27.206, Calls: Hebrew, Standard Arabic, Russian, Polish, Eastern Yiddish, Hist Ling, Lang Acq, Socioling

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Subject: 27.206, Calls: Hebrew, Standard Arabic, Russian, Polish, Eastern Yiddish, Hist Ling, Lang Acq, Socioling

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Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 12:16:20
From: Daniel Shetreet [emh at mail.huji.ac.il]
Subject: Language Contact, Continuity and Change in the Emergence of Modern Hebrew

 
Full Title: Language Contact, Continuity and Change in the Emergence of Modern Hebrew 
Short Title: EMH-2016 

Date: 04-Jul-2016 - 06-Jul-2016
Location: Jerusalem, Israel 
Contact Person: Daniel Shetreet
Meeting Email: emh at mail.huji.ac.il
Web Site: http://www.scholion.huji.ac.il/en/?cmd=research.310 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Sociolinguistics 

Subject Language(s): Arabic, Standard (arb)
                     Hebrew (heb)
                     Polish (pol)
                     Russian (rus)
                     Yiddish, Eastern (ydd)

Call Deadline: 31-Jan-2016 

Meeting Description:

We invite new descriptive and theoretical work concerned with language contact
and language change, which can provide a basis and framework for the
systematic study of the formative stages and the linguistic properties of
Modern Hebrew, the spoken language which emerged in the process known as the
“revival of Hebrew”. We wish to gain insight from research on varying stages
of Modern Hebrew and more general research on other instances of language
continuity and change in the context of language contact.

Confirmed invited speakers:

Enoch Aboh, Universiteit van Amsterdam
Moshe Bar-Asher, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and The Academy of the
Hebrew Language
Larry Horn, Yale University
Brian Joseph, Ohio State University
Tania Kouteva, SOAS, University of London
Anthony Kroch, University of Pennsylvania
Claire Lefebvre, Université du Québec à Montréal
Carmel O'Shannessy, University of Michigan
Asya Pereltsvaig, Stanford University
Ian Roberts, University of Cambridge
Bernard Spolsky, Bar-Ilan University
Fred Weerman, Universiteit van Amsterdam


Final Call for Papers:

קבוצת המחקר הבין-תחומית להתהוות העברית החדשה
The Emergence of Modern Hebrew Research Group

Concluding  International Conference
Language Contact, Continuity and Change in the Emergence of Modern Hebrew
July 4-6 2016, Jerusalem

The following are possible relevant topics for the conference:

- Description and characterization of the revival of Hebrew, preferably with
emphasis on the less studied aspects (morphology and syntax), and how the
early language of the non-native speakers differed from that of the first
native speakers
- Different forms of language contact and planned language change - e.g.
revival, standardization, language maintenance - in the history of Hebrew and
other languages: Arabic diglossia, revival of Syriac in the Galilee, Yiddish
in Haredi communities, Welsh and Manx in Britain, revival of tribal languages
in America, Australia, Scandinavia, revival of local Italian dialects, etc.
- Theoretical models of language variation and change, and the role of
language contact
- Theoretical work on the nature of heritage languages and creoles. Though
Modern Hebrew differs from both, it is based on language skills that do not
reflect ordinary linguistic knowledge.
- The role of children: to what extent does the theory of language
acquisition, and in particular bilingual language acquisition, inform the
process of language revival? Are the same mechanisms operational in both
situations? 

Languages of study include but are not limited to: Hebrew, Standard Arabic,
Russian, Polish, Eastern Yiddish

Anonymous abstracts for 30-minute talks should be submitted online via
EasyChair https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=emh2016 by January 31 2016.
They should not exceed two pages (including references) in a 12-point font.
The conference will be held mainly in English, but will include special
sessions in Hebrew. Abstracts for the Hebrew sessions should be sent in
Hebrew. Send any questions to emh at mail.huji.ac.il. Selected papers will be
published as a refereed book. Possibility of partial funding pending
availability.




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