28.3108, Confs: Gen Ling, Historical Ling, Socioling, Text/Corpus Linguistics/USA

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Subject: 28.3108, Confs: Gen Ling, Historical Ling, Socioling, Text/Corpus Linguistics/USA

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Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2017 12:33:47
From: Mark Richard Lauersdorf [lauersdorf at uky.edu]
Subject: Inaugural Conference of the North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics

 
Inaugural Conference of the North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics 
Short Title: NARNiHS 

Date: 21-Jul-2017 - 23-Jul-2017 
Location: Lexington, Kentucky, USA 
Contact: Mark Richard Lauersdorf 
Contact Email: narnihistsoc at gmail.com 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Meeting Description: 

Event Date/Time: Friday, 21 July 2017 - 7:00pm  to  Sunday, 23 July 2017 -
7:00pm.

Co-Located with the 2017 LSA Linguistics Institute - Lexington, Kentucky, USA.

This event is the inaugural public meeting of the North American Research
Network in Historical Sociolinguistics (NARNiHS). The overall design of this
event is intended to maximize exposure to high-level current work in the field
of historical sociolinguistics, provide hands-on experience in selected tools
and methods in the field, build the professional network, and situate the
field within the broader landscape of general linguistics. The event is free
and open to all interested parties.

Keynote: Stephen Elspaß, Universität Salzburg.

Tags: Computational/Corpus, Contact, Dialectology, Hands-On,
Historical/Change, Methods, Sociolinguistics, Statistical, Variation.
 

Official conference website:
http://www.uky.edu/~mrlaue2/narnihs2017/

Friday – 21 July 2017
Jacobs Science Building, Room 321

7:00-8:30 pm
Opening Keynote Presentation

7:00-8:30 
The Present and Future of Historical Sociolinguistics
Stephan Elspaß (Universität Salzburg)

Social gathering immediately following the Keynote Presentation.
[weather permitting, at Michler's Kentucky Native Café:
https://www.michlers.com/pages/cafe]

Saturday – 22 July 2017
Jacobs Science Building, Room 321

9:00-9:30 am
Arrival/Registration

Presentation Session #1:

9:30-10:00 am
Reconstructing historical sociolinguistic conditions from loanwords: The case
of ERIC loans in the Balkans
Brian D. Joseph, The Ohio State University

10:00-10:30 am
Dialect contact and change in an Arabic morpheme: Examining Jordanian and
Palestinian dialects
Uri Horesh and Enam Al-Wer, both University of Essex

10:30-11:00 am Coffee and Networking Break

Presentation Session #2:

11:00-11:30 pm
Generational differences in Voice Onset Time and Final Obstruent
Neutralization in Wisconsin German and English, 1863-2013
Samantha Litty, University of Wisconsin-Madison

11:30-12:00 pm
A failed attempt of standardization in the third-person clitic pronoun system
in Spanish
Fernando Tejedo-Herrero, University of Wisconsin-Madison

12:00-2:00 pm
Networking Lunch 
A private dining area ideal for networking is reserved for conference
presenters and attendees to continue the conversations at the Fresh Food
Company @ The 90. Multiple food stations are available for a reasonable price
for those who wish to buy their lunch there.

Presentation Session #3:

2:00-2:30 pm
Regional Variation of Verbal -s in Earlier African American English
Nandi Sims, The Ohio State University

2:30-3:00 pm
Documenting 'Earlier' American English
Michael Montgomery, University of South Carolina

3:00-3:30 pm
Coffee and Networking Break 

3:30-6:00 pm
Hands-on Workshop  — Jacobs Science Building, Room 221
A Historical Sociolinguist's Digital Starter Kit
Kelly E. Wright, University of Kentucky
Possibility for impromptu organization of evening meal together.

Sunday – 23 July 2017
Jacobs Science Building, Room 321

9:00-9:30 am
Arrival/Registration 

Presentation Session #4:

9:30-10:00 am
The History of Folk Linguistics and Historical Folk Linguistics
Dennis R. Preston, Oklahoma State University & Michigan State University
Emeritus

10:00-10:30 am
Historical sociolinguistics and language shift: On verticalization
Joseph Salmons, University of Wisconsin-Madison

10:30-11:00 am Coffee and Networking Break 

Presentation Session #5:

11:00-11:30 
The Relevance of Social and Cultural Histories in Understanding Heritage
Language Shift
Joshua R. Brown, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire

11:30-12:00 
Verticalization and Language Shift Among the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians
Benjamin E. Frey, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of
American Studies

12:00-2:00 pm
Networking Lunch 
A private dining area ideal for networking is reserved for conference
presenters and attendees to continue the conversations at the Fresh Food
Company @ The 90. Multiple food stations are available for a reasonable price
for those who wish to buy their lunch there.

Presentation Session #6:

2:00-2:30 om
Historical Sociolinguistic Studies of North American Indian Sign Language
Jeffrey E. Davis, The University of Tennessee

2:30-3:00 pm
The rise of the 19th century English progressive: variation between individual
verbs
Alina Ladygina and Igor Yanovich, both University of Tübingen, The DFG Center
for Advanced Studies ''Words, Bones, Genes, Tools''

3:00-4:00 pm Coffee and Networking Break

4:00-6:00 pm 
Poster/Software Session — Jacobs Science Building, Room 221

- Athenians talk like this, but Thessalians talk like this: What the Attic
plays tell us about the sociolinguistics of Classical Greek discourse
Phillip Barnett and Taha Husain, both University of Kentucky

- The Haks Language Modeling System: Examples from Buddhist Texts in Sanskrit,
Tibetan and Chinese
Christopher Handy and Michael Litchard, both Independent Scholars

- Additional poster participants from the LSA 2017 Linguistic Institute
general poster session (Corpus Linguistics, Dialectology, Historical
Linguistics, Sociolinguistics).





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