26.1563, Calls: British Sign Lang, Cumbric, Gaelic, Scottish, Irish, Latin, Pictish, Scots, Historical Ling, Socioling/UK

[The LINGUIST List via LINGUIST]

LINGUIST List: Vol-26-1563. Mon Mar 23 2015. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 26.1563, Calls: British Sign Lang, Cumbric, Gaelic, Scottish, Irish, Latin, Pictish, Scots, Historical Ling, Socioling/UK

Moderators: linguist at linguistlist.org (Damir Cavar, Malgorzata E. Cavar)
Reviews: reviews at linguistlist.org (Anthony Aristar, Helen Aristar-Dry, Sara Couture)
Homepage: http://linguistlist.org

*************    LINGUIST List 2015 Fund Drive    *************
Please support the LL editors and operation with a donation at:

              http://funddrive.linguistlist.org/

Editor for this issue: Erin Arnold <earnold at linguistlist.org>
================================================================


Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 17:43:49
From: Robert McColl Millar [r.millar at abdn.ac.uk]
Subject: Forum for Research on the Languages of Scotland and Ulster

 
Full Title: Forum for Research on the Languages of Scotland and Ulster 

Date: 12-Aug-2015 - 14-Aug-2015
Location: Ayr, Scotland, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Robert McColl Millar
Meeting Email: r.millar at abdn.ac.uk

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Sociolinguistics 

Subject Language(s): British Sign Language (bfi)
                     Cumbric (xcb)
                     Gaelic, Scottish (gla)
                     Irish (gle)
                     Latin (lat)
                     Pictish (xpi)
                     Scots (sco)

Call Deadline: 14-Apr-2015 

Meeting Description:

The Forum for Research on the Languages of Scotland and Ulster will be holding its triennial conferences between 5 and 8 August 2015 at the University of the West of Scotland Ayr Campus. Keynote Speakers will include Professor Jeremy Smith (University of Glasgow) and Dr Warren Maguire (University of Edinburgh).

The conference fee will be £200 (£150 concession). This will include refreshments at breaks and lunch on all three days, as well as a drinks reception on the first evening. Day rates will also be available. There will also be a conference dinner; details of this will be made available closer to the time. A limited amount of accommodation will be available on campus.

An optional trip to the birthplace of Robert Burns in Alloway will take place on the afternoon of Friday 14 August. The estimated cost for this excursion will be £15. 

Further information on accommodation and directions to the venue will be available on www.frlsu.org in the run-up to the conference.

2nd Call for Papers:

Abstracts of no more than 250 words are invited. These should be sent to r.millar at abdn.ac.uk by 14 April 2015. The papers proposed may deal with linguistic aspects of any of the languages spoken, signed or written in Scotland or the nine counties of Ulster in the past or today. All theoretical approaches (or none) are welcome. Comparative studies will be considered as will discussions of the use of language in literature.

Keynote Addresses:

Professor Jeremy Smith (University of Glasgow), Punctuating Older Scots: new developments from a pragmatic perspective

Professor Wilson McLeod (University of Edinburgh), Purism and diversity in contemporary Gaelic

Dr Warren Maguire (University of Edinburgh), Investigating the phonological history of southwest Tyrone English




----------------------------------------------------------
LINGUIST List: Vol-26-1563	
----------------------------------------------------------
Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated
from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships:
          http://multitree.org/