30.1932, Calls: Historical Linguistics, Sociolinguistics/Russia

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Subject: 30.1932, Calls: Historical Linguistics, Sociolinguistics/Russia

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Date: Mon, 06 May 2019 23:53:49
From: Valentin Gusev [vgoussev at yandex.ru]
Subject: 2nd Conference on Language Contact in the Circumpolar World

Full Title: 2nd Conference on Language Contact in the Circumpolar World 

Date: 25-Oct-2019 - 27-Oct-2019
Location: Moscow, Russia 
Contact Person: Olesya Khanina
Meeting Email: circumpolar.conference at iling-ran.ru
Web Site: http://circumpolar.iling-ran.ru/seminars_conferences/conference_october2019/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 01-Jun-2019 

Meeting Description:

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

This is the second conference in this series, the first having taken place at
the Institute of Linguistics in Moscow in October 2017 (see
http://iling-ran.ru/main/conferences/2017_circumpolar for more details). The
first conference collected several dozens of researchers working on a variety
of topics, including linguistic history/prehistory in the north and the
methods used to reconstruct it, structural phenomena in specific languages
influenced by contact, language varieties formed by intense contacts (pidgins,
argots, non-standard varieties of Russian, etc.), areal linguistics,
sociolinguistic aspects of language contact and case studies of specific
language ecologies, language shift and language attrition, etc. The exchange
of ideas showed so fruitful that we have decided to make this conference
regular, with bi-annual meetings. 

Apart from the general session devoted exclusively to the North, this 2nd
conference will feature a special session 'Typology of linguistic areas' whose
aim is to discuss possible methodologies and successful attempts to generalize
over linguistic areas in any part of the world. How can different linguistic
areas be compared, in general and as regards peculiarities of the language
contact? What are the ways of describing linguistic areas that would
facilitate their subsequent comparison? How can language contact in one area,
e.g. in the Arctic, be contrasted to language contact in other parts of the
world? These are examples of the issues we would like to discuss at this
special session. 

The conference is organized by a research group on Language Contact in the
Circumpolar World at the Institute of Linguistics, see
http://circumpolar.iling-ran.ru for more details. 

Confirmed plenary speakers: 

Janne Saarikivi (Helsinki, Findland) 'Linguistic substrate and the linguistic
history of the Arctic'  
Elena Berezovich (Ekaterinburg, Russia) 'Russian-Germanic language contacts at
the White Sea: the new field data' 
Hein van der Voort (Belém, Brazil) 'Contexts of language contact: Amazonia and
Arctic compared' 
Beata Wagner-Nagy & Alexandre Arkhipov (Hamburg, Germany), tba 

Organizing committee: 

Olesya Khanina & Andrej Kibrik (Chairs), Maria Amelina, Mira Bergelson,
Valentin Gusev, Maria Egorova, Olga Kazakevich, Elena Klyachko, Yuri Koryakov,
Daria Mordashova, Marina Raskladkina, Maria Sidorova, Natalia Stoynova, and
Irina Khomchenkova 

The working language of the conference is English; papers may also be
presented in Russian with English slides

Call for Papers:

We welcome abstracts both for the special session or for the general session.
For the general session we invite abstracts on any topic pertaining to
language contact in the circumpolar region, including but 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. 

Notifications of acceptance or non-acceptance will be sent via email by the
end of June. Please submit an anonymous abstract of no more than 1 page
(excluding references); include a title, authors, and affiliations in your
email; indicate whether your abstract is intended for the general session or
the special session 'Typology of linguistic areas'.

Conference email: circumpolar.conference at iling-ran.ru

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