Language Contact and Language Change in Western Asia
The conference “Language Contact and Language Change in Western Asia” focuses on multilingualism in Western Asia. Within Western Asia, we aim at focusing the Kurdish-populated areas in the regions of Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey and the neighboring countries Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia. In this area, several Indo-European varieties are spoken, including Armenian, Kurdish varieties, and Persian. A number of non-Indo-European languages are spoken as well, such as Azeri Turkic, Arabic, Neo-Aramaic, and Turkish. Finally Georgian and other Caucasian languages are also spoken in the region. Most of the above-mentioned languages exhibit a suprastratum of Semitic, Iranian and Turkic languages due to their close contact for centuries.
The conference explores the use of corpus methods in descriptive and theoretical analysis of word order change of natural languages in a multilingual area like Western Asia. Focal areas of interest include, but are not limited to language contact and language change in word order, information structure, and prosody. Furthermore, we are interested in theoretical and methodological issues pertaining to corpus-oriented research in language contact, i.e. tools, methods, and techniques in corpus assembly, annotation and analysis, the interaction between corpus linguistics and computational linguistics, the relevance of corpus linguistics and linguistic theory, the use of statistical and quantitative methods in detecting patterns of language change, as well as the impact of corpus-based vs. corpus-driven approaches on our view and understanding of morphosyntatic change in languages.
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Friday (10 March 2017) |
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Opening Session |
9:30 - 10:00 |
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KEYNOTE ADDRESSChair: TBA Jost Gippert |
10:00- 10:45 |
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POSTER SESSION(see below) |
10:45-11:15 |
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Coffee break |
11:15-11:45 |
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Chair: Armin Hoenen (Frankfurt University) |
11:45-12:15 |
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Murad Suleymanov and Hélène Gérardin |
12:15-12:45 |
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Mojtaba Monshizadeh |
12:45-13:15 |
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Lunch Time |
13:15-14:45 |
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Chair: Nicolaos Neocleous |
14:45-15:15 |
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Pinar Karakilcik |
15:15-15:45 |
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Laurentia Schreiber, Mortaza Taheri-Ardali, Geoffrey Haig and Erik Anonby |
15:45-16:15 |
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Coffee Break |
16:15-16:45 |
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Chair: Murad Suleymanov |
16:45-17:15 |
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Christiane Bulut |
17:15-17:45 |
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Annette Herkenrath |
17:45-18:15 |
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Free Time |
18:15-20:00 |
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Confrence Dinner |
20:00 |
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Saturday (11 March 2017) |
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Chair: Daniel Krauße |
10:00-10:30 |
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Bruno Herin and Pelin Tunaydin |
10:30-11:00 |
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Martin Haspelmath |
11:00-11:30 |
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Coffee Break |
11:30-12:00 |
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KEYNOTE ADDRESS |
12:00-13:00 |
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Lunch Time |
13:00-14:30 |
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WORKSHOP |
14:30-15:30 |
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Panel discussion with Geoffrey Khan and Geoffrey Haig |
15:30-16:00 |
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Coffee Break |
16:00-16:30 |
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Chair: Hélène Gérardin |
16:30-17:00 |
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Jasmine Dum-Tragut |
17:00-17:30 |
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Coffee Break |
17:30-18:00 |
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Chair: TBA 130 years of Assyrian music, contacts and changes and possibilities of preservation |
18:00-18:40 |
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Western Asian cultural performances with dinner |
18:40-21:00 |
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Celebrating New Year in spring |
Sunday (12 March 2017)
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Sunday (12 March 2017) |
Time |
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KEYNOTE ADDRESS Chair: TBA |
10:00-11:00 |
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Chair: TBA |
11:00-11:30 |
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Coffee Break |
11:30-11:45 |
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Chair: TBA |
11:45-12:15 |
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Michael L. Chyet |
12:15-12:45 |
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Closing Ceremony |
12:45-13:15 |
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Masoud Mohammadirad |
12:45-13:15 |
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Lunch Break |
13:15-14:15 |
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Chair: TBA |
14:15-14:45 |
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Amir Aharifi and Ali Ashouri |
14:45-15:15 |
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Hasmik Kirakosian and Ani Sargsyan |
15:15-15:45 |
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CLOSING SESSION Hiwa Asadpour Drawing the attention for critical points in linguistic contact Jost Gippert Summary of Caucasian languages in contact Éva Á. Csató and Lars Johanson Summary of Turkic languages in contact Geoffrey Khan Summary of Semitic languages in contact Geoffrey Haig Summary of Kurdish varieties in contact Anaïd Donabédian Summary of Armenian varieties in contact Thomas Jügel Summary of other Iranian and Indo-European languages |
Poster Session
Faryar Akhlaghi & Hiwa Asadpour: A functional typological study of complement relations in Sorani and Kurmanji: Determining language contact effects
Narjes Eskandarnia & Arezoo Najafian: Georgian and Persian linguistic contact in Fereydunshahr (Isfahan)
Elena Panina Acoustic investigation of selected vowel phonemes in two varieties of Sorani Kurdish
Petr Kubálek Non-aspirated and aspirated ç, k, p, t in Kurmanji Kurdish as phonemes and as allophones: A statistical analysis
N. Ahmadbeigi & M. Moloudi: The effect of a locally customized vs. native speakers’ phonics curriculum on young Iranian EFL learners’ early literacy development
Laila Alhazmi Speech perceptions in Mecca City
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