32.99, Confs: Hist Ling, Ling Theories/Greece

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Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2021 15:44:30
From: Nikolaos Lavidas [nlavidas at enl.uoa.gr]
Subject: SLE 2021 Workshop: Towards a holistic understanding of language contact in the past

 
SLE 2021 Workshop: Towards a holistic understanding of language contact in the past 

Date: 31-Aug-2021 - 03-Sep-2021 
Location: Athens, Greece 
Contact: Nikolaos Lavidas 
Contact Email: nlavidas at enl.uoa.gr 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Linguistic Theories 

Meeting Description: 

Workshop at the 54th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea,
2021: Towards a holistic understanding of language contact in the past

The classical 20th-century theoretical approaches to language tend to view
grammar through a basically monolingual perspective. This general tendency is
perhaps due to the Saussurean view on languages as abstract systems, but also
to the dominant monolingualism ideologies of late-modern nation-states (in the
context of historical linguistics, see Laakso 2014). The tendency to view
grammar in isolation from multilingual settings is so pervasive that even
modern approaches do not often overcome the monolingual paradigm. Undoubtedly,
the biggest culprit in perpetuating such a view has been the generative quest
of internal grammar and the misconceptions of what this is and how to capture
it. 
 
At the same time, the effects of language contact very clearly manifest
themselves, as discussed in the literature on language contact (see Matras
2009), contact-induced and ''shared'' grammaticalization (see Heine & Kuteva
2005, Robbeets & Cuyckens 2013), sometimes resulting in areal patterns
particularly relevant for linguistic typology (see e.g. Koptevskaja-Tamm
2006). 
 
Given that grammatical transfer is very real--in fact, rather pervasive--many
authors and workshops have tried to address the impasse in dealing with
language contact. As practitioners working in the field of historical and
contact linguistics, we feel that there continues to be an important gap
between the fact of commonly happening grammatical transfer in language
contact and our theorizing about such grammars. We believe that this gap needs
to be narrowed and eventually closed for the sake of both theories of grammar
and theories of language contact. In fact, we would like to take this further
and ask the question: Do we really need a separate theory of language contact?
The rather attractive alternative would be to reduce the effects of language
contact to theories of language acquisition, sociolinguistics, external
factors as well as more generalised cognitive mechanisms such as copy and
analogy which once properly interwoven they can offer holistic explanations
(see Sitaridou 2014, 2018, 2019). 
  
The aim of this workshop is to contribute to this and other related questions.
In the full call for papers (download here:
http://www.sle2021.eu/downloads/workshops/WS%2019%20Towards%20a%20holistic%20u
nderstanding%20of%20language%20contact%20in%20the%20past.pdf), we further
outline several themes that we find important for making such progress.

We are particularly keen on receiving abstracts that interweave findings and
approaches from more than one sub-field thus aiming for holistic treatments.
 

Call for Papers: 

Please submit your 500 words abstract in Easychair using the following link:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sle2021

Please see the SLE 3rd Call for papers http://sle2021.eu/call-for-papers
(guidelines about what abstracts should contain) and the Submission guidelines
http://sle2021.eu/submission-guidelines (practical information about how to
submit them). 

You should submit a WS abstract and select the WS ''Towards a holistic
understanding of language contact in the past''. The deadline for abstract
submission in Easychair is 15 January 2021.





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