<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Dear all<div><br></div><div>The next European Linguistics Society (SLE) conference will be held in Helsinki, August 21-24th, 2024.</div><div><br></div><div>I would like to propose a workshop on the challenges and potential benefits of using older descriptive materials to complement our own field data as part of a description/documentation project.</div><div><br></div><div>If interested, please let me know by November 6th.</div><div><br></div><div>Best regards</div><div>Aimée </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><style class="WebKit-mso-list-quirks-style">
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</style><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Legacy materials as data sources for language description and documentation<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US">For linguists engaged in language description and documentation, the multiple crises of the last few years have in some cases made access to field sites difficult. This has often led to a renewed interest in mining earlier descriptive materials to complement field data collected in person. Such legacy sources, which can result from colonial, missionary, scientific enterprises, among others, can be challenging to use for a number of reasons: modern-trained linguists may question their reliability and methodological biases, and be faced with unfamiliar terminology, ontological systems, frameworks, presentation style, typographies, etc. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US">Yet these materials can often contribute in a tangible way to contemporary language analyses: they may contain data which can provides insights for diachronic work; otherwise inaccessible lexical data; textual materials in registers or genres missing from the contemporary corpus; morphological data necessary to complete paradigms. At the meta-grammaticographical level, these resources are likely to inform us about earlier data collection methodology, the development of data annotation and glossing practices, the evolution of grammatical categories and their interrelations, approaches to language description (and notably the question of onomasiology vs. semasiology), and the changing place of the various subfields of linguistics in descriptive work, among others.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US">Some of the questions we will explore during this workshop are:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:
Symbol;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US">What specific issues have descriptive linguists been faced with in using older materials? What solutions have they arrived at to resolve such issues?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:
Symbol;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US">What sorts of elements can be gleaned from the use of such older materials, in terms of the evolution of the practice of grammar-writing and the methodology of data collection?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:
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Symbol;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US">What does using older descriptive materials reveal about our current perspectives on what makes a “good” grammatical description?</span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size: medium;">If interested, please send 300-word abstracts to aimee.lahaussois@cnrs.fr by November 6th.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US"><br></span></p><div>
<meta charset="UTF-8"><div>Aimée Lahaussois<br>[‘ɛmɛj ~ eme laoswa]<br><br>Researcher in Linguistics<br>Director of the Paris Graduate School of Linguistics, https://paris-gsl.org/index.html<br><br>Histoire des théories linguistiques<br>CNRS & Université Paris Cité<br><br>https://htl.cnrs.fr/en/aimee-lahaussois/<br><br>tel. (33) 01.57.27.57.78</div>
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<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 23 Sep 2023, at 11:20, Randy J. LaPolla <randy.lapolla@gmail.com> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Hi All,<div>Prof. James A. Matisoff (Jim), has asked me to also circulate his paper for the ICSTLL in Thailand starting Oct. 10.</div><div><br></div><div>Randy</div><div><br></div><div></div></div><span id="cid:5253B95A-9BB3-4C4B-BFD2-20A6FC279DB7"><Matisoff 2023 Historical Semantics for Bgk ICSTLL.PDF></span><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div><br><div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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