28.848, Confs: Historical Ling, Ling Theories, Morphology, Phonology, Socioling, Syntax/Italy

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Subject: 28.848, Confs: Historical Ling, Ling Theories, Morphology, Phonology, Socioling, Syntax/Italy

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Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 13:12:23
From: Federico Giusfredi [federico.giusfredi at univr.it]
Subject: Beyond Lexicon: Diachronic Language Contact on the Structural and Systemic Level

Beyond Lexicon: Diachronic Language Contact on the Structural and Systemic Level 

Date: 21-Apr-2017 - 22-Apr-2017 
Location: Verona, Italy 
Contact: Federico Giusfredi 
Contact Email: federico.giusfredi at univr.it 
Meeting URL: https://luwiansyntax.info/workshops/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Morphology; Phonology; Sociolinguistics; Syntax 

Meeting Description: 

Linguistic interference on the micro-phenomenic levels of lexical loans and
calques (cf. Gusmani 1993) is the most evident type of contact, and was easily
identified in both modern and historical languages. Contact, however, can
affect human languages in deeper and more complex ways (cf. Myers-Scotton
2002; Oksaar 1996, pp- 3-5). Morphology, morphosyntax and syntax can be
involved (cf. Hill 2013 and 2015; Schrijver 2014), with unidirectional or
mutual alterations on the structural and systemic levels. Structural
interference can be limited to patterns occurring in single linguistic acts –
be they ancient linguistic materials such as bi- or multilingual inscriptions,
or locally limited cases of code-switching in limited geo-linguistic areas –
but it can also represent a step towards a systematic diachronic change (cf.
Consani 2015; Haspelmath 2001) – from the mutual influence of neighbouring
languages on the levels of morphology and morpho-syntax up to the
instantiation of proper areal systems.

Aim of the workshop is to discuss historical language-contact in its systemic
implications, either by facing its theoretical aspects or by presenting and
discussing specific cases, including (but not limited to):

- Diachronic morphological interference
- Diachronic morphosyntactic interference
- Diachronic syntactic interference
- The socio-linguistic patterns of diachronic interference
- Theoretical modelling of language contact in ancient and modern languages
- Identification and description of language contact in ancient and modern
languages

The workshop is organized within the framework of the project SLUW, that has
received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and
Innovation programme under the MARIE SKLODOWSKA-CURIE Grant agreement no.
655954.

References

Consani, C. ed. 2015. Contatto interlinguistico fra presente e passato.
Milano: Led
Gusmani, R. 1993. Saggi sull’interferenza linguistica, Firenze: Le Lettere.
Haspelmath, M. 2001. “The European linguistic area: Standard Average
European”, in Language Typology and Language Universals (Handbücher zur
Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft vol. 20.2). Berlin: De Gruyter, pp.
1492–1510.
Hill, Eugen (2013), “Sprachkontakt und die Flexionsmorphologie bei der
Ausbreitung des Indogermanischen”, in Indogermanischen Forschungen 118, pp.
169-192.
Hill, Eugen (2015), “Suppletion replication in grammaticalization and its
triggering factors”, in Language Dynamics and Change 5, pp. 52-91.
Myers-Scotton, C. 2002. Contact Linguistics: Bilingual Encounters and
Grammatical Outcomes, Oxford University Press.
Oksaar, E. 1996. “The history of contact linguistics as a discipline”, in
Goebl, Hans et al. (eds.): Kontaktlinguistik/contact linguistics/linguistique
de contact: ein internationales Handbuch zeitgenössischer Forschung/an
international handbook of contemporary research/manuel international des
recherches contemporaines. Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter, pp. 1–12.
Schrijver, Peter (2014), Language contact and the origin of the  Germanic
languages, Routledge Studies in Linguistics, New York, Routledge.

Program:

Beyond Lexicon:
Diachronic language contact on the structural and systemic level
April 21-22, 2017, Sala del Banco Popolare, via San Cosimo 10, 37121, Verona.

Friday, April 21:

9:00:
Opening

9:15:
James Clackson
“Contact and Convergence among the Indo-Euopean languages of ancient Italy”.

10:00:
Andrea Scala
“Phonological rules borrowing: some case studies / L'importazione di regole
fonologiche: alcuni casi di studio”

10:45: Coffee break

11:15: 
Paola Cotticelli and Federico Giusfredi
“Ancient Anatolian languages and language contact: some methodological
reflections”

12:00:
Jens E. Braarvig
“Representation of Sanskrit grammar in Buddhist Chinese. Some examples”

12:45: Lunch

14:00:
Ilya Yakubovich
“Universals of Language Contact and the Written Languages”

14:45:
Lorenzo Verderame
“The other way round: Akkadian influences on Sumerian language”

15:30 : Coffee break

16:00:
Carlotta Viti
“Historical languague contact between Indo-European and Semitic in argument
structure and in clause organization”

16:45:
Marco Mancini
TBA

Saturday, April 22:

9:00:
Vittorio Tomelleri
“Parallel trajectories in the Caucasus?”

9:45:
Birgit Alber and Stefan Rabanus
“Sibilants in Cimbrian”

10:15: Coffee break

10:45:
Guido Manzelli
Contact-induced phenomena from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea among Germanic,
Saamic, Finnic, Slavonic and Indo-Aryan (Romany) languages: predicative
possession and experiential constructions

12:15: Round Table

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