28.2420, Calls: Anth Ling, Gen Ling, Lang Documentation, Sociolinguistics, Typology/Russia

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Subject: 28.2420, Calls: Anth Ling, Gen Ling, Lang Documentation, Sociolinguistics, Typology/Russia

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Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2017 11:16:34
From: Olesya Khanina [olesya.khanina at gmail.com]
Subject: Language Contact in the Circumpolar World

 
Full Title: Language Contact in the Circumpolar World 

Date: 27-Oct-2017 - 29-Oct-2017
Location: Moscow, Russia 
Contact Person: Olesya Khanina
Meeting Email: olesya.khanina at gmail.com

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; General Linguistics; Language Documentation; Sociolinguistics; Typology 

Call Deadline: 01-Aug-2017 

Meeting Description:

The circumpolar world includes the Arctic as defined by AMAP (Arctic
Monitoring and Assessment Program) with reasonable 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.

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 is 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.

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).

The conference is organized by a new research group on Language Contact in the
Circumpolar World at the Institute of Linguistics, supported by the Russian
Science Foundation, see
http://iling-ran.ru/main/departments/typol_compar/circumpolar/eng for more
details.

Confirmed plenary speakers:
Michael Fortescue (University of Copenhagen)
Lenore Grenoble (University of Chicago)
Brigitte Pakendorf (CNRS, Lyon)
Nikolai Vakhtin (European University of St. Petersburg)
Jussi Ylikoski (The Arctic University of Norway & University of Oulu)

Organizing committee:
Olesya Khanina & Andrej Kibrik (Chairs), Maria Amelina, Mira Bergelson,
Valentin Gusev, Olga Kazakevich, Elena Klyachko, Yuri Koryakov, and Natalia
Stoynova.

The conference will be held in English; some English-medium cultural program
will be organized on October 26.


Call for Papers:

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:
- language change conditioned by language contact,
- mixed languages,
- linguistic areas or Sprachbund’s,
- reconstructing the past through linguistic data,
- patterns of traditional or modern multilingualism,
- sociolinguistic details of modern or historic language contact,
- northern varieties of larger languages that are not restricted to the region
(e.g. dialects of Russian, Swedish, English, etc.),
- cartography of language contact areas,
- methodology of language contact studies which takes into account specific
features of the region.

The deadline for abstract submission is August 01, 2017. Notifications of
acceptance or non-acceptance will be sent via email by August 20, 2017. Please
submit an anonymous abstract of no more than 1 page (excluding references) by
email to circumpolar.conference2017 at gmail.com. Please include a title,
authors, and affiliations in your email.




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