Conference: Languages and Dialects in Iran

[Harold Schiffman]

Languages and Dialects in Iran
Short Title: LDIran08

Date: 28-Oct-2008 - 31-Oct-2008
Location: Zahedan, Sistan-va-Baluchestan, Iran
Contact Person: Pakzad Yusefian

Web Site: http://www.lingfil.uu.se/info/ldiran08.html



Language Family(ies): Iranian

Call Deadline: 31-May-2008

Meeting Description:

1st International Conference on Languages and Dialects in Iran

Call for Papers

Iran is an extremely rich field when it comes to linguistic research.
During centuries languages and dialects of different families
(Iranian, Semitic, Turkic etc.) have been spoken side by side and have
influence and been influenced by each other. Written and spoken
variants have developed. Persian as the official language and the
language of education plays the important role of lingua franca, but
there are also other languages of wider communication, which play this
role in different regions of the country. A considerable amount of
research has been carried out on the phonological and morphosyntactic
structure of languages in Iran, but there is still much to be done in
this field. As for the study of sociolinguistic issues, such as
bilingualism, language maintenance, second and third language
acquisition, it is a relatively new field of research in Iran.

The purpose of the conference is to stimulate linguistic research in
Iran by creating a network of field linguists interested in the study
of languages and dialects in Iran in their sociolinguistic milieu.

Papers in Persian or English will be accepted on the following subjects:
- Phonetics and phonology
- Morphology and syntax
- Sociolinguistics
- Semantics
- Historical linguistics
- Typology
- Contact linguistics
- Bilingualism
- Second language acquisition

Accepted papers in Persian should have a summary in English.

http://linguistlist.org/issues/19/19-563.html#2

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