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    <p>Dear all,</p>
    <p>passing this on from LingTyp!<br>
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    <p>Best,<br>
      Jeremy</p>
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            <td>[Lingtyp] CONF: Areal linguistics: Uralic languages.
              Riga: June 12–14, 2025</td>
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            <td>Mon, 23 Sep 2024 21:27:10 +0200</td>
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            <th valign="BASELINE" nowrap="nowrap" align="RIGHT">From: </th>
            <td>Aigul Zakirova via Lingtyp
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            <td>Aigul Zakirova <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:aigul.n.zakirova@gmail.com"><aigul.n.zakirova@gmail.com></a></td>
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            <td><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org">lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org</a></td>
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        <div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span
              style="text-align:justify;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Dear
              colleagues, <br>
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        <div dir="ltr">Please find below the call for papers for the
          conference “<a
            href="https://sites.google.com/view/lcu2025/home?authuser=0"
            target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">Areal linguistics and
            language contact of Uralic languages. Language-specific and
            typological approaches</a>”, to be held on <b>June 12–14,
            2025</b> in Riga, Latvia.</div>
        <div dir="ltr"><span
            style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Invited
            speakers:</span><b
            style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif"> <a
              href="https://ut.ee/en/employee/gerson-stefan-klumpp"
              target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">Gerson Klumpp</a> </b><span
            style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">(University
            of Tartu),</span><b
            style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif"> <a
href="https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/kaius-sinnem%C3%A4ki"
              target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">Kaius Sinnemäki</a> </b><span
            style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">(University
            of Helsinki).</span><br>
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style="margin:0cm;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:normal;text-align:justify"><span
              style="color:rgb(34,34,34);text-align:center"><font
                face="arial, sans-serif"><br>
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          <font face="arial, sans-serif">The goal of this conference is
            to combine language-specific, qualitative and typological,
            quantitative approaches to areal linguistics and language
            contact with the focus on Uralic languages and their contact
            languages. <font style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span
                style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">We encourage submissions
                addressing (but not limited to) the following topics:</span><br
                style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">
              <ul>
                <li style="margin-left:15px"><span
                    style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">typological approaches
                    to language contact and areal linguistics of Uralic</span></li>
                <li style="margin-left:15px"><span
                    style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">corpus-based studies of
                    specific contact phenomena between Uralic and
                    non-Uralic languages<br>
                  </span></li>
                <li style="margin-left:15px"><span
                    style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">at the same time, we are
                    very much interested in qualitative research on
                    important topics in language contact including but
                    not limited to contact-induced grammaticalization
                    and disentangling common inheritance from parallel
                    and contact-induced developments within Uralic</span></li>
                <li style="margin-left:15px">the sociolinguistic
                  dimensions of language contact in Uralic</li>
                <li style="margin-left:15px">interdisciplinary
                  approaches to understanding language contacts of
                  Uralic languages</li>
              </ul>
              <div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Anonymized
                  abstracts in PDF format should be submitted to the
                  conference email at </span><u
                  style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><a
                    href="mailto:uralic.in.contact@gmail.com"
                    target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"
                    class="moz-txt-link-freetext">uralic.in.contact@gmail.com</a></u><span
                  style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"> by </span><b
                  style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font color="#ff0000">December
                    1, 2024.</font></b><br>
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            </font></font></div>
        <font face="arial, sans-serif">Abstracts must be written in
          English and should not exceed one page (using 11pt font),
          excluding references and figures.  One person may submit up to
          two abstracts: one as a single author or co-author, and
          another one as a co-author. Note that a</font>ffiliations with
        Russian institutions and references to Russian grants cannot be
        acknowledged.<font face="arial, sans-serif"><br>
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        <div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Organizers: Aigul Zakirova
            (University of Potsdam), Gunta Kļava (Institute of Livonian
            language), Valts Ernštreits (Institute of Livonian
            language), Ilja A. Seržant (University of Potsdam).</font>
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          <div><font face="arial, sans-serif">URL: <a
href="https://sites.google.com/view/lcu2025/home?authuser=0"
                target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"
                class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://sites.google.com/view/lcu2025/home?authuser=0</a> <br>
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              Best regards,<br>
              Aigul Zakirova</font></div>
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