[Athapbasckan-L] Language contact in the circumpolar world - Moscow, Russia; 27-29 October 2017

[Andrej A. Kibrik]

Dear Athapbasckan colleagues,

please note this forthcoming conference

Best --

Andrej Kibrik


Language contact in the circumpolar world

Instituteof Linguistics RAS, Moscow, Russia; 27-29 October 2017

Extended deadline: August 31.

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.

The ‘Language contact in the circumpolar world’ conference will bring 
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.

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).

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:

-language change conditioned by language contact,

-mixed languages,

-linguistic areas or Sprachbund’s,

-reconstructing the past through linguistic data,

-patterns of traditional or modern multilingualism,

-sociolinguistic details of modern or historic language contact,

-northern varieties of larger languages that are not restricted to the 
region (e.g. dialects of Russian, Swedish, English, etc.),

-cartography of language contact areas,

-methodology of language contact studies which takes into account 
specific features of the region.

The conference is organized by a new research group on Language Contact 
in the Circumpolar World at the Institute of Linguistics RAS, supported 
by the Russian Science Foundation, see 
http://iling-ran.ru/main/departments/typol_compar/circumpolar/engfor 
more details.

Confirmed plenary speakers:

Michael Fortescue (University of Copenhagen)

Lenore Grenoble (University of Chicago)

Brigitte Pakendorf (CNRS, Lyon)

Nikolai Vakhtin (European University of St. Petersburg)

Jussi Ylikoski (The Arctic University of Norway & University of Oulu)

Organizing committee:

Olesya Khanina & Andrej Kibrik (Chairs), Maria Amelina, Mira Bergelson, 
Valentin Gusev, Olga Kazakevich, Elena Klyachko, Yuri Koryakov, and 
Natalia Stoynova.

The conference will be held in English. Organizers will assist 
participants in finding accommodation in the vicinity of the conference 
location.

The extended deadline for abstract submission is *August 31, 2017*. 
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 
tocircumpolar.conference2017 at gmail.com 
<mailto:circumpolar.conference2017 at gmail.com>; include a title, authors, 
and affiliations in your email.

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