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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-align:left"><b><span style="font-size:28pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif" lang="EN-GB">Language Contact and Language Change in
Western Asia</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-align:left"><span class="gmail-m_-5451403260319437340gmail-aqj"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif">10<sup>th</sup>
to 12<sup>th</sup> March 2017</span></span><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-align:left"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif">Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-align:left"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif">CALL FOR PAPERS</span></b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-align:left"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif">15<sup>th</sup>
December 2016 for abstract submission</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-align:left"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif">Submissions</span></b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif"></span></p>
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open to anyone but we especially welcome: </span></p>
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</span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif">Postgraduate students (MA, MPhil, MSt, etc.);</span></p>
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stage of their degree.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-align:left"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif">We invite submissions of preliminary abstracts (max. 1 page,
excluding references) for 20 minute presentations. Please send your abstracts through
</span><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lclcwa2017" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif">https://easychair.org/<wbr>conferences/?conf=lclcwa2017</span></a><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif"> by </span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif">15<sup>th</sup> December 2016</span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif">.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-align:left"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif">Important dates:</span></b></p>
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December 2016 </span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif">— Call deadline (submission of abstracts)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-align:left"><span class="gmail-m_-5451403260319437340gmail-aqj"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif">10<sup>th</sup>
January 2017</span></span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif"> — Notification of acceptance </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-align:left"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif">Conference description:</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-align:left"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif">The conference “Language Contact and Language Change in Western
Asia” focuses on multilingualism in Western Asia. Within Western Asia, we aim
at focusing the Kurdish-populated areas in the regions of Iran, Iraq, Syria,
Turkey and the neighboring countries Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia. In this area,
several Indo-European varieties are spoken, including Armenian, Kurdish
varieties, and Persian. A number of non-Indo-European languages are spoken as
well, such as Azeri Turkic, Neo-Aramaic, and Turkish. Finally Georgian and
other Caucasian languages are also spoken in the region. Most of the
above-mentioned languages exhibit a suprastratum of Semitic, Iranian and Turkic
languages due to their close contact for centuries.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-align:left"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif">The conference explores the use of corpus methods in descriptive
and theoretical analysis of word order change of natural languages in a
multilingual area like Western Asia. Focal areas of interest include, but are
not limited to language contact and language change in word order, information
structure, and prosody. Furthermore, we are interested in theoretical and
methodological issues pertaining to corpus-oriented research in language
contact, i.e. tools, methods, and techniques in corpus assembly,
annotation and analysis, the interaction between corpus linguistics
and computational linguistics, the relevance of corpus linguistics and
linguistic theory, the use of statistical and quantitative methods in detecting
patterns of language change, as well as the impact of corpus-based
vs. corpus-driven approaches on our view and understanding of
morphosyntatic change in languages. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-align:left"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif">Invited speakers:</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-align:left"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif">Prof. Dr. Anaid Donabedian (Labex EFL, Inalco, SeDyL, Paris, France)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:left"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"times new roman",serif">Prof. Dr. Geoffrey Khan (University of Cambridge, UK)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:left"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"times new roman",serif">Prof. Dr. Jost Gippert (Goethe University of Frankfurt, Germany)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:left"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"times new roman",serif">Prof. Dr. Martin Haspelmath (</span><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"times new roman",serif">MPI-SHH Jena &
Leipzig University, Germany</span><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"times new roman",serif">)</span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"times new roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:left"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"times new roman",serif">Prof. Dr. Michael Chyet (Library of Congress, Washington D.C., US)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:left"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"times new roman",serif">Prof. Dr. Yaron Matras (Manchester University, UK)</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:left"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"times new roman",serif">Scientific committee:</span></b></p>
<div style="text-align:left"><pre><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif" lang="DE">PD Dr. Agnes Korn (CNRS, UMR Mondes iranien et indien, Paris, France)</span></pre></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:left"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"times new roman",serif">Prof. Dr. Eleanor Coghill (Uppsala University, Sweden)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:left"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"times new roman",serif">Prof. Dr. Geoffrey Haig (Bamberg University, Germany)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:left"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"times new roman",serif">PD Dr. Irina Nevskaya (Goethe University of Frankfurt, Germany)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:left"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"times new roman",serif">Dr. Mojtaba Monshizadeh (Allameh Tabataba’i University, Iran)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:left"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"times new roman",serif">Dr. Thomas J</span><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"times new roman",serif">ü</span><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"times new roman",serif">gel (Labex EFL, Inalco,</span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"times new roman",serif"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span> </span><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"times new roman",serif">Paris, France)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:left"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"times new roman",serif">Dr. Zahra Abolhassani Chimeh (Research Center, SAMT, Iran)</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:left"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"times new roman",serif">Regular updates will be announced on: </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:left"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"times new roman",serif" lang="EN-GB"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Humanities-and-Linguistics-Cross-Disciplinary-Approaches-1668887300067775/" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/<wbr>Humanities-and-Linguistics-<wbr>Cross-Disciplinary-Approaches-<wbr>1668887300067775/</a></span><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"times new roman",serif"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:left"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"times new roman",serif"><a href="https://kurdishstudiesnetwork.net/2016/11/06/call-for-papers-language-contact-and-language-change-in-western-asia/" target="_blank">https://kurdishstudiesnetwork.<wbr>net/2016/11/06/call-for-<wbr>papers-language-contact-and-<wbr>language-change-in-western-<wbr>asia/</a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:left"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"times new roman",serif">Conference fee</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:left"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"times new roman",serif">The conference fees listed below are in Euros</span></p>
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pack (including the main conference, three days of tutorials and workshops,
refreshments, conference dinner on Friday)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left"><span class="gmail-m_-5451403260319437340gmail-5yl5"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"times new roman",serif">Frankfurt-based student: 35</span></b></span></p>
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55</span></b></p>
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80</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"times new roman",serif">Main
conference only</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left"><span class="gmail-m_-5451403260319437340gmail-5yl5"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"times new roman",serif">Frankfurt-based student: 12</span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"times new roman",serif">Student:
35</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"times new roman",serif">Regular:
65</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:left"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"times new roman",serif">SPONSORS</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:left"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"times new roman",serif">We gratefully acknowledge the continued support of our principal
sponsors </span><a href="http://www.uni-frankfurt.de/51934152/100_landingpage?legacy_request=1" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"times new roman",serif">GRADE</span></a><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"times new roman",serif"> and the Department
of Comparative Linguistics at the University of Frankfurt.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:left"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"times new roman",serif">More information will be announced in December 2016. We are looking
forward to hosting you in Frankfurt.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:left"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"times new roman",serif">Your Organization Committee</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:left"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"times new roman",serif">Hiwa Asadpour (Founding Chair) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:left"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"times new roman",serif" lang="DE">Peter Reimer,
Daniel Krau</span><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"times new roman",serif" lang="DE">ße</span><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"times new roman",serif" lang="DE"> (Coordinators)</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-align:left"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif">Inquiries and contact: <a href="mailto:LCLCWAConference@gmail.com" target="_blank">LCLCWAConference@gmail.com</a></span></p>
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