29.3072, Calls: Anthro Ling, Genetic Classification, Morphology, Phonology, Syntax/Austria

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Subject: 29.3072, Calls: Anthro Ling, Genetic Classification, Morphology, Phonology, Syntax/Austria

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Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2018 14:13:23
From: Karsten Legère [karsten.legere at univie.ac.at]
Subject: 14th Nilo-Saharan Linguistics Conference

 
Full Title: 14th Nilo-Saharan Linguistics Conference 

Date: 29-May-2019 - 01-Jun-2019
Location: Vienna, Austria 
Contact Person: Georg Ziegelmeiier
Meeting Email: georg.ziegelmeyer at univie.ac.at

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Genetic Classification; Morphology; Phonology; Syntax 

Call Deadline: 31-Aug-2018 

Meeting Description:

Among the African linguistic phyla, the Nilo-Saharan language group is a more
recent one. After Joseph Greenberg had proposed this in 1963, arguments for
and against the validity of the phylum were brought up. Though the existence
of a Nilo-Saharan phylum is nowadays largely accepted, there are still
diverging views about the internal relations, especially with regard to the
kind and the degree of linguistic relationship. Those among us, who remember
the fruitful arguments of Lionel Bender and Christopher Ehret in the end of
the last century, will agree that such discussions have helped us to
understand the complexity of Nilo-Saharan.

Now, several decades later data on Nilo-Saharan languages have grown
enormously. On the one hand, it will be important to further increase the
knowledge of the individual languages. On the other hand, the analyses of the
internal genetic or contact based relations will finally lead us to get a
better understanding of the linguistic and historical complexity in Africa.
The fact that the Nilo-Saharan languages are spread over a large area in East,
Central and West Africa also resulted in growing dissimilarities between the
different linguistic groups. They are interrupted by languages and families of
the Niger-Congo and Afro-Asiatic phyla. This may lead us to the assumption
that areal features may also have affected the Nilo-Saharan languages and vice
versa.

Contact Emails:
- georg.ziegelmeyer at univie.ac.at
- norbert.cyffer at univie.ac.at
- karsten.legere at univie.ac.at


Call for Papers:

We invite contributors to present papers which contain data and analyses of
these languages or language units. At the same time, presentations are highly
welcome, in which relations between languages and language groups are
presented.

We encourage participants to present contributions in the field of:
– the inventory and validity of the Nilo-Saharan languages,
– internal relations within the Nilo-Saharan phylum,
– new linguistic data of individual languages,
– common linguistic features in Nilo-Saharan,
– areal and contact features in Nilo-Saharan.

Deadline for panel submission: August, 31 2018
Deadline for abstract submission: October, 30 2018 
(send to: georg.ziegelmeyer at univie.ac.at)
Notification of acceptance: November, 30 2018

Gudelines for Abstracts:

The first page must contain the title of the paper, author’s name,
affiliation, postal address and email. The second page must be left anonymous,
with only the title of the paper, 3 keywords, and the text of the abstract of
no more than 500 words. Data must include interlinear glosses following the
Leipzig Glossing Rules. The 500-word abstract should be single-spaced and in a
Unicode font no smaller than 11 point, and in .pdf or .doc/.docx format.




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