<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail-adn gmail-ads" style="border-left:none;padding:0px;display:flex;font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:medium"><div class="gmail-gs" style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 20px;width:1120px"><div class="gmail-"><div id="gmail-:4bn" class="gmail-ii gmail-gt" style="font-size:0.875rem;direction:ltr;margin:8px 0px 0px;padding:0px"><div id="gmail-:4bo" class="gmail-a3s gmail-aiL" style="overflow:hidden;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:small;line-height:1.5;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div><div align="center" style="font-family:calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;line-height:normal;margin:0cm;text-align:center"><strong><span style="font-family:"times new roman",serif;font-size:12pt">Syntax of Uralic Languages (SOUL-4) – First Call</span></strong></div><div style="font-family:calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;line-height:normal;margin:0cm"> </div><div style="font-family:calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;line-height:normal;margin:0cm;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"times new roman",serif;font-size:12pt">The 4th conference Syntax of Uralic Languages (SOUL-4), which was postponed because of the pandemic, will take place at the Institute of Linguistic Studies, <strong>St. Petersburg</strong> on <strong>7–8 June 2022</strong>. We hope that the situation with the pandemic will get better and the borders will be open, so we plan SOUL-4 as an offline conference. However, the option of the online participation will be available in any case.</span></div><div style="font-family:calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;line-height:normal;margin:0cm"> </div><div style="font-family:calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;line-height:normal;margin:0cm;text-align:justify;text-indent:14.2pt"><span style="color:black;font-family:"times new roman",serif;font-size:12pt">We invite contributions that address issues in synchronic or diachronic syntax in one or several Uralic languages. The contributions may introduce new linguistic material or present a theoretical analysis of the existing data. We welcome papers concerned with any topic in Uralic syntax, in particular:</span></div><div style="font-family:calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;line-height:normal;margin:0cm;text-indent:14.2pt"><span style="color:black;font-family:"times new roman",serif;font-size:12pt">- the structure of nominal phrases</span></div><div style="font-family:calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;line-height:normal;margin:0cm;text-indent:14.2pt"><span style="color:black;font-family:"times new roman",serif;font-size:12pt">- the structure of verbal phrases and predication</span></div><div style="font-family:calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;line-height:normal;margin:0cm;text-indent:14.2pt"><span style="color:black;font-family:"times new roman",serif;font-size:12pt">- differential object marking</span></div><div style="font-family:calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;line-height:normal;margin:0cm;text-indent:14.2pt"><span style="color:black;font-family:"times new roman",serif;font-size:12pt">- word order and its interaction with information structure</span></div><div style="font-family:calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;line-height:normal;margin:0cm;text-indent:14.2pt"><span style="color:black;font-family:"times new roman",serif;font-size:12pt">- subordination</span></div><div style="font-family:calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;line-height:normal;margin:0cm;text-indent:14.2pt"><span style="color:black;font-family:"times new roman",serif;font-size:12pt">- language contact and its influence on the syntactic structure of the Uralic languages</span></div><div style="font-family:calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;line-height:normal;margin:0cm;text-indent:14.2pt"><span style="color:black;font-family:"times new roman",serif;font-size:12pt">- syntactic isoglosses in the Uralic family</span></div><div style="font-family:calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;line-height:normal;margin:0cm;text-indent:14.2pt"><span style="color:black;font-family:"times new roman",serif;font-size:12pt">- the interface of syntax and semantics/pragmatics/prosody</span></div><div style="font-family:calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;line-height:normal;margin:0cm;text-indent:14.2pt"><span style="color:black;font-family:"times new roman",serif;font-size:12pt">- the syntax of particles.</span></div><div style="font-family:calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;line-height:normal;margin:0cm"> </div><div style="font-family:calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;line-height:normal;margin:0cm"><span style="color:black;font-family:"times new roman",serif;font-size:12pt">Each talk will be 20 minutes long plus a 10-minute discussion.