<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear colleagues,<br><br></div>I am sharing the call for paper on language contact and language change in Western Asia. The full announcement is attached to this email.<br><br>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><font size="4"><b><span style="font-family:"times new roman","serif"" lang="EN-GB">Language Contact and Language Change in
Western Asia</span></b></font></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><font size="2"><span class="gmail-aqj"><span style="font-family:"times new roman","serif"">10^th
to 12^th March 2017</span></span><span style="font-family:"times new roman","serif""></span></font></p><font size="2">

</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:"times new roman","serif"">Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany</span></font></p><font size="2">

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</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><font size="2"><b><span style="font-family:"times new roman","serif"">CALL FOR PAPERS</span></b><span style="font-family:"times new roman","serif""></span></font></p><font size="2">

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</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><font size="2"><b><span style="font-family:"times new roman","serif"">Call deadline</span></b></font></p><font size="2">

</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:"times new roman","serif"">15^th
December 2016 for abstract submission</span></font></p><font size="2">

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</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><font size="2"><b><span style="font-family:"times new roman","serif"">Submissions</span></b><span style="font-family:"times new roman","serif""></span></font></p><font size="2">

</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:"times new roman","serif"">Proposals are
open to anyone but we especially welcome: </span></font></p><font size="2">

</font><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:"times new roman","serif""><span>1.<span style="font-family:"times new roman";font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-synthesis:weight style;font-variant:normal">    
</span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family:"times new roman","serif"">Postgraduate students (MA, MPhil, MSt, etc.);</span></font></p><font size="2">

</font><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:"times new roman","serif""><span>2.<span style="font-family:"times new roman";font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-synthesis:weight style;font-variant:normal">    
</span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family:"times new roman","serif"">PhD students/candidates and post-docs at any
stage of their degree.</span></font></p><font size="2">

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</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><font size="2"><span style="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"><span style="font-family:"times new roman","serif"">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lclcwa2017</span></a><span style="font-family:"times new roman","serif""> by </span><span style="font-family:"times new roman","serif"">15^th December 2016</span><span style="font-family:"times new roman","serif"">.</span></font></p><font size="2">

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</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><font size="2"><b><span style="font-family:"times new roman","serif"">Important dates:</span></b></font></p><font size="2">

</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:"times new roman","serif"">15^th
December 2016 </span><span style="font-family:"times new roman","serif"">— Call deadline (submission of abstracts)</span></font></p><font size="2">

</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><font size="2"><span class="gmail-aqj"><span style="font-family:"times new roman","serif"">10^th
January 2017</span></span><span style="font-family:"times new roman","serif""> — Notification of acceptance </span></font></p><font size="2">

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</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><font size="2"><b><span style="font-family:"times new roman","serif"">Conference description:</span></b></font></p><font size="2">

</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><font size="2"><span style="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></font></p><font size="2">

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</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><font size="2"><span style="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></font></p><font size="2">

</font><br><div><br><br><div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><br></div><span style="color:rgb(103,78,167)"><b>Best Regards<br></b></span></div><span style="color:rgb(103,78,167)"><b>Hiwa</b></span><br></div></div></div>
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