LINGUIST List 17.1377

Thu May 04 2006

Confs: Finno-Ugric Ling/Toronto, Canada

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Message 1: 15th Conference of the Finno-Ugric Studies Association of Canada
Date: 02-May-2006
From: Zita McRobbie-Utasi <mcrobbiesfu.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: < click here to access email > 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 athttp://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