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<p>Dear Athapbasckan colleagues, <br>
</p>
<p>please note this forthcoming conference</p>
<p>Best --</p>
<p>Andrej Kibrik</p>
<p><br>
</p>
<p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;
font-family:"Times New
Roman";text-transform:uppercase;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">Language
contact in the circumpolar world</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Institute</span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New
Roman";
mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"> of Linguistics
RAS, Moscow, Russia; 27-29 October 2017</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;
font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Extended
deadline: August 31.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;
font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">The
circumpolar world
includes the Arctic as defined by AMAP (Arctic Monitoring and
Assessment Program)
with adjacent areas. This vast territory has a number of
common features that
set it apart from any other part of the world: extremely harsh
climate
conditions, low population density, large distances between
speakers of
different languages or even of the same language, seasonal
migrations for
hundreds of miles, prevalence of hunter-gatherers with
absolutely no
traditional farming, etc. While language contact has been a
popular topic of
linguistic research in the last couple of decades, there have
been few studies
that would concentrate on the circumpolar region and specifics
of language
contact in the area.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;
font-family:"Times New
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MS";
color:black;background:white;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">T</span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times
New Roman";
mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">he ‘Language contact in
the circumpolar world’
conference will bring </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-fareast-font-family:"Arial Unicode
MS";
color:black;background:white;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">together researchers
studying language contact in the North, and discussions of any
aspect of the
topic are welcome. Of particular importance is the question of
whether language
contact in the circumpolar world is different from that of
other areas, and if
so, in which particular respects.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;
font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-fareast-font-family:"Arial Unicode
MS";
color:black;background:white;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">The conference will
feature papers selected by the Organizing committee, invited
lectures by
leading international experts specializing in the topic, and
two extended
tutorials on particular parts of the circumpolar world,
‘Language Contact in
Arctic Canada & Greenland’ by Michael Fortesque
(University of Copenhagen)
and ‘Language Contact in Arctic Europe’ by Jussi Ylikoski (The
Arctic
University of Norway & University of Oulu).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;
font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-fareast-font-family:"Arial Unicode
MS";
color:black;background:white;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">We welcome abstracts from
colleagues working on a variety of topics pertaining to
language contact in the
circumpolar region that include but are not limited to:</span></p>
<p class="ListParagraphCxSpFirst"
style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times
New Roman";
color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"><span
style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times
New Roman""> </span></span></span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times
New Roman";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Arial Unicode
MS";color:black;background:white;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">language change
conditioned by language contact,</span></p>
<p class="ListParagraphCxSpMiddle"
style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times
New Roman";
color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"><span
style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times
New Roman""> </span></span></span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times
New Roman";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Arial Unicode
MS";color:black;background:white;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">mixed languages,</span></p>
<p class="ListParagraphCxSpMiddle"
style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times
New Roman";
color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"><span
style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times
New Roman""> </span></span></span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times
New Roman";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Arial Unicode
MS";color:black;background:white;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">linguistic areas or
Sprachbund’s,</span></p>
<p class="ListParagraphCxSpMiddle"
style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times
New Roman";
color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"><span
style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times
New Roman""> </span></span></span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times
New Roman";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Arial Unicode
MS";color:black;background:white;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">reconstructing the past
through linguistic data,</span></p>
<p class="ListParagraphCxSpMiddle"
style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times
New Roman";
color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"><span
style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times
New Roman""> </span></span></span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times
New Roman";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Arial Unicode
MS";color:black;background:white;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">patterns of traditional
or modern multilingualism,</span></p>
<p class="ListParagraphCxSpMiddle"
style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times
New Roman";
color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"><span
style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times
New Roman""> </span></span></span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times
New Roman";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Arial Unicode
MS";color:black;background:white;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">sociolinguistic details
of modern or historic language
contact,</span></p>
<p class="ListParagraphCxSpMiddle"
style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times
New Roman";
color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"><span
style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times
New Roman""> </span></span></span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times
New Roman";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Arial Unicode
MS";color:black;background:white;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">northern varieties of
larger languages that are not
restricted to the region (e.g. dialects of Russian, Swedish,
English, etc.),</span></p>
<p class="ListParagraphCxSpMiddle"
style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times
New Roman";
color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"><span
style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times
New Roman""> </span></span></span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times
New Roman";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Arial Unicode
MS";color:black;background:white;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">cartography of language
contact areas,</span></p>
<p class="ListParagraphCxSpLast"
style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times
New Roman";
color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"><span
style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times
New Roman""> </span></span></span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times
New Roman";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Arial Unicode
MS";color:black;background:white;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">methodology of language
contact studies which takes
into account specific features of the region.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;
font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-fareast-font-family:"Arial Unicode
MS";
color:black;background:white;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">The conference is
organized by a new research group on Language Contact in the
Circumpolar World
at the Institute of Linguistics RAS, supported by the
Russian Science Foundation, see </span><a
href="http://iling-ran.ru/main/departments/typol_compar/circumpolar/eng"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New
Roman";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Arial Unicode
MS";background:white;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US" lang="EN-US">http://iling-ran.ru/main/departments/typol_compar/circumpolar/eng</span></a><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New
Roman";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Arial Unicode
MS";color:black;background:white;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"> for more details.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-fareast-font-family:"Arial
Unicode MS";
color:black;background:white;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">Confirmed plenary
speakers:</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;
font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-fareast-font-family:"Arial Unicode
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color:black;background:white;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">Michael Fortescue
(University of Copenhagen)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-fareast-font-family:"Arial
Unicode MS";
color:black;background:white;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">Lenore Grenoble (University of Chicago)</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-fareast-font-family:"Arial
Unicode MS";
color:black;background:white;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">Brigitte Pakendorf (CNRS,
Lyon)</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;
font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-fareast-font-family:"Arial Unicode
MS";
color:black;background:white;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">Nikolai Vakhtin (European
University of St. Petersburg)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;
font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-fareast-font-family:"Arial Unicode
MS";
color:black;background:white;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">Jussi Ylikoski (The
Arctic University of Norway & University of Oulu)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;
font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-fareast-font-family:"Arial Unicode
MS";
color:black;background:white;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">Organizing committee:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;
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Roman";mso-fareast-font-family:"Arial Unicode
MS";
color:black;background:white;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">Olesya Khanina &
Andrej Kibrik (Chairs), </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Maria
Amelina, Mira Bergelson, Valentin Gusev, Olga Kazakevich,
Elena Klyachko, Yuri
Koryakov, and Natalia Stoynova.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;
font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-fareast-font-family:"Arial Unicode
MS";
color:black;background:white;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">The conference will be
held in English. Organizers will assist participants in
finding accommodation
in the vicinity of the conference location.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;
font-family:"Times New
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MS";
color:black;background:white;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">The extended deadline for
abstract submission is <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">August
31, 2017</b>.
Notifications of acceptance or non-acceptance will be sent via
email soon after
that date. Please submit an anonymous abstract of no more than
1 page (excluding
references) by email to</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"> </span><a
href="mailto:circumpolar.conference2017@gmail.com"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times
New Roman";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Arial Unicode
MS";background:white;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US" lang="EN-US">circumpolar.conference2017@gmail.com</span></a><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New
Roman";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Arial Unicode
MS";color:black;background:white;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">; include a title,
authors, and affiliations in your
email. </span></p>
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