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FourthConferenceonPrescriptivism<br />
Folowingthreehighlysuccesfulearlierconferences–She9eld(2003),Ragusa(2006)and<br />
Toronto(2009)–thenextConferenceonPrescriptivism ishostedin eNetherlandsby<br />
the<strong>Leiden</strong> UniversityCentreforLinguisticsin colaboration with the<strong>Leiden</strong> Institutefor<br />
AreaStudies,from 12to14June2013.<br />
e<strong>Leiden</strong>UniversityCentreforLinguistics(LUCL)engagesinteachingaswelasresearch<br />
in awidevarietyoflanguagesoftheworld,rangingfrom so-caled W estern languagestothe<br />
languagesofAfrica,Eurasiaand indigenousAm erica. e<strong>Leiden</strong> InstituteforAreaStudies<br />
(LIAS)representsm ultidisciplinaryapproachestothestudyofAsiaandtheM iddleEast.<br />
⇠eme<br />
Itisfrom thevariousresearch perspectivesem bodied in theseinstitutesthatweproposed<br />
thethem eoftheconference:PrescriptionandTraditioninLanguage.<br />
DiAerentlanguageshaveundergonediAerentstandardisationprocesesinthecourseof<br />
theirhistories.Forsom e,such asEnglish and Dutch,standard languagesdeveloped from<br />
theRenaisanceonwards,whileforotherlanguages,e.g.BasqueorIndonesian,standardisation<br />
wasinitiatedonlyrelativelyrecently.<br />
Whatevertheirdurationanddistribution,althesedevelopmentsreCectaperceivedneed<br />
forprescription,whichitselfderivesfrom linguistic,cultural,religious,ideological,political,<br />
educationalandothersources. esefactorso)enoccurincomplexcombinations;modern<br />
examplesaretheo9cialstatusofEnglishinCameroonandofM andarininTaiwan.<br />
Context<br />
isFourthConferenceonPrescriptivism isprecededbyapre-conferenceworkshop“Atitudesto<br />
prescriptivism”on 11June.Folowingtheconference,apublicsym posium entitled<br />
“W ieisdebaasoverdetaal?”(W homakestherulesinalanguage?)wilbeheldon15June.<br />
elatereventwilbemostlyinDutch.<br />
eorganisationofthisconferencehasbeensponsoredby<strong>Leiden</strong>UniversityFund(LUF),<br />
bythe<strong>Leiden</strong> UniversityCentreforLinguisticsand theNW O projectBridgingtheUnbridgeable.<br />
IngridTieken-BoonvanOstade<br />
TonvanHaa)en<br />
RikkaLänsisalmi<br />
MaartenMous<br />
JeroenW iedenhof<br />
<strong>Leiden</strong>,June2013
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