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ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu>############################################################################# CALL FOR PAPERS 3rd HIMALAYAN LANGUAGES SYMPOSIUM PARASESSION: LANGUAGE AND CULTURE IN THE HIMALAYAN CONTEXT July 18-20, 1997 University of California, Santa Barbara ############################################################################# GENERAL SESSION Papers for the General Session may present the results of scholarly research on any subject pertaining to Himalayan languages and Himalayan language communities. Possible topics include: * Descriptions of previously undescribed languages * Linguistic analyses of phonetic, phonological and grammatical systems * Comparative studies and historical reconstruction * Himalayan languages in theoretical and typological perspective * Discourse and grammar * Sociolinguistics * Historical and archaeological finds relating to the prehistory of Himalayan language communities PARASESSION Papers for the Parasession on Language and Culture in the Himalayan Context may be on any subject pertaining to language communities of the greater Himalayan area. Possible topics include: * Evidentiality, discourse, and cultural practices * Honorific systems * Kinship systems * Ritual language * Deictic and directional systems in geographical and cultural space * Language contact and multilingualism * Orality and literacy * Language maintenance, shift and preservation * Language policy A proposal has been made to include a panel discussion relating to the topic of language endangerment and preservation. Anyone interested in participating in such a panel should contact Carol Genetti as soon as possible. ABSTRACTS Abstracts should be limited to one page, with text in a space no larger than 6 X 8 inches, including the title and the name and institution of the scholar. Accepted abstracts will be bound into a booklet and distributed at the conference, so please adhere to the size guidelines. They should be sent to the organizing committee at the address below. DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: MARCH 1, 1997 ######################################################################### ABOUT THE SYMPOSIUM The Himalayan Language Symposium is designed to be a global forum where scholars can share the fruits of their research with others working on related issues in the same geographic area. The term "Himalayan" is used in the panoramic sense, to include Nuristan, Baltistan and the Burushaski speaking area in the west, and northern Burma and Sichuan in the east. The Tibetan Plateau is included in the north, and in the south the area covered includes the Himalayan foothills, the Terai, the Meghalaya and the hill tracts geophysically related to the Himalayas, e.g. Nagaland and Manipur. The term "language" was chosen as opposed to "linguistics" to purposely broaden the scope of the symposium beyond linguistics proper, so as to allow those working in kindred disciplines, such as archaeology, history, philology, and anthropology, to present their research pertaining to Himalayan languages and language communities. The special Parasession on Language and Culture in the Himalayan Context constitutes a deliberate effort to expand the scope of the Symposium in this way. The Secretariat for this annually-convening Symposium is the Himalayan Languages Project at Leiden University in the Netherlands. The Project graciously hosted the first two Symposia, the second of which was held in conjunction with the International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics. Ideally, the Symposium will be held in a different country each year. Potential hosts of future Symposia should contact Carol Genetti as current organizer, or George van Driem of the Secretariat. ABOUT THE 3rd HLS This year's conference will be held at the University of California, on the Santa Barbara campus. Santa Barbara is located about 100 miles north of Los Angeles on the beautiful California coast. Participants housed in dormitories on campus will be within walking distance of the beach, an excellent place for sunbathing, swimming, and surfing. Information on accommodations and transportation will be included with the second circular. FOR MORE INFORMATION If you require additional information about the 3rd Himalayan Languages Symposium, or if you would like your name to be added to the mailing list, please contact: Organizing Committee Himalayan Languages Symposium e-mail: hlsMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
kub.nl>THE TILBURG UNIVERSITY WORKSHOP ON CODE SWITCHING AND LANGUAGE CHANGE May 15-16, 1997 Organizers: Hendrik Boeschoten (Language & Minorities Group) & Riny Huybregts (Grammar Models group) Deadline for submitting abstracts: March 15, 1997 CALL FOR PAPERS Code switching and Language Change Code switching (CS) is a perfectly normal way of linguistic behavior of bilingual speakers and can be studied from several perspectives like any other aspect of linguistic activity. The workshop will primarily focus on general rules and principles which underlie these products of linguistic behavior rather than on the products themselves. Some new initiatives from this perspective (DiSciullo et al., 1986, Woolford, 1983) were very important even though the general principles advanced were empirically contradicted, at least apparently. Some researchers have gone so far as to conclude on the basis of these counterexamples that there are no general principles in this domain. This logic is curious and reminiscent of earlier debates within theoretical linguistics. Clearly, such general mechanisms must exist. To deny their existence would be equivalent to asserting that the phenomenon is random noise unworthy of scientific inquiry. A more optimistic position seems more realistic. It is reasonable to assume that code switching holds no privileged position among all other types of linguistic behavior: they all tap the same universal principles, which can be studied in a variety of ways that supplement or complement each other. In this workshop we would like to concentrate on the form and structure of grammatical principles underlying forms of CS (What are they? How do they arise in the individual?), and on the way these relate to characteristic features of language change (What principles underlie convergence of language varieties in contact?). This relationship is an interesting, though difficult, problem of linguistically based CS research: the data reflect not only the interaction of rules from different systems, but also repeated/conventionalized patterns with individuals and among groups. We invite papers that shed light on this problem and which support or undermine the following claim that we formulate in order to focus interest: the grammar of code switching is essentially not different from non-switching grammars. The entailment is that any explanatory theory of grammar can be tested against CS behavior and furthermore that everything there is to say about CS (provided it is linguisti- cally significant) must be minimally explainable by the same grammar that accounts for monolingual behavior. The workshop offers room for 12 talks (6 of which will be reserved for invited speakers and 6 of which will be selected from the abstracts submitted). Talks will be one hour each (including discussion). Invited Speakers: Ad Backus (Tilburg University) Lars Johanson (University of Mainz) Patrick McConvell (Northern Territory University) Pieter Muysken (University of Amsterdan) Jacomine Nortier (University of Utrecht) Nancy Stenson (University of Minnesota) Abstracts (three hard copies, no longer than one page) should be sent (no later than March 16th) to: Selection Committee Workshop Code Switching & Language Change c/o Riny Huybregts Grammaticamodellen, Faculty of Language and Literature Tilburg University P.O. Box 19153 NL-5000 LE Tilburgg, The Netherlands e-mail address: huybregtMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue