Indigenous languages of Russia in contact withRussian
15–16 September 2023
Vinogradov Russian Language Institute (RAS), Moscow
Program
Past Conferences
Call for papers
Dear colleagues,
The third conference «Indigenous languages of Russia in contact with Russian» will be held at Vinogradov Russian Language Institute (RAS), Moscow on 15–16 September 2023.
We invite abstract submissions addressing the following topics:
Borrowing of grammatical and lexical patterns from Russian into indigenous languages of Russia or between indigenous languages of Russia.
Radical changes in the grammar and lexicon of indigenous languages in the situation of language shift to Russian or to another language.
Contact-induced features in the Russian speech of native speakers of indigenous languages.
Russian-based pidgins.
Code-switching and code-mixing in the languages of Russia.
The conference aims to bring together researchers working on indigenous languages of Russia, experts in the Russian language, and sociolinguists. Papers based on new field data, as well as corpus-based studies are especially encouraged.
Topics which will not be discussed at the conference: sociological aspects of language contact without any linguistic issues; practical issues related to revitalization of minority languages, teaching Russian as L2 etc.; dialectal and regional features of Russian for which there is no reasonable evidence for contact-induced origin; problems of etymology.
The conference programme will include two plenary presentations and oral presentations by other conference participants (20 minutes + 10 minutes for discussion). Language of presentation: English or Russian.
The deadline for abstract submission is5 May15 May 2023. Anonymous abstracts should be sent to the e-mail address ruslangcontact@gmail.com.
The following information should be provided in the body of the e-mail:
title of your abstract,
the authors' first and last names, and affiliations,
your e-mail address and phone number.
Requirements for abstracts:
Max. 2 pages A4 (Times New Roman, 12 pt, single-spaced) including references and other possible supplementary material.
Language: English or Russian.
Notification of acceptance will be sent out no later than 15 June 2023. The conference will be in the offline format, with a possible option to participate online if necessary. Unfortunately, the organizers have no opportunity to cover transport or accommodation costs. Organizing fee for participating in-person: 700 rubles (ca. 9 euros).
Important dates:
5 May 2023: submission deadlineis extended till 15 May 2023
15 June 2023: notification of acceptance
15–16 September 2023: conference (Vinogradov Russian Language Institute (RAS), Moscow)
Organizers
The conference is organized by the working group “Russian in contact with indigenous languages of Russia” (Vinogradov Russian Language Institute (RAS), Department of corpus linguistics and linguistic poetics), together with colleagues from other organizations.
Organizing committee:
Anna Flores
Egor Kashkin (chair)
Olga Kazakevich
Irina Khomchenkova
Alexander Letuchiy
Vladimir Plungian
Julia Sinitsyna
Maria Emilia Winkler
Plenary speakers
Lenore A. Grenoble
(John Matthews Manly Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Linguistics & The College, University of Chicago / Director of the Arctic Linguistic Ecology Lab, M.K. Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University, Yakutsk, Russia)
Indigenous languages of Russia in contact with Russian
15–16 September 2023
Vinogradov Russian Language Institute (RAS), Moscow
Program
Previous Conferences
Call for papers
Dear colleagues,
The third conference «Indigenous languages of Russia in contact with Russian» will be held at Vinogradov Russian Language Institute (RAS), Moscow on 15–16 September 2023.
We invite abstract submissions addressing the following topics:
Borrowing of grammatical and lexical patterns from Russian into indigenous languages of Russia or between indigenous languages of Russia.
Radical changes in the grammar and lexicon of indigenous languages in the situation of language shift to Russian or to another language.
Contact-induced features in the Russian speech of native speakers of indigenous languages.
Russian-based pidgins.
Code-switching and code-mixing in the languages of Russia.
The conference aims to bring together researchers working on indigenous languages of Russia, experts in the Russian language, and sociolinguists. Papers based on new field data, as well as corpus-based studies are especially encouraged.
Topics which will not be discussed at the conference: sociological aspects of language contact without any linguistic issues; practical issues related to revitalization of minority languages, teaching Russian as L2 etc.; dialectal and regional features of Russian for which there is no reasonable evidence for contact-induced origin; problems of etymology.
The conference programme will include two plenary presentations and oral presentations by other conference participants (20 minutes + 10 minutes for discussion). Language of presentation: English or Russian.
The deadline for abstract submission is5 May15 May 2023. Anonymous abstracts should be sent to the e-mail address ruslangcontact@gmail.com.
The following information should be provided in the body of the e-mail:
title of your abstract,
the authors' first and last names, and affiliations,
your e-mail address and phone number.
Requirements for abstracts:
Max. 2 pages A4 (Times New Roman, 12 pt, single-spaced) including references and other possible supplementary material.
Language: English or Russian.
Notification of acceptance will be sent out no later than 15 June 2023. The conference will be in the offline format, with a possible option to participate online if necessary. Unfortunately, the organizers have no opportunity to cover transport or accommodation costs. Organizing fee for participating in-person: 700 rubles (ca. 9 euros).
Important dates:
5 May 2023: submission deadline is extended till 15 May 2023
15 June 2023: notification of acceptance
15–16 September 2023: conference (Vinogradov Russian Language Institute (RAS), Moscow)
Organizers
The conference is organized by the working group “Russian in contact with indigenous languages of Russia” (Vinogradov Russian Language Institute (RAS), Department of corpus linguistics and linguistic poetics), together with colleagues from other organizations.
Organizing committee:
Anna Flores
Egor Kashkin (chair)
Olga Kazakevich
Irina Khomchenkova
Alexander Letuchiy
Vladimir Plungian
Julia Sinitsyna
Maria Emilia Winkler
Plenary speakers
Lenore A. Grenoble
(John Matthews Manly Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Linguistics & The College, University of Chicago / Director of the Arctic Linguistic Ecology Lab, M.K. Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University, Yakutsk, Russia)
