Dear colleagues,

The conference «Indigenous languages in contact with Russian: morphosyntactic and semantic interference» will be held at Vinogradov Institute for Russian Language (RAS), Moscow on 30 November – 1 December 2018.

• Borrowing of grammatical and lexical patterns from Russian into indigenous languages of Russia.
• Radical changes in the grammar of indigenous languages under condition of language shift to Russian.
• Contact-induced features in the Russian speech of bilinguals, native speakers of indigenous languages.
• Code-switching and code-mixing.
• Grammar of Russian pidgins.

Topics which will not be discussed at the conference: sociological aspects of language contact without any linguistic issues; non-standard varieties of Russian outside Russia or the former USSR (including heritage Russian and Russian as a foreign language); methods of correcting interference when teaching Russian; dialectal and regional features of Russian for which there is no reasonable evidence for contact-induced origin; matter borrowing and problems of etymology.

We invite participants working on languages spoken in Russia, experts in the Russian language and/or in sociolinguistics. Talks based on new field data are particularly welcome, as well as corpus-based studies.

The conference programme will include two plenary presentations and oral presentations by other conference participants (20 minutes + 10 minutes for discussion). The working languages are Russian and English.
The deadline for abstract submission is 1 September 2018. Please, send your anonymous abstracts to the e-mail address ruslangcontact@gmail.com.

Notification of acceptance will be sent out no later than 8 October 2018.

Organizing fee: 500 rubles (ca. 7 euros).

A volume of proceedings is planned to be published after the conference, all participants will be invited to submit their papers.