29.5019, Confs: Germanic; Linguistic Theories/Switzerland

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Subject: 29.5019, Confs: Germanic; Linguistic Theories/Switzerland

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Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2018 23:43:35
From: Chris De Wulf [chris.dewulf at ds.uzh.ch]
Subject: Small languages, Big Ideas. The Smaller Germanic Languages from a Theoretical, General and Comparative Perspective

 
Small languages, Big Ideas. The Smaller Germanic Languages from a Theoretical, General and Comparative Perspective 
Short Title: SLaBI 

Date: 04-Apr-2019 - 05-Apr-2019 
Location: Zürich, Switzerland 
Contact: Chris De Wulf 
Contact Email: chris.dewulf at ds.uzh.ch 
Meeting URL: https://www.ds.uzh.ch/de/tagungen/small_languages_big_ideas 

Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories 

Language Family(ies): Germanic 
Meeting Description: 

Zürich offers a broad spectrum of Germanic philologies. Apart from English and
German, Dutch and Scandinavian studies are each offered as individual study
tracks, and, furthermore, Frisian, Luxemburgish, Afrikaans, and Germanic
dialects and contact languages are part of the Comparative Germanic
Linguistics study track.

What is the intrinsic value of these smaller languages and varieties, and
their respective linguistics for the general and comparative linguistics
field? In this congress, we will introduce several linguistics disciplines as
seen from different smaller Germanic languages and exchange knowledge as well
as opinions on the value of the study of these languages to linguistic theory.

The motivation stems from the fact that these well-established but sometimes
lesser known philologies of smaller Germanic languages and dialects promise as
much theoretical insight as those of bigger languages (such as English) or
smaller, exotic languages (Pacific, Native American, etc.) that have not the
same in-depth descriptive tradition as ‘local’ Germanic languages. This may
not be a contested opinion necessarily, but it is however a good idea that
well described and data-rich linguistics systems such as these are brought
back into the focus of general linguistics and linguistic theory.

Six plenary talks will be held by experts on different Germanic languages who
will focus on one or more languages, but who are also skilled in the study of
several other overlapping philologies, hence stimulating discussion rather
than parallel one-way knowledge transfer. Further talks will be held by junior
researchers in the Germanic linguistics fields (mostly doctoral candidates and
early post-docs) in parallel open call sessions on the second day. See the
(preliminary) programme attached.

We want to encourage all concerned junior researchers from Switzerland and
abroad to send in their abstract!
 

Program:

Preliminary Programme 

Location: RAA-G-01, Rämistrasse 59, 8001 Zürich

Thursday, April 4, 2019

13:30: 
Arrival and coffee

14:00:
Welcome word, opening 

14:15: 
Loss of inflection in North Germanic adjectives - or is it?
(Hans-Olav Enger - University of Oslo, in cooperation with Helen
Sims-Williams)

15:00:
Luxembourgish (full title to be decided) 
(Antje Dammel - Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster)

15:45: Coffee break

16:15: 
The complementizer system of Modern West Frisian
(Jarich Hoekstra - Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel)

17:00: 
Pennsylvania Dutch in the 21st Century
(Mark Louden - University of Wisconsin-Madison)

17:45: 
Preliminary final words of the day

18:15:
Reception

Friday, April 5, 2019

08:30: Arrival with coffee 

09:00:
Welcome word

09:15:
Afrikaans (full title to be decided)
(Wannie Carstens - North-West University Potchefstroom)

10:00:
How does regional identity politics inform the use of small languages?
(Leonie Cornips - Maastricht University & Meertens Instituut Amsterdam)

10:45: Coffee break

11:15:
Parallel open call sessions part 1

12:15: Lunch break

14:00:
Parallel open call sessions part 2 

15:45: Coffee break

16:15:
Round table discussion

17:30: 
Conclusions and closing words

18:00: Dinner with active participants





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