LINGUIST List 22.2934 Mon Jul 18 2011 Calls: General Linguistics/ Norsk Lingvistisk Tidsskrift (Jrnl) Editor for this issue: Brent Miller <brentlinguistlist.org> LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.     Janne Johannessen , Norsk Lingvistisk Tidsskrift Message 1: Norsk Lingvistisk Tidsskrift Date: 16-Jul-2011 From: Janne Johannessen <jannebjiln.uio.no> Subject: Norsk Lingvistisk Tidsskrift E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Norsk Lingvistisk Tidsskrift Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Norwegian Nynorsk Call Deadline: 01-Nov-2011 Submissions are invited for the Norwegian Journal of Linguistics, special issue on Norwegian language in America. Guest editors: Janne Bondi Johannessen, University of Oslo, and Joe Salmons, University of Wisconsin - Madison. We invite manuscripts based on new research into Norwegian in America, including all areas of linguistics: phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, lexicography, bilingualism, acquisition, variation and change. - Planned publication: issue 2, 2012 - Deadline for manuscript submission: 1 November 2011 - Manuscripts may be written in Norwegian, Swedish, or Danish and should be sent to: jannebjiln.uio.no and jsalmonswisc.edu For more information on the journal: http://www.novus.no/tidsskrifter/Novus_tidsskrifter/NLT.html Starting around 1825 and continuing for a century thereafter, 800,000 Norwegians migrated to America, and their descendants today number five million. Most migrated to the Midwest, where there was much contact among Norwegians. Extensive linguistic analysis was presented in Einar Haugen's great The Norwegian Language in America (1953), and since by, among others, Arnstein Hjelde, especially in Trøndsk talemål i Amerika (1993). The past year has witnessed renewed interest in Norwegian in America, not least as demonstrated by the workshop 'Investigating immigrant languages in America', held at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, September 2010 and the forthcoming Second Workshop on Immigrant Languages in America, to be held at Fefor, Gudbrandsdalen Norway, 21-24 September 2011. These workshops have grown from Nordic research cooperation in dialectology and especially dialect syntax, and the workshops and associated fieldwork are supported by the Norwegian Research Council. The fieldwork shows that Norwegian-speaking descendents of immigrants can still be found today. Further information: On the University of Oslo Text Laboratory's page, old and new recordings can be found which are accessible to researchers. (Use your Text Lab password or create a password by following link on the home page to get to the recordings.) - Seip and Selmers' wax-cylinder recordings of Norwegian-American speakers from 1931 - Einar Haugen's recordings of Norwegian-American speakers from 1935-1948 - Arnstein Hjelde's recordings of Norwegian-American speakers from 1987 - Recordings of Norwegian-American speakers made by University of Wisconsin researchers, 2009 - Video recordings from Janne Bondi Johannessen and Signe Laake's fieldwork in the U.S., March 2010 - Video recordings from Janne Bondi Johannessen and Signe Laake's fieldwork in the U.S., September 2010 (many interviews) Useful web pages: - National Library: http://www.nb.no/emigrasjon/ - Norwegian in America, Text Laboratory, University of Oslo: http://www.tekstlab.uio.no/nota/NorDiaSyn/norskiamerika.html - Recordings of Norwegian in America: http://www.tekstlab.uio.no/nota/NorDiaSyn/dialektlyd.html - Second Workshop on Immigrant Languages in America, 2011: http://www.hf.uio.no/iln/english/about/organization/text-laboratory/news-events/events/2011/feforseminar-norskiamerika.html - Investigating immigrant languages in America, workshop 2010: http://uppermidwesterncultures.blogspot.com/2010/07/investigating-immigrant-languages-in.html Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 18-Jul-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.