GLOW Workshop Variation and Change, Lund 2013-04-02

Date: Tuesday 2 April, 2013
Organizers: David Håkansson (Uppsala),Ida Larsson (Stockholm), Erik Magnusson Petzell (Stockholm)
Contact: Ida Larsson [ida dot larsson at nordiska dot su dot se]
Invited speaker: Marit Westergaard, University of Tromsø
Deadline for submission: November 15, 2012 
Notification of acceptance: January 20, 2013
Submission of abstracts: Easychair

PDF version of the call for papers for this workshop

Conference site:  http://conference.sol.lu.se/en/glow-36/call-for-papers/workshop-2-linguistic-variation-and-change/

EdiSyn Wiki on Dialect Syntax

Have you noticed that EdiSyn has launched a Wiki on dialect syntax? It contains information on researchers, institutions, projects, you name it. And as with all Wikis, anyone can contribute!

Check it out at www.dialectsyntax.org! And contribute.

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SMS bevarar och utvecklar dialekten

I en ny doktorsavhandling från Umeå universitet beskriver Anna Greggas Bäckström hur ungdomar i Närpes i Sydösterbotten använder dialekt bland annat i elektroniska medier.

Läs mer här: http://www.humfak.umu.se/om/aktuellt/nyhetsvisning/sms-bevarar-och-utvecklar-dialekten.cid176806

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Konferens om och kurs i dialektgeografi

Svensk dialektgeografi
2011-11-24 - 2011-11-24
Välkommen till Svenska litteratursällskapets seminarium "Svensk dialektgeografi" torsdagen den 24 november 2011 kl. 11–18.

http://www.kgaa.nu/konferens.php?id=8

Språkvetenskapliga nämnden och Språkarkivet vid SLS arrangerar i samarbete med Kungl. Gustav Adolfs Akademien för svensk folkkultur den 24 november 2011 ett seminarium om svensk dialektgeografi. Föredragshållarna kommer från både Finland och Sverige. Seminariet äger rum på Svenska litteratursällskapet, Riddaregatan 5 i Helsingfors, och är öppet för studenter, lärare och forskare. Mer information följer i början av september, men pricka redan nu in den 24 november i din kalender. Sprid gärna information om seminariet på din institution!

I anslutning till seminariet anordnas en kurs i att framställa dialektgeografiska kartor.

Språkarkivet, Språkvetenskapliga nämnden och Kungl. Gustav Adolfs Akademien för svensk folkkultur

Kontaktpersoner:
Pamela Gustavsson
Förste arkivarie vid Språkarkivet
pamela.gustavsson@sls.fi

Sofie Henricson
Språkvetenskapliga nämndens forskare och sekreterare
sofie.henricson@sls.fi

Marit Åhlén
Akademiintendent vid Kungl. Gustav Adolfs Akademien för svensk folkkultur
info@kgaa.nu

Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland

Post docs in Iceland

REPOSTED from Dr. Eirikur Smári Sigurðarson
The Icelandic Research Fund now offers four different kinds of post doc fellowships (so-called START grants). The number of fellowships on offer this year is much higher than in recent years. The different kinds of fellowships are:

1. Classical post doc fellowships ("fellowships without mobility"). It is not necessary to have a PhD degree to apply for this type of post doc grant (though it is necessary to have successfully defended a thesis before the grant period starts, i.e. before the end of the year).
   
2. Outgoing fellowships for those who have mostly trained in Iceland to undertake research outside Iceland (with a requirement for a return period in Iceland).
   
3. Incoming fellowships for those intending to conduct research in Iceland. It is necessary to have been living for 2 out of the last 3 years outside Iceland.
   
4. Reintegration fellowships for nationals of EU member states or associated countries, who have been living for at least 2 out of the last 3 years in another country, to conduct research in Iceland.
   

The PhD degree of the applicant must not be older than 5 years (i.e. not from before 15. June 2006). For fellowships 2-4 it is necessary to have a PhD degree at the time of the application deadline but for fellowship 1 this is not a requirement. Application deadline is 15 June. I encourage you to make your colleges abroad aware of these grants. It would be very valuable for the School of Humanities to get Post Doc fellows who have education and experience from other universities. See: http://rannis.is/sjodir/start-postdoctoral-programme/
Bestu kveðjur,
Eiríkur Smári

Dr. Eiríkur Smári Sigurðarson
Rannsóknastjóri / Director of Research
Hugvísindasviði / School of Humanities
Háskóla Íslands / University of Iceland
Sími / Tel: +354 5255136

Workshop 'How Spatial is Dialect Syntax?'

Date: 23-Nov-2011 - 25-Nov-2011
Location: Lisbon, Portugal
Contact Person: Ernestina Carrilho

Linguistic Fields: Historical Linguistics; Sociolinguistics; Syntax

Call Deadline: 12-Jun-2011

Meeting Description:

The workshop is organized by the CORDIAL team (research group Dialectology and Diachrony at Centre of Linguistics of the University of Lisbon - CLUL) as part of the International Symposium on Limits and Areas in Dialectology.

