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We are pleased to inform you that the 4^th International Conference on Samoyedology will be held at the Institut für Finnougristik / Uralistik of Hamburg University from 3rd to 4th October 2012.

We are glad to announce that the conference has raised the interest of many colleagues working on various interesting questions, including

• synchronic and diachronic research on all grammatical levels concerning Samoyedic languages
• research on contact linguistics, areality and / or typology including one or several Samoyedic languages
• language documentation
• folklore and ethnomusicological studies
• problems of the Samoyedic languages and their speakers concerning language and culture maintenance

For more details, please consult the preliminary programme which can be found here (PDF).

The abstracts we received so far are available as a pdf-file.

The organisers gratefully acknowledge a grant by the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung.

Working languages

Russian, English, German

The Department of Uralic Studies of the University of Hamburg is pleased to announce the conference Uralic languages and multilingualism, to be held from 2nd to 3rd June 2011.

Description

For speakers of Uralic languages the phenomenon of bi- or multilingualism has been commonplace for a long time. Not only numerically, but also regarding the diversity of constellations in terms of interaction contexts and purposes, prestige and legal status (involving also literacy vs. oral tradition), the Uralic languages and dialects represent varied cases of multilingualism.

Within the frame of language contact studies, the problems were traditionally addressed from the langue perspective. Research primarily focused on borrowings at different linguistic levels, i.e. either in lexicon or in grammar. Socio-linguistic investigations and (or, in the combination with) descriptions of the patterns of multilingual communication from a discourse analytic perspective are rather exceptional. The conference aims therefore to encourage new approaches on multilingualism in Uralic idioms.