30.4122, Calls: Greek, Mycenaean; Greek, Ancient; Historical Linguistics/France

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LINGUIST List: Vol-30-4122. Thu Oct 31 2019. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 30.4122, Calls: Greek, Mycenaean; Greek, Ancient; Historical Linguistics/France

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Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2019 23:56:40
From: Alcorac Alonso Déniz [alcorac.alonso at mom.fr]
Subject: Linguistic Contact in Ancient Greece: Diachrony and Synchrony

Full Title: Linguistic Contact in Ancient Greece: Diachrony and Synchrony 
Short Title: CoLiGA 

Date: 14-Oct-2020 - 16-Oct-2020
Location: Université Lumière Lyon 2, France 
Contact Person: Alcorac Alonso Déniz
Meeting Email: coliga at sciencesconf.org
Web Site: https://coliga.sciencesconf.org/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics 

Subject Language(s): Greek, Ancient (grc)
                     Greek, Mycenaean (gmy)

Call Deadline: 31-Jan-2020 

Meeting Description:

>From the earliest written documents, Ancient Greek attests to a rich
diversity. A plethora of dialectal varieties spread all over the Aegean and
the vast Greek colonial network. The study of inscriptions of the 1st
millennium BC, which particularly witness to this linguistic expansion and
variation, show that throughout its history two antithetical processes shape
and modify the dialectal geography of Ancient Greek: divergence, which, due to
the inexorability and unpredictability of linguistic change, increases the
differences among speakers living in separate geographical areas, and
convergence, which, through dialectal contact, reduces dissimilarities.

Contact phenomena between the dialects of Ancient Greek emerge on multiple
linguistic levels and in heterogeneous communicative contexts. Putting aside
exceptional cases, in which two different dialectal versions of a text are
recorded side by side in the same inscription, frequent signs of dialect
contact are, among others, the diffusion of morphological innovations, the
spreading of personal, god and month names, and the borrowing of institutional
words and expressions. Some particular communicative environments favour
interdialectal contacts, like the consecration of objects, that are often
accompanied by an inscription, in sanctuaries frequented by people arriving
from all corners of the Hellenic world; or the international relations
established by Greek poleis and states, which produce different kinds of texts
(decrees, treaties, official letters, etc.). Furthermore, the role of dialect
contact is most notable in the dialectal mixture characteristic of literary
genres like epic, iambic, elegiac and lyric poetry, and Attic drama.

The ties established by Greeks, from the end of Bronze Age, with several
non-Greek populations of the Mediterranean basin, the Black Sea and Asia also
characterize the history of Ancient Greece. Demonstrably, the dynamics of
linguistic contact lie at the heart of social, economic and cultural relations
ensuing from the fortunes of commerce and war. Significantly, in Ancient
Greek, like in other languages, exonyms often pivot on terms associated with
verbal communication. Along with the famous example of βάρβαρος, which
originates from an onomatopoeic root (cf. Sanskrit balbalā ‘to stammer’ and
barbarāḥ ‘non-Arians’) and designates a ‘foreigner’, other cases are
noteworthy, e.g., the Κηφῆνες, i.e. ‘Persians’, a name connected with the
adjective κωφός ‘speechless’, or the Παφλαγόνες – name of the people in
Northern Anatolia –, associated by Greeks via folk-etymology to παφλάζω, an
imitative verb meaning ‘to bluster’ (e.g., the sea) and metaphorically ‘to
splutter’; cf. λοπὰς παφλάζει βαρβάρῳ λαλήματι “a plate splutters in a foreign
babble” (Euboulos, fr. 108.2 CGF Kassel & Austin).

In bilingual and multilingual contexts, communicative strategies often vary
from one region and period to another, and so does the role that “Barbarians”
attribute to Greek vis-à-vis their own languages. Written sources of all kinds
(inscriptions, papyrus, coins, graffiti) attest to the polymorphism of
linguistic contact, something that some ancient writers also observed.

Unsurprisingly, contact phenomena have attracted the attention of linguists
over the years, who try to establish, from different perspectives and various
theoretical frameworks, the principles governing the influence of different
languages on Greek and vice versa.

The conference will bring together specialists in different ancient languages
and in Ancient Greek dialectology, with a view to combining the analysis of
language contact between Ancient Greek and other languages and the study of
the interrelations of Greek dialectal varieties. The organizers of this event
are confident that a complementary regard will broaden the horizon of both
research fields, and will also open unexplored paths in the study of two
fundamentally parallel phenomena.

Call for Papers:

The conference welcomes contributions dealing with inter-dialectal contact in
Ancient Greek and linguistic contact between Greek and other Ancient
languages. Those wishing to participate with a paper (20 minutes followed by
10 minutes of discussion) are invited to submit their proposals before Friday,
31 January 2020 at the conference website
(https://coliga.sciencesconf.org/submission/submit).

Proposals should be presented in one of the languages of the conference
(French, English or Spanish), and sent in two anonymized files (.DOCX and
.PDF) with a maximum extension of 3000 characters, spaces and bibliographic
references included. Only Unicode fonts should be used.

The authors of the selected proposals will be notified by Friday, 14 March
2020 and will be invited to send a final abstract of their papers by Monday,
15 May 2020.

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