<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Dear

colleagues,<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">May I

attract your attention to a conference that is organized in Moscow this

October?<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">

</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The call

for papers is below, but I would like to say a couple of more personal words to

the ura-list subscribers. The abstracts submitted so far are a bit skewed to

Siberia, so we are particularly welcoming those of you who study language

contact in European Uralic languages (this is not to say that abstracts about

non-European languages are discouraged, of course!). The circumpolar area is

understood quite liberally in this context, with all Uralic languages being

considered spoken either in the circumpolar area proper or in the adjacent

areas.<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">With best regards,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Olesya Khanina</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;text-transform:uppercase"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;text-transform:uppercase">Language contact in the circumpolar world<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Institute</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">

of <span>Linguistics</span> RAS, <span><span>Moscow</span>, <span>Russia</span></span>;

27-29 October 2017<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Extension of

deadline to August 31.<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">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.<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">T</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">he ‘Language contact in the circumpolar world’

conference will bring </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">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.<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">The conference will feature

papers selected by the Organizing committee, invited lectures by leading

international experts specializing in the topic, and two extended tutorials on

particular parts of the circumpolar world, ‘Language Contact in Arctic Canada

& Greenland’ by Michael Fortesque (University of Copenhagen) and ‘Language

Contact in Arctic Europe’ by Jussi Ylikoski (The Arctic University of Norway

& University of Oulu).<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">We welcome abstracts from

colleagues working on a variety of topics pertaining to language contact in the

circumpolar region that include but are not limited to:<span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">-<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">         

</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">language

change conditioned by language contact,<span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">-<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">         

</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">mixed

languages,<span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">-<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">         

</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">linguistic

areas or Sprachbund’s,<span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">-<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">         

</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">reconstructing

the past through linguistic data,<span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">-<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">         

</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">patterns

of traditional or modern multilingualism,<span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">-<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">         

</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">sociolinguistic

details of modern or historic language contact,<span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">-<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">         

</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">northern

varieties of larger languages that are not restricted to the region (e.g.

dialects of Russian, Swedish, English, etc.),<span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">-<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">         

</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">cartography

of language contact areas,<span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">-<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">         

</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">methodology

of language contact studies which takes into account specific features of the

region.<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">The conference is

organized by a new research group on Language Contact in the Circumpolar World

at the <span><span>Institute</span>

 of <span>Linguistics</span></span>, supported

by the Russian Science Foundation, see </span><a href="http://iling-ran.ru/main/departments/typol_compar/circumpolar/eng"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">http://iling-ran.ru/main/departments/typol_compar/circumpolar/eng</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> for more details.<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><br>

Confirmed plenary speakers:<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Michael Fortescue (University of Copenhagen)<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Lenore Grenoble (University of Chicago)<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Brigitte Pakendorf (CNRS, Lyon)<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Nikolai Vakhtin (European University of St.

Petersburg)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Jussi Ylikoski (The Arctic University of Norway &

University of Oulu)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">

</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span> </span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Organizing committee:<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Olesya Khanina &

Andrej Kibrik (Chairs), </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Maria

Amelina, Mira Bergelson, Valentin Gusev, Olga Kazakevich, Elena Klyachko, Yuri

Koryakov, and Natalia Stoynova.<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">The conference will be

held in English. Organizers will assist participants in finding accommodation

in the vicinity of the conference location.<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">The extended deadline for

abstract submission is <b>August 31, 2017</b>.

Notifications of acceptance or non-acceptance will be sent via email soon after

that date. Please submit an anonymous abstract of no more than 1 page (excluding

references) by email to</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">

</span><a href="mailto:circumpolar.conference2017@gmail.com"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">circumpolar.conference2017@gmail.com</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">; include a title, authors, and affiliations in your

email. <span></span></span></p></div>