29.1774, Calls: Russian, Gen Ling, Lang Doc, Socioling, Text/Corpus Ling, Typology/Russia

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LINGUIST List: Vol-29-1774. Tue Apr 24 2018. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 29.1774, Calls: Russian, Gen Ling, Lang Doc, Socioling, Text/Corpus Ling, Typology/Russia

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Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2018 17:04:29
From: Egor Kashkin [ruslangcontact at gmail.com]
Subject: Indigenous Languages in Contact with Russian: Morphosyntactic and Semantic Interference

Full Title: Indigenous Languages in Contact with Russian: Morphosyntactic and Semantic Interference 

Date: 30-Nov-2018 - 01-Dec-2018
Location: Moscow, Russia 
Contact Person: Egor Kashkin
Meeting Email: ruslangcontact at gmail.com
Web Site: http://ruslangcontact.tilda.ws/en 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Language Documentation; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics; Typology 

Subject Language(s): Russian (rus)

Call Deadline: 01-Sep-2018 

Meeting Description:

 The conference «Indigenous languages in contact with Russian: morphosyntactic
and semantic interference» will be held at Vinogradov Institute for Russian
Language (RAS), Moscow on 30 November – 1 December 2018.

The main conference topics are as follows:

1). Borrowing of grammatical and lexical patterns from Russian into indigenous
languages of Russia
2). Radical changes in the grammar of indigenous languages under condition of
language shift to Russian
3). Contact-induced features in the Russian speech of bilinguals, native
speakers of indigenous languages
4). Code-switching and code-mixing
5). Grammar of Russian pidgins

Invited speakers:

Nina Dobrushina (Doctor of Science in Philology, Head of Linguistic
Convergence Laboratory, NRU HSE, Moscow),
Evgeniy Golovko (Doctor of Science in Philology, corresponding member of
Russian Academy of Sciences, Director, Head of the Department of the National
languages of Russia, Institute for Linguistic Studies RAS, St. Petersburg).

Call for Papers:

Main conference topics:

- Borrowing of grammatical and lexical patterns from Russian into indigenous
languages of Russia
- Radical changes in the grammar of indigenous languages under condition of
language shift to Russian
- Contact-induced features in the Russian speech of bilinguals, native
speakers of indigenous languages
- Code-switching and code-mixing
- Grammar of Russian pidgins

Topics which will not be discussed at the conference: sociological aspects of
language contact without any linguistic issues; non-standard varieties of
Russian outside Russia or the former USSR (including heritage Russian and
Russian as a foreign language); methods of correcting interference when
teaching Russian; dialectal and regional features of Russian for which there
is no reasonable evidence for contact-induced origin; matter borrowing and
problems of etymology.

We invite participants working on languages spoken in Russia, experts in the
Russian language and/or in sociolinguistics. Talks based on new field data are
particularly welcome, as well as corpus-based studies.

The conference programme will include two plenary presentations and oral
presentations by other conference participants (20 minutes + 10 minutes for
discussion). The working languages are Russian and English.

The deadline for abstract submission is 1 September 2018. Please, send your
anonymous abstracts to the e-mail address ruslangcontact at gmail.com.

Please, provide the following information in the body of the e-mail:

-  title of your abstract
- the authors' first and last names, and affiliations
- your e-mail address and phone number

Requirements for abstracts:

1 page A4 (Times New Roman, 12 pt, single-spaced) + 1 additional page possible
including examples, tables, figures, references, list of abbreviations.
Language: Russian or English.

Notification of acceptance will be sent out no later than 8 October 2018.

Organizing fee: 500 rubles (ca. 7 euros).

A volume of proceedings is planned to be published after the conference, all
participants will be invited to submit their papers.

Important dates:

30 November – 1 December 2018: conference (Vinogradov Institute for Russian
Language (RAS), Moscow).
1 September 2018: submission deadline.
8 October 2018: notification of acceptance.

The conference is organized by the working group on contact interaction of
Russian with the indigenous languages of Russia (Vinogradov Institute for
Russian Language (RAS), Department of corpus linguistics and linguistic
poetics) together with the working group on language contact in the
Circumpolar region (Institute of Linguistics (RAS), Department of typology and
areal linguistics)

Organizing committee:

Egor Kashkin (RLI RAS)
Olesya Khanina (IL RAS)
Irina Khomchenkova (MSU, IL RAS)
Alexander Letuchiy (HSE, RLI RAS)
Polina Pleshak (MSU, IL RAS)
Vladimir Plungian (RLI RAS, IL RAS, MSU)
Maria Sidorova (MSU)
Natalya Stoynova (RLI RAS, IL RAS)

Our contacts:
e-mail: ruslangcontact at gmail.com
conference website: http://ruslangcontact.tilda.ws/en

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