<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="text-align:justify;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Dear colleagues, <br></span><br></font></div><div dir="ltr">Please find below the second call for papers for the conference “<a href="https://sites.google.com/view/lcu2025/home?authuser=0" target="_blank">Areal linguistics and language contact of Uralic languages. Language-specific and typological approaches</a>”, to be held on <b>June 12–14, 2025</b> in Riga, Latvia.</div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Invited speakers:</span><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif"> <a href="https://ut.ee/en/employee/gerson-stefan-klumpp" target="_blank">Gerson Klumpp</a> </b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">(University of Tartu),</span><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif"> <a href="https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/kaius-sinnem%C3%A4ki" target="_blank">Kaius Sinnemäki</a> </b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">(University of Helsinki).</span><br><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:normal;text-align:justify"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);text-align:center"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></span></p><font face="arial, sans-serif">The goal of this conference is to combine language-specific, qualitative and typological, quantitative approaches to areal linguistics and language contact with the focus on Uralic languages and their contact languages. <font style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">We encourage submissions addressing (but not limited to) the following topics:</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><ul><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">typological approaches to language contact and areal linguistics of Uralic</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">corpus-based studies of specific contact phenomena between Uralic and non-Uralic languages<br></span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">at the same time, we are very much interested in qualitative research on important topics in language contact including but not limited to contact-induced grammaticalization and disentangling common inheritance from parallel and contact-induced developments within Uralic</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px">the sociolinguistic dimensions of language contact in Uralic</li><li style="margin-left:15px">interdisciplinary approaches to understanding language contacts of Uralic languages</li></ul><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Anonymized abstracts in PDF format should be submitted to the conference email at </span><u style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><a href="mailto:uralic.in.contact@gmail.com" target="_blank">uralic.in.contact@gmail.com</a></u><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"> by </span><b style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font color="#ff0000">December 1, 2024.</font></b><br></div></font></font></div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Abstracts must be written in English and should not exceed one page (using 11pt font), excluding references and figures. One person may submit up to two abstracts: one as a single author or co-author, and another one as a co-author. Note that a</font>ffiliations with Russian institutions and references to Russian grants cannot be acknowledged.<font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font><br><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Organizers: Aigul Zakirova (University of Potsdam), Gunta Kļava (Institute of Livonian language), Valts Ernštreits (Institute of Livonian language), Ilja A. Seržant (University of Potsdam).</font><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">URL: <a href="https://sites.google.com/view/lcu2025/home?authuser=0" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/view/lcu2025/home?authuser=0</a> <br><br>Best regards,<br>Aigul Zakirova</font></div></div></div>
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