37.1710, Confs: 5th AMC Symposium (United Kingdom)

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Subject: 37.1710, Confs: 5th AMC Symposium (United Kingdom)

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Date: 07-May-2026
From: Benjamin Molineaux [amc-sympo at mlist.is.ed.ac.uk]
Subject: 5th AMC Symposium


5th AMC Symposium
Short Title: AMC5Sympo
Theme: Types of Evidence in Historical Linguistics

Date: 07-Dec-2026 - 09-Dec-2026
Location: Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Meeting URL:
https://www.amc.lel.ed.ac.uk/amc-symposium/fifth-amc-symposium/

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics

Submission Deadline: 31-Jul-2026

The Angus McIntosh Centre for Historical Linguistics invites you to
its 5th AMC Symposium, which will take place in December this year, at
the University of Edinburgh.
The event has the guiding theme of "Types of Evidence in Historical
Linguistics"
Background:
How do we know what a language was like in the past? How do we know
that it has changed (or is changing)? The study of language change,
and of historical linguistics more generally, uses many different
kinds of evidence, including among others: comparison, written and
spoken records/corpora, population dynamics, social variation,
typology and linguistic theory. This symposium is intended to offer a
forum to consider and compare them, and to reflect on what they can
tell us.
 - Which kinds of evidence exist?
 - Which kinds of question can we answer on the basis of different
types of evidence?
 - How much data is enough?
 - Which methods do we need to investigate different kinds of
evidence?
 - Do their results converge?
The 5th AMC Symposium will bring together specialists working with
different types of evidence to discuss these questions. While we
particularly encourage abstracts for regular talks and posters that
engage with the key symposium themes, we also welcome abstracts on any
topic in historical linguistics, including all language specialisms
and sub-disciplines.
Invited Speakers:
 - Chundra Cathcart (Zurich)
 - Terttu Nevalainen (Helsinki)
 - Sara Pacchiarotti (Ghent)
 - Jane Stuart-Smith (Glasgow)
 - David Stifter (Maynooth)
 - Rob Truswell (Edinburgh)
The Call for Papers is now open:
https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/AMC5Sympo/



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