27.4487, Calls: English, German, Romance, Historical Linguistics/Switzerland

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LINGUIST List: Vol-27-4487. Thu Nov 03 2016. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 27.4487, Calls: English, German, Romance, Historical Linguistics/Switzerland

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Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2016 15:45:25
From: Carola Trips [ctrips at mail.uni-mannheim.de]
Subject: Sektion 9 Romanistentag 2017

Full Title: Sektion 9 Romanistentag 2017 

Date: 08-Oct-2017 - 12-Oct-2017
Location: Zurich, Switzerland 
Contact Person: Sarah Dessì-Schmid
Meeting Email: sarah.dessi at uni-tuebingen.de
Web Site: http://www.deutscher-romanistenverband.de/romanistentag/zuerich-2017/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)
                     German (deu)

Language Family(ies): Romance 

Call Deadline: 06-Jan-2017 

Meeting Description:

Sektion 9: Mehrsprachigkeit und Sprachkontakt im Mittelalter - Syntax und
Semantik von Verben

This workshop discusses multilingualism in medieval times in Europe and
focusses on the syntax and semantics of verbs in language contact situations.
It further aims to bring together and foster cooperation between researchers
in Romance, English and German linguistics. 

In medieval times (roughly, 9th-15th centuries), multilingualism was
widespread, as is evidenced by a plethora of texts showing contact phenomena,
and must presumably also have been found in oral communication. Latin, which
had the status of an official language and was the language of learning, was
used alongside the vernaculars Old and Middle English, Old High German and
Middle High German, as well as the various Romance vernaculars found at that
time. 

Despite the fact that this situation is well-known, surprisingly few papers
have dealt with grammatical aspects of language contact in medieval times
across the three philological domains mentioned. In English linguistics,
contact between English and Anglo-Norman (due to the Norman Conquest in 1066)
has often been considered as the most important contact situation in medieval
times, but so far mainly effects on the level of the lexicon have been
investigated (with some exceptions that looked at the borrowing of verbs). In
German linguistics, the main topic addressed has been the relation between
Latin and the German vernaculars, or more precisely, interference effects of
Latin originals on manuscripts written in Old or Middle High German. In
Romance linguistics, the focus has been on variational and diachronic aspects
of multilingualism and especially the investigation of phenomena like
standardisation and koineisation. This workshop seeks to fill a gap by
focusing on the syntax and semantics of verbs, and by taking into account
different instantiations of multilingualism like bilingualism, code-switching
in mixed texts, second language acquisition, and the relation between Latin
and the respective vernaculars.  

Organising Committeeː

Katrin Axel-Tober (Tübingen)
Sarah Dessì Schmid (Tübingen)
Achim Stein (Stuttgart)
Carola Trips (Mannheim)

Call for Papersː

We invite papers for 30-minute presentations that deal with any of the
following suggested topics: the borrowing of argument structure, participial
and infinitival constructions, the position of the verb, translations and loan
syntax, and modes of communication. Other aspects relevant to the above themes
are also welcome. Papers should be given in one of the following languages:
English, French, Italian, Spanish, German.

It is expected that the workshop will lead to a publication with a major
linguistics publisher.

Please send an abstract of about 300 words (in pdf format; the name of the
file should be NAME.pdf) to sarah.dessi at uni-tuebingen.de not later than 6
January 2017.

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