus
(www.trimco.uni-mainz.de) that will contain annotated dialect records from
non-standard Latgalian, East Lithuanian, Belarusian and Russian Pskov
varieties; corpus of Finnish dialects
(https://etsin.avointiede.fi/dataset/urn-nbn-fi-lb-2014052716). The overall
picture is not substantially changed by the few studies from different
theoretical perspectives on the grammar of Estonian dialects (Uiboaed et al.
2013; Klavan, Pilvik & Uiboaed 2015; Lindström et al., to appear), or West and
North Russian (Tommola 1996; Trubinskij 1972, 1988; Požarickaja 1996; Lavine
2014; Post 2014 or Seržant 2012, 2014).

The first aim of this conference is therefore to gather researchers working on
various domains of grammar of non-standard varieties of the area such as
morphosyntax, syntax, semantics and function of grammatical categories. 

Furthermore, the regional varieties are also more suitable for research on
language contact. Though many borrowings may not only be banned from the
standard, sometimes they simply do not reach the standard and persist only as
regional traits in the close vicinity of the source language. Moreover,
non-standard varieties are much more flexible as regards the accommodation of
borrowed patterns and items. They therefore provide more natural example cases
of these processes and better lend themselves to the study of mechanisms
constraining pattern borrowing. It seems, therefore, that investigating
language contact on the basis of non-standard varieties, especially if they
are also situated close to the respective genetic borders should be more
promising and lucid. The second goal of this conference is thus to approach
language contact from the perspective of the regional varieties. 

Invited Speakers:

Benedikt Szmrecsanyi (Leuven)
Axel Holvoet (Warsaw)
Björn Wiemer (Mainz)
Nicole Nau (Poznan)
Ruprecht von Waldenfels (Zürich), Nina Dobrushina (Moscow), Michael Daniel
(Moscow)
Maria Vilkuna (Helsinki)
Riho Grünthal (Helsinki)
Fedor Rozhanskiy (Tartu/Moscow), Elena Markus (Tartu/Moscow)
Petar Kehayov (Regensburg)


Call for Papers:

We envisage submission on topics including but not limited to the following:

- The description of a particular grammatical phenomenon in a non-standard
variety from the area; corpus-driven accounts are particularly welcome
- Comparative studies on non-standard varieties of genetically different
languages
- Studies providing evidence for language contact on the basis of non-standard
varieties
- Contact-induced variation and change
- The contribution of the varieties to linguistic theory, typology, etc.
- The description of accommodation and propagation mechanisms of a borrowed
pattern in non-standard varieties.

Please submit your abstract via email to all organizers:

Liina Lindström (Tartu, liina.lindstrom[at]ut.ee)
Ilja A. Seržant (Leipzig, ilja.serzants[at]uni-leipzig.de)
Maarja-Liisa Pilvik (Tartu, maarja-liisa.pilvik[at]ut.ee)




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