29.1123, Calls: Historical Linguistics/Poland

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Subject: 29.1123, Calls: Historical Linguistics/Poland

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Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2018 16:33:31
From: Dariusz Piwowarczyk [dariusz.piwowarczyk at uj.edu.pl]
Subject: The longue durée: how traditional historical linguistics can contribute to modern debates over language evolution

 
Full Title: The longue durée: how traditional historical linguistics can contribute to modern debates over language evolution 

Date: 13-Sep-2018 - 15-Sep-2018
Location: Poznan, Poland 
Contact Person: Ronald Kim
Meeting Email: ronald.kim at yahoo.com
Web Site: http://wa.amu.edu.pl/~wjarek/PLM2018/PLM2018_Thematic_Longue_duree.pdf 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 01-Apr-2018 

Meeting Description:

The longue durée: how traditional historical linguistics can contribute to
modern debates over language evolution

The roughly 5000 years that have passed since the beginning of written records
may be a blink in the eye of human evolution, but afford more than sufficient
time for sweeping transformations on all levels of linguistic structure.  With
their rich attestation spanning millennia, language families such  as 
Indo-European  and  Afroasiatic  offer  bounteous  data  for  general 
theories  of  language change. For  example,  Indo-European  languages  have
evolved  all  manner  of  palatalized  and velarized stops and complex series
of fricatives and affricates, but retroflex or ejective stops have in all
known cases been introduced by contact with non-Indo-European languages. With
respect to morphosyntax, Indo-European languages have under gone all manner of
changes in the verbal system, including wholesale loss and creation of
categories expressing tense, aspect, mood, and evidentiality,  and  the  rise 
and  fall  of  ergativity in  much  of  Indo-Aryan  and  Iranian;  yet  the
subject-agreement markers have remained for the most part strikingly stable. 
In the noun phrase, there is a widespread tendency already in the oldest
Indo-European languages toward reduction of  morphological  case  and 
grammaticalization  of  prepositions,  but  no  tendency  to  develop
inflectional prefixes or classifiers.  Such observations are hardly new, but
they have assumed 
renewed significance in recent years with the growth of interest in diachronic
typology, i.e. the origin, distribution, and long-term stability of particular
linguistic features.

Conveners: 

Prof UAM Dr Hab. Ronald Kim (Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University in
 Poznań)
Dr Dariusz Piwowarczyk (Institute of Classical Philology, Jagiellonian
University in Kraków) 

The contact person for this thematic session is Ronald Kim
(email: ronald.kim at yahoo.com)


Call for Papers: 

We invite papers dealing with the “big picture” of diachronic change in
languages or language families with long recorded histories, including but of
course not limited to Indo-European, from overall typology to individual
components of grammar. Likewise welcome are papers examining the interaction
of internal and external factors in language change, the latter including but
not limited to multilingualism, geography, and social structure, as well as
debates over genetic inheritance vs. areal diffusion and the long-term
evolution of linguistic areas. Interdisciplinary approaches making use of data
from anthropology, psychology, and/or population genetics are also encouraged.
The deadline for submissions is April 1, 2018. Please submit your abstracts
with EasyChair, following the general guidelines for PLM 2018




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