36.1939, Calls: 12th Creolistics Workshop (Denmark)

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Subject: 36.1939, Calls: 12th Creolistics Workshop (Denmark)

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Date: 23-Jun-2025
From: Aymeric Daval-Markussen [linadm at cc.au.dk]
Subject: 12th Creolistics Workshop


Full Title: 12th Creolistics Workshop
Theme: Bridging time: Historical data and the dynamics of contact
languages

Date: 03-Dec-2025 - 05-Dec-2025
Location: Aarhus, Denmark
Contact Person: Aymeric Daval-Markussen
Meeting Email: linadm at cc.au.dk
Web Site: https://conferences.au.dk/creolistics-workshop-2025

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Call Deadline: 01-Sep-2025

Background of the Creolistics Workshop:
The Creolistics Workshop series started as an initiative launched by
the late Philip Baker in April 1994 with a conference at the
University of Westminster, London, to provide a forum of exchange and
mutual inspiration for the creolist community. The conference has
since been held in London (UK), Amsterdam (NL), Giessen (D) and Aarhus
(DK). After a period of inactivity, we will resume this long tradition
by organising a Creolistics Workshop in Aarhus in December 2025.
The workshops are traditionally low threshold, with no registration
fees and no invited keynote speakers, for an optimal and liberal
exchange of opinions. Several publications by the University of
Westminster Press and Battlebridge resulted from these previous
meetings.
This workshop is dedicated to the memory of Philip Baker, the
initiator of the Creolistics Workshop series and the man behind
affordable books about creole languages at a time when Open Access
research did not yet exist.
Workshop Description:
For this twelfth edition, the main focus will be on diachronic aspects
of language contact, primarily in creoles, but also in other types of
contact languages. While the diachronic dimension has long been at the
forefront of creole studies, in recent years, the field has witnessed
a shift away from historical considerations to favour a range of other
questions. However, historical aspects remain among the most
challenging and most debated issues in the field.
Aarhus University is currently hosting the project "Digital
demography, creole creation, light on letters", which investigates the
development of Carriols (aka Virgin Islands Dutch Creole), from the
founding of the Danish colony of St. Thomas in 1672 to the death of
the last speaker in 1987. This provides an obvious opportunity to host
this workshop. Therefore, the aim of this workshop will be to renew
with the tradition of looking at contact-induced phenomena from a
historical point of view.
Call for Papers:
For this workshop, we would like to invite contributions from scholars
working on contact languages from a diachronic or historical
perspective. Presentations dealing with the syntax, morphology,
phonology, semantics or pragmatics of contact languages are all
welcome. In line with previous Creolistics Workshops, priority is
given to data-driven approaches and empirical investigations (which
may include native speaker judgments) of various phenomena attested in
creoles and other high-contact varieties. Papers dealing with older
texts, developments through time and historical documents, comparisons
of the creoles with contributing languages as well as early
attestations and the role of demography in the emergence and
development of contact languages are equally welcome.
Other topics of potential interest include, but are not limited to,
the emergence and development of contact varieties, and the
reconstruction of earlier stages of contact languages.
The working language of the conference is English.
The time allotted to papers will be 20 minutes, with 10 minutes for
questions and discussion. Proposals for discussion panels are also
welcome.
Abstracts:
We encourage abstract submissions that deal with any topic pertaining
to pidgins, creoles, mixed languages, converted languages, and other
contact language types. We are particularly interested in research
involving cross-linguistic comparisons and findings that lead to
generalisations on classes of languages.
The length of abstracts should not exceed 500 words, including title
and references. Please send your anonymized abstract to
pidgincreole at au.dk
Abstract submission deadline: 1 September 2025
Notification of acceptance: 1 October 2025
A homepage with relevant information to participants will be created:
www.conferences.au.dk/..??
Local Organising Committee:
Peter Bakker
Ana Paulla Braga Mattos
Aymeric Daval-Markussen
Joost Robbe
Kristoffer Friis Bøegh
Mikael Parkvall



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