LINGUIST List 15.775

Fri Mar 5 2004

Calls: Historical Ling/UK

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1. Snezha Methewson sm96, Language Contact and Minority Languages on the Littorals of Western Europe

Language Contact and Minority Languages on the Littorals of Western
Europe
Short Title: SAILL04

Date: 11-Jun-2004 - 13-Jun-2004
Conference Website:
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/academic/modlangs/saills/conference2004.html

Location: St. Andrews, Scotland, UK

Contact Person: Snezha Mathewson
Contact Email: saills04st-andrews.ac.uk

Linguistic Subfield: Historical Linguistics

Call Deadline: 01-Apr-2004


Meeting Description:

LAST CALL FOR PAPERS

LANGUAGE CONTACT AND MINORITY LANGUAGES ON THE LITTORALS OF WESTERN
EUROPE 

EUROLINGUSTICS WEST

St Andrews University, June 11-13 2004

The conference is shaping up well. Four sections are planned:
English/Celtic, German/Scandinavian, Romance and Slavonic with the
four Plenary speakers:

Peter Trudgill (Fribourg)
Sture Ureland (Mannheim)
Peter Nelde (Brussels)
Ralph Penny (London)

This conference, organised by the St Andrews Institute for Language
and Linguistic Studies (SAILLS), in collaboration with the
Europ�ischer Linguistischer Arbeitskreis Mannheim (ELAMA), will
explore the effects of language contact (since 1500) in four areas of
western Europe: Scandinavia and the Low Countries, the British Isles,
France and the Iberian Peninsula. While most attention will be devoted
to contact between the traditional languages of Europe, space will be
given to contact with immigrant languages from outside the Continent.

Papers will include, but need not be limited to, topics such as:
- levelling and koin�ization
- lexical borrowing
- language obsolescence and death
- language shift and language planning


***The deadline for abstracts has been extended to 1 April 2004***

There is still room for further papers, so anyone wishing to
participate is urged to submit a proposal as soon as possible.

All abstracts (150-200 words) with names of presenters, position and
affiliation may be sent to the conference administrator,

Ms. Snezha Mathewson, (saills04st-andrews.ac.uk) or
SAILLS CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE CONTACT
SCHOOL OF MODERN LANGUAGES
ST ANDREWS UNIVERSITY, ST ANDREWS KY16 9 PH
SCOTLAND, UNITED KINGDOM