LINGUIST List 18.1634

Tue May 29 2007

Calls: General Ling/Belgium; Morphology/Austria

Editor for this issue: Ania Kubisz <anialinguistlist.org>

Directory         1.    Peter Lauwers, 5th International Contrastive Linguistics Conference
         2.    Nino Amiridze, Morphological Variation and Change (Caucasus)
Message 1: 5th International Contrastive Linguistics Conference
Date: 29-May-2007
From: Peter Lauwers <peter.lauwersarts.kuleuven.be>
Subject: 5th International Contrastive Linguistics Conference


Full Title: 5th International Contrastive Linguistics Conference Short Title: ICLC-5

Date: 07-Jul-2008 - 09-Jul-2008 Location: Leuven, Belgium Contact Person: Peter Lauwers Meeting Email: ICLC5arts.kuleuven.be

Organising Committee (KULeuven) Prof. Nicole Delbecque Prof. Dirk Geeraerts Prof. Béatrice Lamiroy Prof. Piet Mertens Prof. Hans Smessaert Prof. Dirk Speelman Prof. William Van Belle Dr. Kris Heylen Dr. Karen Lahousse Dr. Peter Lauwers Dr. Stefania Marzo Dr. Ingrid Van Canegem-Ardijns Dr. Kristel Van Goethem Dr. Stijn Verleyen

Prof. Sylviane Granger (UCLouvain) Prof. Dominique Willems (Ghent University)

Scientific Committee Didier Bottineau (Université de Paris X-Nanterre) Emanuela Cresti (Università di Firenze) Henriëtte De Swart (Universiteit Utrecht ) José-María García Miguel (Universidad de Vigo) Claude Guimier (Université de Caen) Michael Herslund (Business School Copenhagen) Matthias Hüning (Freie Universität Berlin) Istvan Kecskes (Albany University) Carlos Moreno Cabrera (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hanssen (Leeds University) Luis Iglesias Rábade (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela) Dingfang Shu (Shanghai International Studies University) Petra Sleeman (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) Marleen Van Peteghem (Université de Lille 3) Ake Viberg (Uppsala Universitet)
Message 2: Morphological Variation and Change (Caucasus)
Date: 28-May-2007
From: Nino Amiridze <Nino.Amiridzelet.uu.nl>
Subject: Morphological Variation and Change (Caucasus)



Full Title: Morphological Variation and Change (Caucasus) Short Title: MVCLC

Date: 03-Feb-2008 - 06-Feb-2008 Location: Vienna, Austria Contact Person: Nino Amiridze Meeting Email: Nino.Amiridzelet.uu.nl Web Site: http://www.let.uu.nl/~nino.amiridze/personal/organization/mvclc.html

Linguistic Field(s): Morphology

Call Deadline: 17-Sep-2007

Meeting Description

Morphological Variation and Change in Languages of the Caucasus Workshop at the 13th International Morphology Meeting February 2008, Vienna, Austria http://www.let.uu.nl/~nino.amiridze/personal/organization/mvclc.html

A great diversity of languages is spoken in the Caucasus, most of which have rich inflectional systems, on the noun (e.g. North-East Caucasian), on the verb (e.g. North-West Caucasian), or both (e.g. South Caucasian).

The Caucasus offers rich material for studying genetically diverse languages being in close contact for centuries, e.g. Georgian (South Caucasian) with Abkhaz (North-West Caucasian); Ossetian (Indo-European) and Batsbi (North-East Caucasian); Armenian (Indo-European) with Azeri (Turkic); or Kumyk (Turkic) with major North-East Caucasian languages of Daghestan; or, for a much shorter period, the languages indigenous to the region being in contact with the unrelated Russian and Turkish. While much is known about the contemporary grammar of individual languages of the Caucasus, much less can be said with regard to the various contact situations and their impact on the morphosyntax of individual languages. Our workshop aims to broaden the knowledge on this subject.

We invite researchers working on morphological variation and change in the languages spoken in the Caucasus to submit abstracts for participation in the workshop, planned to be held at the 13th International Morphology Meeting. We would like to invite contributions dealing with contact-induced morphological changes in any language of the Caucasus region. This includes investigations of changes driven by influence from any other language of the region, irrespective of the genetic affiliation of the languages in contact. Of great interest are not only inter-family, but also somewhat more subtle intra-family contacts, such as contacts between various North-East Caucasian languages spoken in adjacent areas or neighboring villages. Contributions exploring morphological variation and language-internal morphological changes are also welcome.

Important Dates

Abstract submission: September 17, 2007 Notification: October 31, 2007 Workshop: In the first week of February, 2008 (The exact date will be announced later)

Organizers

- Nino Amiridze, Utrecht University (The Netherlands) - Michael Daniel, Moscow State University (Russia) - Silvia Kutscher, University of Cologne (Germany)

Publication

If after the workshop there will be interest in publishing either a proceedings or a special journal issue, then the organizers will take responsibility of finding a suitable forum and will act as editors.

Submission

Abstracts (maximum 3 pages, including data and references) have to be submitted electronically as portable document format (.pdf) or Microsoft Word (.doc) files via the EasyChair conference management system: http://www.easychair.org/MVCLC2008/.

If you do not have an EasyChair account, click on the button ''I have no EasyChair Account'' on that page and follow the instructions. When you receive a password, you can enter the site and upload your abstract.

Workshop Web Page

http://www.let.uu.nl/~nino.amiridze/personal/organization/mvclc.html