27.4717, Calls: Anthro Ling, Historical Ling, Socioling/Switzerland

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Subject: 27.4717, Calls: Anthro Ling, Historical Ling, Socioling/Switzerland

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Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2016 12:58:58
From: Bridget Drinka [Bridget.Drinka at utsa.edu]
Subject: nternational Conference on Historical Linguistics 23

 
Full Title: International Conference on Historical Linguistics 23 
Short Title: ICHL23 

Date: 31-Jul-2017 - 04-Aug-2017
Location: San Antonio, Texas, USA 
Contact Person: Bridget Drinka
Meeting Email: ichl23 at utsa.edu
Web Site: http://ichl23.utsa.edu/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 01-Dec-2016 

Meeting Description:

The 23rd International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL23) will take
place at the Hotel Contessa on the Riverwalk in San Antonio, Texas, from 31
July – 4 August, 2017, hosted by the University of Texas at San Antonio.  The
biennial conference brings together historical linguists and specialists in
related fields to focus on recent advances in such areas as computational
methods of reconstruction, areal and typological approaches to historical
linguistics, the role of contact in language change, formal properties of
change, language variation and change, the diachronic analysis of endangered
languages, and other areas of interest.  

Confirmed Plenary Speakers:

Henning Andersen (UCLA)
Claire Bowern (Yale)
Michela Cennamo (Naples, Federico II)
Patience Epps (UT-Austin)
Geoffrey Khan (Cambridge)
Marianne Mithun (UC Santa Barbara)
Salikoko Mufwene (Chicago)
Rena Torres Cacoullos (Penn State

Details concerning abstract submission for the general sessions, registration,
accommodations, and the social program are available or will be available in
the near future on our website, http://ichl23.utsa.edu/.


2nd Call for Abstracts:

Abstracts are invited for papers for the General Session and Workshops. 
Abstracts should be a maximum of two pages in length, including references,
and may focus on any aspect of historical linguistics.  Abstracts should be
submitted via the conference Easy Chair link
(https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ichl23).  (If you have problems using
Easy Chair, please contact us at ichl23 at utsa.edu.). Authors may present a
maximum of two papers, whether single-authored or co-authored.  Abstracts will
be reviewed anonymously by at least three members of the Scientific Committee.

Abstracts may be submitted for the General Session or for one of the Workshops
listed below (see workshop abstracts at http://ichl23.utsa.edu/cfp/).
Abstracts submitted for a workshop but not accepted there will be
automatically considered for inclusion in the general session.

- Alignment Typology in Diachronic Perspective 
- Arabic and Contact-Induced Change
- Atomizing Linguistic Change & the Nuclear Step: From Individual Realization
to Emergence
- Germanic & Romance.  Probing the Similarities and Differences
- The Development of Aspect & Tense Systems
- Diachrony & Subordination:  Links between Theory and Corpus Analysis
- Logical Vocabulary & Logical Change
- The Loss of Inflection
- New Historical Perspectives on Non-Dominant Speakers as Agents of
Contact-Induced Language Change
- Paradigm Leveling




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