Language contact in the circumpolar world
Institute of Linguistics RAS, Moscow, Russia; 27-29 October 2017<
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The circumpolar world includes the Arctic as defined by AMAP (A
rctic Monitoring and Assessment Program) with adjacent areas. This vast ter
ritory has a number of common features that set it apart from any other par
t of the world: extremely harsh climate conditions, low population density,
large distances between speakers of different languages or even of the sam
e language, seasonal migrations for hundreds of miles, prevalence of hunter
-gatherers with absolutely no traditional farming, etc. While language cont
act has been a popular topic of linguistic research in the last couple of d
ecades, there have been few studies that would concentrate on the circumpol
ar region and specifics of language contact in the area.
The ‘L
anguage contact in the circumpolar world’ conference will bring together re
searchers studying language contact in the North, and discussions of any as
pect of the topic are welcome. Of particular importance is the question of
whether language contact in the circumpolar world is different from that of
other areas, and if so, in which particular respects.
The conf
erence will feature papers selected by the Organizing committee, invited le
ctures by leading international experts specializing in the topic, and two
extended tutorials on particular parts of the circumpolar world, ‘Language
Contact in Arctic Canada & Greenland’ by Michael Fortesque (University
of Copenhagen) and ‘Language Contact in Arctic Europe’ by Jussi Ylikoski (T
he Arctic University of Norway & University of Oulu).
The confere nce is organized by a new research group on Language Contact in the Circump olar World at the Institute of Linguistics, supported by the Russian Scienc e Foundation, see http://iling-ran.ru/main/departments/typol_compar/circum polar/eng for more details.
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