33.2843, FYI: Joint seminar for cross-Germanic linguistics (Dijon/Lyon/Paris + online)

Wed Sep 21 03:36:34 UTC 2022

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Subject: 33.2843, FYI: Joint seminar for cross-Germanic linguistics (Dijon/Lyon/Paris + online)

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Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2022 03:36:08
From: Laurent Gautier [laurent.gautier at u-bourgogne.fr]
Subject: Joint seminar for cross-Germanic linguistics (Dijon/Lyon/Paris + online)

Coordinators: Laurent Gautier (Dijon / Université de Bourgogne), Sarah
Harchaoui (Paris / Sorbonne
Université), Pierre-Yves Modicom (Lyon / Université Jean Moulin)

Inscription / registration:  https://ouvaton.link/0z20Pt

In recent years, the linguistic investigation of Germanic langages has
experienced a theoretical renewal, enhanced by inputs from general linguistics
and diversity linguistics. Conversely, Germanic languages have played a
prominent role in recent debates in general linguistics, theoretical
linguistics, historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, and cross-linguistic
discourse analysis. Among the topics where this mutual enrichment has been
most productive, one could name valency, frame semantics, pragmaticalization
and grammaticalization, word order (OV/VO) or phraseology. The underlying
premise of the joint seminar for cross-Germanic linguistics is that the
comparison Germanic languages, especially in variation-oriented frameworks, is
a crucial node in this reconnection of Germanic and general linguistics.

Cross-Germanic linguistics can rely on the long-lasting tradition of
comparison between Scandinavian varieties, and on the well-established
contrastive habitus of Dutch linguistics. But more recently, comparisons
between North and West Germanic have been blossoming, just like the comparison
of contact varieties from various branches of the Germanic family, both in
well-known areas of language contact and in new discourse spaces created by
digital interactions, which can be considered new places of language contact.

The aim of the joint seminar on cross-Germanic linguistics is twofold.
Firstly, it should provide a forum for recent and ongoing comparative research
that contributes to the development of the field and to the dialogue between
Germanic linguistics and general linguistics. Further, the joint seminar is
intended as a place to discuss the epistemological and methodological
challenges raised by the contrastive analysis of tightly related languages, in
the wake of numerous works on the methods of contrastive linguistics
throughout the world.

Unless otherwise stated, the seminar will take place on Friday afternoon
(14:00 to 17:00, CET). Hybrid broadcasting will be organized for those unable
to attend physically. Spontaneous proposals of talk are accepted. Special
attention will be paid to M.A. and PhD students: we intend to include a talk
by a young scholar in each seminar.

Seminar 1 : Comparing West Germanic varieties. September 23rd, 2022, Sorbonne
Université, Paris.
Laurent Gautier (Dijon): Du sandwich à la tartine : enjeux de la comparaison
allemand-néerlandais entre système et usage.
Kiran van Bentum (Berlin): Between Politics and Science? The Role of the
Language Border (“taalgrens”) in Historical Journals from Flanders and the
Netherlands (1830 – 1940)

Seminar 2 : North by North West: The contribution of Scandinavian languages to
cross-Germanic linguistics. THURSDAY, November 10th, 2022, Université Lyon 3
Jean Moulin, Lyon.
Sarah Harchaoui (Paris): Advances from Scandinavian variational linguistics.
Pierre-Yves Modicom (Lyon): Comparing West and North Germanic grammars: A case
study from word order
Joren Sommers (Ghent), in cooperation with Jóhanna Barðdal (Ghent): The
nominative / dative alternation in German and Icelandic

Seminar 3 : Focus on Frisian. December 2nd, 2022, Université de Bourgogne,
Dijon.
Ruth Kircher (Fryske Akademie): New speakers and the revitalisation of West
Frisian
Lourens Visser (Groningen): The diachrony of degree adverbs in West Germanic,
under special consideration of Frisian and Low German

February 16th – 17th, 2023: international conference in Paris. Cracks in the
bottleneck : Verb-third and the polyoccupation of the initial slot in
verb-second languages – insights from Germanic and beyond.
https://v2v3.sciencesconf.org/ (CfP open until Oct. 15th, 2022).

Seminar 4 : March 17th, 2023, TBA.

Seminar 5 : April 7th, 20

Linguistic Field(s): Semantics
                     Syntax

Language Family(ies): Germanic

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