[Lingtyp] Conference “Indigenous Languages of Russia in Contact with Russian (Moscow / online, 19-20.09.2025)

[Egor Kashkin]

Dear colleagues,

We kindly remind you that the deadline for abstract submission for the
conference "Indigenous languages of Russia in contact with Russian" is
5 May 2025.

The conference will be held in a hybrid format (Moscow / Zoom) on
19-20 September 2025. More information is available in the letter
copied below and on the website https://ruslangcontact.tilda.ws/

On behalf of the organizing committee
Egor Kashkin

сб, 22 февр. 2025 г. в 15:18, Egor Kashkin <egorka1988 at gmail.com>:
>
> Dear colleagues,
>
> The fourth conference “Indigenous Languages of Russia in Contact with
> Russian” will be held in a hybrid format at the Vinogradov Russian
> Language Institute (RAS), Moscow, on 19–20 September 2025.
>
> We invite abstract submissions addressing the following topics:
>
> – Borrowing of grammatical and lexical patterns from Russian into
> indigenous languages of Russia or of other areas.
> – Borrowing of grammatical and lexical patterns  between indigenous
> languages of Russia.
> – Contact-induced features in the varieties of Russian influenced by
> languages of Russia or of other areas.
> – Russian-based pidgins.
> – Code-switching and code-mixing involving Russian.
>
> The conference aims to bring together researchers working on
> indigenous languages of Russia, typologists, experts in the Russian
> language, and sociolinguists. Papers based on new field data and
> corpus-based studies are particularly encouraged.
>
> Topics which will not be discussed at the conference: sociological
> aspects of language contact without any linguistic issues; practical
> issues related to revitalization of minority languages, teaching
> Russian as L2 etc.; dialectal and regional features of Russian for
> which there is no reasonable evidence for contact-induced origin;
> problems of etymology.
>
> The conference programme will include two plenary presentations and
> oral presentations by other conference participants (20 minutes + 10
> minutes for discussion).
>
> Language of presentation: English or Russian.
>
> Invited speakers:
> – Nikolai B. Vakhtin (European University at St. Petersburg)
> – Gleb P. Pilipenko (Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian
> Academy of Sciences).
>
> The deadline for abstract submission is 5 May 2025. Anonymous
> abstracts should be sent to the e-mail address
> ruslangcontact at gmail.com.
>
> The following information should be included in the body of the e-mail:
> – title of the abstract,
> – the authors' first and last names, and affiliations,
> – e-mail address(es) and phone number(s).
>
> Requirements for abstracts:
> – Max. 2 A4 pages (Times New Roman, 12 pt, single-spaced) including
> references and any additional material.
> – Language: English or Russian.
>
> Notification of acceptance will be sent no later than 16 June 2025.
>
> The conference will be held in a hybrid format (in-person at the
> Vinogradov Russian Language Institute + Zoom). Speakers living in
> Moscow are invited to attend in-person. If this is not possible,
> please contact us.
>
> Unfortunately, the organizers are unable to cover the costs of
> transport or accommodation. Organizing fee for participating
> in-person: 1000 rubles (ca. 9 euros); for students – 500 rubles (ca.
> 4.5 euros). There is no organizing fee for online participation.
>
> Important dates:
> 5 May 2025: submission deadline
> 16 June 2025: notification of acceptance
> 19–20 September 2025: conference
>
> The conference is organized by the working group “Russian in Contact
> with Indigenous Languages of Russia” (Vinogradov Russian Language
> Institute (RAS), Department of Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic
> Poetics), together with colleagues from other organizations.
>
> Organizing committee:
> Egor Kashkin (chair, RLI RAS)
> Olga Kazakevich (IL RAS)
> Irina Khomchenkova (MSU / RLI RAS)
> Anastasiia Kriukova (RLI RAS / MSU)
> Alexander Letuchiy (HSE / RLI RAS)
> Vladimir Plungian (RLI RAS / IL RAS / MSU)
> Julia Sinitsyna (MSU)
> Maria Emilia Winkler (IL RAS)
>
> Information about the conference will be updated on the website
> https://ruslangcontact.tilda.ws/