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Call for papers: Zurich Workshop on Afrikaans Linguistics Theory and Structure
University of Zurich (4-5 October 2021)
With over seven million native speakers, predominantly in southern Africa, Afrikaans is the fifth largest Germanic language. Although important work has been done regarding the history and the social and political aspects of Afrikaans, the study of its structure is still relatively uncharted territory especially compared to that of related languages.
This workshop aims to show that Afrikaans lends itself to interesting insights for theoretical linguistics and to bring together experts from southern Africa, the Low Countries and elsewhere in front of a Zurich audience.
Organisation
The programme encompasses two days with plenary talks, open call contributions and a round table discussion at the end of the second day. The round table panel consist of the invited speakers and will link the previous sessions and establish common grounds and discuss insights on the structure of Afrikaans and theoretical linguistics.
Call for Papers
The convenors welcome proposals for 20-minute presentations that discuss research on an aspect of the structure of the Afrikaans language, connecting it to general or theoretical linguistics, be it from a synchronic or diachronic perspective. After each 20-minute presentation, there will be 10 minutes allotted to questions and discussion.
Submissin deadline: 1 June 2021
