[Sealang-l] Final Call for Abstracts - 13 ICAL Panel (Diachronic Toponymy and Landscape Terms in the Austronesian World)

[Doug Cooper]

FINAL CALL (deadline extended till 5 January 2015)


13ICAL Panel - Diachronic Toponymy and Landscape Terms in the Austronesian World



Organizers: Gary Holton, Juliette Huber, František Kratochvíl, and
Francesco Perono Cacciafoco



Theme

A language’s landscape terms and place names reflect the way landscape
is conceptualized by its speakers; furthermore, place names may
provide clues about a given area’s population history and are
routinely interpreted so by geographers and historians. This panel
explores landscape categorization, as revealed through both generic
landscape terms and place names in the Austronesian world. A
particular focus is on the cues to a region’s linguistic past
preserved in such terms. We are mainly interested in areas where, in
the course of their south- and eastward expansion, Austronesian
speakers encountered earlier populations (e.g. Philippines, Nusantara,
mainland SE Asia, Near Melanesia) and invite papers dealing with the
topic both in Austronesian languages and in languages known to have
been in long-term contact with Austronesian languages. In addition, we
also welcome contributions dealing with landscape terms and the
diachronic toponymy of the Austronesian homeland, Taiwan, and areas
with no human population prior to Austronesian migration, such as
Oceania and Madagascar.



Call for abstracts

The questions that this panel aims to address are the following:



a)     Is there a typically Austronesian system of landscape
categorization through either generic landscape terms or place names?
For this purpose, we invite contributions from Taiwan, the
Austronesian homeland, and Oceania, where Austronesian peoples settled
previously unoccupied islands; and



b)    What can landscape terms and place names tell us about the past
of linguistically and ethnically diverse regions in the Austronesian
world? We are particularly interested in areas where Austronesian
speakers encountered speakers of unrelated languages, e.g. Eastern
Indonesia, Philippines, mainland SE Asia.



We invite contributions discussing the languages of the stipulated
areas addressing the following topics:



1.     Landscape terms and their etymology (in terms of Bohnemeyer et
al. 2004 and Burenhult and Levinson 2008; relating to Blust and
Trussel 2010)

2.     Papers going beyond etymology and engaging in historical
interpretation of onomastic strategies, their inheritance and
relations to potential substrates (pre-Austronesian) and overlays
(e.g. Sanskrit).

3.     Detailed descriptions of micro-landscape and their etymology
(all place names within a single community, including village parts,
parts of the house compound, adjacent fields, coastline, etc.)

4.     Hydronyms and their etymology (seascape, coast, rivers, springs, etc.)

5.     Names related to human activity in landscape and their
etymology (settlements, harbors, paths, fields, gardens, hunting or
fishing grounds)

6.     Morphological and semantic structure of place names in an area
including studies of the role of metaphor in the name giving process

7.     Approaches to mapping and visualization of the above topics

8.     Landscape as an interpreted system (containing agricultural,
ecological, historical, meteorological, political, and spiritual
knowledge and experience, as discussed above)

9.     Effects of language shift on the knowledge of landscape terms
and associated knowledge



We expect an attempt to recognize various historical layers in
landscape and place names, and invite the contributors to their
interpretation, as outlined above.



Spatial deixis and navigation in landscape are beyond the scope of
this panel; both have been dealt with elsewhere (e.g., Senft 1997).



Deadline for abstract submission:
January 5, 2015

Notification of acceptance for individual abstracts:
January 15, 2015

Email: fkratochvil at ntu.edu.sg

A full version of the call can be downloaded from
https://nanyang.academia.edu/FrantisekKratochvil/Call-for-Papers