[Sealang-l] CfP - 13 ICAL Panel - Diachronic Toponymy and Landscape Terms in the Austronesian World

[Doug Cooper]

Call: Diachronic Toponymy and Landscape Terms in the Austronesian World
From: František Kratochvíl <FKRATOCHVIL at ntu.edu.sg>
Abstracts due: January 1, 2015
See also: https://nanyang.academia.edu/FrantisekKratochvil/Call-for-Papers

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

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Organizers: Gary Holton, Juliette Huber, František Kratochvíl, and Francesco
Perono Cacciafoco
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   /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 1, 2015

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/Notification of acceptance for individual abstracts: /

January 15, 2015


Email: fkratochvil at ntu.edu.sg


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