LINGUIST List 17.1789

Tue Jun 13 2006

Calls: Slavic Ling/UK;Caucasian Typology/France

Editor for this issue: Kevin Burrows <kevinlinguistlist.org>


Directory         1.    Jan Fellerer, Annual Conference of the British Association for Slavonic and Eastern European Studies
        2.    Anaid Donabedian-Demopoulos, Morphosyntax of Caucasian Languages - Areal Typology


Message 1: Annual Conference of the British Association for Slavonic and Eastern European Studies
Date: 13-Jun-2006
From: Jan Fellerer <jan.fellererwolfson.ox.ac.uk>
Subject: Annual Conference of the British Association for Slavonic and Eastern European Studies



Full Title: Annual Conference of the British Association for Slavonic and Eastern European Studies Short Title: BASEES
Date: 31-Mar-2007 - 02-Apr-2007 Location: Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge University, United Kingdom Contact Person: Jan Fellerer
Meeting Email: < click here to access email >
Web Site: http://www.basees.org.uk
Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Language Family(ies): Slavic Subgroup

Call Deadline: 01-Oct-2006

Meeting Description:

Abstracts are invited for individual 20-minute papers or for entirepanels (2-3 papers) in any area of Slavonic philology, linguistics,language teaching, and translation studies. The working languages ofthe conference are English and Russian.

ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR SLAVONICAND EAST EUROPEAN STUDIES 2007

CALL FOR PAPERS IN LANGUAGES AND LINGUISTICS

The annual conference of the British Association for Slavonic and EastEuropean Studies (BASEES) will take place at Fitzwilliam College,Cambridge University (UK), between 31 March - 2 April 2007.Abstracts are invited for individual 20-minute papers or for entirepanels (2-3 papers) in any area of Slavonic philology, linguistics,language teaching, and translation studies. The working languages ofthe conference are English and Russian.

At this year's conference we had around forty papers in formallinguistics, historical linguistics, applied linguistics, semiotics,language teaching, and translation studies presented by academicsand graduate students from institutions in the UK and abroad. Theannual convention as a whole brings together scholars from a widerange of disciplines including literary studies, linguistics, culturalstudies, history, economics, politics, sociology, film and mediastudies as they pertain to Central and Eastern Europe and to theformer Soviet Union.

Abstracts for languages and linguistics papers or panels should besent, with full contact details, by 1 October 2006 to Jan Fellerer at

jan.fellererwolfson.ox.ac.uk,

or at the following address:

Wolfson CollegeGB-Oxford OX2 6UDUnited Kingdom.

Further details are available on the website at www.basees.org.uk.

Apologies for cross-posting of this notice.



Message 2: Morphosyntax of Caucasian Languages - Areal Typology
Date: 13-Jun-2006
From: Anaid Donabedian-Demopoulos <adonabedianinalco.fr>
Subject: Morphosyntax of Caucasian Languages - Areal Typology



Full Title: Morphosyntax of Caucasian Languages - Areal Typology
Date: 11-Dec-2006 - 14-Dec-2006 Location: Paris, France Contact Person: Gilles Authier
Meeting Email: < click here to access email >
Web Site: http://www.inalco.fr/ina_gabarit_rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=1521
Linguistic Field(s): Language Description; Syntax; Typology

Language Family(ies): Armenian; East Caucasian; Kartvelian; Northwest Caucasian; Persian; Turkish Subgroup

Call Deadline: 15-Aug-2006

Meeting Description:

Workshop on Caucasian morphosyntax with emphasis on areal typology, to be held at the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, Paris, France, on December 11-14th, 2006

This workshop will bring together linguists working on languages spoken in and around the Caucasus, including Indo-European and Turkic languages of adjacent areas.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Morphosyntax of Caucasian Languages(with emphasis on areal typology)

The Caucasology group of CNRS team Proche-Orient, Iran-Caucase (FRE2454) and Cercle de Linguistique de l'Inalco organizes a Workshop on Caucasian morphosyntax with emphasis on areal typology, to be held at the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, Paris, France, on December 11-14th, 2006

Scientific commitee: Anaïd Donabedian, Denis Creissels and Gilles Authier

Keynote speakers:Acad. Alexander E. Kibrik, MoscouMasha Koptevskaya-Tamm, Stockholm

This workshop will bring together linguists working on languages spoken in and around the Caucasus, including Indo-European and Turkic languages of adjacent areas.

Priority will be given to papers addressing :1) marking, semantics and actancy of Tenses-Modes-Aspects2) subordinate clauses and finite / nonfinite distinction in verbal forms.

Registration fees, including four lunches : 50 euros ; Participants from Eastern Europe may apply for travel & hotel expenses to be taken care of by our sponsors.

Please send titles before July 1st and abstracts before August 15th by email (preferably in PDF format) to gilles.authierfree.fr .