Date: 22-Jul-2020 – 22-Jul-2020
Location: Naxos, Greece
Contact Person: Nikolaos Lavidas
Web Site: https://conferences.uoa.gr/event/12/page/28-workshop-language-change-in-indo-european-ii
Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
Language Family(ies): Indo-European
Call Deadline: 15-Apr-2020
Meeting Description:
The 5th Naxos Summer School on Language Variation and Change in Ancient and Medieval Europe (July 19 – 26, 2020) [http://lvcnaxos2020.enl.uoa.gr/] will be organizing a workshop on “Language Change in Indo-European” II, to be held on July 22, 2020.
Abstracts that approach change in Indo-European languages (from Proto-Indo-European to daughter languages, or in specific Indo-European branches) from any perspective are welcome, including: historical morpho-syntax, historical phonology, historical pragmatics, historical sociolinguistics.
Workshop Description:
The rich historical data of Indo-European languages offer a stable basis for the formation and validation of language change theories, and mainly for those analyzing the directionality of change.
The idea of the workshop is to offer our summer schools participants as well as other scholars interested in a systematic study of change in Indo-European languages, the opportunity to present their ongoing research or the results of their studies on change and its directions in the Indo-European family. We encourage papers of both data- and theory-oriented approaches.
Call for Papers:
Please email your 350-words (excluding references) abstract to Elly van Gelderen (ellyvangelderenasu.edu), Alexander Bergs (abergsuos.de), Ioanna Sitaridou (is269cam.ac.uk) and Nikolaos Lavidas (nlavidasenl.uoa.gr) by April 15, 2020.
Workshop description:
The issues to be addressed in the workshop include the following topics:
(i) new perspectives on phonological or morpho-syntactic reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European;
(ii) new analyses of long-standing questions that concern, for instance, gender-animacy-number, diathesis-voice, cases and alignment, finiteness and non-finiteness, prepositions-postpositions-prefixes in Indo-European;
(iii) new approaches to the study of features (isoglosses) that are shared by more than one Indo-European branches;
(iv) new methods of analyzing the directions of (phonological/ morpho-syntactic/ lexical/ pragmatic) change in Indo-European;
(v) new trends in computational Indo-European linguistics (and computational cladistics).
Accommodation: We can offer 40 beds at the municipality hostel (Vivlos/Tripodes village) for the whole period of the summer school.
Registration fee only for the workshop: 30 euros
Registration fee for summer school + workshop: 190 euros, it also covers the light lunches for the whole period of the summer school. For a full description of the courses available, please visit our website.
Registration Instructions: To apply for the summer school, please use the online application form: https://conferences.uoa.gr/event/12/page/36-registration
Financial Aid: 3 scholarships available (that cover the registration fees) for university (BA, MA, PhD) students. Applications accepted until April 15, 2020. In order to apply for a scholarship, please email your motivation and your CV to nlavidasenl.uoa.gr [N.Lavidas] before April 15, 2020.
More information about the venue can be found at the summer school webpage: http://lvcnaxos2020.enl.uoa.gr/