30.264, Calls: Uralic; Anthro Ling, Gen Ling, Historical Ling, Socioling/Austria

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LINGUIST List: Vol-30-264. Wed Jan 16 2019. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 30.264, Calls: Uralic; Anthro Ling, Gen Ling, Historical Ling, Socioling/Austria

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Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 22:22:07
From: László Fejes [fejes at nytud.hu]
Subject: Congressus XIII Internationalis Fenno-Ugristarum

Full Title: Congressus XIII Internationalis Fenno-Ugristarum 
Short Title: CIFU XIII 

Date: 16-Aug-2020 - 21-Aug-2020
Location: Vienna, Austria 
Contact Person: Johanna Laakso
Meeting Email: cifu13 at univie.ac.at
Web Site: http://cifu13.univie.ac.at 

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Sociolinguistics 

Language Family(ies): Uralic 

Call Deadline: 30-Sep-2019 

Meeting Description:

The International Congress for Finno-Ugric Studies (Congressus Internationalis
Fenno-Ugristarum, CIFU) is the most important international event in the world
of Finno-Ugric (Uralic) studies. It is organized since 1960 every five years.
Traditionally, the congress has been hosted by “Finno-Ugric countries”,
alternating since 1990 between Hungary, Finland, Estonia, and Russia. However,
at the 12th CIFU in Oulu, 2015, it was decided that for the first time in its
history, the CIFU of 2020 would take place outside these countries, in Vienna.
We at the Finno-Ugric Department of the University of Vienna are honoured by
this important task and the confidence placed in us. We also see it as an
important reminder about the international character of Finno-Ugric studies,
transcending the borders of states, regions, national research traditions and
schools.

We invite all interested colleagues to the XIII International Congress for
Finno-Ugric Studies, which will take place in Vienna on August 16–21, 2020.
The programme will consist of plenary papers, symposia, and general session
papers. The congress will have no single particular theme: contributions from
any area within Finno-Ugric/Uralic studies in the wide sense are welcome.
However, we would like to point out that papers representing Hungarian,
Finnish, or Estonian studies without wider international, contrastive or
comparative relevance would be better placed at a conference with a more
specific theme.

Call for Papers:

The XIII International Congress for Finno-Ugric Studies will take place in
Vienna on August 16–21, 2020. The programme includes a symposium on vowel
harmony in Uralic languages.

Vowel harmony is considered to be a feature typical of Uralic languages. Vowel
harmony (front/back) is reconstructed for Proto-Uralic, Proto-Samoyedic and
Proto-Finno-Ugric. Many of the contemporary Uralic languages have preserved
vowel harmony, although the pattern has changed compared to the original
(reconstructed) one. Other languages have lost the original vowel harmony, but
some of these have developed a new vowel harmony system. Sometimes there are
considerable differences between the dialects of the same language.

Our knowledge of vowel harmony in Uralic languages is very limited. There is
only sporadic information available in handbooks on various Uralic languages.
Therefore we invite papers on the following topics:

>From a historical perspective:

- reconstructing vowel harmony for earlier (undocumented) stages of language
history;
- vowel harmony in linguistic records (archives, databases, etc): problems and
possibilities of analysis.

>From a dialectological perspective:

- detailed description of vowel harmony in specific dialects;
- comparative description of vowel harmony systems in different dialects of
the same language.

>From a sociolinguistic perspective:

- vowel harmony and language death: vowel harmony in the language of
semi-speakers;
- vowel harmony in indicating style, register etc.

>From the perspective of language contact:

- phenomena in vowel harmony that result from language contact;
- emergence, development or disappearance of vowel harmony as a result of
language contact;
- areal features of vowel harmony.

>From a typological perspective:

- vowel harmony in Uralic languages from a cross-linguistic point of view;
- contrastive study of vowel harmony systems in different Uralic languages.

>From a theoretical perspective:

- exceptionality in harmony;
- disharmony and antiharmony;
- variation in harmony;
- neutrality in harmony;
- the domain of harmony;
- phonetic bases of harmony;
- morphological factors in vowel harmony;
- experimental studies of vowel harmony.

Papers investigating less studied Uralic languages (i.e. other than Hungarian,
Finnish or Estonian) have preference.

The languages of the symposium are English and Russian. If your talk is in
Russian, having the visual support of your presentation (slides, handout) in
English is recommended.

Papers based on the presentations will be published in a special number of
Acta Linguistica Academica. 

Organizers:

Fejes, László (RIL HAS)
Rebrus, Péter (RIL HAS)
Szigetvári, Péter (ELTE)
Törkenczy, Miklós (ELTE, RIL HAS)

Contact person:

Fejes, László (fejes at nytud.hu) 

Abstract proposals must be submitted by September 30, 2019, using the
electronic submission tool
(https://cifu13.univie.ac.at/call/online-submission/). Please, remember to
select symposium B.4 Vowel harmony. 

The abstracts must be in English. If your presentation is in Russian, please,
give the title in Russian. The maximum length of each abstract is 3000
characters. Each participant can submit maximally two abstracts: one as the
lead author (presenting author), one as a co-author. Abstracts which for
technical or thematic reasons cannot be included into our symposium will be
reviewed as potential section papers.

You will be notified of the acceptance or rejection of your paper by March 1,
2020. The accepted abstracts will be published on the congress website. (In
case the author of an accepted abstract does not register at the congress, the
abstract will be removed.)

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