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              style="text-align:justify;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Dear
              colleagues, <br>
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        <div dir="ltr">Please find below the call for papers for the
          conference “<a
            href="https://sites.google.com/view/lcu2025/home?authuser=0"
            target="_blank">Areal linguistics and language contact of
            Uralic languages. Language-specific and typological
            approaches</a>”, to be held on <b>June 12–14, 2025</b> in
          Riga, Latvia.</div>
        <div dir="ltr"><span
            style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Invited
            speakers:</span><b
            style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif"> <a
              href="https://ut.ee/en/employee/gerson-stefan-klumpp"
              target="_blank">Gerson Klumpp</a> </b><span
            style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">(University
            of Tartu),</span><b
            style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif"> <a
href="https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/kaius-sinnem%C3%A4ki"
              target="_blank">Kaius Sinnemäki</a> </b><span
            style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">(University
            of Helsinki).</span><br>
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                face="arial, sans-serif"><br>
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          <font face="arial, sans-serif">The goal of this conference is
            to combine language-specific, qualitative and typological,
            quantitative approaches to areal linguistics and language
            contact with the focus on Uralic languages and their contact
            languages. <font style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span
                style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">We encourage submissions
                addressing (but not limited to) the following topics:</span><br
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                <li style="margin-left:15px"><span
                    style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">typological approaches
                    to language contact and areal linguistics of Uralic</span></li>
                <li style="margin-left:15px"><span
                    style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">corpus-based studies of
                    specific contact phenomena between Uralic and
                    non-Uralic languages<br>
                  </span></li>
                <li style="margin-left:15px"><span
                    style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">at the same time, we are
                    very much interested in qualitative research on
                    important topics in language contact including but
                    not limited to contact-induced grammaticalization
                    and disentangling common inheritance from parallel
                    and contact-induced developments within Uralic</span></li>
                <li style="margin-left:15px">the sociolinguistic
                  dimensions of language contact in Uralic</li>
                <li style="margin-left:15px">interdisciplinary
                  approaches to understanding language contacts of
                  Uralic languages</li>
              </ul>
              <div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Anonymized
                  abstracts in PDF format should be submitted to the
                  conference email at </span><u
                  style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><a
                    href="mailto:uralic.in.contact@gmail.com"
                    target="_blank" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">uralic.in.contact@gmail.com</a></u><span
                  style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"> by </span><b
                  style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font color="#ff0000">December
                    1, 2024.</font></b><br>
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        <font face="arial, sans-serif">Abstracts must be written in
          English and should not exceed one page (using 11pt font),
          excluding references and figures.  One person may submit up to
          two abstracts: one as a single author or co-author, and
          another one as a co-author. Note that a</font>ffiliations with
        Russian institutions and references to Russian grants cannot be
        acknowledged.<font face="arial, sans-serif"><br>
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        <div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Organizers: Aigul Zakirova
            (University of Potsdam), Gunta Kļava (Institute of Livonian
            language), Valts Ernštreits (Institute of Livonian
            language), Ilja A. Seržant (University of Potsdam).</font>
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          <div><font face="arial, sans-serif">URL: <a
href="https://sites.google.com/view/lcu2025/home?authuser=0"
                target="_blank" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://sites.google.com/view/lcu2025/home?authuser=0</a> <br>
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    <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- 
Prof. Ilja A. Seržant, dr., habil.
Chair Slavic linguistics, head of the Institute of Slavic Studies
Department of Slavic Studies, University of Potsdam
Am Neuen Palais 10, Haus 01, D-14469 Potsdam
Tel. + 49 331 977 4152; Room 1.1.2.06

URL: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.uni-potsdam.de/de/slavische-linguistik/team/serzant">https://www.uni-potsdam.de/de/slavische-linguistik/team/serzant</a>

Potsdam Slavic Variation Lab: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.uni-potsdam.de/de/slavische-linguistik/slavic-variation-lab">https://www.uni-potsdam.de/de/slavische-linguistik/slavic-variation-lab</a>

PoSla Typology Lab: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.uni-potsdam.de/de/slavische-linguistik/posla-typology-lab">https://www.uni-potsdam.de/de/slavische-linguistik/posla-typology-lab</a></pre>
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