28.4633, Calls: Text/Corpus Linguistics, Typology/Estonia

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Subject: 28.4633, Calls: Text/Corpus Linguistics, Typology/Estonia

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Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2017 10:42:00
From: Helle Metslang [metslang at ut.ee]
Subject: Circum-Baltic Languages: Varieties, Typology and Change

 
Full Title: Circum-Baltic Languages: Varieties, Typology and Change 
Short Title: CB 

Date: 29-Aug-2018 - 01-Sep-2018
Location: Tallinn, Estonia 
Contact Person: Helle Metslang
Meeting Email: metslang at ut.ee

Linguistic Field(s): Text/Corpus Linguistics; Typology 

Call Deadline: 12-Nov-2017 

Meeting Description:

Workshop proposed for the 51st Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica
Europaea, 
Tallinn, 29 August – 1 September 2018 

Circum-Baltic languages: varieties, typology and change 

Convenors: Liina Lindström (University of Tartu), Helle Metslang (University
of Tartu), Andra Kalnača (University of Latvia)

The languages of the Circum-Baltic region belong primarily to the
Indo-European (Baltic, Slavic, Germanic) and Uralic (Finnic, Saami) families.
These languages have historically developed common features which have
triggered discussions over a possible Sprachbund (see e.g.  Stolz 1991). The
University of Stockholm research project “Language typology around the Baltic
Sea” (1991–1996) yielded the 2001 compendium “The Circum-Baltic languages”
(Dahl, Koptjevskaja-Tamm 2001a, 2001b), in which it was concluded that the
region is more properly regarded as a contact superposition zone
(Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Wälchli 2001). The Indo-European languages of this region
are considered close to Standard Average European (SAE) languages, while the
Uralic languages fall on the periphery of SAE or outside of it entirely
(Haspelmath 1998, 2001). The area as a whole forms part of a buffer zone
between SAE and Central Eurasia (Wälchli 2011).  

Language comparison and typological generalizations have thus far been based
overwhelmingly on studies of standard language. It has been observed that the
SAE features are more typical of the standard forms of European language than
their non-standard variants (Fiorentino 2007, Seiler 2016). If a language
lacks an established standard form, studies rely on other available material,
primarily from dialects. Thus a single language form is often taken to
represent the language as a whole. In order to obtain a more accurate picture,
it is necessary to analyze the languages of this region in all their variety,
to compare different forms of the same language as well as similar/analogous
forms of different languages. Without including non-standard language
varieties, the resulting picture is coarse and one-sided, from both a static
and a dynamic perspective (Kortmann 2010, Murelli, Kortmann 2011, Auwera 2011,
Wälchli 2011, Szmrecsanyi, Wälchli 2014). 


Call for Papers:

We welcome presentations which bring new data and knowledge regarding the
common and distinctive features of Circum-Baltic languages: 
- Concerning standard or non-standard varieties of Circum-Baltic languages
using data reflecting actual language use (e.g. corpora)
- Concerning different levels of language (phonetics and phonology;
morphosyntax; (lexical) semantics and pragmatics) from typological perspective
- Pointing out the changes taking place in this region both in terms of
individual language features as well as in the delimitation of the language
area itself.

Please send your provisional abstract to Helle Metslang (metslang at ut.ee)
and/or Andra Kalnača (kalnaca at latnet.lv). Abstracts must not exceed 300 words
excluding references. Deadline: Sunday, 12 November 2017.




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