28.66, Calls: Historical Linguistics/Finland

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Subject: 28.66, Calls: Historical Linguistics/Finland

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Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2017 14:45:09
From: Sampsa Holopainen [sampsa.holopainen at helsinki.fi]
Subject: Contextualizing Historical Lexicology. State of the Art of the Etymological Research within Linguistics

 
Full Title: Contextualizing Historical Lexicology. State of the Art of the Etymological Research within Linguistics 

Date: 15-May-2017 - 17-May-2017
Location: Helsinki, Finland 
Contact Person: Sampsa Holopainen
Meeting Email: sampa.holopainen at helsinki.fi

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 31-Jan-2017 

Meeting Description:

Contextualizing historical lexicology. State of the art of the etymological
research within linguistics. University of Helsinki, May 15-17 2017

Organized by the project ''Inherited and borrowed in the history of the Uralic
languages'' (funded by Kone Foundation)

As one of the early established fields in linguistics, historical lexicology,
and, most notably, etymology, still attract the interest of linguistic
scholars. From early on, they have been a central part of
historical-comparative linguistics, and developed in connection with the sound
history and the historical grammar. 

Two historical processes, that of the inheritance and borrowing, are in the
core of language change, and the historical-comparative method. In the
historical lexicology, the Indo-European language family, with many early
established literary documents has occupied a central position in the studies
of inheritance expressed in the reconstruction of protolanguages. Likewise,
the study of Uralic languages has probably been on top in the studies
regarding borrowings, especially due to early contacts with the well
established Indo-European family. Many other language families remain
understudied from the point of view of historical lexicology, and the
processes of inheritance and borrowing within a language family remain blurred
in many contexts.

Currently, new developments are underway, that bring in a historical dimension
to the typological linguistics. The processes of grammaticalization, borrowing
and language contact as well as polysemy and semantic change are becoming an
integral part of the language descriptions and language comparisons. It is,
therefore, important to evaluate the context of the historical lexicology as a
part of the linguistic science more in detail and integrate it more profoundly
to the typological linguistics. 

Invited Speakers:

Johanna Nichols, Berkeley, USA
Martine Vanhove, Paris, France
Martin Kümmel, Jena, Germany
Ante Aikio, Guovdageaidnu, Sápmi/Norway


Call for Papers:

The conference Contextualizing historical lexicology invites scholars with the
interest especially on the theory of historical lexicology including
etymology, and the language contact in history. The aim is to discuss new
developments in the reconstruction of Ianguage contacts, loanword layers,
individual etymologies as well as the methodologies of etymology and, on a
more general level, historical lexicology. The conference further aims at
integration of the etymological studies in the framework of theoretical
linguistics by investigating the interface of etymology and grammar,
development of vocabulary in several languages simultaneously, and the general
tendencies of semantic and phonological development. 

Abstracts with no more than 2000 characters should be sent via this e-platform
https://elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/76228/lomake.html by January 31, 2017.
The abstracts will be reviewed by February 10, 2017. For questions, contact
Janne Saarikivi (janne.saarikivi at helsinki.fi) or Sampsa Holopainen
(sampsa.holopainen at helsinki.fi)




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