28.45, Calls: Greek, Gen Ling, Historical Ling, Socioling/UK

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Subject: 28.45, Calls: Greek, Gen Ling, Historical Ling, Socioling/UK

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Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2017 00:54:32
From: Norma Schifano [greekromanceproject at gmail.com]
Subject: (Italo-)Greek Dialects Past & Present: Investigating the Grammars of Endangered Varieties

 
Full Title: (Italo-)Greek Dialects Past & Present: Investigating the Grammars of Endangered Varieties 

Date: 03-Jul-2017 - 03-Jul-2017
Location: Cambridge, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Greek Romance Project
Meeting Email: greekromanceproject at gmail.com
Web Site: http://greekromanceproject.wordpress.com/cidsm12/ 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Sociolinguistics 

Subject Language(s): Greek, Ancient (grc)
                     Greek, Modern (ell)

Call Deadline: 15-Feb-2017 

Meeting Description:

CIDSM 12 will feature a one-day workshop on (Italo-)Greek varieties:
(Italo-)Greek Dialects Past & Present:Investigating the Grammars of Endangered
Varieties.
 
The workshop will be held on the first day of the meeting (3 July). 

The invited speakers for the Workshop are:

- Angela Ralli, University of Patras
- Ioanna Sitaridou, University of Cambridge

The workshop will also feature a presentation of current research by the
Leverhulme-funded project ‘Fading Voices in Southern Italy’ (PI: Adam
Ledgeway, https://greekromanceproject.wordpress.com) and the AHRC-funded
project ‘Greek in Italy’ (PI: James Clackson,
https://greekinitaly.wordpress.com).


Call for Papers:

Abstracts on any aspect of the syntax and/or morphology of the dialects of
Italy will be considered for presentation in the general session, while
abstracts on the syntax and/or morphology of Italo-Greek will be considered
for the Workshop. 

Abstracts for both the main session and the workshop are invited for 20-minute
talks (plus 10 for questions). Submissions are limited to 1 individual and 1
joint abstract per author, or 2 joint abstracts per author. The abstract
should include the title, but not the author’s name(s), which must be
specified in the submission email, along with the affiliation. If your
abstract is intended for the Workshop, please specify this in in your
submission. Abstracts should be no longer than two pages in length (including
examples and references), in 12-point font size.

The conference languages are English and Italian.

Deadline:

Abstracts must be submitted no later than 15 February 2017.
Speakers will be notified of the results of their abstract review by 15 March
2017. 

Abstract submission

Authors are asked to submit their abstracts in PDF format via email attachment
to the conference organizers at the following address:
greekromanceproject at gmail.com 

Further information (including conference fee to cover the costs of the coffee
breaks and room hire) will be provided in due course on the conference webpage
(https://greekromanceproject.wordpress.com/cidsm12/) 

Organizing Committee:

Luigi Andriani
Valentina Colasanti
Alice Corr
Kim Groothuis
Adam Ledgeway
Norma Schifano
Giuseppina Silvestri
M. Olimpia Squillaci




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