31.2999, Calls: Gen Ling, Hist Ling, Ling Theories, Typology/Switzerland and Online

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Subject: 31.2999, Calls: Gen Ling, Hist Ling, Ling Theories, Typology/Switzerland and Online

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Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2020 13:42:33
From: Christian Ebert [christiangeorg.ebert at uzh.ch]
Subject: Tracing contact in closely related languages

 
Full Title: Tracing contact in closely related languages 

Date: 19-Nov-2020 - 20-Nov-2020
Location: Zurich, Switzerland 
Contact Person: Chris Ebert
Meeting Email: christiangeorg.ebert at uzh.ch

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Linguistic Theories; Typology 

Call Deadline: 15-Oct-2020 

Meeting Description:

This workshop will take place from November 19 to 20 at the University of
Zurich in a mixed online/offline format if the situation allows. Online
participation is welcomed and encouraged.

The topic of the workshop ''Tracing contact in closely related languages'' is
situated at the intersection of areal and historical linguistics: What effect
does shared ancestry have on language contact? 

Linguistic areas often consist of languages that can be traced back to a
common ancestor. While for some shared features it might be easy to establish
common inheritance as a source (if they can be found in related languages
outside the contact zone for example), in other cases it might be hard to
distinguish between borrowing and inheritance (Mithun 2013). Moreover, their
relatedness may facilitate the transfer of lexical and morphological material
as well as that of more abstract patterns, creating within family similarities
the origin of which is not inheritance.

The view that relatedness facilitates the transfer of linguistic material and
patterns has long been supported by linguists (e.g. Meillet 1921: 87,
Moravscik 1975, Weinreich 1979). While this view has received wide acceptance
at least as a general tendency, the implied causal nature of this link has
recently been questioned: the more closely related two languages are when they
come into contact, the less time they have had to diverge, develop new
patterns and coin new vocabulary. Thus, the reason why material and structure
are more easily transferred between closely related languages might just be
their typological similarity rather than their relatedness (Bowern 2013: 417).

While there have been numerous attempts at disentangling contact induced
change from common inheritance and typological drift, identifying a clear
origin for a certain feature/construction seems unfeasible in many cases.


Second Call for Papers: 

With this workshop, we aim to bring together researchers working on these
topics to discuss methodological issues in studying contact in closely related
languages. 

We also encourage submissions for short presentations (5-10 minutes) of
ongoing research and open questions, to be held in a special discussion
session.

Please send abstracts by October 15 to: christiangeorg.ebert at uzh.ch,
stefan.dedio at uzh.ch, nour.efrat-kowalsky at uzh.ch 
 
The workshop will take place from November 19 - 20 at the University of Zurich
in a mixed online/offline format if the situation allows. Online participation
is welcomed and encouraged.




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