Contact
Linguistics
In
Cross-border
Kurdistan

Contact

Linguistics

In

Cross-border

Kurdistan

Cambridge Meeting 2016

 

Program

Language Contact and Language Change

in Cross-Border Kurdistan (CLiCK)

9-10 December 2016, Wolfson College, Old Combination Room, University of Cambridge


      The conference focuses on multilingualism in Western Asia, specifically of the Kurdish-populated areas of “Cross-border Kurdistan” at the convergence of Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey, and the neighboring countries of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia. In this area, several Indo-European languages are spoken, some of which include Armenian, Kurdish varieties, and Persian. A number of non-Indo-European languages (Azeri Turkic, Neo-Aramaic, and Turkish) and Caucasian languages such as Georgian are also spoken in this region. The conference aims to initiate a network that investigates contact-induced language change in this region.

 

9 December 2016

Participant Language/Topic Time Topic
Hiwa Asadpour Inroduction 9 - 9:30 Opening session (language contact in Western Asia: state of the art, desiderata; introducing the DFG project aims)
Geoffrey Khan Neo-Aramaic 9:30-10:10  
Alex Bellem Arabic 10:10-10:50  
Coffee break 10:50-11:10
Christiane Bulut Azeri Turkic 11:10-11:50  
Elisabetta Ragagnin Azeri Turkic 11:50-12:30  
Ioanna Sitaridou Romeyka 12:30-13:10  
Lunch time   13:10-14:40  
Bert Vaux Armenian 14:40-15:20  
Geoffrey Haig Kurmanji Kurdish 15:20-16  
Thomas Juegel Sorani Kurdish 16-16:40  
Coffee break   16:40-17  
Hiwa Asadpour Summary of the day 17-17:15 Outlines of the day
Jost Gippert Networking 17:15-open ending Possible networking and cooperation, technical issues, and infrastructure and group discussion.
Dinner time   19:00  

10 December 2016

Discussion of linguistic features Time Topic
NENA and Kurdish parallels I 9-10:30 This will be an open discussion that aims at identifying areal features in the languages of the region.
Coffee break 10:30-11  
NENA and Kurdish parallels II 11-12:30 Identifying areal features
Lunch break 12:30-14  
NENA and Kurdish parallels III 14-15:30 Identifying areal features
Coffee break 15:30-16  
Next steps 16-17 Discussion of the future network, including issues such as finance, data and standardization and harmonization (main participants only).

Hiwa Asadpour

(University of Frankfurt/Cambridge)

Geoffrey Khan

(University of Cambridge)

Jost Gippert

(University of Frankfurt)

Accommodation

Staying in Cambridge

We regret that we are unable to arrange accommodation, but the following websites provide a range of options. Availability for college rooms will be limited as the conference coincides with the start of term.

www.visitcambridge.org
http://www.universityrooms.com/en/city/cambridge/home
www.cambridgebedandbreakfasts.com
http://www.hostelbookers.com/hostels/england/cambridge/

Some of the places listed on these websites might be out of walking distance from the conference venue, e.g. Girton and Cherry Hinton.

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Sponsors

We gratefully acknowledge the support of our principal sponsors Odlar Yurdu Organization and MEITS (MULTILINGUALISM) group at the University of Cambridge

Contact

Registration is required, for further information please contact:

Hiwa Asadpour (ha397@cam.ac.uk)

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