LINGUIST List 30.2189
Fri May 24 2019
Calls: Uralic; General Linguistics, Morphology, Syntax, Typology/Austria
Editor for this issue: Everett Green <everettlinguistlist.org>
Date: 24-May-2019
From: Ksenia Shagal <ksenia.shagal
gmail.com>
Subject: Contact Phenomena in the Grammar of Uralic Languages
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Date: 16-Aug-2020 - 21-Aug-2020
Location: Vienna, Austria
Contact Person: Ksenia Shagal
Meeting Email:
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https://cifu13.univie.ac.at/programme/symposia/#B8
Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Morphology; Syntax; Typology
Language Family(ies): Uralic
Call Deadline: 30-Sep-2019
Meeting Description:
Languages belonging to the Uralic family are spoken on a vast territory throughout Eurasia, and despite sharing a number of important structural properties, they also demonstrate considerable diversity in all language domains, including morphology and syntax. Importantly, the distribution of various grammatical properties in the languages is not random, but it clearly reflects their geographical distribution and different contact histories. For instance, Western Uralic languages (e.g. Finnish and Hungarian), which have been influenced by Slavic, Germanic and Baltic varieties, are in many respects well-deserved members of the Standard Average European linguistic area. On the other hand, Eastern Uralic varieties (e.g. Nenets and Khanty), which have been in contact with northern Eurasian languages, such as Turkic and Yeniseian, exhibit a number of features considered as areal traits in Siberia.
The aim of the workshop is to bring together specialists in various Uralic languages working on contact phenomena in the domain of grammar. We welcome contributions focusing on particular cases of contact-induced grammatical change, as well as more general papers discussing the methodology of language contact research and challenges specific to the Uralic family. Possible topics for talks may relate to (but are not restricted to) the following:
- contact-induced grammaticalization,
- matter and pattern borrowing in contact situations,
- role of language contact in paradigm formation and morphological levelling,
- mechanisms of contact-induced language change,
- areal typological studies of particular grammatical features or constructions,
- linguistic convergence in the Volga-Kama area,
- interaction of Uralic idioms with non-standard varieties of Russian,
- case studies of language contact from a broader perspective of historical sociolinguistics.
After the workshop, we plan to publish a collection of articles by the participants as an edited volume or a special issue of a journal. The language of both the workshop and the joint publication will be English.
Call for Papers:
Workshop “Contact phenomena in the grammar of Uralic languages” at CIFU XIII (Vienna, August 16-21, 2020)
Deadline for abstract submission: September 30, 2019
Notification of acceptance: March 1, 2020
Abstract proposals (max. 3000 characters including spaces) must be submitted by September 30, 2019, using the electronic submission tool (
https://cifu13.univie.ac.at/call/online-submission/, abstracts submitted by any other means cannot be considered). If you have problems with the submission tool, please contact the event management office of the University of Vienna at congress
univie.ac.at. For more information on the submission process and the congress in general, see
https://cifu13.univie.ac.at/call/.
For all correspondence concerning the workshop, please contact the organizers,
Ksenia Shagal (ksenia.shagal
gmail.com)
Alexey Kozlov (scripturas
mail.ru)
Please feel free to share this call with all your colleagues who might be interested in the workshop!
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