LINGUIST List 21.1713
Thu Apr 08 2010
Calls: Discipline of Ling, General Ling, Slavic Lang/USA
Editor for this issue: Kate Wu
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1. Lenore
Grenoble,
Slavic Linguistics Society
Message 1: Slavic Linguistics Society
Date: 07-Apr-2010
From: Lenore Grenoble <grenobleuchicago.edu>
Subject: Slavic Linguistics Society
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Full Title: Slavic Linguistics Society Short Title: SLS2010
Date: 29-Oct-2010 - 31-Oct-2010 Location: Chicago, Illinois, USA Contact Person: Lenore Grenoble Meeting Email: SlavicLinguisticSociety2010gmail.com
Description: For millennia, speakers of Slavic languages have expanded over a considerable territory, coming into contact with speakers of other languages, both Slavic and non-Slavic. These contacts have left their imprint on the Slavic languages and have played important roles in their differentiation over time. By the same token, many of the Slavic languages have had a significant impact on the other languages they have come in contact with. The introduction of writing in the late first millennium brought yet another vehicle for contact influences, in particular from Greek in the early period, but continuing as a vehicle for change with the development of the literary traditions of the different Slavic languages.
The range and extent of contact-induced phenomena vary according to time and language and are often difficult to assess. Cases of lexical borrowing are generally clear, in terms of what is the source and what is the target, but in other areas of potential contact-induced change, it can be difficult if not impossible, to prove without question that a given phenomenon or feature is the result of contact and not independent innovation or shared inheritance. This is perhaps particularly true for the impact of one Slavic variety upon the other, where the genetic and typological properties of both are extremely close to one another. Additional ambiguities are introduced by the fact that some important contact phenomena occurred during the prehistoric period.
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