32.2618, Calls: Historical Ling, Morphology, Socioling, Syntax, Text/Corpus Ling/Germany

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Subject: 32.2618, Calls: Historical Ling, Morphology, Socioling, Syntax, Text/Corpus Ling/Germany

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Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2021 04:44:26
From: Lea Schäfer [lea.schaefer at hhu.de]
Subject: Towards a comparative historical dialectology: evidence from morphology and syntax (DGfS 2022)

 
Full Title: Towards a comparative historical dialectology: evidence from morphology and syntax (DGfS 2022) 

Date: 23-Feb-2022 - 25-Feb-2022
Location: Tübingen, Germany 
Contact Person: Lea Schäfer
Meeting Email: historicaldialectology at gmail.com
Web Site: http://histdialectology.bplaced.net 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Morphology; Sociolinguistics; Syntax; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 22-Aug-2021 

Meeting Description:

Workshop at the annual conference of the Deutschen Gesellschaft für
Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS)

Dialect syntax was long considered the stepchild of dialectology (see Glaser
2000). In the meantime, this gap has been reduced, especially in relation to
the modern Germanic and Romance dialects. Now it is about time to leave the
comfort zone of modern dialects and to establish a historical dialect syntax
and morphology. We explicitly seek for a historical dialectology as dialects
are more natural than standard/written languages (Weiß 2009). An overarching
goal would be a comparative compilation of these results from the individual
varieties to gain general knowledge about language change.

The feasibility of a historical comparative dialectology is demonstrated by
numerous phonological studies (cf. Cravens 2002). For syntax and morphology,
however, we have just begun to identify and analyze historical oral varieties
using fine scaled geolinguistic, statistical, and philological methods.

Therefore, there is a need to unite experts in different varieties,
grammatical structures, and fields (dialectology, typology, and historical
linguistics) to discuss basic questions towards a historical comparative
dialect syntax and morphology:

– Are there formal or functional similarities/differences between
cross-linguistic phenomena such as negation, case, word order, object marking,
auxiliaries, definiteness, etc.?

– How to identify historical dialects and which types of sources are suitable
for a historical comparative dialectology?

– Which (geo-)statistical methods can help to model conclusions about language
change processes?

The workshop aims to establish a network for theoretically informed
researchers from different linguistic fields.


2nd Call for Papers:

The workshop will bring together experts in different languages, grammatical
structures, and subfields (dialectology, typology, and historical linguistics)
to discuss fundamental issues in historical comparative dialect syntax and
morphology. For more information see http://histdialectology.bplaced.net

Abstracts for oral presentations (20 minutes talk + discussion) must be
anonymous and not exceed 500 words. References do not count toward the word
count. Abstracts should clearly state the research question(s), approach,
method, data and (expected) results. Please submit your anonymous abstract via
EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=histdi22

Invited speakers: 
Tamsin Blaxter (University of Cambridge) 
Bettelou Los (University of Edinburgh)

A limited number of travel grants of up to 500 Euro each are available for
accepted contributions by DGfS members without/with low income. Travel grants
can be applied until December 2021. (Contact us for details).

Extended deadline for abstract submission: August 22, 2021
Notification of acceptance: September 15, 2021




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