LINGUIST List 19.1403
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Fri Apr 25 2008
Calls: General Ling/Malaysia; General Ling/Norway
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1. Mei Li
Lean,
International Conference on Ethnic Relations
2. Marleen
van de Vate,
Formal Approaches to Creole Studies
Message 1: International Conference on Ethnic Relations
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Date: 25-Apr-2008
From: Mei Li Lean <meili26hotmail.com>
Subject: International Conference on Ethnic Relations
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Full Title: International Conference on Ethnic Relations
Short Title: ICoER
Date: 15-Oct-2008 - 16-Oct-2008
Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Contact Person: Mei Li Lean
Meeting Email: leanmlum.edu.my
Web Site: http://umconference.um.edu.my
Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
Call Deadline: 08-Jul-2008
Meeting Description:
The International Conference on Ethnic Relations 2008 (ICoER) is a
multidisciplinary conference aimed at bringing together researchers and
practitioners interested in the area of ethnic relations.
Call for Papers
The world in the 21st century is filled with various conflicts and
contradictions and many international and regional conflicts are closely related
to national-ethnical groups. Civil wars, ethnic tension or misunderstanding have
occurred over ethnic issues. It is hoped that this conference can help to
introduce new concepts and ideas by reputed scholars, which help to foster
better ties among different ethnic groups across nations.
The conference would be of interest to politicians, policy makers, law makers,
academicians, NGOs, sociologists, linguists, anthropologists, and political
scientists and we encourage authors from various disciplines to submit papers on
one of the topics indicated below, describing original work, including
techniques, or survey papers, reporting research results and/or indicating
future directions to ethnic conflict resolution in a range of settings. Analyses
of all aspects of ethnic relations are welcome, including those within applied
and professional areas such as business, education, environment, health, and law.
Message 2: Formal Approaches to Creole Studies
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Date: 23-Apr-2008
From: Marleen van de Vate <creolehum.uit.no>
Subject: Formal Approaches to Creole Studies
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Full Title: Formal Approaches to Creole Studies
Date: 14-Nov-2008 - 15-Nov-2008
Location: Tromsø, Norway
Contact Person: Marleen van de Vate
Meeting Email: creolehum.uit.no
Web Site: http://www.hum.uit.no/creole/index.html
Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
Language Family(ies): Creole
Call Deadline: 20-Jun-2008
Meeting Description:
The goal of this workshop is to bring together scholars who share an interest in
the formal study of creole languages.
Call for Papers
Invited speakers:
Hans den Besten
Alain Kihm
Early generative approaches to creoles were often hampered by the lack of
available data, which may have led to premature conclusions. However, only few
scholars have pursued this line of research since its heyday in the early 1980s
(see e.g. Muysken 1981). Instead, there was an increased focus on the
description of individual creole languages and sociolinguistic factors
surrounding creole formation, which helped us to gain a much better
understanding of the factors involved in creole formation.
We believe that the time is ripe for a renewed approach to pidgin and creole
languages from a theoretical and/or generative perspective. Both linguistic
theory and the empirical exploration of creole languages have advanced
considerably since the 1980s, allowing us to take a fresh perspective on what
seems to be an old topic. Shifting the spotlight to the more formal issues
surrounding creole formation may help us in furthering our understanding how
pidgin and creole languages come into being and why their grammatical properties
are the way they are. At the same time, it may foster the interaction between
theoretical linguists and researchers 'in the field'.
We therefore invite abstracts that address theoretical and formal aspects in
Creole Studies, from all the subfields of generative research, syntax,
semantics, phonology, and morphology. Questions that we think still need to be
addressed include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Which contribution can creoles make to linguistic theory and theoretical
developments?
- Are creoles 'special' languages, from a structural perspective?
- Are there structural similarities that are common to all creoles, irrespective
of their origin, their substrates and their lexifiers? If so what are they and
how can we account for them?
- How does the claim that creoles are the simplest languages of the world
(McWhorter 2005) hold up to formal scrutiny?
- What are the formal factors in creole formation, and how do these formal
factors interact with sociolinguistic factors?
We invite submissions of abstracts for 35-minute presentations (plus 10-minute
discussions). Abstracts should be no longer than one page US Letter or A4 with
one inch (2.5 cm) margins, single spaced, with a font size no smaller than 12pt,
and with normal character spacing. A second page may be used for examples,
figures, tables or references. The preferred submission format is pdf, but you
can also send your abstract in .doc, .txt or .rtf format.
Please send two copies of your abstract. One should be anonymous (all abstracts
will be reviewed anonymously), one should include your name, affiliation and
e-mail address directly below the title. The two files should be named
and , e.g. title-schuchardt.pdf and
title-anon.pdf. Abstracts should be sent to creolehum.uit.no
Modest financial aid is available to a limited number of researchers with
limited financial resources whose abstracts are accepted. Request for funding
ought to be submitted together with the abstract.
Deadline for submission: June 20, 2008.
Notifications will be sent out by early August
For details and further information, please consult the workshop website at
http://www.hum.uit.no/creole/index.html
Organisers:
Marleen van de Vate, University of Tromsø
Christian Uffmann, University of Sussex
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