The prolific development of dialect syntax over the last two decades widened up the space for dialectology and linguistic theory to meet. The rise and expansion of several national projects and transnational networks on this research domain led to the systematic study of syntactic properties of dialects, which brought to light a sharper awareness of syntactic variation and of its areal extent.

While the theoretical impact of dialect syntax continues to renew the debate about the grammatical locus for variation, this workshop calls for contributions addressing the spatial dimension of so-called syntactic variation. The main objective is to provide a forum for researchers to present results from recent projects and discuss issues and challenges pertaining to the geolinguistic import of dialect syntax, together with its theoretical, empirical and methodological implications.

Invited Speaker:
Sjef Barbiers (Meertens Institute, Amsterdam)

Call for Papers:
We welcome paper submissions addressing (but not limited to) the following topics:

• Geographical boundaries in dialect syntax
• Geolinguistic patterns in the areal distribution of syntactic variants
• Definition and identification of dialectal syntactic variants
• Geographical space as a grammar-external factor for syntactic variation
• Grammatical loci of 'syntactic' variables
• Spatial and grammatical correlations between syntactic variants and between syntactic variables
• Idiolectal and dialectal syntactic variation
• Intra-speaker and dialectal syntactic variation
• Methodological challenges/advances in dialect syntax fieldwork
• Cartographic representation of syntactic variables and variants
• Tools for dialect syntax

Abstract Submission:
Abstracts should be anonymous and restricted to one page (using 2,5 cm margins on all sides, single line spacing and 11pt font size), to be submitted as an attachment by e-mail. Acceptable formats for attachments are MS Word and PDF. The following information should be included in the body of the message: name of author(s), affiliation, title of abstract, postal address, e-mail address. Authors may submit up to two abstracts, one individual and one jointly authored. Presentations will be allotted 30 minutes, followed by 10 minutes for discussion.

Important Dates:
Deadline for abstract submission: June 12, 2011
Notification of acceptance: July 15, 2011

For more information, please contact the organizers at: cordialworkshop@clul.ul.pt

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European Dialect Syntax Workshop 5 – EDISYN 5

Date: 25-Jun-2011 - 25-Jun-2011
Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Contact: Sjef Barbiers
Contact Email: Sjef.Barbiers[at]meertens.knaw.nl
Meeting URL: http://www.cgsw26.nl

The fifth European Dialect Syntax Workshop on
June 25th follows the CGSW 26 (Comparative Germanic Syntax).

Invited speaker: Rafaella Zanuttini (Yale)

PROGRAMME:
9:00-10:00 Raffaella Zanuttini (Yale University) - tba
Break
10:30-11:10 Mélanie Jouitteau (CNRS). When reduplication gives a choice
11:10-11:50 Ricardo Etxepare (IKER/CNRS). Evidentials and evidential strategies in Basque
11:50-12:30 Bjorn Lundquist (University of Tromsø). When input fails to determine the grammar: Regional vs. Non-regional variation in Norwegian and Swedish
Lunch
14:00-14:40 Ioanna Sitaridou (University of Cambridge). Syntactic microvariation in complementation strategies in Pontic Greek varieties
14:40-15:20 Anne Dagnac (Université Toulouse 2). Generalized C-doubling in an Oïl dialect, subjects and the nature of que2
15:20-16:00 Antonio Civardi (University of Florence). Cross-dialectal variation in Northern Russian: the ‘perfect’ with past passive participle
Break
16:40-17:20 Melani Wratil (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena). Double Agreement in the Alpine Languages
17:20-18:00 Roberta D'Alessandro (LUCL, Leiden University). Agreement in Upper Southern Italian Dialects: A new typology for Romance

The Edisyn 5 program, with links to abstracts, is availabe at www.cgsw26.nl.

Danske Talesprog – now open for all authors

From the NORDLINGNET:

Invitation til at bidrage til tidsskriftet Danske Talesprog – et tidsskrift for dialektologi og sociolingvistik.

Tidsskriftet beskæftiger sig først og fremmest med danske talesprog, herunder dansk i interaktion med andre sprog, men bringer også artikler der behandler andre talesprog hvis dansk inddrages. Tidsskriftets artikler kan skrives på dansk, norsk eller svensk. Artiklerne fagfællebedømmes.

Danske Talesprog har hidtil kun bragt artikler skrevet af forskere med tilknytning til Afdeling for Dialektforskning (af forskellige bevillingsmæssige og historiske grunde), men nu er tidsskriftet åbent for alle der forsker inden for tidsskriftets emneområde. Se resumeer af tidligere numre her:

http://nfi.ku.dk/publikationer/trykte_serier/

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