[Lingtyp] SLE conference 2023 workshop on Pontic Greek: Call for papers

[Ana Krajinović]

Dear colleagues,

On behalf of Isabella Greisinger, I wish to draw your attention to the 
call for papers for the SLE 2023 workshop proposal 'Pontic in the past 
and the present: Following the traces of an endangered Asia Minor Greek 
dialect'.
See details below and on 
https://old.linguistlist.org/issues/33/33-3120.html.

Best regards,

Ana

SLE workshop 'Pontic in the past and the present: Following the traces 
of an endangered Asia Minor Greek dialect'

Organizers
Vassilios Spyropoulos (vspyrop at phil.uoa.gr, National and Kapodistrian 
University of Athens)
Isabella Greisinger (Isabella.Greisinger at hhu.de, Heinrich Heine 
Universität Düsseldorf)

Call for Papers:

Pontic is a Greek dialectal group originally spoken in the north-eastern 
part of Asia Minor along the coast of the Black Sea. With the year 2023 
marking 100 years after the majority of its speakers left their homeland 
and moved to Greece because of the population exchange that followed the 
Greek-Turkish war in the 1920's, we can collect much knowledge about the 
external and internal history of this endangered Asia Minor Greek 
dialect ex situ. However, in order to trace back and fully understand 
its development, one needs also to consider the situation of Pontic in 
situ, i.e. in Turkey before and after 1923, as well as in some ex-Soviet 
Union countries, such as Georgia, Ukraine, Russia, etc, to which Pontic 
speakers had also moved or migrated. In addition, a new ecosystem of the 
dialect has emerged in the diaspora, i.e. in Pontic communities of 
immigrants coming from Greece and Turkey in countries such as Germany, 
etc. In aiming at gathering insights about the Pontic varieties both in 
situ and ex situ, this workshop aims at displaying the importance of 
documenting and investigating the linguistic and sociolinguistic 
properties of all Pontic varieties, both in the past and the present, so 
that we gain a better understanding of their status as well as of the 
interplay of external and internal language change in the course of 
their history. Some specific questions to be addressed will be:

(1) How can we establish a more detailed subclassification of Pontic 
Greek?
(2) Which kinds of language change can be observed in the Pontic 
varieties?
(3) Which language contact phenomena can be observed in the Pontic 
varieties?
(4) What is the status of Pontic Greek spoken now in Greece?
(5) Are in situ varieties of Pontic more resistant to language change 
than Pontic varieties spoken ex situ?
(6) Which is the best way to include urban fieldwork into Pontic 
studies?

Since we want to emphasize the importance of the interaction between 
several subfields of linguistics contributing to Pontic studies, we 
welcome contributions of studies dealing with Greek dialectology, 
language documentation, urban fieldwork, (sub)dialectal variation, 
synchronic and diachronic analyses of grammatical phenomena and 
subsystems, and sociolinguistic issues.

Abstracts of no more than 300 words (including examples, excluding 
references) should be sent by email both in word and pdf files to the 
workshop convenors, Vassilios Spyropoulos (vspyrop at phil.uoa.gr) and 
Isabella Greisinger (Isabella.Greisinger at hhu.de), by November 8, 2022.

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Dr. Isabella Greisinger, MSc.
Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
Institut für Linguistik
Abteilung für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft
Gebäude 23.21 Etage 04 Raum 079
Universitätsstraße 1
40225 Düsseldorf
Germany

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Dr. Ana Krajinović

Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
Institut für Sprache und Information
Gebäude 23.21, Raum 04.079
40225 Düsseldorf

https://anakrajinovic.com
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