25.3547, Calls: Sociolinguistics/ Linguistic Variation (Jrnl)

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Subject: 25.3547, Calls: Sociolinguistics/ Linguistic Variation (Jrnl)

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Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 15:23:28
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: Sociolinguistics/ Linguistic Variation (Jrnl)

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Full Title: Linguistic Variation 


Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 05-Dec-2014 

Special Issue Call for Papers: The Locus of Linguistic Variation

Early accounts of generative grammar (e.g., Chomsky 1965) postulated a firm
separation between the variability present in language production and the
grammar itself. Performance was regarded as extraneous to the key object of
study, grammatical competence. Around the same time, early researchers in
sociolinguistics moved to explicitly integrate variation into the grammar,
developing such concepts as inherent variability (Weinreich, Labov, and Herzog
1968) and variable rules (Cedergren and Sankoff 1974). Half a century and
three major ''waves'' of sociolinguistic scholarship later, the study of
language- and speaker-internal variation has grown into a substantial
linguistic discipline.

This special issue of Linguistic Variation revisits the two early perspectives
sketched here, asks what we have learned in the intervening decades, and puts
forward for consideration new views on the relationship between variation and
the grammar. We solicit paper submissions that do one or more of the
following: 1) take a position on how variation should be integrated into, or
dissociated from, the grammatical architecture; 2) argue for their perspective
on variation and grammar based on specific, preferably quantitative or
experimental, data; 3) integrate psycholinguistic evidence into the discussion
of how grammatical knowledge relates to language variation in context.

Linguistic Variation is an international, peer-reviewed journal that focuses
on the theoretical study of linguistic variation. It seeks to investigate to
what extent the study of linguistic variation can shed light on the broader
issue of language-particular versus language-universal properties, on the
interaction between what is fixed and necessary on the one hand and what is
variable and contingent on the other. This enterprise involves properly
defining and delineating the notion of linguistic variation, identifying
possible loci of variation, investigating what the variable properties of
natural language reveal about its underlying invariant core, and conversely,
exploring the range and type of variation that arises from the interaction
between several invariant principles.

Papers can be submitted for peer review and editorial consideration at
http://www.editorialmanager.com/liv/. After registering with Editorial
Manager, select 'Special issue: The Locus of Linguistic Variation' from the
drop-down menu under 'Section/Category'. Submissions should be under 10,000
words and should be submitted by December 5th, 2014. Formatting guidelines for
submissions can be found at https://benjamins.com/catalog/lv

For questions, contact any of the guest editors for this special issue:
Meredith Tamminga (tamminga at ling.upenn.edu), Laurel MacKenzie (
laurel.mackenzie at manchester.ac.uk), or Constantine Lignos
(constantine.lignos at gmail.com).







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