[Athapbasckan-L] Moscow, October 2019

[Andrej A. Kibrik]

Dear colleagues, please note this conference announcement.

Andrej Kibrik


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От: *Olesya Khanina* <olesya.khanina at gmail.com 
<mailto:olesya.khanina at gmail.com>>
Date: ср, 1 мая 2019 г. в 13:51
Subject: CfP: 2nd conference on Language contact in the circumpolar world
To: <URA-LIST at helsinki.fi <mailto:URA-LIST at helsinki.fi>>


Dear colleagues, may I draw your attention to the 2nd conference on 
Language contact in the circumpolar world with a special session on 
Typology of linguistic areas (Institute of Linguistics RAS, Moscow, 
Russia; 25-27 October 2019).
http://circumpolar.iling-ran.ru/seminars_conferences/conference_october2019/

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.

This is the second conference in this series, the first having taken 
place at the Institute of Linguistics in Moscow in October 2017 (see 
http://iling-ran.ru/main/conferences/2017_circumpolar for more details). 
The first conference collected several dozens of researchers working on 
a variety of topics, including linguistic history/prehistory in the 
north and the methods used to reconstruct it, structural phenomena in 
specific languages influenced by contact, language varieties formed by 
intense contacts (pidgins, argots, non-standard varieties of Russian, 
etc.), areal linguistics, sociolinguistic aspects of language contact 
and case studies of specific language ecologies, language shift and 
language attrition, etc. The exchange of ideas showed so fruitful that 
we have decided to make this conference regular, with bi-annual meetings.

Apart from the general session devoted exclusively to the North, this 
2nd conference will feature a special session ‘Typology of linguistic 
areas’ whose aim is to discuss possible methodologies and successful 
attempts to generalize over linguistic areas in any part of the world. 
How can different linguistic areas be compared, in general and as 
regards peculiarities of the language contact? What are the ways of 
describing linguistic areas that would facilitate their subsequent 
comparison? How can language contact in one area, e.g. in the Arctic, be 
contrasted to language contact in other parts of the world? These are 
examples of the issues we would like to discuss at this special session.

We welcome abstracts both for this special session or for the general 
session. For the general session we invite abstracts on any topic 
pertaining to language contact in the circumpolar region, including but 
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 deadline for abstract submission is June 1, 2019. Notifications of 
acceptance or non-acceptance will be sent via email by the end of June. 
Please submit an anonymous abstract of no more than 1 page (excluding 
references) by email to circumpolar.conference at iling-ran.ru 
<mailto:circumpolar.conference at iling-ran.ru>; include a title, authors, 
and affiliations in your email; indicate whether your abstract is 
intended for the general session or the special session ‘Typology of 
linguistic areas’.

The conference is organized by a research group on Language Contact in 
the Circumpolar World at the Institute of Linguistics, see 
http://circumpolar.iling-ran.ru for more details.

Confirmed plenary speakers:
·      Janne Saarikivi (Helsinki, Findland) ‘Linguistic substrate and 
the linguistic history of the Arctic’
·      Elena Berezovich (Ekaterinburg, Russia) ‘Russian-Germanic 
language contacts at the White Sea: the new field data’
·      Hein van der Voort (Belém, Brazil) ‘Contexts of language contact: 
Amazonia and Arctic compared’
·      Beata Wagner-Nagy & Alexandre Arkhipov (Hamburg, Germany), tba

Organizing committee:
Olesya Khanina & Andrej Kibrik (Chairs), Maria Amelina, Mira Bergelson, 
Valentin Gusev, Maria Egorova, Olga Kazakevich, Elena Klyachko, Yuri 
Koryakov, Daria Mordashova, Marina Raskladkina, Maria Sidorova, Natalia 
Stoynova, and Irina Khomchenkova

The working language of the conference is English; papers may also be 
presented in Russian with English slides.

With best regards,
Olesya


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Olesya Khanina
Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies & Institute of Linguistics RAS
http://iling-ran.ru/main/scholars/khanina
http://circumpolar.iling-ran.ru/

This year I am co-organising the following conferences:
'Linguistic forum' - Moscow, 4-6 April 2019: 
http://iling-ran.ru/main/conferences/2019_indigenous
'Typology of small-scale multilingualism' - Lyon, 15-17 April 2019: 
https://ilcl.hse.ru/smallscale/
'Down by the water' - Helsinki, 6-8 November 2019: 
https://blogs.helsinki.fi/downbythewater/
'Language contact in the circumpolar world' - Moscow, 25-27 October 
2019: 
http://circumpolar.iling-ran.ru/seminars_conferences/conference_october2019/


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