35.2550, Calls: The Diachrony of Language Geography: Linking Small-Scale and Large-Scale Perspectives

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Subject: 35.2550, Calls: The Diachrony of Language Geography: Linking Small-Scale and Large-Scale Perspectives

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Date: 17-Sep-2024
From: Matthias Urban [matthias.urban at cnrs.fr]
Subject: The Diachrony of Language Geography: Linking Small-Scale and Large-Scale Perspectives


Full Title: The Diachrony of Language Geography: Linking Small-Scale
and Large-Scale Perspectives

Date: 26-Aug-2025 - 29-Aug-2025
Location: Bordeaux, France
Contact Person: Matthias Urban
Meeting Email: matthias.urban at cnrs.fr
Web Site: https://societaslinguistica.eu/sle2025/wp-content/uploads/si
tes/8/2024/09/The-diachrony-of-language-geography.pdf

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics;
Sociolinguistics; Typology

Call Deadline: 15-Nov-2024

Meeting Description:

Language geographies differ significantly across the world. Such
differences can be observed on local, regional, continental, and
global scales.This workshop aims to explore what historical,
sociolinguistic, and environmental factors shape language geographies
on lower scales, and how large scale patterns might emerge from such
lower-level language ecologies in different environments across the
globe.

A full description of the workshop and its aims can be found on the
conference website:
https://societaslinguistica.eu/sle2025/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2024
/09/The-diachrony-of-language-geography.pdf

Call for Papers:

Abstracts (max. 300 words, excluding references) should be sent to
Matthias Urban
(matthias.urban at cnrs.fr) by the end of November 15th CET

The workshop invites different types of presentations:

With the goal of obtaining a better comparative view on language
ecologies and their
diachronic dynamics at local and regional scales, presentations may
sketch the
characteristics of a specific regional language ecology and explore
how it relates to the
creation and maintenance of the region’s language geography.
Presentations dealing
with ecologies that have not yet been made as prominent as e.g. the
Vaupés, are
particularly welcome. Such presentations should have a comparative
perspective and
present case studies involving a set of distinct languages rather than
a single one. They
should provide an overview of the area concered; the languages
involved; their
geographical distribution; describe what the social and economic
relations between
their speakers are; what language ideologies govern language use (if
any); what effects
the regional system in which language use is embedded has on the
diachronic trajectory
of languages. This may concern the lexicon (e.g. lexical borrowing or
the absence
thereof); convergence effects, including large-scale readjustments of
morphosyntactic
organization (e.g. Ross’s 1996 „metatypy“), but possibly also
divergence effects (Evans
2019) as speakers seek to maintain ideologically relevant linguistic
differences. Of
interest is also the question whether there is evidence that the
observed characteristic
language ecology is a long standing stable one that may be projected
into the past, and
if so what evidence there is in support.

Also welcome are presentations that treat particular language
geographies on any scale
of analysis, including large or even global scales, and that model,
either quantitatively or
qualitatively, the language dynamics underlying the generation or
maintenance of
distinct patterns in language geography.

Finally, particuarly welcome are studies that link the quantitative
analysis of
environmental variables and diversity levels with empirically
observable linguistic and
nonlinguistic behavior and/or diachronic language dynamics of
expansion and language
shift, and that help to understand synchronically observed patterns of
language
geography through the exploration of the underlying diachronic
language dynamics.



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