26.2891, Calls: Historical Linguistics/UK

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Subject: 26.2891, Calls: Historical Linguistics/UK

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Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2015 13:35:00
From: Joanna Kopaczyk [joanna.kopaczyk at ed.ac.uk]
Subject: AMC Symposium on Historical Dialectology

 
Full Title: AMC Symposium on Historical Dialectology 
Short Title: AMCSympo 

Date: 09-Jun-2016 - 10-Jun-2016
Location: Edinburgh, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Joanna Kopaczyk
Meeting Email: AMCSympo at ed.ac.uk
Web Site: http://www.amc.lel.ed.ac.uk/?page_id=931 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 31-Oct-2015 

Meeting Description:

The first AMC Symposium, to be hosted by the Angus McIntosh Centre for Historical Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh on 9-10 June 2016, focuses broadly on the theme of Historical Dialectology, with no restrictions to particular languages or historical periods.

Plenary Speakers:

- Professor Michael Benskin (University of Oslo)
- Dr. Margaret Laing (Honorary Fellow, University of Edinburgh)
- Professor Roger Lass (Honorary Professorial Fellow, University of Edinburgh)

A one- or two-day, hands-on workshop exploring the content and potential of the AMC corpora and atlases will immediately follow the Symposium.

Call for Papers:

We welcome abstract submissions on topics related to historical dialectology, including:

- Theory and methods
- Descriptive studies
- Comparative studies
- Language contact
- Sociolinguistic factors
- Building corpora and resources
- Visualising and exploring data
- Historical dialectology in the classroom

We particularly encourage submissions which showcase the corpora and atlases developed at the University of Edinburgh and hosted by the AMC, i.e. LALME, LAEME, CoNE, LAOS. We also welcome submissions from postgraduate and doctoral students.

Presentation Format: 

Presentation slots are 30 minutes (20-minute talk + 10-minute discussion).

Abstract Submissions:

Please submit abstracts* of up to 400 words (excluding references) by October 31, 2015. Submissions will be subjected to a double-blind peer-review processes. Notification of acceptance will be sent out by January 31, 2016.

*No more than one individual and/or co-authored paper per participant.

The EasyAbs submission page for abstracts is: http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/AMCSympo

Additional Information:

- The language of the conference is English.
- Conference registration will be open from February 1, 2016.
- A one- or two-day, hands-on workshop exploring the content and potential of the AMC corpora and atlases will immediately follow the Symposium.

Please direct any further enquiries to: AMCSympo at ed.ac.uk

Important Dates:

Deadline for abstracts: 31 October 2015
Notification of acceptance: by 31 January 2016
Registration: starts 1 February 2016
Conference dates: 9-10 June 2016
Workshop dates: 11-12 June 2016




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