tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62430484532205474252024-03-04T22:26:12.860-08:00Graduate Conference on Areal Linguistics, Grammar and ContactsTartu, Estonia, 04.05.2012 - 06.05.2012Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6243048453220547425.post-40066377063266100042013-06-06T10:43:00.001-07:002013-06-06T11:04:36.471-07:00Proceedings published!<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The proceedings of last spring's graduate conference have finally been published, as a special issue of the Journal of Estonian and Finno-Ugric Linguistics (ESUKA-JEFUL), entitled "Areal Linguistics, Grammar and Contacts". As the journal is committed to open access, all of the papers of the collection, as well as all previous issues, are freely accessible online, at <a class="" href="http://jeful.ut.ee/" target="_blank">http://jeful.ut.ee</a> . Hard copies may be ordered from the University Tartu Press (see <a class="" href="https://snt142.mail.live.com/mail/17.1.6528.6001/Compose/www.tyk.ee" target="_blank">www.tyk.ee</a> ). The authors will be receiving a free hard copy by mail.<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Preface<i> Andres Karjus</i></span></span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Syntactic change in an immigrant language: from non-finite to finite subordinate clauses in Turkish<i> Pelin Onar Valk, Ad Backus</i></span></span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Contact-induced sound change: analysis of the alveolar lateral fricative in Yami<i> Li-Fang Lai, Huiju Hsu</i></span></span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Alignment in lingua receptiva: from automaticity towards monitored code-switching<i> Daria Daria Bahtina-Jantsikene</i></span></span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">From code-switching to a mixed code: the role of parenthetical verbs in the emerging Polish-Russian mixed code in Lithuania <i>Brigita Séguis</i></span></span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The la-form: Russian verbs in Nanai speech <i>Sofia Oskolskaya, Natasha Stoynova</i></span></span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Nanai argument structure: Russian influence <i>Ksenia Shagal</i></span></span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The adoption of Russian conjunctions in Udmurt <i>Inna Kaysina</i></span></span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Loanwords and stylistics: on the gallicisms in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight </span><i><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>Maria Volkonskaya</i></span></i></span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Syntactic strategies of exclamatives <i>Natalia Zevakhina</i></span></span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Language death and revival: Cornish as a minority language in UK <i>Zsuzsanna Renkó-Michelsén</i></span></span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Finno-Ugric substrate appellatives in Russian dialects of the Upper Kama<i> Roman Gaidamaško</i></span><i><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></i></span></span></li>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6243048453220547425.post-86474385833242555272012-09-15T13:13:00.003-07:002012-09-24T02:22:51.026-07:00Call for Proceedings<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Good news everyone! We have reached a tentative agreement with a potential publisher. If everything goes according to plan, the conference proceedings will be published as a special edition of the Journal of Estonian and Finno-Ugric Linguistics (see <a href="http://jeful.ut.ee/">http://jeful.ut.ee</a> ), entitled “Proceedings of the Graduate Conference on Areal Linguistics, Grammar and Contacts”. JEFUL is an open access journal, meaning that in addition to being published in the form of a paperback journal, all of its issues are freely available online as well (as will be our proceedings collection).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The collection will be comprised of articles authored (or coauthored) by participants who gave a talk at the conference. As this is a special issue, the topics are by no means limited to Finno-Ugric linguistics. The proceedings should, however, still fall within the general themes of the conference. The only criterion for publication besides this constraint is the quality of the submission, which is decided on the basis of blind peer review (an international board of reviewers is being assembled for the occasion of the special issue). Only articles written in English will be considered.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In order to publish an article, you are required to submit a provisional title and a short summary of your article before the end of September, using this form: <a href="http://tinyurl.com/arealling-proceedings">http://tinyurl.com/arealling-proceedings</a>. Please do so even if you article will have the exact same title as your conference talk. Those who have acknowledged their intent to publish by that time will be contacted with further details on the submission procedure. Full articles should be submitted by the end of November. During January, the authors will receive feedback from the reviewers and will have time to revise their articles. The proceedings issue is planned to be published during spring 2012.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />To sum it up:<br />- 30.09. Deadline to submit a provisional title and summary.<br />- 30.11. Full article submission deadline.<br />- January 2013. Feedback from reviewers.<br />- Spring 2013. Publication of the proceedings.<br /><br />If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact us.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Update</b> concerning article length: this is not specified at the moment. We will discuss the matter with the journal in October once we have received all the summary submissions. <i>Probably </i>no limits will be necessary.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6243048453220547425.post-61596160928645627772012-04-07T08:27:00.002-07:002012-05-02T03:23:48.458-07:00Conference Program Available<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;">The conference program is now available in the <a href="http://arealling.ut.ee/p/schedule.html">Program </a>section. The Accommodation&Travel section has been updated with detailed maps and guidelines on how to navigate your way around Tartu and reach the conference venue. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">03.05. - An evening gathering for those who have arrived already<span style="font-size: x-small;"> (at 20.00, </span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Kolme ahvi pub, <a href="http://maps.google.ee/maps?q=R%C3%BC%C3%BCtli+12+map&hl=et&ie=UTF8&client=firefox-a&hnear=R%C3%BC%C3%BCtli+12,+51007+Tartu,+Tartumaa&gl=ee&t=m&z=15" target="_blank">Rüütli street 12)</a></span></span></span>