</span></div><div style="font-family:calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;line-height:normal;margin:0cm"> </div><div style="font-family:calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;line-height:normal;margin:0cm"><strong><span style="color:black;font-family:"times new roman",serif;font-size:12p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ght:normal;margin:0cm"><strong><span style="color:black;font-family:"times new roman",serif;font-size:12pt">Important dates</span></strong></div><div style="font-family:calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;line-height:normal;margin:0cm"><span style="color:black;font-family:"times new roman",serif;font-size:12pt">Abstract submission: 10 February 2022</span></div><div style="font-family:calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;line-height:normal;margin:0cm"><span style="color:black;font-family:"times new roman",serif;font-size:12pt">Notification of acceptance: 10 March 2022</span></div><div style="font-family:calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;line-height:normal;margin:0cm"><span style="color:black;font-family:"times new roman",serif;font-size:12pt">Conference: 7–8 June 2022</span></div><div style="font-family:calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;line-height:normal;margin:0cm"> </div><div style="font-family:calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;line-height:normal;margin:0cm"><strong><span style="color:black;font-family:"times new roman",serif;font-size:12pt">Organizing committee</span></strong></div><div style="font-family:calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;line-height:normal;margin:0cm"><span style="color:black;font-family:"times new roman",serif;font-size:12pt">Fedor Rozhanskiy, Maria Ovsjannikova (secretary),</span> <span style="color:black;font-family:"times new roman",serif;font-size:12pt">Anna Urmanchieva, Anna Smetina.</span></div><div style="font-family:calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;line-height:normal;margin:0cm"> </div><div style="font-family:calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;line-height:normal;margin:0cm"><strong><span style="color:black;font-family:"times new roman",serif;font-size:12pt">Venue</span></strong></div><div style="font-family:calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;line-height:normal;margin:0cm;text-align:justify;text-indent:14.2pt"><span style="font-family:"times new roman",serif;font-size:12pt">The conference will take place in the Institute for Linguistic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences.</span></div><div style="font-family:calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;line-height:normal;margin:0cm;text-indent:14.2pt"><span style="font-family:"times new roman",serif;font-size:12pt">Location: St. Petersburg, Tuchkov per. 9 (59.94443 N, 30.28927 E).</span></div><div style="font-family:calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;line-height:normal;margin:0cm"> </div><div style="font-family:calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;line-height:normal;margin:0cm"><strong><span style="color:black;font-family:"times new roman",serif;font-size:12pt">Publication</span></strong></div><div style="font-family:calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;line-height:normal;margin:0cm;text-align:justify;text-indent:14.2pt"><span style="font-family:"times new roman",serif;font-size:12pt">We are considering a publication of selected papers from the conference in a special issue of ESUKA/JEFUL (<a href="http://ojs.utlib.ee/index.php/jeful" target="_blank">http://ojs.utlib.ee/index.php/jeful</a>). For further planning, when submitting the abstract, please indicate if you are interested in this option.</span></div><div style="font-family:calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;line-height:normal;margin:0cm"> </div><div style="font-family:calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;line-height:normal;margin:0cm"><strong><span style="font-family:"times new roman",serif;font-size:12pt">Contact</span></strong></div><div style="font-family:calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;line-height:normal;margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"times new roman",serif;font-size:12pt"><a href="mailto:soul2022@yandex.ru" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">soul2022@yandex.ru</a></span></div><div style="font-family:calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;line-height:normal;margin:0cm"> </div><div style="font-family:calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;line-height:normal;margin:0cm"><strong><span style="font-family:"times new roman",serif;font-size:12pt">Website</span></strong></div><div style="font-family:calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;line-height:normal;margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"times new roman",serif;font-size:12pt"><a href="https://iling.spb.ru/events/soul-4/info.html.en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://iling.spb.ru/events/soul-4/info.html.en</a></span></div><div class="gmail-yj6qo"></div><div class="gmail-adL" style="font-family:calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;line-height:normal;margin:0cm"> </div></div></div></div><div class="gmail-hi" style="border-bottom-left-radius:1px;border-bottom-right-radius:1px;padding:0px;width:auto;background:rgb(242,242,242);margin:0px"></div></div></div><div class="gmail-ajx" style="clear:both"></div></div><div class="gmail-gA gmail-gt gmail-acV" style="font-size:0.875rem;padding:0px;width:auto;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px;border-top:none;margin:0px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initi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