28.4961, Calls: Gen Ling, Genetic Classification, Historical Ling, Lang Doc/Ecuador

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Subject: 28.4961, Calls: Gen Ling, Genetic Classification, Historical Ling, Lang Doc/Ecuador

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Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 15:36:49
From: Pilar Valenzuela [valenzuela at chapman.edu]
Subject: Small Language Families and Isolates of the Eastern Foothills in North Peru and South Ecuador

 
Full Title: Small Language Families and Isolates of the Eastern Foothills in North Peru and South Ecuador 

Date: 28-May-2018 - 01-Jun-2018
Location: Baños, Ecuador 
Contact Person: Pilar Valenzuela
Meeting Email: amazonicas.piedemonte at gmail.com
Web Site: http://aix1.uottawa.ca/~asalanov/Amazonicas/en/congreso.html#fam 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Genetic Classification; Historical Linguistics; Language Documentation 

Meeting Description:

Within the Amazonicas series of conferences there has traditionally been a
session dedicated to a single language family. At Amazonicas 4 (Lima, 2012)
this session was dedicated to exploring the possibility of a Pano-Takanan
family, recognising the fact that deeper genetic relations are not always
clearly or uncontroversially distinct from contact effects, and in 2018 we aim
to pursue further this search for hitherto unrecognised or unproven genetic or
areal relationships, by including some of the many small language families and
isolates that are found throughout Amazonia. The theme for the session at
Amazonicas 7 is “small language families and isolates of the eastern foothills
in north Peru and south Ecuador”, focusing on this (loosely) geographically
constrained area within which to work (in the spirit of Wise 1999).

The selected area is significant because of its relatively high linguistic
diversity. Small families and isolates restricted to this zone include Chicham
(formerly known as Jivaroan); Kawapanan; Zaparoan; Kandozi-Chapra and Urarina.
These languages co-exist with members of larger families, including:
Kukama-Kukamiria from the Tupian family, Chamicuro from Arawak, and Pastaza
Kichwa from the Quechuan family. Colonial documentary evidence shows that
various languages, now extinct, were spoken in the Marañón valley and
highlands to the West; these may also have belonged to genetic groups endemic
to the zone (Adelaar with Muysken 2004).

While attempts to link the small families and isolates into larger genetic
units have not resulted in convincing evidence (cf. Payne 1981, 1990 on
Chicham and Kandozi-Chapra, for example), recent work has addressed the
possibility of an areal grouping involving the eastern foothills of the Andes
(Wise 2011; Valenzuela 2015; Overall and Vuillermet 2015). It remains to be
seen whether this area can be considered “a trait sprawl area” in the sense of
Campbell (2017); nevertheless, it is of great importance and interest to
understand the distribution of traditionally-defined “Andean” and “Amazonian”
features in this region (cf. Dixon and Aikhenvald 1999). (Note that the area
with which we are especially concerned is a subset of this wider “Eastern
foothills” region.)


Call for Papers:

We welcome papers that address the theme of the session, which may include:

- New data on languages spoken in the Eastern foothills of north Peru and
south Ecuador
- Contributions towards identifying genetic relations linking the languages of
this area to one another or to wider genetic units spoken outside the area
- Contributions identifying contact effects between languages of this area or
with languages spoken outside the area

Abstracts must be anonymous and should not surpass one A4-size page; they
should be presented in 12 point font (Times font family) and a minimum of 2cm
margins. They should be sent in PDF format as e-mail attachments. In the
e-mail body, the following pieces of information should be provided: abstract
title, name and academic affiliation of the authors, and whether the abstract
is for a 20-minute talk or for a poster presentation. The subject of the
message should be ABSTRACT, followed by PIEDEMONTE  followed by the authors'
names.

Abstracts should be sent to amazonicas.piedemonte at gmail.com.

The deadline for the submission of abstracts is January 15, 2018.




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