33.2574, Confs: Sociolinguistics, Typology/Germany

Tue Aug 23 07:39:15 UTC 2022

LINGUIST List: Vol-33-2574. Tue Aug 23 2022. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 33.2574, Confs: Sociolinguistics, Typology/Germany

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Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2022 07:39:04
From: Maria Pupynina [pupynina at gmail.com]
Subject: Workshop: Language and Culture Contact in North-Eastern Siberia

Workshop: Language and Culture Contact in North-Eastern Siberia 

Date: 14-Oct-2022 - 15-Oct-2022 
Location: Münster, Germany 
Contact: Maria Pupynina 
Contact Email: pupynina at gmail.com 
Meeting URL: https://www.uni-muenster.de/Sprachwissenschaft/forschung/workshop/index.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics; Typology 

Meeting Description: 

The area of north-eastern Siberia comprises a vast swathe of land stretching
between the River Lena and the Pacific Ocean along the west-east axis, and the
Arctic Ocean in the north and the River Aldan in the south. Before the advent
of the tsarist colonizers in the 17th century, this region was populated by
small hunter-gatherer and/or pastoralist groups speaking Yukaghir, Tungusic,
Chukotko-Kamchatkan, Eskimo-Aleut, and, somewhat more recently, Turkic
languages. The arrival of the Russians has radically changed this landscape
and introduced new dynamics in the ethnic and linguistic relationships between
different populations. Some groups were fully or partly exterminated by the
waves of smallpox epidemics in the 18th and 19th centuries (many Yukaghir and
some Even groups), some were forced to move to the more inaccessible regions,
mostly to the north (central Evens and Yakuts), while some profited from the
new situation and spread beyond their original habitats (Yakuts, Chukchi). As
a consequence of population movements, linguistic contacts intensified,
resulting in wide-spread multilingualism across the whole of the area. There
are well-documented examples of the entire clans switching to another
language, as in the case of western Yukaghir groups that switched to Even or
Yakut, and of deep structural interference between languages, as in the Yakut
influence on Lamunkhin and Bulun Even. New mixed linguistic varieties have
emerged, such as Dolgan with its Turkic and Tungusic ancestry.

The workshop 'Language and Culture Contact in North-Eastern Siberia' deals
with the structural and socio-cultural aspects of multilingualism and cultural
intermingling. There are two areal foci, the Lower Kolyma Tundra as a locus of
intense linguistic contact between the Yukaghirs, the Evens, the Yakuts and
the Chukchi, and the Chukotka Peninsula, with its mixture of
Chukotko-Kamchatkan, Eskimo-Aleut, and to a lesser extent, Yukaghir and Even
groups. In addition, some of the contributions touch upon other areas, such as
the Anabar region in the west and Kamchatka in the east, while others take a
more holistic perspective and deal with north-eastern Siberia as a whole.
Thematically, the conception of the workshop is broad so as to cover the
structural consequences of linguistic mixture, the reconstruction of
historical scenarios of ethnic and linguistic contacts, genetic and
anthropological evidence for population movements, as well as the phenomena of
linguistic attrition and language death.

The online link can be obtained from Katrin Tembrink
(ktembrin at uni-muenster.de), starting with 1st October. For all other questions
concerning the workshop, please contact Maria Pupynina (see email above).

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