30.1319, Calls: English; Romance; Historical Linguistics/United Kingdom

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Subject: 30.1319, Calls: English; Romance; Historical Linguistics/United Kingdom

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Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2019 05:41:47
From: Christopher Pountain [c.j.pountain at qmul.ac.uk]
Subject: New Worlds for Old Words: The Impact of Cultured Borrowings on the Romance Languages and English

 
Full Title: New Worlds for Old Words: The Impact of Cultured Borrowings on the Romance Languages and English 

Date: 23-Sep-2019 - 24-Sep-2019
Location: London, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Bozena Wislocka Breit
Meeting Email: bozena.wislocka_breit at kcl.ac.uk
Web Site: https://www.languageacts.org/news/new-worlds-old-words-colloquium/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Language Family(ies): Romance 

Call Deadline: 30-Apr-2019 

Meeting Description:

A Colloquium to discuss the impact of cultured borrowings (learnèd words, mots
savants, palabras cultas, parole dotte) on the Romance languages and English.
Papers of 20 minutes (with 10 minutes discussion) in English, French or
Spanish.


Call for Papers:

New Worlds for Old Words: The impact of cultured borrowings on the Romance
languages and English
https://www.languageacts.org/events/

A Colloquium
King’s College London, 23-24 of September 2019

The study of cultured borrowings represents what is probably the single most
important cultural contact observable in the languages of western Europe, that
between the vernaculars and the most widely used languages of European
antiquity, Latin and Greek. The Romance languages are of particular interest
in this respect since not only do they derive popularly from Latin but they
later borrow Latin words (and Greek words either directly or through Latin) by
a ‘learnèd’ route. Yet within Romance historical linguistics, attention has
most often focussed on the history of ‘popular’ words (those directly
inherited from the parent Latin), first, because of their interest for the
reconstruction of phonetic changes and, secondly, because of a general
perception that borrowings, especially borrowings introduced through the
agency of an elite social sector, are a diversion from the language’s natural
development.

A re-evaluation of this situation is extremely timely. The extent and impact
of cultured influence on the linguistic structure of the western European
languages, especially the Romance languages, has been severely underestimated,
and certainly merits further investigation. It is responsible not only for a
certain convergence among the western Romance languages but also for some
commonality of lexis between Romance languages and languages of other
families, especially English. There is also a growing awareness of the Ausbau
(‘elaborated’) status of modern standardised languages, an important aspect of
which in the case of western Europe is precisely the use of cultured sources
for the refining of linguistic expression as the erstwhile vernaculars were
developed into full vehicles of learning and culture.

Papers (normally 20 minutes followed by 10 minutes discussion) are invited on
original research related to any aspect of the above. The working languages of
the colloquium are English, French and Spanish. Abstracts, which should be in
one of the working languages and be of no more than 500 words inclusive of
references, should be sent to bozena.wislocka_breit at kcl.ac.uk by 30 April
2019. They should include the name, affiliation and email of the author.
Acceptances will be notified by email by 30 May 2019.

Confirmed keynote speakers:

- Steven Dworkin, University of Michigan
- Gloria Claveria, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
- Ingmar Söhrmann, Göteborgs Universitet
- Santiago del Rey Quesada, Universidad de Sevilla

The Colloquium is organized by the ‘Loaded Meanings’ strand of the Open World
Research Initiative project ‘Language Acts and Worldmaking’ which is led by
King’s College London (www.languageacts.org).




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