33.3120, Calls: Pontic; General Linguistics/Greece

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LINGUIST List: Vol-33-3120. Wed Oct 12 2022. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 33.3120, Calls: Pontic; General Linguistics/Greece

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Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2022 03:50:20
From: Vassilios Spyropoulos [vspyrop at phil.uoa.gr]
Subject: Pontic in the past and the present: Following the traces of an endangered Asia Minor Greek dialect

 
Full Title: Pontic in the past and the present: Following the traces of an endangered Asia Minor Greek dialect 

Date: 29-Aug-2023 - 01-Sep-2023
Location: Athens, Greece 
Contact Person: Vassilios Spyropoulos
Meeting Email: vspyrop at phil.uoa.grp

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Subject Language(s): Pontic (pnt)

Language Family(ies): Hellenic 

Call Deadline: 08-Nov-2022 

Meeting Description:

(Session at 56th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea)

Pontic is a Greek dialectal group originally spoken in the north-eastern part
of Asia Minor along the coast of the Black Sea. With the year 2023 marking 100
years after the majority of its speakers left their homeland and moved to
Greece because of the population exchange that followed the Greek-Turkish war
in the 1920’s, we can collect much knowledge about the external and internal
history of this endangered Asia Minor Greek dialect ex situ. However, in order
to trace back and fully understand its development, one needs also to consider
the situation of Pontic in situ, i.e. in Turkey before and after 1923, as well
as in some ex-Soviet Union countries, such as Georgia, Ukraine, Russia, etc,
to which Pontic speakers had also moved or migrated. In addition, a new
ecosystem of the dialect has emerged in the diaspora, i.e. in Pontic
communities of immigrants coming from Greece and Turkey in countries such as
Germany, etc. In aiming at gathering insights about the Pontic varieties both
in situ and ex situ, this workshop aims at displaying the importance of
documenting and investigating the linguistic and sociolinguistic properties of
all Pontic varieties, both in the past and the present, so that we gain a
better understanding of their status as well as of the interplay of external
and internal language change in the course of their history. Some specific
questions to be addressed will be:

(1) How can we establish a more detailed subclassification of Pontic Greek?
(2) Which kinds of language change can be observed in the Pontic varieties?
(3) Which language contact phenomena can be observed in the Pontic varieties?
(4) What is the status of Pontic Greek spoken now in Greece?
(5) Are in situ varieties of Pontic more resistant to language change than
Pontic varieties spoken ex situ?
(6) Which is the best way to include urban fieldwork into Pontic studies?

Since we want to emphasize the importance of the interaction between several
subfields of linguistics contributing to Pontic studies, we welcome
contributions of studies dealing with Greek dialectology, language
documentation, urban fieldwork, (sub)dialectal variation, synchronic and
diachronic analyses of grammatical phenomena and subsystems, and
sociolinguistic issues.

Organizers
Vassilios Spyropoulos (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
Isabella Greisinger (Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf)


Call for Papers:

Abstracts of no more than 300 words (including examples, excluding references)
should be sent by email both in word and pdf files to the workshop convenors,
Vassilios Spyropoulos (vspyrop at phil.uoa.gr) and Isabella Greisinger
(Isabella.Greisinger at hhu.de), by November 8, 2022.




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