LINGUIST List 22.2718 Thu Jun 30 2011 FYI: Call for Papers: A Collection on World Englishes Editor for this issue: Brent Miller <brentlinguistlist.org> New! Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships:             http://multitree.linguistlist.org/ To post to LINGUIST, use our convenient web form at http://linguistlist.org/LL/posttolinguist.cfm. Directory         1.     Dirk Noël , Call for Papers: A Collection on World Englishes Message 1: Call for Papers: A Collection on World Englishes Date: 30-Jun-2011 From: Dirk Noël <dnoelhku.hk> Subject: Call for Papers: A Collection on World Englishes E-mail this message to a friend Proposals for contributions are invited for a collection of articles provisionally titled ''Diachronic approaches to modality in World Englishes'', intended for a special issue of an ISI-listed journal. The aim of this collection would be to offer a platform for research that approaches the grammar of postcolonial varieties of English from a historical linguistic perspective. This is a strand in World Englishes research which has to date remained underdeveloped. The aim would therefore be to bring together two fields in English language research which have advanced independently of each other and which have largely led separate lives: diachronic English linguistics and World Englishes research. The former's sphere of operation has mostly been confined to the bounds of the parent variety, while the latter has so far principally been engaged in synchronic comparisons of the lexicogrammar of the parent variety and postcolonial Englishes. Differences between the grammars of the parent variety and ''New Englishes'' have been accounted for in contact linguistic and language acquisitional terms, or with reference to certain ''universals of New Englishes'', but rarely are historical linguistic frameworks and methods brought to bear to explain the peculiarities of the postcolonial varieties. Contributions are solicited that will explore the necessity of and ways of addressing this virtual conceptual and methodological lacuna. The area of modality has been chosen as a testing ground because not only is it arguably one of the best researched fields in historical English linguistics, it has also already received considerable attention in World Englishes research, and this will make it easier to establish the complementary usefulness of the research apparatus of the former discipline to the latter's area of investigation. The editors of the proposed collection would be Dirk Noël (University of Hong Kong, China), Johan van der Auwera (University of Antwerp, Belgium) and Bertus van Rooy (North-West University, South Africa). If you are interested in contributing, please send a (working) title and abstract to dnoel(at)hku(dot)hk by 15 August. Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 30-Jun-2011       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.