29.145, Calls: Tungus, Anthro Ling, Genetic Classification, Historical Ling, Lang Doc, Socioling/Estonia

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Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2018 17:05:21
From: Thomas Payne [tpayne at uoregon.edu]
Subject: The Tungusic Language Family through the Ages: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

 
Full Title: The Tungusic Language Family through the Ages: Interdisciplinary perspectives 

Date: 29-Aug-2018 - 01-Sep-2018
Location: Tallinn, Estonia 
Contact Person: Andreas Hölzl Thomas E. Payne
Meeting Email: tpayne at uoregon.edu

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Genetic Classification; Historical Linguistics; Language Documentation; Sociolinguistics 

Language Family(ies): Tungus 

Call Deadline: 15-Jan-2018 

Meeting Description:

The interdisciplinary workshop emphasizes on the diachronic dimension, tracing
the development of Tungusic languages from prehistory and the earliest
attestations to the present day.

Tungusic (or Manchu-Tungusic) is an endangered language family that
encompasses about twenty languages located in Siberia and northern China. They
are distributed over an enormous area that ranges from the Yenissei river in
the west to the Kamchatka Peninsula in the east (Janhunen 2012). Recent years
have seen a considerable interest in this language family (e.g., Malchukov &
Whaley 2012). The proposed workshop has the overarching goal of bringing
together researchers from different countries and disciplines to create
opportunities for mutual exchange. The workshop emphasizes on the diachronic
dimension, tracing the development of Tungusic from prehistory and the
earliest attestations to the present day. In recent decades it has become
clear, however, that historical linguistics alone cannot answer all questions
concerning the development of a language family, especially as concerns the
time and urheimat of the speech community of the proto-language. While the
focus will lie on the interpretation of the history of the Tungusic language
family, we welcome classical comparative studies, as well as original
synchronic studies of individual languages, and encourage participants to
engage in an inter-disciplinary dialogue with disciplines such as archaeology,
ethnology, genetics, or history.

For example, a recent study that combined archaeology, genetics, and
linguistics came to the conclusion that the direct ancestors of the Tungusic
speaking Ulchi have been living in Manchuria for at least 7700 years, which
suggests a remarkable genetic continuity (Siska et al. 2017). It goes without
saying that genetic continuity does not necessarily imply linguistic
continuity, which at any time could have been disrupted by language shift.

Andreas Hölzl, University of Zurich
Tom Payne, University of Oregon


2nd Call for Papers:

In order to solve such problematic issues, we welcome innovative thinking from
as many different perspectives as possible. The time-frame for possible
contributions can range from prehistory to the 21st century. Possible topics
for presentations include, but are not restricted to the following:

- Fieldwork reports and the investigation of endangered Tungusic languages,
changes in the structure of moribund languages, and language shift to Chinese
or Russian (Janhunen 2005).

- The reevaluation of previously published materials on Tungusic languages
such as word lists from the 19th century and their importance for our
understanding of the historical development of individual languages (Alonso de
la Fuente 2017).

- Progress in the decipherment of the two Jurchen scripts (ca. 12th to 15th
century) that represent the oldest attestation of Tungusic languages
(Golovachev et al. 2011).

- Comparative investigations and reconstructions of Proto-Tungusic,
conclusions regarding the internal structure of the Tungusic language family,
and an evaluation of previous work in the area (Doerfer 1978).

- Questions regarding the time, place, and speech community of proto-Tungusic
and the modelling of the subsequent spread of the individual languages. Here
and in the following point we especially welcome data and results from
archaeology (Kim 2013), ethnology (Sasaki 2011), genetics (Duggan et al.
2013), and history (Zgusta 2015).

- The critical evaluation of wider connections of Tungusic such as to the
Khitano-Mongolic language family. With the recent progress in the decipherment
of the extinct neighbouring language Khitan (Apatóczky & Kempf 2017), new
possibilities for research in this area are opening up. These include the
investigation of loanwords in Tungusic languages or the potential genetic
relationship between Tungusic and Khitano-Mongolic in what has been called the
Khinganic hypothesis (Janhunen 2012).

The workshop will be held at the 51st Annual Meeting of the Societas
Linguistica Europaea in Tallinn, 29 August - 1 September 2018. Full abstracts
will be required by the 15 of January 2018. Papers for the workshop can also
be submitted for the general call for abstracts
(http://sle2018.eu/call-for-papers). Each presentation will be 20 minutes
long, followed by a discussion of 5 minutes. The publication of workshop
proceedings is planned and will be submitted to Language Science Press in
Berlin (http://langsci-press.org/). Abstracts must be submitted via Easychair
at the following link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sle2018 .

If you would like your abstract to be considered for the Tungusic workshop (WS
17), please indicate that with your submission.

Please do not hesitate to forward the invitation to any researchers of
Tungusic languages you might know.

Please email Andreas Hölzl at hoelzlandreas at web.de with questions or concerns.




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