LinguistList: Historical Ling/Scotland; Historical Ling/Italy

[Elizabeth J. Pyatt]

FYI - There will be a conference on language 
contact at St. Andrews University in June 2004. 
The focus will be on Western Europe including 
Britain, France, the Low countries, and Iberia.

Elizabeth

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>
>Date:  Wed, 22 Oct 2003 11:57:24 +0000
>From:  saills04 at st-andrews.ac.uk
>Subject:  LANGUAGE CONTACT AND MINORITY LANGUAGES
>
>LANGUAGE CONTACT AND MINORITY LANGUAGES ON THE LITTORALS OF WESTERN
>EUROPE
>
>Short Title: SAILL04
>
>Date: 11-Jun-2004 - 13-Jun-2004
>Location: St. Andrews, Scotland, United Kingdom
>Contact: Snezha Mathewson
>Contact Email: saills04 at st-andrews.ac.uk
>Meeting URL:
>
>http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/academic/modlangs/saills/conference2004.html
>
>Linguistic Sub-field: Historical Linguistics
>
>Meeting Description:
>
>The conference, organised by the St Andrews Institute for Language and
>Linguistic Studies (SAILLS), in collaboration with the Europäischer
>Linguistischer Arbeitskreis Mannheim (ELAMA), will explore the effects
>of language contact (since 1500) in four areas of western Europe:
>Scandinavia and the Low Countries, the British Isles, France and the
>Iberian Peninsula.  While most attention will be devoted to contact
>between the traditional languages of Europe, space will be given to
>contact with immigrant languages from outside the Continent.
>
>For further information please contact: Snezha Mathewson (conference
>administrator) e-mail: saills04 at st-andrews.ac.uk
>
>School of Modern Languages
>ST ANDREWS UNIVERSITY
>ST ANDREWS KY16 9 PH
>
>FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
>
>LANGUAGE CONTACT AND MINORITY LANGUAGES ON THE LITORALS OF WESTERN
>EUROPE EUROLINGUSTICS WEST
>
>St Andrews University, June 11-13 2004
>
>Plenary speakers:
>
>Peter Trudgill (Fribourg)
>Sture Ureland (Mannheim)
>Peter Nelde (Brussels)
>Ralph Penny (London)
>
>While both Neogrammarians and Structuralists recognise the effects of
>language contact on the development of the languages of Europe,
>especially in the remote past, they have on the whole preferred
>endogenous and language-internal explanations of language
>change. Nowadays, linguists are perhaps less subject to the influence
>of nationalism and the cult of language 'purity', and more sensitive
>to the mobility of populations and to the role of exogenous
>influences.
>
>This conference, organised by the St Andrews Institute for Language
>and Linguistic Studies (SAILLS), in collaboration with the
>Europäischer Linguistischer Arbeitskreis Mannheim (ELAMA), will
>explore the effects of language contact (since 1500) in four areas of
>western Europe: Scandinavia and the Low Countries, the British Isles,
>France and the Iberian Peninsula.  While most attention will be
>devoted to contact between the traditional languages of Europe, space
>will be given to contact with immigrant languages from outside the
>Continent.
>
>Papers will include, but need not be limited to, topics such as:
>
>- levelling and koinéization
>- lexical borrowing
>- language obsolescence and death
>- language shift and language planning
>
>For further information please contact: Snezha Mathewson (conference
>administrator) e-mail: saills04 at st-andrews.ac.uk
>
>School of Modern Languages
>ST ANDREWS UNIVERSITY
>ST ANDREWS KY16 9 PH
>
>
>
>
>-------------------------------- Message 2 -------------------------------
>
>Date:  Tue, 21 Oct 2003 04:59:33 +0000
>From:  patrick at localtrans.net
>Subject:  Conference on Historical News Discourse
>
>Conference on Historical News Discourse
>Short Title: CHINED
>
>Date: 02-Sep-2004 - 03-Sep-2004
>Location: Florence, Italy
>Contact: Patrick Studer
>Contact Email: chined at chined.org
>Meeting URL: http://www.chined.org
>
>Linguistic Sub-field: Historical Linguistics
>Subject Language: English
>
>Call Deadline: 31-Jan-2004
>
>Meeting Description:
>
>First International Conference on Historical News Discourse. We are
>pleased to announce the first International Conference on Historical
>News Discourse (CHINED), to be held in Florence, Italy, 2-3 September
>2004. We invite contributions dealing with news discourse from the
>Early Modern English Period (c. 1500-1800). News discourse will be
>understood in its widest sense as belonging to the sphere of public
>discourse, thus including a variety of speech situations (political
>speeches, proclamations, announcements, orders, etc.), as well as
>referring to the more specific text genres traditionally associated
>with the domain of news, such as ballads, pamphlets, newspapers,
>magazines, correspondence, histories, annals, etc. The focus of the
>conference will be on:
>
>- Methodologies in collecting and analysing linguistic data from the
>above areas, both quantitative and qualitative, diachronic and
>synchronic;
>
>- Sociolinguistic, pragmatic factors and the study of early news
>discourse;
>
>- Domains of language change (lexical, syntactic, textual); situations
>motivating language change (e.g. language contact, translations,
>etc.);
>
>- Comparison of different text types; study of one specific text type.
>
>We solicit submissions for 20 minute presentations followed by 10
>minutes of discussion.  Abstracts should be no more than 400 words in
>length, including examples and references.
>
>- Deadline for receipt of abstracts: January 31, 2004
>- Notification of acceptance: February 25, 2004
>
>All abstract submissions will be done electronically.  Please visit
>http://www.chined.org/submission.html to submit an abstract. For
>further information or queries, please contact the conference
>organisers Nicholas Brownlees or Patrick Studer on chined at chined.org.
>
>Organisers:
>
>Nicholas Brownlees (University of Florence, Italy,
>n.brownlees at libero.it)
>
>Patrick Studer (University of Limerick, Ireland,
>patrick at localtrans.net)
>
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