ICHL XIV First Circular (revised) (fwd)

Announcing


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THE FOURTEENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS


August 9 - 13, 1999


The University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC, Canada




PLENARY SPEAKERS (confirmed to date): Bernd Heine (University of Cologne)
                                      David Denison (University of =
Manchester)

DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS (for 20-minute papers): October 15, 1998
Abstracts (of approximately 250 words) should be submitted in the text of
an email message or as an ASCII (text) file attachment (which includes =
your
name) to:
		ichlxiv at interchg.ubc.ca
Alternatively, one hard copy may be sent to:
		Laurel Brinton, Conference Organizer
		Department of English
		#397-1873 East Mall
		University of British Columbia
		Vancouver, B.C.  V6T 1Z1 CANADA
		fax: (604) 822-6906

The CONFERENCE WEB SITE (http://www.english.ubc.ca/ichlxiv) is not yet
available. However, you may wish to visit the university web site
(http://www.ubc.ca) for general information about UBC, and the
housing web site (http://www.conferences.ubc.ca) for a description and
pictures of the on-campus accommodation. It is not yet possible for
you to register for the conference or make accommodation reservations.

TO RECEIVE THE SECOND CIRCULAR, which will contain registration/housing
material and information on social programs, PLEASE FILL OUT THE FORM AT
THE END OF THIS MESSAGE. If you have already requested the circular,
please do not send the form again.

WORKSHOPS: The following workshops are planned:

1)	GRAMMATICAL RELATIONS AND GRAMMATICAL CHANGE
Change from verb final to verb medial basic order, loss of case marking,
and a general drift from a more synthetic to a more analytic language =
type
are all well documented types of linguistic change. The purpose of this
workshop is to explore how changes of this kind-and others-affect the
coding or the behavioral properties of grammatical relations such as
subjects and objects in various languages. Those interested in
participating in this workshop are asked to submit a 1-2 page abstract by
MARCH 1, 1999, to Jan Terje Faarlund (j.t.faarlund at inl.uio.no). The
abstract should be sent as a regular email message (not attachment). =
Those
who prefer may send their abstract by regular mail to:
	Jan Terje Faarlund
	University of Oslo
	INL
	Postboks 1013 Blindern
	N-0315 Oslo, Norway
Participants will be asked to submit a full version of their paper by =
JULY
1, 1999. The time allotted for the workshop presentation will depend on =
the
number of participants.

2)	PATTERNS OF ACTUALIZATION IN LANGUAGE CHANGE
During the thirty years since Weinreich, Labov, and Herzog defined the
"problem of embedding" (1968), a great amount of detailed evidence has
accumulated on the way linguistic innovations spread through grammars, =
from
category to category, from context to context, and from style to style.
Several attempts have been made to generalize across such observations. =
Two
distinct approaches have been followed. The substantive approach is
exemplified by Timberlake (1977) and leads to the identification of such
metacategories as Individuation (subsuming proper/common,
human/animate/inanimate, concrete/abstract, singular/plural,
definite/indefinite). The formal approach is exemplified (informally) by
Andersen (1989), which attempts to explicate the gradual establishment of
innovations in different contexts in terms of markedness relations.
Implicit in both approaches is an understanding that there are universal
and, probably, language particular constraints on the syntax of =
categories.
A concerted investigation of the actualization of change promises to shed
light on these constraints. Prospective participants should contact =
Henning
Andersen (andersen at humnet.ucla.edu) by NOVEMBER 30, 1998.

3)	KOREAN-JAPANESE COMPARATIVE-HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS
This workshop will focus on the prehistoric relationship(s) between =
Korean
and Japanese. It is not a premise of the workshop that the two languages
aregenetically related. The goal of the workshop is to exchange and =
exhibit
the latest ideas and research on the prehistoric linguistic =
relationship(s)
between Korean and Japanese. A great many advances have occurred in =
Korean-J
apanese comparative-historical linguistics over the past two decades. S.
Robert Ramsey will give an overview lecture. Other speakers include =
Samuel
E. Martin.. This workshop is being organized by Ross King =
(jrpking at unixg.ubc.ca).

4)	PROBLEMS IN COMPARATIVE PENUTIAN
This workshop is concerned with historical linguistic problems connected
with the proposed Penutian stock of western North America.  A particular
concern of the workshop is the problem of applying historical linguistic
methods at the time depth represented by Penutian. Papers are solicited
dealing with comparative problems of the overall Penutian hypothesis=20
(as defined by DeLancey & Golla, IJAL 63:171-201, 1997), possible =
subgroups
within Penutian, internal reconstruction in Penutian languages, or =
comparison
within lower-level families ascribed to the Penutian stock.
Please send one-page abstracts, by MARCH 31, 1999, to:
	Scott DeLancey
	Department of Linguistics
	University of Oregon
	Eugene, OR 97403, USA
Email submission is fine (ASCII text only, please) to:
delancey at darkwing.uoregon.edu

5)	HISTORICAL PRAGMATICS
This announcement solicits abstracts for papers on any topic falling =
within
the purview of historical pragmatics. As set forth in Jacobs and Jucker =
in
the introduction to Jucker (1995), the methodology of historical =
pragmatics
approaches historical language data from the perspective of its use as
speech. Papers concerned with pragmaphilology (addressing =
socio-historical
and pragmatic-linguistic aspects of historical texts) and diachronic
pragmatics (tracing the communicative use of the linguistic inventory
across time) are welcome. Abstracts for papers are required by 15 =
DECEMBER
1998 in body of an email message, by fax, or in hard copy to:
	Leslie K. Arnovick
	Department of English
	University of British Columbia
	#397-1873 East Mall
	Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z1  CANADA
	fax: (604) 822-6906
	email: arnovick at unixg.ubc.ca


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