29.4934, Calls: Applied Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Language Documentation/USA

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Subject: 29.4934, Calls: Applied Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Language Documentation/USA

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Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2018 01:42:30
From: Justin Spence [jspence at ucdavis.edu]
Subject: Historical-Comparative Linguistics for Language Revitalization

 
Full Title: Historical-Comparative Linguistics for Language Revitalization 

Date: 29-Jun-2019 - 30-Jun-2019
Location: Davis, CA, USA 
Contact Person: Jorge Rosés Labrada
Meeting Email: HistLxRevitalization at ucdavis.edu

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Language Documentation 

Call Deadline: 31-Jan-2019 

Meeting Description:

The theme of this symposium is connections between historical-comparative
linguistics and language revitalization - broadly speaking, how
historical-comparative methods can be brought to bear to benefit language
revitalization, and also how the study of languages undergoing revitalization
can inform questions of general interest in the study of language change.
Included as part of the 2019 LSA Linguistic Institute (hosted at UC Davis),
the symposium will bring a group of scholars and practitioners whose language
revitalization and reclamation work draws on historical-comparative methods.


Call for Papers:

Recent scholarship has explored the mutually beneficial relationship between
historical-comparative linguistics and language documentation. However,
language revitalization has been largely absent from these discussions even
though historical-comparative linguistics has figured prominently in the
revitalization and reclamation of endangered languages and dormant languages
that are known principally through archival documentation collected in the
past. In this symposium, we propose to address this gap by bringing together a
group of scholars and practitioners whose language revitalization and
reclamation work draws on historical-comparative methods. We specifically
propose to focus on six questions:
 
1. How can historical-comparative linguistics help to fill gaps, both lexical
and grammatical, in the existing documentation of formerly dormant languages?

2. How can historical-comparative linguistics inform the evaluation of
existing documentation to be mobilized for the creation of teaching materials?

3. How can the study of languages undergoing revitalization and reclamation
expand the empirical scope of historical-comparative linguistics and shed new
light on questions of general interest in the field?

4. How can the corpus of documentation relevant to revitalizing a given
language be expanded by working with speakers of related languages, thus
supporting the creation of richer learning materials?

5. What is the value of comparative philological work based on older
documentation for language revitalization?

6. How can we more effectively train revitalization practitioners in
historical-comparative linguistics?
 
By focusing on these and other ways in which historical-comparative
linguistics can aid language revitalization and reclamation efforts, we hope
to reach a wide audience of both linguists and communities currently working
towards promoting their languages. This workshop will thus contribute to
ongoing efforts aimed at promoting the maintenance of the world’s indigenous
languages.
 
Invited Keynote Speakers:

- Marianne Mithun (UC Santa Barbara)
- Pam Munro (UCLA)
 
The conference invites papers addressing questions related to connections
between historical linguistics and language revitalization, including but not
limited the ones outlined above. While the primary focus of the conference is
on the comparative part of ''historical-comparative linguistics,'' we also
encourage abstracts from other areas of historical linguistics, including
topics such as language and dialect contact and sociolinguistic dimensions of
the diffusion of linguistic innovations, insofar as these may also pertain to
language revitalization.
 
Abstract Submission:

Anonymous 1-page abstracts (12-point Times New Roman, single spaced, 1''
margins) should be submitted in pdf format. References and examples may appear
on a second page. Submit to HistLxRevitalization at ucdavis.edu
 
The deadline for submissions is January 31, 2019. Notification of acceptance
will be made by approximately February 28, 2019.




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