19.275, Calls: General Ling/Sweden

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Subject: 19.275, Calls: General Ling/Sweden

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Date: 23-Jan-2008
From: Yair Sapir < yair.sapir at multietn.uu.se >
Subject: 2nd Conference on Elfdalian

 

	
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From: Yair Sapir [yair.sapir at multietn.uu.se]
Subject: 2nd Conference on Elfdalian
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Full Title: 2nd Conference on Elfdalian 
Short Title: COE 2 

Date: 12-Jun-2008 - 14-Jun-2008
Location: Alvdalen, Sweden 
Contact Person: Yair Sapir
Meeting Email: yair.sapir at multietn.uu.se
Web Site: http://www.multietn.uu.se/information/elfdalian.html 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Subject Language(s): Elfdalian (qer)

Language Family(ies): East Scandinavian 

Call Deadline: 29-Feb-2008 


Meeting Description

Elfdalian (autonym övdalska, Swedish älvdalska), is spoken by some three
thousand persons in the parish of Alvdalen (Älvdalen) in the northern part
of Dalecarlia (Dalarna), Sweden. This threatened linguistic variety has
been traditionally considered a Swedish dialect. However, due to the
abundance of features distinguishing it from Standard Swedish, an
increasing number of linguists advocate the recognition of Elfdalian as a
separate language.

Oðer råðstemna um övdalsky, The Second Conference on Elfdalian, is due to
be held on 2008 June 12 to 14 in Alvdalen. The arrangers are Centre for
Multiethnic Research at Uppsala University, Ulum dalska (The Association
for the Preservation of Elfdalian) and The Municipality of Alvdalen. 

The orientation of the conference is scientifical and likewise popular
scientifical. The purpose of the conference is to depict Elfdalian from mainly
two angles: (1) The structure of Elfdalian and (2) The revitalization and
standardization of the language. 


Second Call for Papers

Please note: Deadline for abstracts postponed to February 29 2008.

Abstracts (no longer than an A4 page) should be sent to radstemna at yahoo.se on
2008 February 29 at the latest (new date).

The following persons are pre-scheduled as invited speakers: 

Östen Dahl (Stockholm)
Lars-Olof Delsing (Lund)
Olle Engstrand (Stockholm and Uppsala)
Leena Huss (Uppsala)
Satu Gröndahl (Uppsala)
Gösta Larsson (Alvdalen)
Björn Rehnström (Alvdalen) 
and Lars Steensland (Lund).






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