LINGUIST List 15.775

Fri Mar 5 2004

Calls: Historical Ling/UK

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

    Message 1: Language Contact and Minority Languages on the Littorals of Western Europe

     Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 09:37:25 -0500 (EST)
    From: Snezha Methewson sm96 <Snezha>
    Subject: 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