35.2879, Calls: ICHL27 Workshop – Language corpora and dialectal variation in a historical perspective

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Subject: 35.2879, Calls: ICHL27 Workshop – Language corpora and dialectal variation in a historical perspective

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Date: 16-Oct-2024
From: Andres Enrique-Arias [andres.enrique at uib.es]
Subject: ICHL27 Workshop – Language corpora and dialectal variation in a historical perspective


Full Title: ICHL27 Workshop – Language corpora and dialectal variation
in a historical perspective
Short Title: ICHL27

Date: 18-Aug-2025 - 22-Aug-2025
Location: Pontificia Universidad Católica and Universidad Adolfo
Ibáñez, Santiago de Chile, Chile
Contact Person: Andres Enrique-Arias
Meeting Email: andres.enrique at uib.es
Web Site: https://ichl27santiago.cl/

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Historical
Linguistics; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics; Typology

Call Deadline: 18-Oct-2024

Meeting Description:

Language change and dialectal variation have been strongly related to
each other since the beginnings of linguistics as a scientific
endeavor. Early efforts in historical linguistics tried to make sense
of dialectal variation using different models of the diffusion of
diachronic changes, such as the wave theory (Chambers & Trudgill 1980,
Wolfram & Schilling-Estes 2003), or the principle of lateral areas
(Bartoli 1925, Andersen 1988). Likewise, linguists soon became aware
that the centuries-old coexistence of languages in the same
geographical space results in their sharing structural properties,
making it necessary to distinguish between language similarities
arising from a genetic relationship from those arising from language
contact (Muysken 2008; Noonan 2010). Further developments in the study
of language and dialect contact and bilingualism have enriched the
theoretical frameworks related to the study of linguistic changes
across space (Kortmann 2003, Auer & Schmidt 2010).

Against this backdrop, the availability of new corpora and databases
that allow accessing historical data of individual languages sorted by
geographical origin, along with the application of technological
developments, such as GIS software, are facilitating renewed
historical investigations that consider the spatial factor (Alcorn,
Kopaczyk, Los & Molineaux 2019).

The objective of this workshop is to explore the possibilities
provided by historical corpora and analytical tools to the study of
the interplay between geographical variation and language change. As
such, we welcome the proposals of researchers working in historical
linguistics, sociolinguistics, dialectology, corpus linguistics,
language contact, language typology and computational linguistics.

Some suggested topics are:

* Different models of visualization of language variants on the
physical space.
* Useful sources to create corpora for historical dialectology:
historical documents, newspapers, toponyms, social networks.
* Corpus-based investigations that illustrate with specific case
studies the diffusion of linguistic changes on the physical space.
* Methods to integrate spatial and social information onto historical
corpora.
* Application of computational techniques, such as probabilistic
methods, to discern dialect areas in historical data.
* Studies based on synchronic data (e.g. from online social networks)
that can shed light onto historical processes.
* Investigations that examine the spatial distribution of variants to
tease apart linguistic features that have spread due to language
contact from those resulting from an internal development.

REFERENCES
Alcorn, Rhona, Joanna Kopaczyk, Bettelou Los & Benjamin Molineaux,
eds. 2019. Historical Dialectology in the Digital Age. Edinburgh:
Edinburgh University Press.
Andersen, Henning. 1988. Center and periphery: adoption, diffusion,
and spread. In Jacek Fisiak (ed.), Historical Dialectology, Regional
and Social, 39-83. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Auer, Peter & Jürgen E. Schmidt, eds. 2010. Language and Space. An
International Handbook of Linguistic Variation, 649–667. Berlin:
Mouton de Gruyter.
Bartoli, Matteo G. 1925. Introduzione alla Neolinguistica
(principi--scopi--metodi). Genéve: L.S. Olschki.
Chambers, J.K.& Peter Trudgill. 1980. Dialectology. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press.
Kortmann, Bernd. 2003. Dialectology meets Typology: Dialect Grammar
from a Cross-Linguistic Perspective. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter Mouton.
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110197327
Muysken, Pieter. 2008. From linguistic areas to areal linguistics.
Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Noonan, Michael. 2010. Genetic Classification and Language Contact. In
Raymond Hickey (ed.), The Handbook of Language Contact, 48-65.
Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. 
Wolfram, Walt & Natalie Schilling-Estes. 2003. Dialectology and
Linguistic Diffusion. In Joseph Brian & Richard Janda (eds.), The
Handbook of Historical Linguistics, 713–735.

2nd Call for Papers:

Please notice the October 18th deadline is approaching.
We still have some slots available for the Workshop.

Abstracts of no more than 500 words (excluding references) should be
sent to Andrés Enrique-Arias (andres.enrique at uib.es) and Marina Gomila
Albal (marina.gomila at cchs.csic.es) by 18 October 2024 in an editable
format (i.e. Word, Open Office). Workshops are in principle restricted
to six papers; all other papers, if accepted, will be considered for
the ICHL general session.



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