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<p>Dear colleagues, please note this conference announcement.</p>
<p>Andrej Kibrik<br>
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Date: ср, 1 мая 2019 г. в 13:51<br>
Subject: CfP: 2nd conference on Language contact in the
circumpolar world<br>
To: <<a href="mailto:URA-LIST@helsinki.fi"
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<div dir="ltr">Dear colleagues, may I draw your attention to
the 2nd conference on Language contact in the circumpolar
world with a special session on Typology of linguistic
areas (Institute of Linguistics RAS, Moscow, Russia; 25-27
October 2019).
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href="http://circumpolar.iling-ran.ru/seminars_conferences/conference_october2019/"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">http://circumpolar.iling-ran.ru/seminars_conferences/conference_october2019/</a><br>
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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.<br>
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The ‘Language contact in the circumpolar world’
conference will bring 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.<br>
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This is the second conference in this series, the first
having taken place at the Institute of Linguistics in
Moscow in October 2017 (see <a
href="http://iling-ran.ru/main/conferences/2017_circumpolar"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">http://iling-ran.ru/main/conferences/2017_circumpolar</a>
for more details). The first conference collected
several dozens of researchers working on a variety of
topics, including linguistic history/prehistory in the
north and the methods used to reconstruct it, structural
phenomena in specific languages influenced by contact,
language varieties formed by intense contacts (pidgins,
argots, non-standard varieties of Russian, etc.), areal
linguistics, sociolinguistic aspects of language contact
and case studies of specific language ecologies,
language shift and language attrition, etc. The exchange
of ideas showed so fruitful that we have decided to make
this conference regular, with bi-annual meetings.<br>
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Apart from the general session devoted exclusively to
the North, this 2nd conference will feature a special
session ‘Typology of linguistic areas’ whose aim is to
discuss possible methodologies and successful attempts
to generalize over linguistic areas in any part of the
world. How can different linguistic areas be compared,
in general and as regards peculiarities of the language
contact? What are the ways of describing linguistic
areas that would facilitate their subsequent comparison?
How can language contact in one area, e.g. in the
Arctic, be contrasted to language contact in other parts
of the world? These are examples of the issues we would
like to discuss at this special session.<br>
<br>
We welcome abstracts both for this special session or
for the general session. For the general session we
invite abstracts on any topic pertaining to language
contact in the circumpolar region, including but not
limited to:<br>
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- language change conditioned by language contact,<br>
- mixed languages,<br>
- linguistic areas or Sprachbund’s,<br>
- reconstructing the past through linguistic data,<br>
- patterns of traditional or modern
multilingualism,<br>
- sociolinguistic details of modern or historic
language contact,<br>
- northern varieties of larger languages that are
not restricted to the region (e.g. dialects of Russian,
Swedish, English, etc.),<br>
- cartography of language contact areas,<br>
- methodology of language contact studies which
takes into account specific features of the region.<br>
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The deadline for abstract submission is June 1, 2019.
Notifications of acceptance or non-acceptance will be
sent via email by the end of June. Please submit an
anonymous abstract of no more than 1 page (excluding
references) by email to <a
href="mailto:circumpolar.conference@iling-ran.ru"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">circumpolar.conference@iling-ran.ru</a>;
include a title, authors, and affiliations in your
email; indicate whether your abstract is intended for
the general session or the special session ‘Typology of
linguistic areas’.<br>
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The conference is organized by a research group on
Language Contact in the Circumpolar World at the
Institute of Linguistics, see <a
href="http://circumpolar.iling-ran.ru" target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true">http://circumpolar.iling-ran.ru</a>
for more details.<br>
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Confirmed plenary speakers:<br>
· Janne Saarikivi (Helsinki, Findland) ‘Linguistic
substrate and the linguistic history of the Arctic’<br>
· Elena Berezovich (Ekaterinburg, Russia)
‘Russian-Germanic language contacts at the White Sea:
the new field data’<br>
· Hein van der Voort (Belém, Brazil) ‘Contexts of
language contact: Amazonia and Arctic compared’<br>
· Beata Wagner-Nagy & Alexandre Arkhipov
(Hamburg, Germany), tba<br>
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Organizing committee:<br>
Olesya Khanina & Andrej Kibrik (Chairs), Maria
Amelina, Mira Bergelson, Valentin Gusev, Maria Egorova,
Olga Kazakevich, Elena Klyachko, Yuri Koryakov, Daria
Mordashova, Marina Raskladkina, Maria Sidorova, Natalia
Stoynova, and Irina Khomchenkova<br>
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The working language of the conference is English;
papers may also be presented in Russian with English
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<div>With best regards,</div>
<div>Olesya</div>
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Olesya Khanina<br>
Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies &
Institute of Linguistics RAS<br>
<a href="http://iling-ran.ru/main/scholars/khanina"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">http://iling-ran.ru/main/scholars/khanina</a><br>
<a href="http://circumpolar.iling-ran.ru/"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">http://circumpolar.iling-ran.ru/</a><br>
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This year I am co-organising the following
conferences:<br>
'Linguistic forum' - Moscow, 4-6 April 2019: <a
href="http://iling-ran.ru/main/conferences/2019_indigenous"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">http://iling-ran.ru/main/conferences/2019_indigenous</a><br>
'Typology of small-scale multilingualism' - Lyon,
15-17 April 2019: <a
href="https://ilcl.hse.ru/smallscale/"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://ilcl.hse.ru/smallscale/</a><br>
'Down by the water' - Helsinki, 6-8 November 2019: <a
href="https://blogs.helsinki.fi/downbythewater/"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://blogs.helsinki.fi/downbythewater/</a><br>
'Language contact in the circumpolar world' - Moscow,
25-27 October 2019: <a
href="http://circumpolar.iling-ran.ru/seminars_conferences/conference_october2019/"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">http://circumpolar.iling-ran.ru/seminars_conferences/conference_october2019/</a></font></div>
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