30.1946, Calls: Uralic; General Linguistics, Linguistic Theories, Phonetics, Phonology/Austria

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Subject: 30.1946, Calls: Uralic; General Linguistics, Linguistic Theories, Phonetics, Phonology/Austria

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Date: Tue, 07 May 2019 17:30:43
From: László Fejes [fejes at nytud.hu]
Subject: Vowel harmony symposium at Congressus XIII Internationalis Fenno-Ugristarum

Full Title: Vowel harmony symposium at Congressus XIII Internationalis Fenno-Ugristarum 

Date: 16-Aug-2020 - 21-Aug-2020
Location: Vienna, Austria 
Contact Person: László Fejes
Meeting Email: fejes at nytud.hu
Web Site: https://cifu13.univie.ac.at/programme/symposia/#B4 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Linguistic Theories; Phonetics; Phonology 

Subject Language(s): Erzya (myv)
                     Estonian (est)
                     Finnish (fin)
                     Hungarian (hun)
                     Kamas (xas)
                     Karelian (krl)
                     Khanty (kca)
                     Komi-Permyak (koi)
                     Komi-Zyrian (kpv)
                     Mansi (mns)
                     Mari, Eastern (mhr)
                     Mari, Western (mrj)
                     Nenets (yrk)
                     Nganasan (nio)
                     Udmurt (udm)
                     Veps (vep)
                     Votic (vot)

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.
In 2020, the programme includes a symposium on vowel harmony in Uralic
languages.

Call for Papers:

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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