29.5094, Calls: East Caucasian; Northwest Caucasian; Kartvelian; Gen Ling, Lang Doc, Ling Theories, Semantics, Socioling/Greece

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Subject: 29.5094, Calls: East Caucasian; Northwest Caucasian; Kartvelian; Gen Ling, Lang Doc, Ling Theories, Semantics, Socioling/Greece

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Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2018 00:00:32
From: Zach Wellstood [zcw209 at umd.edu]
Subject: Linguistic Theory, Meet Languages of the Caucasus!

 
Full Title: Linguistic Theory, Meet Languages of the Caucasus! 

Date: 24-Jul-2019 - 24-Jul-2019
Location: Rethymnon, Crete, Greece 
Contact Person: Maria Polinsky
Meeting Email: polinsky at umd.edu
Web Site: https://sites.google.com/view/creteling-caucasus/home 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Language Documentation; Linguistic Theories; Semantics; Sociolinguistics 

Language Family(ies): East Caucasian; Kartvelian; Northwest Caucasian 

Call Deadline: 20-Mar-2019 

Meeting Description:

The Caucasus is often called “the mountain of tongues”; this relatively small
landmass between the Black and the Caspian Sea is home to almost a hundred
languages, with three families indigenous to the area: Kartvelian,
Nakh-Dagestanian, and Northwest Caucasian. The empirical base of general
linguistics has been greatly enriched by sophisticated descriptive work on
Caucasian languages. Furthermore, over the past twenty years or so, these
languages have begun to make their entry into the arena of theoretical
linguistics. Their potential, in terms of contributing directly to general
theory and challenging existing theoretical constructs, is enormous. This
workshop serves two related goals: First, it presents the richness of
languages of the Caucasus to the general audience of linguists who do not
necessarily work on these languages. Second, the workshop serves as an
introduction to a number of theoretical challenges posed by these languages
and as a platform for future topics of theoretical importance that can be
explored in these languages. Finally, the workshop is a celebration of the
forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Languages of the Caucasus (edited by Maria
Polinsky).


Call for Papers:

The workshop will be accompanied by a poster session.
Posters can examine any of the languages of the area as long as they make a
connection to theoretically relevant issues. All theoretical approaches are
welcome, from functional to formal, and from primary-data-based to
experimental.

Please submit your one-page abstract by March 20, 2019. (References are not
included in the page count.) Submissions should be in PDF format sent as an
attachment to Linguis.v1cknrrb0fgl6196 at u.box.com; please provide the author(s)
name(s), affiliation(s) and contact details on the first page of the PDF. One
person can submit one single-authored and one co-authored abstract.

Notification of acceptance will be sent out in April 2019.




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