32.156, Calls: Anthro Ling, Hist Ling, Lang Doc, Socioling/Germany

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Subject: 32.156, Calls: Anthro Ling, Hist Ling, Lang Doc, Socioling/Germany

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Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2021 17:38:15
From: Tabea Salzmann [t.salzmann at uni-bremen.de]
Subject: Historical language contact and emergent / emerging varieties in the Indian Ocean

 
Full Title: Historical language contact and emergent / emerging varieties in the Indian Ocean 
Short Title: HLCIO 

Date: 01-Oct-2021 - 03-Oct-2021
Location: Bremen, Germany 
Contact Person: Tabea Salzmann
Meeting Email: t.salzmann at uni-bremen.de
Web Site: http://www.fb10.uni-bremen.de/romanistik/default.aspx 

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

Call Deadline: 31-Mar-2021 

Meeting Description:

The aim in this workshop is to take a look at the historic language contact
situations and the emergent / emerging contact phenomena, codes and varieties
through input talks, round table discussions and keynote addresses. This event
is concerned with historic language contact in and around the Indian Ocean
including the geographic spaces of East Africa, Mauritius and the Seychelles,
the Arabian Gulf, India, Sri Lanka, Southeast Asia and Australia, all of which
are sociohistorically interrelated through many layered networks.

The Indian Ocean from a point of view of human interrelations is a very old
and, despite its vastness, strongly interrelated Oceanic space. The space is
characterized by multiple (trade) networks from early on. It was colonized in
parts or in its entirety variously over a long period of time often in form of
trade hierarchies by such groups as the Arabs, Ottomans, Malay, Chinese,
Portuguese, Dutch and British. Through these interrelations we have a dense
linguistic space with many languages from various linguistic families creating
multiple (historic) contact situations that persist next to each other as well
as overlapping and creating many levels of simultaneous and subsequent contact
induced processes of mutual influence and change.

Various historical primary sources from differing (although often overlapping)
culture areas give insight into the area and its sociocultural as well as
trade and political history, the earliest sources maybe being such works as
the Periplus Maris Erythraei in the 1st C and the writings of Aetius of Amida
in the 6th C. Much information also came from travelogues from Europe, Arabia
and China. These include Ibn Battuta, Zeng He, Fa Shien, Alberuni, Duarte
Barbosa, Marco Polo, Vasco da Gama, Andre Pires, Dom Joao de Castro, van
Linschoten, Georg Forster, Isabella Lucy Bird to name just a few. And of
course many other types of documents from the Indian Ocean we can find all
over the world render valuable information. 
Early linguistic sources, amongst which stand out missionary grammars and
treatises and researchers such as Hugo Schuchardt and Sebastiao Dalgado, or
Yule & Burnell still furnish us with important analyses. 

To show the interrelatedness of the concerned space and peoples within it and
foster exchange and discussion in the scientific community, the format of the
workshop will include round tables at which researchers, PhD students and
postdocs can exchange ideas. The tables will be started off by two or three
short (max. 15 min.) input talks. These round tables will alternate with
keynote speaker addresses.

Keynote speakers: 
 - Bernd Heine - Swahili-Based Pidgin Varieties in Eastern Africa
 - Ralph Ludwig / Sibylle Kriegel – title pending
 - Hugo Cardoso - South Asian-Portuguese varieties beyond the Portuguese:
diffusion and absorption
 - Clancy Clements - Typological comparison between the South Asian
Portuguese-based Creoles and Nagamese
 - Peter Mühlhäusler – How Language Contact has shaped the Language Ecology of
Western Australia-(and how understanding this can help revive Aboriginal
languages)
 - Eeva Sippola - Contact ecologies of Spanish- and Portuguese-based creoles
in South East Asia
 - Stefano Manfredi – Gulf Pidgin Arabic: transient learner variety or true
pidgin?


Second Call for Papers: 

CALL DEADLINE EXTENDED to 31 March, 2021! 

The Call for Papers is for 15 min. input talks on topics concerning the
outlined program. The abstracts for open submission should not be longer than
500 words and should include a short outline of the topic and research
question, as well as a brief description of methodology and possible
conclusions. It should state the time period, geographical space and languages
in question and give a brief idea as to their relations with other spaces or
time periods within the Indian Ocean. Please email your submissions to Dr.
Tabea Salzmann, t.salzmann at uni-bremen.de, as a Word or pdf document.




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