Fwd: Linguistis15.775, Calls: Historical Ling/UK

[Elizabeth J. Pyatt]

FYI - There will be conference on Minority 
languages in Britain and the coast of Western 
Europe.

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>Subject: 15.775, Calls: Historical Ling/UK
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>Date:  Fri, 5 Mar 2004 09:37:25 -0500 (EST)
>From:  Snezha Methewson sm96 at st-andrews.ac.uk
>Subject:  Language Contact and Minority 
>Languages on the Littorals of Western Europe
>
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>Date:  Fri, 5 Mar 2004 09:37:25 -0500 (EST)
>From:  Snezha Methewson sm96 at st-andrews.ac.uk
>Subject:  Language Contact and Minority 
>Languages on the Littorals of Western Europe
>
>Language Contact and Minority Languages on the Littorals of Western
>Europe
>Short Title: SAILL04
>
>Date: 11-Jun-2004 - 13-Jun-2004
>Conference Website:
>http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/academic/modlangs/saills/conference2004.html
>
>Location: St. Andrews, Scotland, UK
>
>Contact Person: Snezha Mathewson
>Contact Email: saills04 at st-andrews.ac.uk
>
>Linguistic Subfield: Historical Linguistics
>
>Call Deadline: 01-Apr-2004
>
>
>Meeting Description:
>
>LAST CALL FOR PAPERS
>
>LANGUAGE CONTACT AND MINORITY LANGUAGES ON THE LITTORALS OF WESTERN
>EUROPE
>
>EUROLINGUSTICS WEST
>
>St Andrews University, June 11-13 2004
>
>The conference is shaping up well. Four sections are planned:
>English/Celtic, German/Scandinavian, Romance and Slavonic with the
>four Plenary speakers:
>
>Peter Trudgill (Fribourg)
>Sture Ureland (Mannheim)
>Peter Nelde (Brussels)
>Ralph Penny (London)
>
>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
>
>
>***The deadline for abstracts has been extended to 1 April 2004***
>
>There is still room for further papers, so anyone wishing to
>participate is urged to submit a proposal as soon as possible.
>
>All abstracts (150-200 words) with names of presenters, position and
>affiliation may be sent to the conference administrator,
>
>Ms. Snezha Mathewson, (saills04 at st-andrews.ac.uk) or
>SAILLS CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE CONTACT
>SCHOOL OF MODERN LANGUAGES
>ST ANDREWS UNIVERSITY, ST ANDREWS KY16 9 PH
>SCOTLAND, UNITED KINGDOM
>
>
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