28.3923, Calls: Germanic, Romance, Slavic, Historical Ling, Morphology, Phonology, Socioling, Syntax/Switzerland

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Subject: 28.3923, Calls: Germanic, Romance, Slavic, Historical Ling, Morphology, Phonology, Socioling, Syntax/Switzerland

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Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2017 15:42:01
From: Alexandra Lenz [alexandra.lenz at univie.ac.at]
Subject: Variationist Linguistics meets Contact Linguistics

 
Full Title: Variationist Linguistics meets Contact Linguistics 

Date: 20-May-2018 - 23-May-2018
Location: Monte Verità, Ascona, Switzerland 
Contact Person: Mateusz Maselko
Meeting Email: ascona2018 at unige.ch
Web Site: https://www.unige.ch/lettres/alman/ascona2018/en/homepage/ 

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

Language Family(ies): Germanic; Romance; Slavic Subgroup 

Call Deadline: 15-Nov-2017 

Meeting Description:

Theme
The conference is dedicated to the heterogeneous and dynamic nature of
language(s) as seen from the perspective of variationist linguistics and
contact linguistics. This conference will focus mainly on the linguistic
contact between various varieties of German and other languages (such as
English, French, Italian, Portuguese and Russian), but papers on other
language contact constellations are appreciated as well. 

Recent studies show several commonalities between both domains (language
variation and contact) and their research paradigms (s. Britain 2010, Kerswill
2010, Léglise/Chamoreau 2013, Ravindranath 2015). Actual language use and its
situational-functional cultural contexts as well as the dynamic,
theoretical-empirical versions of central concepts (such as variation/variety,
inner and outer multilingualism, switching/shifting/mixing) are just as much
key focus areas of both disciplines as are methodological questions of data
acquisition, corpus development and data processing. The conference would like
to pursue the complex relationship between language-internal variation, the
contact between varieties and languages as well as language-external factors.
A particular emphasis is placed on contributions that explore contact-based or
contact-supported variation phenomena - be they grammatical, lexical or
phonological - and therefore connect perspectives of variationist and contact
linguistics together. The main goal of the conference is to assemble
researchers from the fields of variationist and contact linguistics and to
create and support potential synergies to facilitate the theoretical and
methodological convergence of the two fields.

Invited Speakers:

Tania Kouteva (University of Düsseldorf / University College London), Péter
Maitz (University of Augsburg), Peter Rosenberg (Viadrina European University
Frankfurt/Oder)

Participants:

The conference addresses researchers from the fields of contact linguistics
and variationist linguistics who have a strong interest in interdisciplinary
dialogue. All participants are required to provide a scientific contribution
to the conference, either in the form of a presentation or a poster.
Attendance is limited to 30 people in order to facilitate intensive
discussions.

Organisation:

Mateusz Maselko (Université de Genève, UNIGE, Switzerland)
Alexandra N. Lenz (University of Vienna & Austrian Academy of Sciences,
Austria


Call for Papers:

Presentation:

A total of four main presentations as well as 12 further presentations are
included in the program. The latter are each 25 minutes long and followed by a
short discussion (5 minutes). After each presentation block consisting of two
presentations time is allotted for an extensive discussion (30 Min.).

Poster:

Posters with the format A0 (portrait format) will be presented in the context
of a poster session (2 hours). The presenters are available for a 5 minutes
oral introduction. A total of 10 Posters are foreseen. 

Composition and Submission of Abstracts:

Administration will be handled over ConfTool
(https://www.conftool.pro/ascona2018/). Participants will need to set up an
individual user account. Contribution proposals will be submitted over this
account. Proposals must be written in an anonymous form and may not exceed
3,500 characters (including empty spaces, but excluding max. 3 bibliographical
references).

Submission deadline: 15 November 2017

Presentation:

A total of four main presentations as well as 12 further presentations are
included in the program. The latter are each 25 minutes long and followed by a
short discussion (5 minutes). After each presentation block consisting of two
presentations time is allotted for an extensive discussion (30 Min.).




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