28.4189, Calls: Gen Ling, Historical Ling, Ling & Lit, Socioling/Italy

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Subject: 28.4189, Calls: Gen Ling, Historical Ling, Ling & Lit, Socioling/Italy

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Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2017 14:19:54
From: Daniele Artoni [daniele.artoni at univr.it]
Subject: Linguistic and Literary Studies on the Caucasus

 
Full Title: Linguistic and Literary Studies on the Caucasus 

Date: 25-May-2018 - 25-May-2018
Location: Verona, Italy 
Contact Person: Daniele Artoni
Meeting Email: linglett.caucaso at gmail.com

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Ling & Literature; Sociolinguistics 

Language Family(ies): Armenian; Armenian-Romani; Daghestanian; East Caucasian; Kartvelian; Northwest Caucasian; Turkic 

Call Deadline: 20-Nov-2017 

Meeting Description:

On Friday 25th May 2018, the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
and the PhD Programme in Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics at
the University of Verona will host the inaugural “Linguistic and Literary
Studies on the Caucasus” study day. This study day aims to connect scholars
interested in the Caucasus from a linguistic and/or literary perspectives.

Two separate sessions will be dedicated to Linguistics and Literary Studies
respectively.


Call for Papers:

We invite to submissions on the Caucasus in either Linguistics and/or Literary
Studies as oral papers or posters, with the latter being the preferred
modality.

In particular, we encourage to submit papers linked to the following topics:

Linguistics:
- Caucasian languages and languages spoken in the Caucasus, diachronic and
synchronic aspects
- Sociolinguistic issues
- Studies on the lexicon and contact phenomena
- Formal approaches to Caucasian languages

Literature:
- Literary traditions in the Caucasus
- Texts written in the Caucasus
- Travel literature in the Caucasus
- The Caucasus in other literatures, especially Russian and Persian
literatures
- Contemporary literature in the Caucasus

English and Italian will be the working languages of the study day.

Candidates are requested to send an e-mail to linglett.caucaso at gmail.com, with
the following information: name, surname, affiliation, current position, title
of the paper,
preferred modality (oral paper or poster). The abstract with the word limit of
300 words is to be attached as a separate pdf file.

Deadline for abstract submission: 20 November 2017.




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