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 CambridgeThe 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)
Participants
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.
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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
