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Please forward this workshop call to anyone who might be interested in
participating. Detailed questions should be sent directly to either
Michael Riessler or me.<br>
<b style=""><span style="font-family: Arial;"><big><big><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; line-height: 150%;"
align="center"><b style=""><span style="font-family: Arial;">Workshop:
Functional Approaches to lesser-studied Uralic Languages<o:p></o:p></span></b><br>
<span style="font-family: Arial;" lang="DE">Organizers:<o:p></o:p><br>
Florian Siegl (<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType>
of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Tartu</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>)<o:p></o:p><br>
Michael Riessler
(Humboldt-Universtität zu Berlin)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"><span
style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p><br>
Interest in lesser-studied Uralic Languages is rising
both within Uralic linguistics, linguistic typology and elsewhere.
Recent
international funding of several language documentation projects on
endangered
Uralic languages as well as minor Uralic languages represented in the
World
Atlas of Linguistic Structures (WALS) clearly indicates this. Whereas
this development
sounds promising, minor Uralic languages (languages other then Finnish,
Hungarian, and Estonian) are still marginally represented in general
and
typological studies and to a large degree this coincides with their
state of
documentation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"><span
style="font-family: Arial;">The aim of this workshop is to bring
together
researchers working on lesser-studied Uralic languages outside the
dominating
historical-comparative framework. Papers should address functional and
functional-typological approaches to contemporary languages as well as
language contact and language change; priority will be given to
fieldwork based
papers addressing Samoyedic, Saami and Ob-Ugric languages. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"><span
style="font-family: Arial;">Presentations will be 30 minutes long
followed by 10
minutes for questions and discussion. Deadline for submitting abstracts
(max. 2
pages including references) is August 25<sup>th</sup> 2007. Abstracts
should be
sent to:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"><span
style="font-family: Arial;" lang="DE"><span style=""></span>Florian
Siegl<span style=""> </span><a
href="mailto:florian.siegl@ut.ee">florian.siegl@ut.ee</a><o:p></o:p><br>
Michael Riessler<span style=""> </span><a
href="mailto:michael.riessler@staff.hu-berlin.de">michael.riessler@staff.hu-berlin.de</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"><span
style="font-family: Arial;">This workshop will accompany the
conference Cognitive and Functional Perspectives on Dynamic
Tendencies in Languages<o:p></o:p></span><br>
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><span
style="font-family: Arial;">Tartu</span></st1:City><span
style="font-family: Arial;">, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Estonia</st1:country-region></span></st1:place><span
style="font-family: Arial;"> (29.05. - 01.06.2008<o:p></o:p>)<br>
<a href="http://www.fl.ut.ee/kttdk/ecla"><span style="" lang="FI">http://www.fl.ut.ee/kttdk/ecla</span></a></span><span
style="font-family: Arial;" lang="FI"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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