LINGUIST List 17.3243

Tue Nov 07 2006

Confs: Uralic Lang, Saami/Norway

Editor for this issue: Jeremy Taylor <jeremylinguistlist.org>

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Directory         1.    Ove Lorentz, Saami Linguistics Symposium

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Message 1: Saami Linguistics Symposium
Date: 07-Nov-2006
From: Ove Lorentz <ove.lorentzhum.uit.no>
Subject: Saami Linguistics Symposium


Saami Linguistics Symposium

Date: 23-Nov-2006 - 24-Nov-2006 Location: University of Tromsø, Norway Contact: Ove Lorentz Contact Email: ove.lorentzhum.uit.no Meeting URL: http://www.hum.uit.no/lapponic

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Subject Language(s): Saami, Inari (smn) Saami, Kildin (sjd) Saami, Lule (smj) Saami, North (sme) Saami, Skolt (sms) Saami, South (sma)

Language Family(ies): Uralic Meeting Description:

A two-day workshop on the structure of the Saami (Lapponic) languages at the University of Tromsø.

The programme, abstracts and registration details are now available at http://www.hum.uit.no/lapponic .

Invited speakers: Pekka Sammallahti, Oulu University Ida Toivonen, Carleton University Trond Trosterud, University of Tromsø

Recently an interest in Saami has begun to take root among linguists outside Scandinavia, and yet there has so far been little contact across traditions between scholars working on problems relating to grammar. The time would seem to be ripe to try and draw together researchers in different traditions with an interest in the structure of the Saami languages. Our hope is that, by doing this, we will contribute to increasing awareness of each other's work and accelerating research in the area by facilitating the crystallization of new collaborative projects.