3rd CfP Yiddish Language Structures

[Sandra Birzer]

Third Call for Papers

The Slavonic Department of the University of Regensburg (Björn Hansen
and Sandra Birzer) invite abstracts for the international workshop
`Yiddish language structures´ to be held 30 November - 1 December 2009
in Regensburg/Germany.
The main focus is supposed to be on structural aspects of the
description of the Yiddish language system which includes both
theoretical and empirical questions. The idea is to bring together
specialists from the field of Yiddish linguistics and General Linguists
working on language change and language contact.

Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
- phonology, lexicology, morphology and syntax of Yiddish
- contact-induced grammaticalization
- borrowing asymmetries
- Corpus linguistic research on Yiddish

The following scholars have been asked to deliver a keynote talk at the
workshop:
Steffen Krogh (University of Aarhus) - confirmed
Johan van der Auwera (University of Antwerp) - confirmed
Yaron Matras (University of Manchester) - confirmed
Gertrud Reershemius (Aston University) - confirmed

The workshop is also meant to be a forum to discuss the new project of
an on-line `Corpus of Modern Yiddish´ (CMY) which aims at compiling a
balanced text
corpus of Modern Yiddish of about 10 million words. The CMY is a joint
project of
scholars from Regensburg and Moscow.

The conference languages will be English, Yiddish and German.

Conference homepage:
http://www.uni-regensburg.de/Fakultaeten/phil_Fak_IV/Slavistik/YLS/

Abstract specifications:
Maximum length: 500 words or 1 single-spaced page
Abstracts must be anonymous. Do not put your name or other identifying
information on the abstract. Please send an extra file specifying the
author´s / authors´ name and the title of the abstract.

Please send your abstract to this email address:
Yiddish.S...@sprachlit.uni-regensburg.de

Deadline for the submission of abstracts is 20 July 2009. Notification
about the acceptance or rejection of submitted abstracts will be given
by 30 September 2009.

Conference fee
The conference fee is Euro 75 for regular participants. Regular
participants taking advantage of the early bird registration until 31
October 2009 pay Euro 50. The conference fee for student participants
is Euro 20.
Participants must pay their own travel and accommodation costs.

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Dr. Sandra Birzer
Institut für Slavistik
Universität Regensburg
93040 Regensburg
Germany
Tel. +49 941 943-3399