32.3524, Calls: Anthropological Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Sociolinguistics/Romania

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Subject: 32.3524, Calls: Anthropological Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Sociolinguistics/Romania

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Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2021 21:45:50
From: Ezequiel Koile [ekoile at hse.ru]
Subject: Spatial and Social Separation of Speech Communities and Language Change

 
Full Title: Spatial and Social Separation of Speech Communities and Language Change 

Date: 24-Aug-2022 - 27-Aug-2022
Location: Bucharest, Romania 
Contact Person: Ezequiel Koile
Meeting Email: ekoile at hse.ru

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 15-Nov-2021 

Meeting Description:

Full Title: Spatial and social separation of speech communities and language
change

The consideration of real-world situations of interaction among language users
is integral to the study of language contact and change. The geography of an
area has potentially significant effects in shaping such interactions, as do
social features of the groups interacting, such as marriage patterns and
degrees of political centralization and complexity. There is a specific subset
of real-world situations that has recently received increasing attention,
namely situations where speech communities are characterized by relatively
high degrees of geographical and/or social separation from other communities.
These include e.g. mountainous landscapes where villages lie at different
elevations, and small island communities.

There have been claims that language varieties used in spatially and/or
socially separated communities show a higher degree of grammatical opacity,
more elaborated grammatical paradigms, and rarer sounds compared with closely
related neighboring language varieties that have been spatially and socially
less separated (Trudgill 2011). This effect has been observed in different
regions of the world, such as the Caucasus (Nichols, 2013, 2015, 2016), the
Andes (Bentz, 2018), as well as in different dialects of German (Baechler
2016), and surveyed in Urban 2020. As for genuinely social factors, it has
been proposed that the strongly endogamic nature of some Caucasian speech
communities is a relevant factor in the languages of such communities
developing distinctive patterns from their neighboring language communities
(Pakendorf et al. 2021, Dobrushina et al. 2020, Kirby et al. 2016).

In this workshop, we aim at investigating whether the claims made by Trudgill,
Nichols, and others hold across other scenarios of spatially and socially
separated language communities. The main focus is on societies where
traditional, pre-colonial cultural traits are still observable, especially
those characterized by small-scale multilingualism (i.e. widespread
multilingualism in local languages), though work considering this topic from
an areal or global perspective where sociolinguistic information is not
available at a high level of detail is included as well. Our goal is to
stimulate discussion on the ways in which separation of speech communities
from each other, whether this is due to spatial factors, social factors, or a
combination of the two impacts patterns of language change and whether it is
associated with a distinctive profile from language change in other contexts,
as claimed by the mentioned authors.


Call for Papers:

SLE Workshop: Spatial and social separation of speech communities and language
change

We invite submissions for papers that study how spatial and social structures
shape language structure. Both empirical and theoretical studies are welcome,
as well as different scales of granularity, such as small-scale, areal, and
global studies. A non-exhaustive list of possible topics is:

- Studies of outcomes of language contact in landscapes where settlements
exhibit significantly different degrees of accessibility or connectedness
(e.g., mountainous landscapes where villages can be at very different levels
of elevation, small island communities and similar situations).
- Work on the relationship between marriage patterns and linguistic variation,
in particular in contexts where some communities show greater degrees of
endogamy than others.
- The role of spatial and social factors in conditioning structural features
of languages.
- Spatial factors as contributing to social separation and the ways that they
affect languages.
- Studies of language complexity as conditioned by social and spatial
separation

Please send your non-anonymous abstract of max. 300 words to
ezequielk at gmail.com by November 15, 2021. The convenors will carry out a first
round of review and notify authors of their decision later that week. Accepted
abstracts will be sent to the SLE conference organizers as part of the
workshop proposal. Notification of acceptance or rejection of the workshop
proposal will be by 15 December, 2021.

Convenors: Ezequiel Koile, Michael Daniel (both HSE University, Moscow),
Pierpaolo Di Carlo, Jeff Good (both University at Buffalo), and Susanne Maria
Michaelis (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig)




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