Kinship workshop at ICHL

[Patrick McConvell]

ICHL 2009: Call for papers for Kinship workshop

This is a call for preliminary expressions of interest in presenting a paper at the workshop detailed below, to be held as part of the XIXth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, 10-15 August 2009, Radboud University Nijmegen, Centre for Language Studies Language in Time and Space.
 
The conference URL is: http://www.ru.nl/cls/ichl19/

Please send your name and affiliation and a short indication of your area or interest and/or the topic of a possible paper in the Kinship workshop to Patrick.mcconvell at anu.edu.au. This is simply so that the workshop organizers can get an idea of who might be contributing, and so that we can keep those who have been in touch informed of any developments. In due course there will be a formal abstract submission process through the conference website but that is not implemented yet.

Kinship terminologies: change and reconstruction 

Conveners: Patrick McConvell (Australian National University) and Jeff Marck (Cairo)     E-mail: Patrick.mcconvell at anu.edu.au

Study of kinship terminologies and systems has been one of the major joint endeavours of comparative linguistics and the social sciences, especially anthropology. Reconstruction of prehistoric systems has shed light on the form of the societies of proto-language speakers and the changes leading to present-day societies. In turn the systematic study of the typology of, and constraints on, kinship systems in anthropology has assisted linguists in their reconstruction work. While kinship, particularly diachronic kinship, has become unfashionable in anthropology in the last 20-30 years, it is now experiencing a renaissance, with new publications appearing often drawing on linguistic evidence. There is also significant interest in history in documented kinship changes in Europe and elsewhere, and this provides a more detailed source about transitions in meanings and their motivations which can aid in reconstruction. We are calling for papers on examples of reconstruction of proto-terminologies in families and sub-groups; change in morphology, semantics and usage, and borrowing of terms, whether based on prehistoric reconstructions or written sources. Papers on theoretical and methodological issues, especially addressing the interdisciplinary nature of this field, are also welcome.


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