Full Title: The Eleventh Cambridge Conference on Language Endangerment

Date: 09-Jul-2025 - 09-Jul-2025
Location: Cambridge, United Kingdom
Contact Person: Mari Jones
Meeting Email: [email protected]
Web Site: https://www.mmll.cam.ac.uk/centres/celc/conference-series

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Language Documentation; Sociolinguistics; Syntax

Call Deadline: 10-Apr-2025

Meeting Description:

Language Endangerment: Language Contact and the Community

Call for Papers:

Languages become endangered where their speakers are in contact with other speech varieties which are considered to carry greater social prestige. Research in this area has revealed these situations often bring about linguistic changes in the structure of one or more of these varieties. This conference invites papers that reflect on these issues: How are the structures of an endangered language affected by contact? Are there particular kinds of variation and change that are more likely to occur in endangered languages? What kind of structural innovations might new speakers introduce in contexts of revitalization and how should these be incorporated in the documentation of these varieties? What methodological approaches are appropriate for the investigation of variation in contact-induced language change in endangered varieties? What are the attitudes of speakers towards variation and change in speech communities where a language is endangered, and do those attitudes have any bearing on language practices?

Abstracts (200 words maximum) to be submitted via email to the organisers by 10 April 2025. Please include in the abstract document your name and your affiliation as you would like to see them in the programme.

We regret that we cannot offer the possibility of virtual participation at the conference.