Newsletter 10 (Mai 2014) Eurolinguistics Newsletter No. 10 (Mai 2014) The Eurolinguistic Circle of Mannheim (ELAMA, e. V.) on behalf of The Eurolinguistic Association (ELA) Editorial Dear Eurolinguists, This tenth issue of the Newsletter contains three conference reports and three commemorative state- ments: First, we report on the Second ELA-Symposium 2013 in Zadar, Croatia, 23- 25 Sept., 2013, “Glotto- genesis and conflicts in Europe and beyond” which was held at the Italian Department of the University of Zadar, Croatia. Second, we report on “The Eurolinguistics conference - Focus on semantics and pragmatics“ held at Euro- päisches Haus, Pappen- heim, Bavaria, 5-7 April, 2013. Third, we also report on the Symposium at the Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, 7-8 March, 2013, “Paradigm change in histori- Fig. 1: View of St. Donatus’ Church (left) and St. Anastasias’s cal reconstruction: The Cathedral (right) on the Forum in Zadar Transeurasian languages and beyond”. Two of the events belong to such in the days of an ever the list of general activities shrinking number of Euro- Fourth, Commemoration: in 2013 mentioned above, linguistics centres of study whereas the Symposium in threatened by the financial Prof. Giuliano Gaetano Cas- Zadar was more in the focus crisis in the EU and ensuing torina, University of Roma of the ELA activities with its cut-backs at European „La Sapienza‟: 1938-2013. attention to 22 papers universities and research presented at the University funds for the advancement Prof. Stefan Pugh, White of Zadar. However, the of Euro-linguistic research University, USA: 1942-2013. inauguration of the new and other European Eurorpäisches Haus Pap- humanistic sub-jects. Prof. Gudrun Utterström, penheim (EHP) in Bavaria The third event also Universities of Stockholm, was a smaller event, but mentioned above was a Umeå and Turku/Åbo: 1928- nevertheless significant as symposium of a totally 2013. different character held at Eurolinguistic Association (ELA )…………………………………………………………………………………………1 Newsletter 10 (Mai 2014) the University of Mainz on “Paradigmatic change in Transeurasian and African languages”. …After the presentation of the three symposia, parts of our newsletter below will be dedicated to the remem- brance of three outstanding researchers in Contact Linguistics and Eurolinguis- tics, whose departure means a considerable loss for the whole new paradigm of Eurolinguistics thanks to their dedication to the European perspective in the study of linguistics. 1. OPENING OF THE ZADAR SYMPOSIUM Fig 2: Participants in front of the main entrance, Univ. of Zadar WELCOME GREETINGS tre Professore, Signore e Eurolinguistica con le sedi a Signori, cari ospiti buon Mannheim, Zagabria e In Italian by giorno e benvenuti all‟aper- Roma. Quest‟anno all‟orga- tura del “The Second ELA nizzazione ha partecipato Vice-Rector of the Univ. of Symposium: “Glottogenesis anche il Dipartimento d‟Itali- Zadar and Head of the and conflicts in Europe and anistica dell‟Università di Italian Dept.: beyond”, che si terrà all‟- Zara. Prof. Nedjelka Balić-Nižić Università di Zara dal 23 al and Prof. Lelija Sočanac, 25 settembre. È il secondo In English by perché per la seconda volta Univ. of Zagreb: st organizzato all‟Università di Prof. Sture Ureland, 1 Chiarissimo Pro Rettore, Zara, ma uno di tanti orga- Chairman of ELA(MA): Illustri Professoresse, Illus- nizzati dalle Associazioni Dear Friends of Eurolinguistics, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is a great honour and joy for me to greet you all welcome here to the Second ELA-Symposium to be held here at the University of Zadar. After many months of preparation and cooperation with Prof. Sočanac and her assistants, ENSE, the Euro- linguistic branch of ELA, has succeeded in organizing a meeting here again in this wonderful Great Hall over- looking the Zadar Archi- pelago with all its islands and impressive inlets. As was mentioned by Vice- Rector Balić-Nižić, we had the same opportunity and Fig 3: View of the sea promenade and the Univ. of Zadar in the rear Eurolinguistic Association (ELA )…………………………………………………………………………………………2 Newsletter 10 (Mai 2014) among a younger genera- tion which have recently been rewarded by the EU in Croatia‟s joining the Euro- pean Union as of July 1 this year (2013). Therefore, on behalf of Eurolinguistc As- sociation and my own personal experience of the open-mindedness and deep engagement in things scien- tific, it is with the greatest gratitude and satisfaction that we could return and experience all this joy and recognition. Fig. 4: Lecture at the Italian Dept. with Jens Lüdtke (speaker) Ljubica Kordić, Konstantin Krasukhin 2. TITLE OF THE ZADAR SYMPOSIUM joy, more than ten years geniality and friendship ago in 2002, to see and between ELAMA and the In planning the Zadar admire this archipelago for Universities of Zadar and Symposium on glotto- the first time. Zagreb. Here I also want to genesis, we, in the planning Some of the present express my