30.1225, Calls: History of Linguistics/France

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Subject: 30.1225, Calls: History of Linguistics/France

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Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2019 22:55:15
From: Jean-Michel Fortis [fortis.jean-michel at neuf.fr]
Subject: Simplicity and Complexity of Languages in the History of Linguistic Theories

 
Full Title: Simplicity and Complexity of Languages in the History of Linguistic Theories 
Short Title: shesl-htl2020 

Date: 23-Jan-2020 - 25-Jan-2020
Location: Paris, France 
Contact Person: Jean-Michel Fortis
Meeting Email: shesl-htl2020 at sciencesconf.org
Web Site: http://shesl-htl2020.sciencesconf.org 

Linguistic Field(s): History of Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 01-Jul-2019 

Meeting Description:

The goal of this conference is to explore the ways in which, through the
history of linguistic theories, languages have been evaluated in terms of
their complexity.


Call for Papers:

The goal of this conference is to explore the ways in which, through the
history of linguistic theories, languages have been evaluated in terms of
their complexity.

The conference is organized by the learned society SHESL (Société d’Histoire
et d’Epistémologie des Sciences du Langage) and the research unit HTL
(Histoire des Théories Linguistiques), Paris Diderot University, France. 

Deadline for submission : July 1, 2019 (abstract: 1 page maximum)
Contact : shesl-htl2020 at sciencesconf.org
Website : https://shesl-htl2020.sciencesconf.org
Location: Paris, France
Dates: January 23-25  2020
Registration fees: 50 €  (35 € for students and persons without a permanent
position)
Free for members of SHESL

Proposals may deal with the following topics and concern any period or
cultural area (the list is not intended to be exhaustive):

- The complexity scale and the various notions of complexity that have been
adduced so far (e.g. “absolute”, i.e. in terms of grammatical description, or
user-relative, in terms of processing costs); the various trade-offs involved
in defining complexity;
- Hierarchical typologies, i.e. rankings of languages according to some
criterial feature(s), such as the degree to which they have grammatical
“form”, or approach “natural order”; the relation of such features to
cognitive universals, i.e. the idea that languages which are cognitively
“natural” should be simpler for speakers to learn and to use;
- The history of conceptions bearing on the complexification (or
simplification) of languages, whether in phylogeny or in ontogeny;
- The various attempts made at “simplifying” languages;
- The cultural and social environments and the scientific arguments which have
been conducive to a rejection of forms of linguistic hierarchization in terms
of complexity (i.e. arguments in favor of the idea that all languages are
equally complex);
- The analytic / synthetic scale; the axiological import of this scale and its
consequences for the conception of universal languages;
- The aesthetic evaluation of languages, among other aspects, the rhetorical
potential afforded by their structure and their complexity, the literary
benefits of complexity etc.

Log in to the website for abstract submission.




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