LINGUIST List 30.1862

Thu May 02 2019

Summer Schools: Linguistic Theory, Meet Languages of the Caucasus! / Greece

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Date: 02-May-2019
From: Zach Wellstood <zcw209umd.edu>
Subject: Linguistic Theory, Meet Languages of the Caucasus! / Greece
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Host Institution: University of Crete
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/creteling-caucasus/home

Dates: 24-Jul-2019 - 24-Jul-2019
Location: Rethymnon, Crete, Greece

Focus: Languages of the Caucasus.
Minimum Education Level: BA

Description:
The Caucasus is often called “the mountain of tongues”; this relatively small landmass between the Black and the Caspian Sea is home to almost a hundred languages, with three families indigenous to the area: Kartvelian, Nakh-Dagestanian, and Northwest Caucasian. The empirical base of general linguistics has been greatly enriched by sophisticated descriptive work on Caucasian languages. Furthermore, over the past twenty years or so, these languages have begun to make their entry into the arena of theoretical linguistics. Their potential, in terms of contributing directly to general theory and challenging existing theoretical constructs, is enormous. This workshop serves two related goals: First, it presents the richness of languages of the Caucasus to the general audience of linguists who do not necessarily work on these languages. Second, the workshop serves as an introduction to a number of theoretical challenges posed by these languages and as a platform for future topics of theoretical importance that can be explored in these languages. Finally, the workshop is a celebration of the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Languages of the Caucasus (edited by Maria Polinsky).

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                      Applied Linguistics
                      Cognitive Science
                      Discourse Analysis
                      General Linguistics
                      Historical Linguistics
                      Language Documentation
                      Linguistic Theories
                      Morphology
                      Neurolinguistics
                      Phonetics
                      Phonology
                      Pragmatics
                      Psycholinguistics
                      Semantics
                      Sociolinguistics
                      Syntax
                      Text/Corpus Linguistics
                      Translation
                      Typology

Registration: 02-May-2019 to 15-May-2019
Contact Person: Maria Polinsky
                Email: polinskyumd.edu


Registration Instructions:



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