36.3162, Confs: 4th Conference on the Endangered Languages of East Asia (Italy)

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Subject: 36.3162, Confs: 4th Conference on the Endangered Languages of East Asia (Italy)

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Date: 20-Oct-2025
From: Elia Dal Corso [elia.dalcorso at unive.it]
Subject: 4th Conference on the Endangered Languages of East Asia


4th Conference on the Endangered Languages of East Asia
Short Title: CELEA4
Theme: On(c)e and (for) all

Date: 05-May-2026 - 08-May-2026
Location: Venice, Italy
Contact: Elia Dal Corso
Contact Email: elia.dalcorso at unive.it
Meeting URL: https://www.unive.it/web/en/16556/home

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

Submission Deadline: 31-Jan-2026

The Department of Asian and North African Studies at Ca’ Foscari
University of Venice is pleased to announce the fourth meeting of the
Conference on the Endangered Languages of East Asia (CELEA). The aim
of CELEA is to gather at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice scholars,
researchers, and other academics who work on endangered, indigenous,
or minority languages spoken in the territories of East Asia. With
this conference, the University wants to broaden its perspective on
the linguistic diversity of the East Asian countries whose main
languages are being taught in its Department of Asian and North
African Studies. Thus the University hopes to raise an interest
towards the less-known languages of Asia and foster active
investigation on them, while giving researchers from all over the
world the opportunity to meet and share their knowledge.
The conference focuses primarily on the endangered, indigenous, and
minority languages of Japan, China, Korea, the Russian Far East,
Mongolia, Vietnam, Thailand and Taiwan so priority will be given to
contributions that discuss languages spoken in these countries.
However, contributions dealing with languages spoken elsewhere in Asia
will also be more than welcomed. Please note that contributions
addressing any aspect of the official or main languages spoken in
these territories (e.g. Japanese, Chinese, Korean, etc.) fall out of
the scope of the conference and will not be considered. We
specifically encourage PhD students and young researchers to present
their work at the conference.
As the general theme of this fourth meeting of CELEA we have chosen
units and wholes, to explore the possible interpretations,
applications, and attitudes towards the concepts of singularity and
entirety within the different minority or minoritized languages of
East Asia.
As usual, we invite contributions that address the Conference’s theme
from the perspective of descriptive linguistics, sociolinguistics, and
historical linguistics, and explore issues related to the following
(other topics are also welcome):
- Formal expression(s) of ‘one’ and ‘all’, their semantic distinctions
when employed as quantifiers and pragmatic uses when employed as
markers of speaker’s evaluation.
- Synchronic uses of ‘one’ and ‘all’ with specific grammatical
functions (e.g. as markers of TAME, (in)definiteness, number, …) or as
items pertaining to distinct word classes (articles, pronouns, …).
- Non-prototypical singulative-collective or singular-plural number
systems.
- Description of the numeric system (or of coexisting systems) in one
or more languages.
- Contrasting linguistic attitudes of individuals and the community
and their effects on language maintenance, wellbeing, and planning.
- Representation of the plurality within minority or minoritized
languages and communities especially at an institutional level,
nationally and internationally.
- Possibilities of using a multi-variety approach in language teaching
and learning in the context of language revitalization (e.g.
applicability of the polynomic approach).
- Diachrony of items expressing ‘one’ and ‘all’.
- Reversibility or circularity of language change and
grammaticalization, especially with regard to cases in which these
processes lead to a stage that is identical or similar to the one they
started from, to prove that change is not always once and for all.
- Differences in speed and extension of change within a specific
language category or paradigm, relatively to a single language, more
language varieties within one family, or a Sprachbund.
Whatever the topic, we particularly favor contributions that take a
typological stance.



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