30.1731, Calls: Afrikaans; Gen Ling, Historical Ling, Semantics, Socioling, Syntax/Belgium

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LINGUIST List: Vol-30-1731. Mon Apr 22 2019. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 30.1731, Calls: Afrikaans; Gen Ling, Historical Ling, Semantics, Socioling, Syntax/Belgium

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Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2019 15:28:35
From: Timothy Colleman [timothy.colleman at UGent.be]
Subject: Sixth Ghent Colloquium on Afrikaans

 
Full Title: Sixth Ghent Colloquium on Afrikaans 

Date: 16-Oct-2019 - 18-Oct-2019
Location: Gent, Belgium 
Contact Person: Timothy Colleman
Meeting Email: afrikaans at UGent.be
Web Site: http://www.afrikaans.ugent.be/colloquium/ 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Semantics; Sociolinguistics; Syntax 

Subject Language(s): Afrikaans (afr)

Call Deadline: 30-Apr-2019 

Meeting Description:

The Ghent research group on Afrikaans and the study of South Africa organises
an annual colloquium on the linguistics and literature of Afrikaans. The
overall theme of the linguistic component of this year's edition is 'Language
Variation in Afrikaans', broadly construed (i.e. including geographical,
social, stylistic, etc. variation in present-day Afrikaans as well as
diachronic variation). The plenary speaker is Gerald Stell (The Polytechnic
University of Hong Kong), who will present new research on Namibian Afrikaans.

The conference languages are Afrikaans and Dutch.


2nd Call for Papers:

The call deadline has been extended to 30 April 2019. 

We still invite abstracts for original research papers on any aspect of
language variation in Afrikaans, past or present. Possible topics include --
but are definitely not limited to:

- the relations between Standard Afrikaans and other varieties of the
language;
- the status, use and linguistic characteristics of Cape Afrikaans;
- the restandardisation debate;
- the emergence of new sociolects;
- the use of Afrikaans outside South Africa and the properties of expat
Afrikaans;
- the use of Afrikaans in specific text types or contexts.

In addition, we also welcome papers dealing with variation along geographical,
social, ethnic, stylistic, etc. lines in the use or properties of specific
lexical or grammatical items or phenomena, as well as papers which shed new
light on the diachrony of Afrikaans in general or of specific linguistic
phenomena.

Please send your anonymous abstract as an attachment in pdf- and doc(x)-format
to afrikaans at UGent.be by April 30 and include name(s) and affiliation(s) in
the body of the abstract. The maximal length is 500 words, including examples
and references. Abstracts are preferably in Afrikaans or Dutch. Abstracts in
English are welcome, too, but please note that speakers will be expected to
give the actual presentation in Afrikaans or Dutch.

Notification of acceptance will be sent by mid-May.

Scientific Committee:

Liesbeth Augustinus (University of Leuven)
Wannie Carstens (North-West University)
Andries Coetzee (University of Michigan)
Timothy Colleman (Ghent University)
Frans Hinskens (Meertens Institute)
Freek Van de Velde (University of Leuven)
Gerhard Van Huyssteen (North-West University & VivA)
Jacques Van Keymeulen (Ghent University)




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