In historical settings, reconstructability is a crucial issue. It is often difficult to find out who spoke which language(s) to whom. The written record typically prefers some languages over others, which only intensifies when standardization sets in. If we want to reconsider historical language contact, we also need to develop ways to reconstruct the sociolinguistic conditions determining the contact situation.
We are looking for contributions in the fields of historical sociolinguistics and historical language contact, with a keen eye for the issues outlined above. Topics to be discussed include (but need not be limited to):
- the multilingual experiences of migrating individuals and communities, and the linguistic consequences thereof;
- domain-specific and socially conditioned language choice in situations of societal multilingualism;
- contact-induced changes in traditional dialects and standard languages, beyond the domain of lexical loans;
- standardization as koineization, and standard languages as contact varieties;
- societal and individual multilingualism vs. metalinguistic discourse prototypically focusing on monolingualism;
- the role of monolingual and standard language ideologies in language historiography.
Main organizers
Gijsbert Rutten, Universiteit Leiden
Rik Vosters, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Organizing and scientific committee
Reinhild Vandekerckhove, Universiteit Antwerpen
Dirk Geeraerts, KU Leuven
Ben Hermans, Meertens Instituut
Roeland van Hout, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
Jacques Van Keymeulen, Universiteit Gent
Jan Nijen Twilhaar, Hogeschool Utrecht
Wim Vandenbussche, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Gunther De Vogelaer, Universität Münster
More information: http://taalentongval2017.blogspot.be/
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