LSA Satellite Workshop: Foundations of Historical Linguistics

虽然历史语言学是一门成熟的学科（事实上，它是语言学中最古老的专业之一），但随着大规模数据集和高性能计算资源的可用性的增加，历时性作为理解人类语言的关键的重要性得到了加强。历史语言学的基础是一个研讨会，将与美国语言学会（LSA）2013年年会一起举行。它将汇集一批在语言变化研究的一系列领域具有专门知识的国际学者，并将在允许介绍和讨论前沿研究的环境中这样做。在研讨会上的演讲，形成了即将出版的《历史语言学手册》的基础，将包括历史语言学领域的现状，支持当前工作的方法，语言变化的模型，以及历史语言学对语言学和其他学科的其他子领域的重要性。研讨会的重点是综合关于共时性和历时性的工作，并汇集了与语言变化有关的工作的各个方面。最近的技术进步（如大规模的信息语音以前未描述的语言）沿着更大的可用性，在基本的语言材料，导致了最近的工作在历史语言学爆炸。然而，随着工作的激增，方法也变得支离破碎。因此，研讨会的目的是让历史语言学不同领域的专家报告最先进的研究。因此，通过出版《手册》和利用参加当地语言协会年会的机会，语言界将更容易获得他们的研究结果。

While historical linguistics is a well-established discipline (indeed, one of the oldest specializations within linguistics), the importance of diachrony as a key to understanding human language has been reinforced by the rise in availability of large-scale datasets and high-performance computational resources. Foundations of Historical Linguistics is a workshop that will be held in conjunction with the 2013 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA). It will bring together an international group of scholars with expertise in a range of fields that relate to the study of language change, and will do so in a setting that allows for presentation and discussion of cutting-edge research. Presentations at the workshop, which form the basis of the forthcoming Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics, will encompass the state of the field of historical linguistics, the methods which underpin current work, models of language change, and the importance of historical linguistics for other subfields of linguistics and other disciplines. The workshop focuses on the synthesis of work on synchrony and diachrony and brings together diverse aspects of work that relate to language change. Recent technological advances (such as wide-scale information on phonetics of previously undescribed languages) along with greater availability in basic language materials, has led to an explosion in recent work in historical linguistics. However, with this proliferation in work has come fragmentation in approaches. The workshop therefore aims to allow specialists in diverse areas of historical linguistics to report on state of the art research. Their findings will be therefore more easily available to the linguistic community, both through the publication of the Handbook and by the opportunities afforded by participation in the LSA's Annual Meeting.