25.1904, Calls: European Languages, Historical Linguistics, Sociolinguistics/Germany

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Subject: 25.1904, Calls: European Languages, Historical Linguistics, Sociolinguistics/Germany

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Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 11:07:31
From: Isabelle Buchstaller [i.buchstaller at uni-leipzig.de]
Subject: International Conference on Language Variation in Europe

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Full Title: International Conference on Language Variation in Europe 
Short Title: ICLaVE 

Date: 27-May-2015 - 29-May-2015
Location: Leipzig, Germany 
Contact Person: Isabelle Buchstaller Beat Siebenhaar
Meeting Email: iclave8 at uni-leipzig.de
Web Site: http://conference.uni-leipzig.de/iclave8/index.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 30-Nov-2014 

Meeting Description:

Universität Leipzig is hosting 
ICLaVE 8 
The 8th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe 

27-29 May 2015, Leipzig, Germany

ICLaVE is established as one of the most important for a for research in the area of language variation in Europe. It aims at bringing together scholars of any European language and language spoken in Europe with the purpose of discussing methodological and theoretical issues in the study of language variation and change. Scholars in any area of linguistics, such as historical linguistics, psycholinguistics, dialectology, sociolinguistics etc. are invited to submit their proposals.

Plenary Speakers:

Miriam Meyerhoff (Victoria University of Wellington)
Susanne Michaelis/Martin Haspelmath (MPI- EVA Leipzig)
Jürgen Erich Schmidt (Forschungsstelle Deutscher Sprachatlas, Universität Marburg)

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http://conference.uni-leipzig.de/iclave8/index.html

Call for Workshops/Papers:

Workshops:

Workshop proposals deadline: 31 August 2014.
Notification of acceptance/rejection of workshops: 30 September 2014.

The organizing committee invites workshop proposals on specific topics related to the general theme of this series of conferences, viz. language variation in Europe. Workshops are to focus on a specific topic with a maximum of 7 x 20-minute papers plus half an hour for a concluding discussion. In their proposal, workshop organisers should briefly describe the workshop topic and give the names, affiliation and e-mail addresses of presenters, as well as the abstracts of individual papers. 

Abstracts/Posters:

Abstract/poster submission deadline: 30 November 2014.
Notification of acceptance/rejection of abstracts/posters: 1 February 2015.

We invite abstracts for paper (20-minute presentation + 10-minute discussion) and poster presentations in all areas of language variation in European languages and languages spoken in Europe. 

Contact: iclave8 at uni-leipzig.de

Local Organising Committee: 

Beat Siebenhaar and Isabelle Buchstaller

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