We invite submissions for the thematic section

Internationalisms in Slavic as a window into the architecture of grammar

which will be part of the International conference

Slavic Studies Today: Slavic Languages, Literatures and Cultures in the European Context

June 2–4, 2020, Department of Slavic Studies, University of Graz, Austria

February 24 - 26, 2021 online (date and location for the section Internationalisms in Slavic as a window into the architecture of grammar)

Topic

The common ancestor language is not the only source of the many commonalities between the Slavic languages. Due to their presences in the European cultural context, all Slavic languages have been in direct and indirect contact with Greek, Latin, French and German, and all Slavic languages are presently in contact with English. The current processes of Europeanization and globalization accelerate these interactions.

The common contacts have led to various structural similarities. Most Slavic languages nowadays have a fully blown phoneme /f/, indeclinable adjectives of the type cool/kul, classes of indeclinable nouns of the type lady/ledi and bi-aspectual verbs which are mostly made up of loanwords.

The linguistic section of the conference Slavic Studies Today focuses on the dynamics of this “international layer” of the Slavic systems. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

•  inflectional classes which are open/closed for loanwords as a window into the adequate representation of the Slavic inflectional classes;
• indeclinability and paradigm gaps in borrowed and native words as a window into the architecture of grammar;
• borrowing derivational and inflectional affixes and its consequences for the structure of the lexicon;
• the aspect of borrowed verbs as a window into the adequate representation of the Slavic aspect;
• diachronic switches in loanword integration patterns and their consequence for the general theory of borrowing;
• loanword integration patterns in the immigrant varieties of Slavic and the role of group bilingualism;
• contact-induced simplification and creolization processes.

Invited Speakers

Greville Corbett (University of Surrey)

Maria Gouskova (New York University)

Peter Jurgec (University of Toronto)

Katya Pertsova (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

Submission guidelines

We invite abstracts for 20 minute talks, which will be followed by 10 minute discussions. 

Abstracts must be anonymous, maximally 1 page long (A4), with an extra page for figures, examples, tables and references, 12 pt Times New Roman, with one-inch (2.54 cm) margins on all sides, written in English, PDF format. 

Important dates 

Submission deadline: October 14, 2019

Notification of acceptance: December 16, 2019

Conference dates: February 24–26, 2021

Venue

The conference will be held online.

Conference fee

There will be no conference fee.

Program Committee

• Boban Arsenijević
• Marko Simonović

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to interslavic.graz@gmail.com.

Important info: This CfP will cannot be modified after 1 January 2021

Our Easychair licence will expire on December 31, 2020. This means that any changes after that moment will not be reflected here. In case of doubt, email us at interslavic.graz@gmail.com.