[Lingtyp] call for paper: language contact and language change

[Hiwa Asadpour]

Dear colleagues,

I am sharing the call for paper on language contact and language change in
Western Asia. The full announcement is attached to this email.

*Language Contact and Language Change in Western Asia*



10th to 12th March 2017

Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany



*CALL FOR PAPERS*



*Call deadline*

15th December 2016 for abstract submission



*Submissions*

Proposals are open to anyone but we especially welcome:

1.     Postgraduate students (MA, MPhil, MSt, etc.);

2.     PhD students/candidates and post-docs at any stage of their degree.



We invite submissions of preliminary abstracts (max. 1 page, excluding
references) for 20 minute presentations. Please send your abstracts through
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lclcwa2017 by 15th December 2016.



*Important dates:*

15th December 2016 — Call deadline (submission of abstracts)

10th January 2017 — Notification of acceptance



*Conference description:*

The conference “Language Contact and Language Change in Western Asia”
focuses on multilingualism in Western Asia. Within Western Asia, we aim at
focusing the Kurdish-populated areas in the regions of Iran, Iraq, Syria,
Turkey and the neighboring countries Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia. In
this area, several Indo-European varieties are spoken, including Armenian,
Kurdish varieties, and Persian. A number of non-Indo-European languages are
spoken as well, such as Azeri Turkic, Neo-Aramaic, and Turkish. Finally
Georgian and other Caucasian languages are also spoken in the region. Most
of the above-mentioned languages exhibit a suprastratum of Semitic, Iranian
and Turkic languages due to their close contact for centuries.



The conference explores the use of corpus methods in descriptive and
theoretical analysis of word order change of natural languages in a
multilingual area like Western Asia. Focal areas of interest include, but
are not limited to language contact and language change in word order,
information structure, and prosody. Furthermore, we are interested in
theoretical and methodological issues pertaining to corpus-oriented
research in language contact, i.e. tools, methods, and techniques
in corpus assembly, annotation and analysis, the interaction
between corpus linguistics and computational linguistics, the relevance of
corpus linguistics and linguistic theory, the use of statistical and
quantitative methods in detecting patterns of language change, as well as
the impact of corpus-based vs. corpus-driven approaches on our view and
understanding of morphosyntatic change in languages.





*Best Regards*
*Hiwa*
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