<div dir="ltr"><div>The XIII International Congress for Finno-Ugric Studies will take place
in Vienna on August 16–21, 2020. The programme includes a symposium on
vowel harmony in Uralic languages. </div> <br>Vowel harmony is considered
to be a feature typical of Uralic languages. Vowel harmony (front/back)
is reconstructed for Proto-Uralic, Proto-Samoyedic and
Proto-Finno-Ugric. Many of the contemporary Uralic languages have
preserved vowel harmony, although the pattern has changed compared to
the original (reconstructed) one. Other languages have lost the original
vowel harmony, but some of these have developed a new vowel harmony
system. Sometimes there are considerable differences between the
dialects of the same language. <br> <br>Our knowledge of vowel harmony
in Uralic languages is very limited. There is only sporadic information
available in handbooks on various Uralic languages. Therefore we invite
papers on the following topics: <br> <br>From a historical perspective: <br> <br>- reconstructing vowel harmony for earlier (undocumented) stages of language history; <br>- vowel harmony in linguistic records (archives, databases, etc): problems and possibilities of analysis. <br> <br>From a dialectological perspective: <br> <br>- detailed description of vowel harmony in specific dialects; <br>- comparative description of vowel harmony systems in different dialects of the same language. <br> <br>From a sociolinguistic perspective: <br> <br>- vowel harmony and language death: vowel harmony in the language of semi-speakers; <br>- vowel harmony in indicating style, register etc. <br> <br>From the perspective of language contact: <br> <br>- phenomena in vowel harmony that result from language contact; <br>- emergence, development or disappearance of vowel harmony as a result of language contact; <br>- areal features of vowel harmony. <br> <br>From a typological perspective: <br> <br>- vowel harmony in Uralic languages from a cross-linguistic point of view; <br>- contrastive study of vowel harmony systems in different Uralic languages. <br> <br>From a theoretical perspective: <br> <br>- exceptionality in harmony; <br>- disharmony and antiharmony; <br>- variation in harmony; <br>- neutrality in harmony; <br>- the domain of harmony; <br>- phonetic bases of harmony; <br>- morphological factors in vowel harmony; <br>- experimental studies of vowel harmony. <br> <br>Papers investigating less studied Uralic languages (i.e. other than Hungarian, Finnish or Estonian) have preference. <br> <br>The
languages of the symposium are English and Russian. If your talk is in
Russian, having the visual support of your presentation (slides,
handout) in English is recommended. <br> <br>Papers based on the presentations will be published in a special number of Acta Linguistica Academica. <br> <br>Organizers: <br> <br>Fejes, László (RIL HAS) <br>Rebrus, Péter (RIL HAS) <br>Szigetvári, Péter (ELTE) <br>Törkenczy, Miklós (ELTE, RIL HAS) <br> <br>Contact person: <br> <br>Fejes, László (<a href="http://fejesnytud.hu" target="_blank">fejesnytud.hu</a>) <br> <br>Abstract proposals must be submitted by September 30, 2019, using the electronic submission tool (<a href="https://cifu13.univie.ac.at/call/online-submission/" target="_blank">https://cifu13.univie.ac.at/call/online-submission/</a>). Please, remember to select symposium B.4 Vowel harmony. <br> <br>The
abstracts must be in English. If your presentation is in Russian,
please, give the title in Russian. The maximum length of each abstract
is 3000 characters. Each participant can submit maximally two abstracts:
one as the lead author (presenting author), one as a co-author.
Abstracts which for technical or thematic reasons cannot be included
into our symposium will be reviewed as potential section papers. <br> <br>You
will be notified of the acceptance or rejection of your paper by March
1, 2020. The accepted abstracts will be published on the congress
website. (In case the author of an accepted abstract does not register
at the congress, the abstract will be removed.)<div class="gmail-adL"><br></div></div>