35.1441, Calls: Limburg as a Linguistic Laboratory. The impact of Territorial Reorganization and Coal-Mining on Language Variation and Grammar

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Subject: 35.1441, Calls: Limburg as a Linguistic Laboratory. The impact of Territorial Reorganization and Coal-Mining on Language Variation and Grammar

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Date: 06-May-2024
From: Stef Grondelaers [stef.grondelaers at meertens.knaw.nl]
Subject: Limburg as a Linguistic Laboratory. The impact of Territorial Reorganization and Coal-Mining on Language Variation and Grammar


Full Title: Limburg as a linguistic laboratory. The impact of
territorial reorganization and coalmining on language variation and
grammar

Date: 26-Sep-2024 - 27-Sep-2024
Location: Genk, Belgium
Contact Person: Stef Grondelaers
Meeting Email: stef.grondelaers at meertens.knaw.nl
Web Site: https://lime.meertens.knaw.nl/en/events/limburg-as-a-linguis
tic-laboratory/

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Phonology; Semantics;
Sociolinguistics; Syntax
Subject Language(s): Dutch (nld)

Call Deadline: 15-Jun-2024

Meeting Description:

LiME Meertens is proud to present a two-day workshop devoted to
language variation and change in the Belgian and Dutch provinces of
Limburg. Since 1839, Limburg belongs to Belgium and The Netherlands,
but as a political unity, it significantly predates the two Lowland
kingdoms. While each of the Limburgs has been the object of linguistic
study, almost no research has been dedicated to the whole of the area,
and the potential of Limburg as a laboratory to investigate the
linguistic impact of political reorganization and nation state
formation has gone virtually unappreciated.

This workshop intends to fill these gaps. It is anchored in two
historical events which have had profound consequences for Limburgian
culture and language, viz. the new national border which split Limburg
in half in 1839, but also the discovery and large-scale exploitation
of coal in the 20th century and its concomitant demographic changes.
The LiME-group of the Meertens Institute has invited speakers from
different linguistic backgrounds (formal linguistics,
sociolinguistics, computational linguistics and anthropological
linguistics) to address three questions:
•       Is there one grammar of Limburgian, or has territorial
reorganization engendered the emergence of two or more grammars?
•       What is the impact of migration and diversity on (regional)
language varieties in the two Limburgs?
•       How has coalmining shaped regional and ethnic identities in
the two Limburgs? Why has (Belgian) Genk but not (Dutch) Heerlen
become a capital of cool?

Call for Papers:

In addition to the invited papers, we invite 30 minute contributions
which should zoom in on the workshop’s general topics, but which need
not be restricted to the Limburg, or even to the Dutch language area.
Colleagues interested in presenting a paper are requested to submit a
300 word abstract to both stef.grondelaers at meertens.knaw.nl and
roeland.vanhout at ru.nl by June 15, 2024. Submitters will be notified of
acceptance or rejection by June 30, 2024.

For more information, please visit the conference website at:
https://lime.meertens.knaw.nl/en/events/limburg-as-a-linguistic-labora
tory/call-for-papers/



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