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Linguistic Approaches to Endangered Languages
Linguistic Approaches to Endangered Languages
BOĞAZİÇİ UNIVERSITY
Tuesday, 28 July 2015
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08:30-09:30 Registration
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09:30-10:30 Welcome
Prof. Dr. Taylan Akdoğan
Dean of School of Arts and Sciences, Boğaziçi University
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Didar Akar
Deputy Chairperson Linguistics Department, Boğaziçi University
Prof. Dr. Ümit Deniz Turan
Linguistics Society of Turkey
Prof. Dr. Piet van Sterkenburg
General Secretary of CIPL
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10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
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11:00-12:00 Keynote Speaker: Peter Austin
Language Documentation and Language Revitalisation - partners or just good friends?
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12:00-13:30 LUNCH BREAK
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13:30-14:30 SESSION 1: ENDANGERED LANGUAGES: METHODOLOGY & DATA
Chair: Piet van Sterkenburg
North Cyprus Gurbet variety of Gypsy revisited: Methodological considerations
Javanshir Shibliyev Fatoş Erozan
The value of interactional data in the Yurakaré and ǂĀkhoe Haiǀǀom language corpora
Gertie Hoymann Sonja Gipper
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14:30-15:00 Coffee Break
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15:00-16:30 SESSION 2: LANGUAGE CONTACT
Chair: David Bradley
Grammaticalizing borrowing in Pontic
Angela Ralli Marianna Gkiouleka
The role of contact on endangered languages. A case in Northern Italy
Ermenegildo Bidese Jan Casalicchio Patrizia Cordin
North-eastern Neo-Aramaic in contact in the Mesopotamia-Anatolia region
Eleanor Coghill
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18:30-21:00 CONFERENCE DINNER
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Wednesday, 29 July 2015
10:00-11:00 Keynote Speaker: David Bradley
Language Endangerment and Language Reclamation: Fostering Resilience
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11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
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11:30-12:00 SESSION 3: SYNTAX
Chair: Gertie Hoymann
Agreeing complementizers and logophoricity in Laz
Ömer Demirok Balkız Öztürk
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12:00-13:30 LUNCH BREAK
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13:30-14:00 SESSION 4: PHONOLOGY
Chair: Peter Austin
Syllable harmony: The Karaim case
Éva Ágnes Csató Lars Johanson
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14:00-14:50 POSTER PRESENTATIONS *
Chair: Özgür Aydın
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The role of written languages in language documentation. The case of Karaim.
Zsuzsanna Olach
In the interest of diversity- Charting Language Preservation and the Minority Language Regime in India
Kartik Tripathi
Linearization in noun phrases in Turkish Sign Language
Derya Nuhbalaoğlu A. Sumru Özsoy
Evidence on Aspects of Language Maintenance through Asynchronous Computer Mediated Communication among Young Algerian Users: The Case of Berber in Algeria
Mimouna Zitouni Abdelkader Lotfi Benhattab
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14:50-15:30 Coffee Break
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15:30-16:30 SESSION 5: MORPHOLOGY / SYNTAX
Chair: Patrizia Cordin
Cognate objects in Sason Arabic
Faruk Akkuş Balkız Öztürk
Relativization in Pharasiot Greek
Metin Bağrıaçık
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18:00 Boat Tour on the Bosphorus **
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Thursday, 30 July 2015
09:30-10:30 SESSION 6: THE VERB & VP
Chair: Éva Ágnes Csató
The History and syntax of the copula construction in Sason Arabic
Faruk Akkuş Elabbas Benmamoun
Lexical or classifier verbs: An investigation of instrumental verbs in Turkish Sign Language (TİD)
Aslı Özkul
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10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
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11:00-12:00 SESSION 7: MORPHOLOGY
Chair: Balkız Öztürk
When Case is not Case: Evidence from Laz
Ömer Demirok Ömer Eren
Turkish phrasal suffixes in Pharasiot Greek
Metin Bağrıaçık Aslı Göksel Angela Ralli
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12:00-12:30 Concluding Remarks
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* Each poster presenter will have a 4-minute oral slot accompanied with slides; questions will be directed to the presenters during the poster session.
** 70 € per person