30.1239, Calls: General Linguistics, Linguistic Theories, Semantics, Sociolinguistics, Syntax/Germany

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Subject: 30.1239, Calls: General Linguistics, Linguistic Theories, Semantics, Sociolinguistics, Syntax/Germany

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Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2019 23:42:46
From: Georg Höhn [georg.hoehn at uni-goettingen.de]
Subject: Minority Languages in the Mediterranean - Grammatical Aspects of Language Contact and Language Decline

Full Title: Minority Languages in the Mediterranean - Grammatical Aspects of Language Contact and Language Decline 
Short Title: MedLangCon2019 

Date: 14-Jun-2019 - 15-Jun-2019
Location: University of Göttingen, Germany 
Contact Person: Georg Höhn
Meeting Email: georg.hoehn at uni-goettingen.de
Web Site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=medlangcon2019 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Linguistic Theories; Semantics; Sociolinguistics; Syntax 

Call Deadline: 08-Apr-2019 

Meeting Description:

This workshop aims to bring together current research on grammatical aspects
of language contact in the Mediterranean, particularly in the context of the
typically asymmetric contact relations found in situations of language
endangerment up to language decline/death.

The workshop is going to take place at the University of Göttingen on 14 and
15 June 2019.

Call for Papers:

The Mediterranean has been an area of intense intercultural interaction for
more than two millenia. This history has provided numerous occasions for
language contact. A well-known hot bed for such interaction are the Balkans,
where several different Indoeuropean and non-Indoeuropean language families
have been in contact for several centuries, leading to the development of the
Balkan Sprachbund. Further catalysed by the dissolution of the Ottoman empire
and subsequent political developments, there are a wide range of minority
languages in contact with (and often under pressure from) the respective
national languages. One set of examples includes Turkish, Albanian
(Arvanitika), Romance (Aromanian/Vlah) or Slavonic (e.g. Pomak) varieties
spoken on the territory of Greece. 

A different contact situation involving Greek can be found in southern Italy.
Local Greek varieties used to be widely spoken in areas of Calabria (Greko)
and Salento (Griko) into the first half of the twentieth century, but have
since massively declined as a result of economic, political and social
pressures in favour of local Romance varieties as well as regional forms of
standard Italian (Squillaci 2016). Several grammatical phenomena observed in
southern Italo-Romance varieties have been connected to contact with Greek;
vice-versa there has been some influence from Romance on the local Greek
varieties, although possibly not to the same extent (see e.g. Ledgeway 2013
for an overview; Lekakou & Quer 2016 for change in Griko influenced by the
local Romance variety; Squillaci 2016 for details on the contact situation of
Greko and Bovese, particularly also the limited influence on Greko from
Romance).

Cyprus represents another environment where Greek is involved in language
contact, this time with two different non-Indoeuropean varieties, Cypriot
Turkish and Cypriot Maronite Arabic (cf. Gülle 2014). Of these, critically
endangered Cypriot Maronite Arabic is clearly in a minority position. It shows
signs of contact induced influence in various areas of grammar, especially
from Greek (Newton 1965, Borg 1985, Gülle 2014).

Considering the endangered status of CMA and the Italian varieties of Greek,
an additional important empirical and methodological issue is that of language
decline/language death and its interaction with language contact. 
This workshop aims to bring together current research on grammatical aspects
of language contact, particularly in the context of the typically asymmetric
contact relations found in situations of language endangerment up to language
decline/death.

We invite submissions for 40 minute presentations (30 + 10 minutes) on
grammatical aspects of language contact in the Mediterranean with a focus on
minority languages. Contributions may address particular grammatical phenomena
from the perspective of language contact, or discuss instances of language
decline against the background of language contact.
The subject languages need not be restricted to the examples provided above,
but might further include, for example, Judeo-Spanish in the context of
languages spoken in the Ottoman empire, but also other Romance varieties,
especially with a focus on contact phenomena between different branches of
Romance (e.g. possible Ibero-Romance influence in southern Italy).

Invited Speakers:

Evangelia Adamou (CNRS)
Alexander Borg (Ben Gurion University of the Negev)
Marika Lekakou (University of Ioannina)

Where: University of Göttingen
When: 14 and 15 June 2019

Submission deadline: 8 April 2019
Notification of acceptance: 22 April 2019

Abstracts should be no longer than 2 pages (A4) and submitted anonymously in
PDF format via
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=medlangcon2019

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