special thanks committee, understood that participants assembled here to Prof. Lelija Sočanac and the title was much wider today were also speakers at her staff for inviting us again than we realized from the the 2002 symposium which to convene here and help us beginning. If we compare was dealing with “Contact to put Croatia on the the titles of the 23 papers Typology with special refe- Eurolinguistics map in pro- mentioned in the Table of rence to the languages moting Eurolinguistic re- Contents below of the Zadar around the Baltic and the search and studies the programme, we can see that Adriatic Seas”,the papers of latter may have been more articles on the rise and birth which have also been in terms of the two of European languages and published in our Studies in completed projects of the their dialects dominate, Eurolinguistics Series as European Commission be- whereas those dealing with Volume 1. So it is therefore tween 2002 - 2011, called language conflict are much with the same pleasure Tempus I and II. It is such fewer in number. Personally, again we come back eleven initiatives of research and I am not against such a pre- years later to revive the third-level ambitions in pro- ference since both glotto- good experience of con- moting deep knowledge genesis and ethnogenesis have always been a central topic in the science of language. However, conflict aspects is by no means in- significant in contact lin- guistics but it implies a different focus, the treatment of which we in the planning committee were willing to postpone to the later ELA- Round Table Conference, which our Russian friends and colleagues in Moscow will help us to cover (cf. below the Call-for-papers of the up-coming International Conference in Sept. this Fig. 5. Refreshment brake at the Adriatic Sea: Ludger Kremer, Ljubica year: “Language Polity and Kordić and Lelija Sočanac Eurolinguistic Association (ELA )…………………………………………………………………………………………3 Newsletter 10 (Mai 2014) Language Conflicts in the Contemporary World” to be organized by the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow in Sept. 2014. 3. INTRODUCTION TO THE SYMPOSIUM In preparing my Introduction on “Factors of glottogenesis” as announced in the pro- gramme and exemplified in Fig. 2, I have placed “Histo- rical-genealogical divergen- ce” as number 1, quite sim- ply because the historical- genealogical plus genetic dimensions will occupy us more in the next paper by Elisabeth Hamel and other papers as well, be-cause these papers describe a totally new approach to ethno- and glottogenesis in Europe before and after the Last Ice Age. Mrs Hamel will draw on the very important based research on the wide cially Homo Sapiens Sap- historical research since the spread of agriculture iens before and after the 1980s-90s and in particular (farming) from the Near-East Last Ice Age, ca. 40,000 the tripartite interdisciplinary into Europe proper, drawing years ago, we are presented combination of archaeology, on the recent findings of with a new and fascinating genetics and linguistics, Collin Renfrew (1987) and panorama of novel insights which constitute a novel others by including progress into ethno- and glottoge- approach to historical in genetic (DNA) research nesis. This threefold com- linguistics, and moreover, during the last two decades bination of archaeology, she will continue her since the 1990s. By dis- genetics and linguistics has interdisciplinary approach cussing the settlement of given rise to new methods in tomorrow with a discussion Europe by humans – Homo the treatment of fossile on the archaeologically Neanderthaliensis and espe- remains of humans, espe- cially in the new field of research on the genetic code (DNA) and the structure of the mitochon- drian entities in the female cells throughout human history since the exitus out of Africa more than 40,000 years ago. The better means of timing and the geography of the immi- gration waves criss-crossing Europe and Asia from Africa into Europe from the south- east and east constitutes the uniquely new perspective after the success of the DNA breakthrough in archaeo- logical and palaeohistorical Fig. 6: Boat-excursion (from right): Oxana, Polina, John, Konstantin, Aisa research, which has given Eurolinguistic Association (ELA )…………………………………………………………………………………………4 Newsletter 10 (Mai 2014) us new concrete and scientific instruments for measuring time and geography of human migrations, i.e. by describing genetically the sequence of human generations through- out tens of thousands of years before and after the Last Ice Age, since Homo Neanderthaliensis and Homo Sapiens Sapiens began to settle the Euro- pean continent. 4. Lecture by Prof. S. Ureland given at the inauguration of Euro- päisches Haus Pap- penheim (EHP) on April 6, 2013 Ladies and gentlemen, As Chairman of ELA(MA) I Fig. 7: Europäisches Haus Pappenheim (EHP) have been asked to discuss the background which led to linguistics here in Pappen- heim (EHP) together with the foundation of the two heim.