https://linguistlist.org/issues/29/29-3802.html

Date: 01-Jul-2019 – 05-Jul-2019
Location: Canberra, ACT, Australia
Contact Person: Uta Reinöhl

Call Deadline: 12-Oct-2018

Meeting Description:

(Session of International Conference on Historical Linguistics 24)

Full title: Gaining Insights from Negative Evidence – Argumentation in historical linguistics

This workshop focusses on contrastive situations where a particular structural linguistic change is unattested in one variety or bundle of varieties (e.g., a dialect, a language, or a branch of languages) in contrast to its attestation in another closely related variety (or varieties). The goal is to explore whether we can draw insights from negative evidence – i.e. from the non-occurrence of a change against the backdrop of its occurrence in a closely related variety – in a way which circumvents some of the epistemic difficulties that arise in accounting for why a particular change did occur. In a nutshell, this workshop asks Why not? rather than Why?

For the full abstract, please see the conference website.

Call for Papers:

Abstract Submission:

Abstracts should be no more than one page with 12pt font, and can include a second page for references. Scholars may submit a maximum of two papers, whether sole authored or co-authored. Authors submitting an abstract should indicate that they would like to be considered for presentation at this workshop. Acceptance of abstracts will be announced by mid-November 2018.

Abstracts should be submitted via the conference web page by the 12 of October:
http://www.dynamicsoflanguage.edu.au/ichl24/call-for-papers/ .

For more information: http://www.dynamicsoflanguage.edu.au/ichl24/workshops/