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   - CfP: Diachronic Change in New Englishes: Prospects and Challenges
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Diachronic Change in New Englishes: Prospects and Challenges

Full-day workshop at ISLE 4 in Poznań, Poland, 18-21 September 2016

Convenors: Robert Fuchs (University of Münster), Thorsten Brato
(University of Regensburg) and Ariane M. Borlongan (Tokyo University of
Foreign Studies)

    Outline

The last two decades have seen a dramatic upsurge in corpus-based
research on New Englishes, largely thanks to the International Corpus of
English project (ICE, Greenbaum 1991). The two primary aims of this
research program were, arguably, to (1) uncover patterns of unity and
diversity among these varieties, i.e. how they differ from each other,
and (2) explain differences between varieties by identifying
continuities with and departures from the structure of their ancestor
varieties (usually British English), frequently referring to influence
from first languages (L1 influence) and general language learning
mechanisms (e.g. Sharma 2005).

However, when trying to explain differences between varieties,
researchers often (necessarily) had to rely on drastic generalisations;
Notable among these is that present-day varieties are compared to
uncover historical developments. For example, the historical input to
contemporary Indian English was not contemporary British English, as
tacitly assumed by Fuchs (2012) and much other research, but 18^th
century (standard and non-standard) British English. Such
generalisations were necessary because empirical evidence on
postcolonial varieties in general, and esp. so-called Outer Circle
varieties of English (Kachru 1985), was largely lacking.

With diverse innovative sources of evidence now emerging, we are
increasingly in a position to question the assumptions that earlier
research had to make, and to refine our understanding of the pathways of
linguistic continuity and change that have shaped present-day
postcolonial varieties of English. One source of evidence comes from
extensions of the Brown and ICE families of corpora to earlier
time-points in the development of postcolonial varieties of English,
such as Singapore, Hong Kong (Biewer et al. 2014), Philippine (Borlongan
2015, Collins et al. 2014,b) and Ghanaian English (Brato 2014, 2015) as
well as work by Rossouw and van Rooy (2012) on South African English
(see also the contributions in Collins 2015). Another source of evidence
comes from applications of the apparent-time method to present-day
corpus data, permitting researchers to take a glimpse at ongoing
language change (Fuchs and Gut 2015, Hansen 2015). While most of these
approaches are still relatively shallow in their time depth, they are
already opening up exciting new perspectives on diachronic change in
postcolonial varieties of English.

    Call for papers

This workshop aims to bring together researchers working in this area.
Contributions are welcome on all aspects of diachronic variation and
change in one more varieties of New Englishes. We particularly encourage
contributions that

-        Attempt to disentangle the complex relationship between
influence from the substrate/L1, the heterogeneous superstrate
(consisting of standard and non-standard varieties), and general
language learning mechanisms in the historical development of New Englishes

-        Test developmental models of postcolonial varieties of English
(e.g. Schneider 2007, Trudgill 2004)

-        Test the assumptions of such models, such as the founder
effect, i.e. the assumed disproportionate influence of the earliest
sizeable speaker communities

Papers in the workshop will be allotted 20 minutes for presentation and
10 minutes for discussion, in keeping with the format of the conference.
Please submit your abstract (300 -500 words, excluding the title,
linguistic examples and references) though the EasyChair system on the
conference website (http://wa.amu.edu.pl/isle4/). The deadline for
submissions is 15 March 2016. Notification of acceptance of papers is 25
April 2016.

After successful completion of the workshop, we are planning to publish
selected papers in an edited volume or journal special issue.

NB The workshop will take place on a single day (yet to be determined)
during the ISLE 4 conference (18-21 September 2016).

    References

Biewer, Carolin, Tobias Bernaisch, Mike Berger & Benedikt Heller. 2014.
Compiling the Diachronic Corpus of Hong Kong English (DC-HKE):
motivation, progress and challenges. Poster presentation at /ICAME 35/,
Nottingham.

Borlongan, A. M., & Dita, S. N. 2015. Taking a look at expanded
predicates in Philippine English across time. /Asian Englishes/ 17(3), 1-8.

Brato, Thorsten. 2014. Compiling a historical written corpus of Ghanaian
English: Methodological and theoretical considerations. Paper presented
at the /20th Conference of the International Association for World
Englishes/, New Delhi.

Brato, Thorsten. 2015. Lexical innovation in the early nativization
phase in Ghanaian English: a corpus-based analysis. Paper presented at
the/21st Conference of the International Association for World
Englishes/, Istanbul.

Collins, Peter(ed.) 2015. /Grammatical Change in English World-Wide/.
Amsterdam: Benjamins.

Collins, P., Borlongan, A. M., Lim, J., & Yao, X. 2014a. The subjunctive
mood in Philippine English: A diachronic analysis. In S. E. Pfenninger,
A.-C. Olga Timofeeva, A. H. Gardner, M. Hundt, & D. Schreier (Eds.),
/Contact, variation, and change in the history of English /(pp.
259–280). Amsterdam: Benjamins.

Collins, P., Borlongan, A. M., & Yao, X. 2014b. Modality in Philippine
English: A diachronic study. /Journal of English Linguistics/ 42, 68–88.

Fuchs, Robert.2012. Focus marking and semantic transfer in Indian
English: the case of ‘also. /English World-Wide/ 33(1), 27-53.

Fuchs, Robertand Ulrike Gut.2015. An apparent time study of the
progressive in Nigerian English. In Collins, Peter (ed.), /Grammatical
Change in English World-Wide/, 373-387. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

Greenbaum, Sidney. 1991. ICE: The international corpus of English.
/English Today/ 7(4), 3-7.

Hansen, Beke. 2015. Using the ICE metadata for studying changes in the
New Englishes – Is /must /decreasing in Hong Kong English? Presentation
at the ICAME 36 pre-conference workshop /The Future of the International
Corpus of English (ICE) project - New challenges, new developments/,
Trier, Germany.

Kachru, Braj B. 1985. Standards, codification and sociolinguistic
realism: The English language in the outer circle. In /English in the
world: Teaching and learning the language and literatures/, ed. Randolph
Quirk and Henry Widdowson, 11–30. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Schneider, Edgar W. 2007. /Postcolonial English: varieties around the
world/. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Rossouw, Ronel & Bertus van Rooy. 2012. Diachronic changes in modality
in South African English. /English World-Wide/ 33, 1–26.

Sharma, Devyani. 2005. Language transfer and discourse universals in
Indian English article use. /Studies in Second Language Acquisition/
27(4), 535-566.

Trudgill, Peter. 2004. /New-dialect formation: The inevitability of
colonial Englishes/. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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