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<p class="gmail-Default" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:35.4pt;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black;border:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Dear
ura-list members,<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-Default" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:35.4pt;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black;border:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">We are glad to
announce a call for papers for a workshop <b>‘<span style="background:white">Before the shift: sociolinguistic description of
indigenous languages of Russia</span>’</b> to be held on <b>April 13, 2018</b> at the Institute of Linguistics, RAS (Moscow, Russia).<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-Default" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:35.4pt;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black;border:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-Default" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:35.4pt;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black;border:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Today many indigenous
languages of the Russian Federation are seriously endangered due to the
shrinking of their functional domains at the expense of Russian. These
languages were actively spoken not so long time ago, though not much is known
about sociolinguistic details of their former usage. E.g. many areas manifested
a degree of bilingualism or even multilingualism with a neighboring language or
neighboring languages: there were cases of asymmetrical or symmetrical
bilingualism, of receptive or full multilingualism; simplified or pidginized forms
of Russian are reported to be used here and there, as this lingua franca was
acquired not from its native speakers, but from indigenous neighbors who had
been exposed to Russian first; dialect chains were also wide spread, and so
communication with neighbors could be realized with each party speaking their
own language; marriage patterns could be influenced by membership in a
particular linguistic community, etc. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-Default" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:35.4pt;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black;border:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Linguistic fieldworkers
now often work with languages that are not used anymore on a daily basis, and
even in cases of languages which are actually used today, a part of
sociolinguistic patterns typical for the linguistic communities concerned has
been lost. For example, it is usually more or less standard Russian that is
used for communication with neighbors.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-Default" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:35.4pt;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black;border:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The goal of
the workshop is to discuss sociolinguistic details of indigenous languages of
Russia observed before the massive shift to Russian, that took place in the 1940s
– 1970s, depending on the region. A particular emphasis is set on methodology
of such sociolinguistic studies of the past.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-Default" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:35.4pt;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black;border:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-Default" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:35.4pt;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black;border:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The workshop
will consist of a plenary by Yaron Matras (University of Manchester) and oral
papers selected by the organizing committee. Working languages will be English
and Russian: most papers will be delivered in English. We invite 1-page anonymous
abstracts to be sent not later than <b>March,1</b>
to the email address olesya.khanina AT <a href="http://gmail.com">gmail.com</a>. Please, indicate your name
and affiliation in your email.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-Default" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:35.4pt;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black;border:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The workshop
is organized under the auspices of the project ‘Dynamics of language contact in
the circumpolar world’ supported by the Russian Science Foundation. Follow the
link to learn more about the project and the workshop organizers:<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-Default" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black;border:none"><span class="gmail-Hyperlink1" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:blue;background:white;text-decoration:underline"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt"><a href="http://iling-ran.ru/main/departments/typol_compar/circumpolar"><span style="color:blue">http://iling-ran.ru/main/departments/typol_compar/circumpolar</span></a></span></span><span class="gmail-None"><span lang="EN-US"><span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-Default" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black;border:none"><span class="gmail-None"><span> </span></span></p><p class="gmail-Default" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black;border:none"><span class="gmail-None"><span>Olesya Khanina</span></span></p>
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