It is going to be a working seminar: the goal is to report results from the HALS field trip to the Central Balkans around Lakes Ohrid and Prespa in June, and to plan a collective volume of articles, to be edited by Max Wahlström and to appear in the Slavica Helsingiensia series. However, the questions that will be discussed have general relevance for field linguistics and language contact studies, so we warmly invite linguistic reasearchers and students of various interests to the seminar!
The seminar will take place on Friday 13 November 10:00–18:00 in Porthania PIII, and on Saturday 14 November 10:00–14:00 in Porthania P722.
A preliminary list of talks:
PAPERS (20 min)
Borche Arsov: On a few lexical “archaisms” in the Boboshchica Gospel and the Boboshchica speech
Jouko Lindstedt: Towards a history of multilingualism in the Central Balkans
Maxim Makartsev: The policy towards minorities and their organisations in the Republic of Albania
Milica Petrushevska: TBA
Heini Puurunen: Making and Breaking (Ethnic) Group Boundaries: A case study on the minorities in the Central Balkans
Elizabeta Ralpovska: TBA
Johanna Virkkula: On attitudes towards names in the Central Balkans
Max Wahlström: On the field material collected on the HALS expedition in June 2015
STUDENT REPORTS (10 min)
Andrei Călin Dumitrescu: The Aromanians (Vlachs) in the Central Balkans [will be further specified]
Pavel Falaleev: Use of Turkish loanwords among South Slavic speakers in the Central Balkans
Paula Hämeen-Anttila & Antti Laine: Linguistic landscapes in the Central Balkans
Jani Korhonen: Linguistic attitudes of the majority towards minorities in the Central Balkans
Justyna Pierzyńska & Dušica Božović: The use of Serbo-Croatian in Macedonia and attitudes towards it
Chingduan Yurayong: Analytical adnominal possession and its definiteness in Balkan languages