Early European Languages in the Eyes of Modern Linguistics

Date: 28-Sep-2008 - 01-Oct-2008
Location: Brno, Czech Republic
Contact Person: Katerina Loudová
Meeting Email: modern.linguistics @ phil.muni.cz
Web Site: http://plone.phil.muni.cz:8088/wsvj

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics;
Morphology;
Phonology; Syntax

Language Family(ies): Indo-European

Call Deadline: 30-Dec-2007

Meeting Description

The Centre for Interdisciplinary Research into Ancient Languages and Early
Stages of Modern Languages of the Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
is going to organize a conference on the ancient IE languages (Greek,
Latin, Gothic, Old Slavonic etc.) and the early modern languages seen from
the perspectives of modern linguistics.

The conference will be held from the 28h (Sunday) of September to the 1st
(Wednesday) of October 2008.

The conference organizers welcome all papers on subjects from any area of
the historical linguistics (e.g. phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax,
semantics, pragmatics, dialects) which can be included in one of the
following sections of the conference:
a) Mycenaean, Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic, Byzantine and early Modern
Greek; other IE languages of the early Aegean and Balkan area.
b) Archaic, Classical and Vulgar Latin; other IE languages of the ancient
Italy and the early Western Mediterranean area.
c) Early stages of the modern Romance, German and Slavonic languages,
including Czech.
The talk should last ca. 20 minutes. There will be a ten-minute discussion
following each paper.

Conference languages: English, French, German, Italian

1st Call for Papers

Abstract Submission:
Deadline: 30 December 2007

The abstracts should not contain more than 200 words (up to 10 lines);
languages: English, French, German, Italian.
Fill in the attached form and send it to the Centre e-mail address:
modern.linguistics @ phil.muni.cz

Contributions will be chosen by the organizing committee on the basis of
the abstracts submitted.

Acceptance notification will be sent until the 15th of March 2008.

Centre e-mail: modern.linguistics @ phil.muni.cz

Participation fees:
Participants: 80 E
Students, accompanying persons: 40 E

Payment could be made by bank transfer until the 30th of May 2008. The
confirmation of your registration will be sent to you by e-mail once we get
the receipt of your payment.

Please transfer the total sum to:

Account Number: 85636621/0100
Account Owner: Masarykova univerzita, A. Nováka , 602 00 Brno
Bank: Komercní banka Brno
BIC (SWIFT Code): KOMBCZPP
IBAN: CZ4301000000000085636621
Variable Symbol (DS3): 2177000607

Participation fees include: Proceedings of the Conference, free meals (as
will be specified in the conference programme), refreshment during the
coffee breaks and an excursion.
Participation fees do not include hotel booking and payment. The organizing
committee will book rooms for the participants only in the University Hotel
(Garni); please see the attached form: single room: 27 E per night; double
room: 32 E per night (two persons). For further information on hotels,
please visit the Centre website http://plone.phil.muni.cz:8088/wsvj


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