30.3986, Calls: Language Documentation/France

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LINGUIST List: Vol-30-3986. Sat Oct 19 2019. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 30.3986, Calls: Language Documentation/France

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Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2019 00:41:39
From: Antoinette Schapper [papuancolloquium at gmail.com]
Subject: Current Trends in Papuan Linguistics

 
Full Title: Current Trends in Papuan Linguistics 

Date: 10-Dec-2019 - 11-Dec-2019
Location: Paris, France 
Contact Person: Antoinette Schapper
Meeting Email: papuancolloquium at gmail.com

Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation 

Call Deadline: 18-Nov-2019 

Meeting Description:

Organized by Langues et civilisations à tradition orale (Lacito), CNRS

Confirmed Invited Speakers:

Prof. Dr. Birgit Hellwig (University of Cologne)
Prof. Dr. Lourens de Vries (Free University, Amsterdam)
Dr. Nicolas Brucato (Université de Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier)

This colloquium will bring together researchers working on Papuan languages
with the purpose of reviewing current research directions. A subsidiary aim is
to inform and motivate students and researchers who are considering starting
research on Papuan languages.

There are upwards of 800 Papuan languages spoken on and around the island of
New Guinea.  Papuan languages do not form a genealogical unit, but rather
comprise between 20 to 40 distinct families.  A language is said to be Papuan,
if it is spoken on or near New Guinea, and is not Austronesian or Australian. 
The proportion of unknown or poorly documented Papuan languages is still one
of the highest in the world.  Due to the huge number of Papuan languages and
the unprecedented speed of their decline in recent decades, much of the effort
of linguists in the area has been focused on the documentation and description
of individual languages or small groups of languages.

Great strides have been made in their documentation and these descriptive
improvements have, in turn, allowed many new studies into different aspects of
Papuan languages.  This colloquium will focus on taking stock of the latest
research into Papuan languages, discuss what has been achieved, and what the
focus of future research would be. We will bring together researchers working
on Papuan languages from different sub-fields of linguistics, including, but
not limited to, linguistic anthropology, language acquisition, historical
linguistics, language description and documentation, contribution to
theoretical linguistic, sociolinguistic or typological syntheses, data
aggregation and management, etc. The colloquium will also welcome
contributions on the wider Melanesian Linguistic Area, dealing with such
issues as Papuan language contact with and shift to Austronesian languages.


Call for Papers:

We invite submissions of talks of 45min (plus 15min questions) on any topic
relating to Papuan languages. Abstracts should be of between 300 and 500
words. 

Email abstracts to papuancolloquium at gmail.com by 18 November, 2019. If you
have any questions, please email: a_schapper at hotmail.com




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