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<span style="font-size: small;">04.05. - Registration from 9.30 AM, conference opening at 10.15 AM, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> - Reception and dinner in the evening.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">05.05. - The second conference day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">06.05. - The last conference day, with the last plenary in the afternoon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Axel Holvoet will also be giving two lectures before the beginning of the conference, on the 3rd of May.</span><i><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-size: small;">- Interpretive deontics and the paradigms of imperatives. </span></i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">12-14 PM, at Jakobi street 2, room 10<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">3</span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><i><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-size: small;">- On the locus, semantic scope and development of definiteness markers.</span></i><span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">14-16 PM, at Jakobi street 2, room 106</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Everybody is welcome to attend all talks and lectures, regardless of whether they are giving a talk at the conference or not. There is no participation fee.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">We are also planning to compile and publish a peer-reviewed proceedings
collection after the conference. Negotiations with potential publishers
are in progress.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6243048453220547425.post-61288632022331353412011-12-14T14:46:00.000-08:002012-01-11T15:07:20.672-08:00Free Accommodation!<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;">We have good news to those considering participation in the </span><span style="font-size: small;">Graduate Conference on Areal Linguistics, Grammar and Contacts - thanks to the generous support from the <a href="http://www.fl.ut.ee/kfsdk" target="_blank">Doctoral School of Linguistics, Philosophy and Semiotics</a>, we are able to provide <b>free </b>accommodation during the conference to a limited number of participants (in double rooms, at the <a href="http://www.starest.ee/web/?wa_site_id=2" target="_blank">Starest Hotel</a> in a quiet suburb of Tartu). To be eligible, you must:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">- Submit an abstract, get accepted and <b>give a talk at the conference</b> (the Scientific Committee will announce their decisions in February; speakers will be notified through email and on this website)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">- Register early: this is a <b>first-come-first-served </b>offer. Conference registration will open on this website as soon as the </span><span style="font-size: small;">Scientific Committee is done evaluating the abstracts. You will be given a code with which to book the room by yourself (no advance payment required).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Those interested in accommodation in a more central location (although the Starest is not too far away either) can browse the listing of accommodation options <a href="http://www.visittartu.com/tartu-city-tourism-information/accommodation-in-tartu" target="_blank">here</a>. Those looking for something cheap yet cosy might be interested in the <a href="http://loominghostel.ee/eng/" target="_blank">Looming Hostel</a> - being a registered participant of the conference (presenting or not) entitles you to a <b>15% discount</b> from the regular price!</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6243048453220547425.post-41907520720292093522011-07-30T09:03:00.000-07:002012-04-09T03:12:01.552-07:00Welcome to Tartu!<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;">The Graduate Conference on Areal Linguistics, Grammar and Contacts will take place in the sunny springtime Tartu, Estonia, from the <b>4th until the 6th of May 2012</b>.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> The conference is aimed at MA and PhD students, postdocs and young researchers with interests in language contact related topics, areal linguistics and typology. The purpose of the conference is to offer aspiring linguists the chance to present their work, receive broad-based feedback, and get acquainted with the perspectives and research themes beyond the borders of one's homeland. We also see this gathering as an international meeting place for young linguists who share similar research interests or work on the same languages. We invite talks dealing with research topics centered around (but not necessarily limited to) the following themes:</span></div>
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<li><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Contact-induced phonological, morphological, syntactic and lexical change;</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Lexical and grammatical replication, shared grammaticalization;</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Typological investigations and wider perspectives on linguistic areas;</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Circum-Baltic languages in general;</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Language contact and sociolinguistics; </span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Language contact and dialectal variation;</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">L1 and L2 acquisition related matters in connection with the overall themes; </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Globalization and its effect on minor(ity) languages</span><span style="color: black; font-size: small;">;</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Synchronic, diachronic and panchronic approaches to language contact and linguistic areas.</span></li>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Due to the location of the event, there is probably going to be a number of talks dealing with Circum-Baltic languages, but other language contact areas such as the Balkans, the Caucasus or Europe in general, etc. are</span><span style="font-size: small;"> more than welcome, as are presentations dealing with a relevant topic in a single language or comparisons of multiple larger areas. Note that submitting an abstract is not a prerequisite for participation, but certainly highly </span><span style="font-size: small;">encouraged. </span><br />
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<li><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm</b> (Stockholm University)</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Axel Holvoet</b> (University of Warsaw, Vilnius University)</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Florian Siegl </b>(University of Helsinki)</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: small;">Tuomas Johannes Huumo (University of Turku, University of Tartu)</span>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The event will be followed by the International Finno-Ugric Students Conference (<a href="http://www.ifusco.eu/en" target="_blank"><b>IFUSCO</b></a> - see their new homepage for updates), which will take place in Tartu from the 8th of May until the 11th of May 2012. </span></div>
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