ANATOLIA-THE CAUCASUS-IRAN: ETHNIC AND LINGUISTIC CONTACTS

(ACIC)

10 - 12 May, 2018

Yerevan, Armenia

Institute of Oriental Studies

Russian-Armenian University, Yerevan, Armenia

in cooperation with the

Institute of Empirical Linguistics

Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main, Germany

The region including Anatolia, the Caucasus and Iran is distinguished by its multi-ethnic and multilingual nature. Languages spoken by the inhabitants of this vast area belong to different families — Indo-European, Turkic, Caucasian — and have long been in constant interactions, shaping various combinations of linguistic phenomena: substrate-superstrate-adstrate; language unions (Sprachbunds), like Armenian-Turkic-Caucasian, including within the same language continuum, as, for instance, South Caucasian-Aturpatakan Iranian Sprachbund. Moreover, nowhere in the world the spoken language is so actualised with regard to the ethnic issues than in the mentioned region. The discussion of all these topics and their different aspects will be the target of this gathering.

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Academics of any educational and professional level (MA,

PhD, Post-Doc and beyond) are invited to submit papers

and panel proposals relating to all aspects of linguistics and

ethnography of Anatolia-the Caucasus-Iran, including:

Ethnic and language contacts

Ethnogenetic processes

Identity issues

Language as identity marker

Lexical and grammatical borrowings

Language unions (Sprachbunds)

Substrate issue

Toponomastics (hydrotoponymy as historical source)

Ethnobotany

Folklore

CROSSLINGUISTIC STUDY OF WORD ORDER IN WESTERN ASIA:

A DIACHRONIC-SYNCHRONIC PERSPECTIVE

The aim of this panel is to bring together researchers from

different fields who are interested in word order

complexity of Western Asia languages. To ensure the

discussions, and the comparability and reproducibility of

presentations, participants are required to register.

Further details of the panel will be announced.

Convenors:

Carina Jahani (Uppsala University, Sweden)

Don Stilo (MPI Leipzig, now retired, the Netherlands)

Hiwa Asadpour (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany)

Paul Widmer (University of Zurich, Swiss)

Pollet Samvelian (Univerity of Sorbonne III, Labex EFL,

Inalco, SeDyL, Paris, France)

Thomas Jügel (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany)

The working language of the Conference is English. Separate

sessions may be organised in Persian, German and Russian.

Abtracts not exceeding 400 words alongside with a brief CV

including contact details are to be emailed by March 15, 2018 to

ethnic.linguistic.contacts@gmail.com, with the Subject

“Anatolia-the Caucasus-Iran: Ethnic and Linguistic Contacts”. If

your abstracts include non-Unicode symbols, we will appreciate

if you send them in both .doc and .pdf formats.

The scheduled time for keynote speeches is 40 minutes. Each

presentation will last 20 minutes and 5 – 10 minutes will be

available for Q&A.

The selected applicants will receive circular letters with further

details.

IMPORTANT DATES

15 March, 2018 — Abstract submission deadline

30 March, 2018 — Notification of acceptance

VENUE

Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian-Armenian University, 123

Hovsep Emin St., Yerevan 0051 (http://www.rau.am,

http://orient.rau.am).

PARTICIPATION FEE

Participation fee for the conference (except for keynote-

speakers) is EUR 150, which includes refreshments, lunches,

two banquets and cultural programme during the days of the

conference.

PUBLICATION

Relevant papers will be published in Iran and the Caucasus

(http://www.brill.com/iran-and-caucasus).

ARMENIAN VISA For the citizens of Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan no visa is required. The citizens of the mentioned countries can enter Armenia without any invitation. For the citizens of European and American countries, Australia and Iran as well no visa is required. No special invitation is required. List of countries whose nationals are unilaterally exempted from the requirement of obtaining a visa. List of countries, with which Armenia has a visa-free regime according to bilateral and multilateral agreements. Holders of all other national passports and travel documents, including UN Laissez-Passer, are required to obtain an entry visa. List of the countries who’s citizens can obtain Armenian visas upon arrival in Armenia. List of countries nationals of which could apply for visitor visa only with invitation. For more information on the Armenian visa please visit: http://www.mfa.am/en/visa/

ORGANISING COMMITTEE

Prof. Dr. Garnik Asatrian (Russian-Armenian University, Yerevan, Armenia)

Prof. Dr. Jost Gippert (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany)

Dr. Vahe Boyajian (Russian-Armenian University, Yerevan, Armenia)

Dr. Khachik Gevorgian (ARMACAD, Yerevan, Armenia)

Hiwa Asadpour (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany)

Gohar Hakobian (Russian-Armenian University, Yerevan, Armenia)

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE Prof. Dr. Sekandar Amanolahi (Shiraz University, Iran /University of Harvard, USA) Prof. Dr. Uwe Bläsing (Leiden University, the Netherlands) Prof. Dr. Christiane Bulut (University of Cyprus, Cyprus) Prof. Dr. Mohammad Dabir Moghaddam (Academy of Persian Language, Tehran, Iran) Prof. Dr. Anaïd Donabédian-Demopoulos (Inalco, UMR SeDyL, Labex EFL, Paris, France) Prof. Dr. Carina Jahani (Uppsala University, Sweden) Prof. Dr. Agnes Korn (CNRS, UMR Mondes iranien et indien, Paris, France) Prof. Dr. Yahya Modarresi (Institute of Humanities and Cultural Studies, Tehran, Iran) Prof. Dr. Adriano Rossi (I S M E O, Naples, Italy) Prof. Dr. Pollet Samvelian (Univerity of Sorbonne III, Labex EFL, Inalco, SeDyL, Paris, France) Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulze (Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich, Germany) Prof. Dr. Donald Stilo (MPI Leipzig, now retired, the Netherlands) Prof. Dr. Paul Widmer (University of Zurich, Swiss) Dr. Faryar Akhlaghi (Research Center for Cultural Heritage and Tourism, Tehran, Iran) Dr. Victoria Arakelova (Russian-Armenian University, Yerevan, Armenia) Dr. David Buyanner (Free University of Berlin, Germany) Dr. Johnny Cheung (Inalco, Paris, France) Dr. Thomas Jügel (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany) Dr. Mojtaba Monshizadeh (Allameh Tabataba’i University, Tehran, Iran) Dr. Peter Nicholaus (Former UN High Commissioner for Refugees in Kabul, Austria) Dr. Ioanna Sitaridou (Queen’s College, University of Cambridge, UK) Dr. Matthias Weinreich (CCIS, Yerevan, Armenia/Berlin, Germany)

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