[Corpora-List] Bulgarian Dialect Workshop, Groningen, 13 June 2009

[J. Prokic]

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               Bulgarian Dialect Workshop
                     June 13, 2009
        University of Groningen, The Netherlands

            http://www.let.rug.nl/~buldialect/

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Bulgarian Dialect Workshop will be held in Groningen, the Netherlands,
on June 13th, 2009. This  workshop will be held as the final meeting
in the project Buldialect--Measuring Linguistic Unity and Diversity
in Europe. It is a joint work between the University of Tübingen,
University of Groningen and Bulgarian Academy of Sciences whose goal
is to develop different dialectometrical techniques and apply them
to the Bulgarian dialect data. The aim of  the workshop is to present
to the public methods developed during the project and to discuss
results obtained by applying those novel methods to the phonetic and
lexical dialectological data.


Invited speakers:

Ronelle Alexander, professor of linguistics at the University of
California, Berkeley:
"Bulgarian Dialects in the Context of South Slavic Dialectology"


Jack Chambers, professor of linguistics at the University of Toronto:
"Dialect Continua and Discontinuities"



More information can be found on the website of the workshop:
http://www.let.rug.nl/~buldialect/



Local organizers:
Jelena Prokic and John Nerbonne



Contact:
j.prokic at rug.nl




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