17.1377, Confs: Finno-Ugric Ling/Toronto, Canada

Thu May 4 22:49:08 UTC 2006

LINGUIST List: Vol-17-1377. Thu May 04 2006. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.

Subject: 17.1377, Confs: Finno-Ugric Ling/Toronto, Canada

Moderators: Anthony Aristar, Wayne State U <aristar at linguistlist.org>
            Helen Aristar-Dry, Eastern Michigan U <hdry at linguistlist.org>

Reviews (reviews at linguistlist.org) 
        Sheila Dooley, U of Arizona  
        Terry Langendoen, U of Arizona  

Homepage: http://linguistlist.org/

The LINGUIST List is funded by Eastern Michigan University, Wayne
State University, and donations from subscribers and publishers.

Editor for this issue: Kevin Burrows <kevin at linguistlist.org>
================================================================  

To post to LINGUIST, use our convenient web form at
http://linguistlist.org/LL/posttolinguist.html.

===========================Directory==============================  

1)
Date: 02-May-2006
From: Zita McRobbie-Utasi < mcrobbie at sfu.ca >
Subject: 15th Conference of the Finno-Ugric Studies Association of Canada 

-------------------------Message 1 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 18:47:36
From: Zita McRobbie-Utasi < mcrobbie at sfu.ca >
Subject: 15th Conference of the Finno-Ugric Studies Association of Canada 

15th Conference of the Finno-Ugric Studies Association of Canada 

Date: 29-May-2006 - 30-May-2006 
Location: Toronto, Canada 
Contact: Zita McRobbie 
Contact Email: mcrobbie at sfu.ca 
Meeting URL: http://vpacademic.yorku.ca/fusac/general_info.html 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Meeting Description: 

The Fifteenth Conference of the Finno-Ugric Studies Association of Canada will be held on May 29-30, 2006, at York University in Toronto, Canada, in conjunction with the Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities. Papers are welcome in all areas of Finno-Ugric research, such as anthropology, archaeology, folklore, history, linguistics, literature, music, paleo-archeology, etc.

Announcements with regard to the conference will be posted at
http://vpacademic.yorku.ca/fusac/general_info.html 

PROGRAM
The Fifteenth Conference of the Finno-Ugric Studies Association of Canada
April 29-30, 2006, York University in Toronto, Canada

May 28	ALL DAY		
Registration			

6:00	
Opening Reception of the exhibit Boundary Crossings from Finland
7:30	
CONCERT: Vox Finlandiae Chamber Choir, pianist Heidi Saario and soprano Karen Davidson

May 29		
VARI HALL 3006	

8:30-8:50	
Katarzyna Wojan 
Gdansk University, Poland
The analysis of homonymic community of Finnish and Russian language

8:50-9:10	
Peter Brown
Rhode Island College, U.S.A.
The inter-penetration of Finno-Ugric and Russian economic vocabulary in Northern and Central Russia by the 1600s

9:10-9:30	
Nikolai Butylov
Mordovian Regional Finno-Ugrian Social Fund Cooperation, Russian Federation, Republic of Mordovia		
Mordovian-German language contacts		

9:30-10:00	
Coffee break

10:00-10:45	
Keynote Presentation:  Gyula Décsy
Indiana University, U.S.A.
The Finno-Ugric segment of the European Union 

10:45-11:00	Coffee break

11:00-11:20	Gerson Klumpp
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München, Germany
Differential object marking in Komi Dialects

11:20-11:40	
Peep Nemvalts
Tallinn University, Estonia
Case marking of objects, subjects and predicatives in Estonian syntax-semantics interface (with special reference to Swedish Estonian)	

11:40-12:00	
Tiiu Salasoo
Roseville, N.S.W., Australia
Marking Estonian Substantives - How does it start?

12:00-1:30		
Lunch  Meeting: Round Table Discussion
Finno-Ugric(Uralic) Studies in North America and Worldwide

2:00-2:40		
Keynote Presentation:  Ilse Lehiste
Ohio State University, U.S.A.
Finno-Ugric prosody project

2:40-3:00		
James Blevins
University of Cambridge, U.K.
Prosodic and implicational structure in Estonian inflectional paradigms

3:00-3:20		
Marianne Bakró-Nagy
Institute of Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Phonetically motivated sound changes in Ugric (excrescent and metathesis)

3:20-3:50		
Coffee break

3:50-4:10		
Börje Vähämäki
University of Toronto
Finnish literature as Northern literature

4:10-4:30		
Amedeo Di Francesco
Instituto Universitario Orientale, Naples, Italy			
TBA

4:30-5:00		
Matthew Caples
Indiana University, U.S.A.
The activities of the Finno-Ugrianculture committee between the two world wars	

6:00	
Reception for FUSAC by the VP Academic, York University		

6:30			
Dinner  

8:00			
Social Program

May 30		
VARI HALL 1005	

8:30 - 8:50		
Nina Timofeyeva
Mari State University, Russian Federation, Republic of Mari El
The system of expressive means and stylistic devices in a Mari fairy tale

8:50 - 9:10		
Nicolas Osipov
Mari State University, Russian Federation, Republic of Mari El
Syntactical stylistic abilities in Mari fairy tales

9:10 - 9:30		
Coffee break

9:30 - 9:50		
Mikael Svonni
Umeå University, Sweden
The history of Ume Sámi - a new approach

9:50 - 10:10		
Andrea Amft
Umeå University, Sweden
Sami storytelling: Using humor as a means for solving and avoiding social conflict

10:10 - 10:30		
Zita McRobbie-Utasi
Simon Fraser University, Canada
Acoustic correlates of Skolt Saami vowel contrasts

10:30 - 10:50		
Coffee break

10:50 - 11:10	
Gábor Zaicz
Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Hungary
The age of Volgan Finno-Ugrians?

11:10 - 11:30	
Michele (Terray) Tibbs
University of Georgia	
Russian loanwords as internationalisms in the Balto-Finnic region

11:30 - 1:30	
Lunch

1:30 -1:50		
Beatrix Oszko
Institute of Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
On the history of the Hungarian syllable

1:50 - 2:10	
Les Zsoldos
Simon Fraser University, Canada	
Vowel harmony in the speech of Hungarian-English bilinguals

2:10 - 2:30	
Coffee break

2:30 - 2:50		
Tatyana Devyatkina
Saransk Cooperative Institute, Russian Federation, Mordovian Republic
Cosmogonic notions in Mordvinian mythology		

2:50 - 3:10		
Brent McKenzie
University of Western Ontario, Canada
Human beliefs and values on changing service expectations in
Estonia	

3:10 - 3:30		
Natalia Glukhova
Mari State University, Russian Federation, Republic of Mari El
The dynamics of a Mari woman's changing system of values in the 20th century		

3:30 - 4:00	
Coffee break

4:00 - 5:00	
GENERAL MEETING

5:00	
PRESIDENT'S  RECEPTION

6:30	
Dinner

8:00	
Klaus Härö's Mother of Mine (Äideistä parhain): Finland's entry in the category of best foreign film in the Oscar competition  (110 minutes)

NOTE:  this is a Preliminary Program:  Check for update at 
http://vpacademic.yorku.ca/fusac/general_info.html

-----------------------------------------------------------
LINGUIST List: Vol-17-1377	