36.1174, Confs: «Mutatas dicere formas» Variation and change in Philology, Literature, Linguistics and Book Cultures (Italy)

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Date: 05-Apr-2025
From: Filippo Maria Sergio [convegnoficlit.unibo at gmail.com]
Subject: «Mutatas dicere formas» Variation and change in Philology, Literature, Linguistics and Book Cultures


«Mutatas dicere formas» Variation and change in Philology, Literature,
Linguistics and Book Cultures

Date: 27-Oct-2025 - 29-Oct-2025
Location: Bologna, Italy
Meeting URL:
https://phd.unibo.it/culture-letterarie-e-filologiche/it/attivita/convegno-dottorale-internazionale-2025

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

Submission Deadline: 11-May-2025

The PhD students of the Doctoral Program in Literary and Philological
Cultures at Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna are pleased
to announce the second edition of the Doctoral Conference of the
Department of Classical Philology and Italian Studies. The conference
invites participation from both PhD candidates and early-career
researchers. This edition focuses on variation and change across the
fields of Classical Studies, Italian Studies, Linguistics, and Book
Cultures. Contributions may explore theoretical and methodological
perspectives (history of debates, critical approaches, influential
positions) and/or empirical analyses (significant or widely discussed
case studies).
Call for Abstract:
All grammars leak: Edward Sapir's (1921:39) emblematic statement has
become an established principle in linguistic research. Languages are
far from being monolithic and one-dimensional entities; rather, they
are inevitably subject to variation. Moreover, the concept of
variation is often inseparable from that of change, which is why,
according to Meillet (1921:17), the study of linguistic change should
be inseparable from the study of social change. Establishing the
overall state of affairs is therefore a complex task that requires
multiple perspectives. Given the inseparable link between variation
and change, what remains difficult to clarify is what Weinreich,
Labov, and Herzog (1968) define as actuation: how, when, and why
linguistic change occurs - and perhaps even more significantly - why
it sometimes does not.
Why are some diachronic sources more productive than others? Why,
given identical starting structural features, does change occur in
some languages but not in others? What role does sociolinguistic
variation play in shaping cross-linguistic patterns of change?
Answering these questions and investigating such dynamics requires an
integrated approach in which sociolinguistics examines language
diversification along variation axes, typology explores possibilities,
tendencies, and constraints at a universal structural level, and
diachrony reconstructs change by clarifying the mechanisms and
principles through which variation either leads - or fails to do so -
to a definitive structural transformation of the system.
We therefore welcome contributions from all areas of linguistic
research that, adopting an integrated approach to theoretical and
methodological frameworks, combine tools from sociolinguistics,
typology, and historical linguistics to investigate linguistic
phenomena at any level of analysis (e.g., phonology, morphology,
semantics, lexicon, syntax, pragmatics), either from a comparative
perspective or through the study of individual languages.
General information:
PhD students and those who have obtained such title within the last
two years by the abstract submission deadline are invited to submit by
May 11th, 2025:
 - an original paper proposal (maximum 350 words, excluding the title
and up to 10 bibliographic references)
 - a short academic profile (maximum 100 words)
Proposals should be sent to convegnoficlit.unibo at gmail.com with the
subject line "Paper Proposal – Doctoral Conference" and should specify
the relevant section (e.g., either Classical Studies, Classical
Philology, Italian Studies, Italian Philology, Romance Philology,
Linguistics or Book Sciences). The email should include the following
information: paper title, name, affiliation, and contact email
address. Submissions may be in Italian or English and should be sent
in both .doc(x) and anonymized .pdf formats. The outcome of the review
process will be communicated by June 23th, 2025. Each presentation
will have a maximum duration of 20 minutes. Selected speakers are
required to present their papers in person. All thematic units are
interdisciplinary, and individual panels will be organized according
to thematic or methodological similarities. The conference will also
feature keynote speakers. The Scientific Committee will consider the
possibility of publishing the conference proceedings. The conference
will take place on Monday, October 27th – Wednesday, October 29th,
2025, at the University of Bologna. There is no registration fee.
Further details regarding registration, the conference venue, accepted
proposals, and the full program will be provided on the official
conference website:
https://phd.unibo.it/culture-letterarie-e-filologiche/it/attivita/convegno-dottorale-internazionale-2025.
For further questions, please contact: convegnoficlit.unibo at gmail.com



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