Second International Conference on Comparative Historical Graphemics (Note Date Confusion)

CALL FOR PAPERS





LautSchriftSprache




Second International Conference on Comparative Historical Graphemics

Zweite internationale Tagung zur vergleichenden historischen Graphematik




The (Dis)ambiguity of the Grapheme


Das Graphem zwischen Eindeutigkeit und Doppeldeutigkeit




Munich University (LMU)



9 – 11 September 2010



Organizers: Hans Sauer and Gaby Waxenberger





While the first conference in Zurich in 2008 gave an overall introduction to
the wide field of historical graphemics, we wish to focus on the grapheme
including both positional and free allographs and their relationships
regarding phonemes and allophones.



We therefore welcome contributions relating to the historical stages of the
European languages and writing systems, with regard to the following
questions:



1. Depiction of sounds by characters: is it always the 'perfect fit' (one
grapheme = one phoneme)?



2. Ways of reflecting language change by graphemes and allographs: Reduction
or extension of the characters in the system.



3. New characters - obsolete characters: Necessity of creating new
characters for the system or reactivating old ones?



Please send your abstract by 15 December October 2009 to:

Gaby Waxenberger

Munich University (LMU)

Department für Anglistik und Amerikanistik

Schellingstr. 3/RG

80799 Munich, Germany

Or by email to: soundandscript@googlemail.com


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Dear Stacy,
I hope you are fine and everything is going well. I was just wondering if you sent out our Call for Papers. Attached please find the thing again.
Hans and myself would be very grateful to you if you could send it around.
Many thanks in advance
Cheers,
Gaby

CALL FOR PAPERS

LautSchriftSprache



Second International Conference on Comparative Historical Graphemics

Zweite internationale Tagung zur vergleichenden historischen Graphematik


The (Dis)ambiguity of the Grapheme
Das Graphem zwischen Eindeutigkeit und Doppeldeutigkeit



Munich University (LMU)



9 – 11 September 2010



Organizers: Hans Sauer and Gaby Waxenberger





While the first conference in Zurich in 2008 gave an overall introduction to the wide field of historical graphemics, we wish to focus on the grapheme including both positional and free allographs and their relationships regarding phonemes and allophones.



We therefore welcome contributions relating to the historical stages of the European languages and writing systems, with regard to the following questions:



1. Depiction of sounds by characters: is it always the 'perfect fit' (one grapheme = one phoneme)?



2. Ways of reflecting language change by graphemes and allographs: Reduction or extension of the characters in the system.



3. New characters - obsolete characters: Necessity of creating new characters for the system or reactivating old ones?



Please send your abstract by15 December October 2009to:

Gaby Waxenberger

Munich University (LMU)

Department für Anglistik und Amerikanistik

Schellingstr. 3/RG

80799 Munich, Germany

Or by email to: soundandscript@googlemail.com