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Workshop: "Non-Standard Average European"

Wann 02.02.2012 um 10:00 bis
03.02.2012 um 23:00
Wo FRIAS, Albertstaße 19 (Seminar room, ground floor)
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Schedule

Thursday 2 February

 

10:00

Welcome

10:15

Bernd Kortmann (Freiburg): Non-Standard Average European – A brief look back and ahead

10:40

Coffee break

11:00

Ekkehard König (FU Berlin / Freiburg): ‘Standard Average European’ Revisited

11:45

Open discussion

12:15

Lunch break

14:00

Adriano Murelli (IdS Mannheim): Exploring non-standard in Europe: The case of relative clauses

14:45

Britta Irslinger (Freiburg): Relative Clauses as a Feature of (Non-) Standard Average European: A Closer Look on Celtic Languages and Diachronic Developments

15:45

Coffee break

16:00

Michele Loporcaro (Zürich): Complexity in NSAE: an overview of the Italo-Romance evidence

16:30

Open Discussion

 

Friday 3 February

 

9:45

Markus Giger (Basel): Standard Average European features in Non-Standard-Varieties of Czech

10:30

Coffee break

10:45

Jack Chambers (Toronto): Typology on the Continuum from Vernacular to Standard

11:30

Open discussion

12:00

Lunch break

14:30

Henrik Rosenkvist (Lund): Non-standard morphosyntactic features in Övdalian

15:15

Gunther de Vogelaer (Münster): Standard Average European resisting grammaticalization: evidence from West Germanic cliticization

16:00

Coffee break

16:15

Horst Simon (FU Berlin): Are there Non-Standard Average European Languages outside of Contemporary Europe? And why (not)?

16:45

Open discussion and concluding remarks

 

Description

(Western) European languages display a number of morphosyntactic convergences (Standard Average European features, henceforth SAE, Haspelmath 2001). It is a well-established fact that these languages form a linguistic area, yet the evidence for SAE is mainly taken from the written standard languages. So far, it is an open question how pervasive SAE features are at the level of vernaculars (cf. Kortmann 2009 for varieties of English). In recent years, morphosyntactic structure of vernaculars has been studied extensively in several European countries, which makes possible a refinement of Europe’s typological profile.

The Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies (FRIAS) is hosting a workshop on the typology of European nonstandard varieties. On the basis of case studies from various European languages we would like to address questions such as:

  • What do we gain for the typological analysis of European languages if we take nonstandard varieties into account?
  • Is including nonstandard varieties into typological comparison only a matter of greater granulartiy, or are there systematic, reoccurring typological differences between spoken vernaculars and codified standard languages?
  • If so, how can they be explained?
  • What is the contribution of the notion of vernacular universals (Chambers 2004)? Or are vernacular universals just ‛ordinary’ language universals?
  • Are the crosslinguistically rather unusual characteristics of European languages less articulate at the level of vernaculars? Is Standard Average European to be understood as Standard Average European, a product of codification rather than of areal convergence?

 

Contact: guido.seiler@frias.uni-freiburg.de

References:

Chambers, Jack K. (2004). Dynamic typology and vernacular universals. In: Bernd Kortmann (ed.): Dialectology meets typology: dialect grammar from a cross-linguistic perspective. Berlin / New York: de Gruyter. 127-145.
Haspelmath Martin (2001). The European linguistic area: Standard Average European. In: Martin Haspelmath, Ekkehard König, Wulf Oesterreicher, & Wolfgang Raible (eds.): Language Typology and Language Universals, vol. 2. Berlin / New York: de Gruyter. 1492-1510.
Kortmann, Bernd (2009). Die Rolle von (Nicht-Standard-)Varietäten in der europäischen (Areal-) Typologie. In: U. Hinrichs/N. Reiter/S. Tornow, eds. Eurolinguistik: Entwicklung und Perspektiven. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. 165-187.
Murelli, Adriano & Bernd Kortmann (2011). Non-standard varieties in the areal typology of Europe. In: Bernd Kortmann & Johan van der Auwera (eds.): The Languages and Linguistics of Europe A Comprehensive Guide. (The World of Linguistics 1). Berlin / New York: de Gruyter, 525-544.