31.768, Calls: Afrikaans; Anthro Ling, Gen Ling, Hist Ling, Lang Document, Socioling/Netherlands

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Subject: 31.768, Calls: Afrikaans; Anthro Ling, Gen Ling, Hist Ling, Lang Document, Socioling/Netherlands

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Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2020 15:01:22
From: Marc van Oostendorp [marcvanoostendorp at gmail.com]
Subject: Afrikaans Grammar Workshop III

 
Full Title: Afrikaans Grammar Workshop III 
Short Title: AGWIII 

Date: 01-Oct-2020 - 02-Oct-2020
Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands 
Contact Person: Marc van Oostendorp
Meeting Email: marcvanoostendorp at gmail.com
Web Site: http://www.afrikaansegrammatika.nl/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Language Documentation; Sociolinguistics 

Subject Language(s): Afrikaans (afr)

Call Deadline: 01-Jul-2020 

Meeting Description:

The first Afrikaans Grammar Workshop took place in Johannesburg in August
2016, the second one in Ghent (Belgium) in October 2018. The aim of the
workshop is to bring together researchers from varying theoretical and
methodological perspectives who concern themselves with the study of Afrikaans
grammar. The workshop is organized in conjunction with the Virtual Institute
for Afrikaans (VivA), the University of Michigan, and the Universiteit Gent. 

Afrikaans is unique among the Germanic languages in several ways: Notably, it
is the only language of the Germanic family that originated outside of Europe
and that is spoken primarily in Africa. Due to the unique historical context
in which Afrikaans developed, it has grammatical features setting it apart
from the rest of the Germanic family. Afrikaans is also the first language of
over seven million people and the third largest language in South Africa.

In spite of its uniqueness and the size of the Afrikaans speech community,
Afrikaans is relatively understudied and underdescribed from the perspective
of theoretical linguistics. This workshop seeks to address the paucity of
descriptive and theoretical studies of Afrikaans in contemporary linguistics
by bringing together scholars who work on any aspect of Afrikaans grammar. 

Keynote speakers: 
Jenny Audring (Leiden University), ‘The puzzle of Afrikaans pronominal gender’
Andries Coetzee (University of Michigan), ‘The last vestiges of Patagonian
Afrikaans: Linguistic practices of a disappearing Afrikaans-Spanish bilingual
community’
Daan Wissing (North-West University), ‘What’s the case with schwa? A
conversation between Dutch and Afrikaans'


Call for Papers: 

We welcome contributions on any aspect of Afrikaans grammar, from both a
descriptive and theoretical perspective. Also welcome are contributions of a
more comparative nature, focusing on the relationship between Afrikaans and
her sister languages (Dutch, Frisian, etc.), the role of language contact,
and/or current grammatical variation. Possible topics include (but are not
limited to):
 - Phonetics (acoustic, articulatory, perceptual)
 - Phonology
 - Morphology
 - Syntax
 - Semantics
 - Pragmatics
 - History of Afrikaans
 - Sociolinguistic of Afrikaans
 - Dialectology and varieties of Afrikaans
 - Comparative analyses of Afrikaans and her sister languages

To ensure that contributions to the workshop will be accessible to the widest
possible audience, the language of the workshop will be English.

Presentations will be 20 minutes, with an additional 10 minutes of discussion.

Abstract format: 
We welcome abstracts on any topic related to the workshop topic. Abstracts
should be anonymous and 1 or 2 pages long (A4 or letter, 12pt font), including
examples, figures and references (if any). Anonymous abstracts in pdf format
should be submitted to amsterdam at afrikaansegrammatica.nl  no later than July
1, 2020.




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