<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 12pt;">(Apologies for bad layout, due to copy-pasting from PDF. Please avoid attachments on URA-LIST – use text in the message body, or store larger files elsewhere and just provide a download link.)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 12pt;">***</span></div><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 12pt;"><div><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></div>Two joint workshops on the syntax of Uralic languages at the XII International Congress for
Finno-Ugric Studies in Oulu, Finland, 17-21 August 2015.</span><br><div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column">
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<li style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'"><p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Syntactic structure of Uralic languages
</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="mailto:orsolyatan@gmail.com">orsolyatan@gmail.com</a>
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<li style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'"><p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The syntax of Samoyedic and Ob-Ugric languages
</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Organisers: </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Larisa Leisiö (Kone Foundation) and Irina Nikolaeva (SOAS,
London), contact <a href="mailto:larisa.leisio@uta.fi">larisa.leisio@uta.fi</a>
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</ol><p><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'">Despite the fact that there has been an increase in the number of studies and the amount of
research on the syntax of Uralic languages in the past few years, syntactic phenomena in the
small Uralic languages still remain understudied (e.g. the interaction between intonation,
word order and information structure, syntactic function of possessors, etc). Based on recent
papers on Uralic we can discover very close relations among some of the languages, very
distant relations among others, but even the distant relatives still display common, family-
specific characteristics. What are the common syntactic properties of the Uralic Languages?
Can we talk about ‘Uralic syntax’? Can we say that these properties are further evidence of
the Uralic languages belonging to one language family? Formal analyses of syntactic
phenomena in Uralic languages may extend our knowledge of human language and may lead
to a better understanding of the complex relationships among languages or language contact.
</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'">Workshop 1 aims to be a forum to present and discuss current issues concerning the
syntax of Uralic languages based on any kind of theoretical approach. The purpose is to
examine the Uralic languages both from a synchronic and from a diachronic perspective, and
both within one language and cross-linguistically.
</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'">Workshop 2 focuses on the syntax of Samoyedic and Ob-Ugric languages. Spoken in
Western and Central Siberia, the Ob-Ugric and Samoyedic languages are geographically
close and demonstrate a number of common features at all levels of linguistic structure. It has
even been suggested in the literature that at some stage they formed a kind of genetic
grouping, a hypothetical Eastern Uralic, which was the first to diverge from the Uralic proto-
language. The symposium will focus on the syntax of Ob-Ugric and Samoyedic languages
with the aim of investigating the variations in their syntactic structure, the contact-induced
phenomena in the domain of syntax, as well as the potential common genetic heritage.
</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'">We welcome contributions that either introduce the new data on the syntax of Uralic
languages, or present a new theoretical analysis of the available data. The topics may include
- constituent order<br>
- argument structure and the syntactic properties of core arguments<br>
- interaction between word order and information structure<br>
- differential object marking<br>
- possessive suffixes as definiteness markers<br>
- predication in Uralic<br>
- subject agreement in non-finite constructions<br>
- valence-changing processes<br>
- anaphora<br>
- language contact inside and outside of the Uralic language family<br>
- syntactic change in Uralic Languages
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<div class="column"><p><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'">Organisers: Anders Holmberg (Newcastle University), Balazs Surányi (HAS-
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<div class="column"><p><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'">RIL & Pázmány University), Orsolya Tánczos (HAS-RIL & Pázmány
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<div class="column"><p><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'">Selected papers may be published in the journal </span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; font-style: italic">Finno-Ugric Languages and Linguistics.</span></p>
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<div class="column"><p><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'">Abstracts should be submitted by the deadline September 30 , 2014 </span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; font-style: italic">via </span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'">EasyChair system.
See instructions at </span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; background-color: rgb(100.000000%, 100.000000%, 100.000000%)"><a href="http://www.oulu.fi/suomenkieli/fuxii/abstraktit">http://www.oulu.fi/suomenkieli/fuxii/abstraktit</a></span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'">.. Abstracts should not
exceed 500 words excluding possible examples and references. Notification of acceptance
will be sent by the end of October, 2014. </span></p>
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