LINGUIST List 18.1818
Fri Jun 15 2007
Calls: General Ling/ Spain; General Ling/Belgium
Editor for this issue: Ania Kubisz
<anialinguistlist.org>
Directory
1. Organizing Committee
Organizing Commitee,
3rd International Conference on Hispanic Linguistics
2. Gunther
De Vogelaer,
Dutch Dialect Geography and Internal Factors
Message 1: 3rd International Conference on Hispanic Linguistics
Date: 15-Jun-2007
From: Organizing Committee Organizing Commitee <cilhisuvigo.es>
Subject: 3rd International Conference on Hispanic Linguistics
Full Title: 3rd International Conference on Hispanic Linguistics
Date: 18-Oct-2007 - 20-Oct-2007 Location: Vigo, Spain Contact Person: Joaquín Sueiro Meeting Email: cilhisuvigo.es Web Site: http://webs.uvigo.es/cilhis
Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
Call Deadline: 06-Jul-2007
Meeting Description:
3rd International Conference On Hispanic Linguistics: Young Researchers in Language & Linguistics
Dear colleagues, According to your suggestions, the Organizing Committee has decided to extend the deadline for the receipt of abstracts until Friday, 6th July and the review process until Monday 23rd July. We hope that these new deadlines ease the submission of abstracts.
Remember that you can visit our Web site http://webs.uvigo.es/cilhis, where we are including the latest news about the Conference.
Best Wishes,
The Organizing Committee
Estimados colegas:
Recogiendo la sugerencia de algunos de vosotros, el Comité Organizador ha decidido prorrogar la fecha de envío de los resúmenes hasta el VIERNES 6 DE JULIO. Debido a este cambio se postpone la decisión sobre la aceptación de las comunicaciones hasta el LUNES 23 de JULIO. Confiamos que este nuevo plazo os facilite el trabajo de presentación de los resúmenes.
Recordad que podéis visitar nuestra página http://webs.uvigo.es/cilhis donde estamos incluyendo las novedades del congreso.
Un cordial saludo,
El Comité Organizador
Message 2: Dutch Dialect Geography and Internal Factors
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Date: 14-Jun-2007
From: Gunther De Vogelaer <gunther.devogelaerugent.be>
Subject: Dutch Dialect Geography and Internal Factors
Full Title: Dutch Dialect Geography and Internal Factors
Date: 23-Nov-2007 - 23-Nov-2007 Location: Ghent, Belgium Contact Person: Gunther De Vogelaer Meeting Email: gunther.devogelaerugent.be, to arrive no later than June, 30. Talks are 20 min. (+ 10 min. discussion). We encourage abstracts in Dutch, but non-native speakers of Dutch may submit English abstracts as well. Decisions on the acceptance of the abstract can be expected before September, 1. A selection of papers will appear as a theme issue of Taal & Tongval (http://www.meertens.knaw.nl/taalentongval/).
Recent years have seen a renewed interest for dialect geography, including publications such as Barbiers, Cornips & van der Kleij (2002) on European dialect syntax; Kortmann & Schneider (2004) on varieties of English; Labov, Ash & Boberg (2006) on North American dialects. But quite unlike during the earlier heydays of dialect geography, this 'neo-dialectological' movement seems to be theory-driven rather than data-driven (see Kortmann 2002, Horvath 2004, and Filppula et al. 2005: vii for similar observations). In principle, the availability of geographical data opens up new possibilities as to the use of patterns of geographic diffusion as an information source, but these possibilities are currently underused. The main reason for this is probably the basic assumption in dialectology that system-internal (or 'functional') factors can only serve to explain the actuation of linguistic innovations, and not the success with which these innovations are diffused (see, e.g., Milroy 1992:201-202, Labov 1994:598, and especially Croft 2000:166). Recently, however, this assumption has been challenged (see Haspelmath 1999, Andersen 2005, Seiler 2005; see Rosenbach forthcoming for discussion).
The present workshop aims at exploring the relevance of system-internal factors for the patterns of diffusion that are described in these atlases. More precisely, we invite talks on the following topics:
1. The relevance of one or more internal factors for the patterns of diffusion that are found in the Dutch dialect atlases (SAND, MAND, FAND) The data can also be found online, via: http://www.meertens.knaw.nl/projecten/mand/GTRPdataperitem.html (MAND, FAND) http://www.meertens.nl/sand/zoeken/index.php (SAND)
2. The broader question whether internal factors are indeed relevant for actuation and/or diffusion, and for language change in general, including the way in which this relevance is observed in the behaviour of individual language users
3. The methodology of theory-driven dialect geographical research, and the relevance of dialect geographical data for different theoretical frameworks
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