Panels on African linguistics at 15th International African Studies Conference

Dear colleagues,

On May 26-29, 2020 15^th International African Studies Conference will be held in Moscow by the Institute for African studies RAS.
Panels on African linguistics will be organized by the Department of African languages of the Institute of Linguistics RAS.

The Second Conference on Language Contact in the Circumpolar World

Institute of Linguistics RAS is organising the 2nd conference on language contact in the circumpolar world with a special session on typology of linguistic areas. The conference will be held on 25–27 October 2019 in Moscow, Russia.

Conference “Caucasian Languages: Typology and Diachrony”

On 23–24 October 2019, the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow) organizes a conference on “Caucasian Languages: Typology and Diachrony”, in honor of the eminent Russian Caucasiologist Mikhail Egorovich Alekseev, who would have turned 70 this year.

9th conference in the series “Typology of Morphosyntactic Parameters”

The 9th conference in the series «Typology of Morphosyntactic Parameters», TMP 2019, will be held in Moscow on 16–18 October 2019. The conference is organized by the Pushkin State Russian Language Institute, the Institute of Linguistics of RAS and Lomonosov Moscow State University.

Typology of small-scale multilingualism: International Conference (Lyon, France)

Lyon, April 15–17 2019. The conference aims to provide a forum for linguists and anthropologists to discuss issues concerning small-scale multilingualism (Lüpke 2016, Singer & Harris 2016), which is typical for pre-colonial societies with small socio-political groups. The aim of the conference is to develop a set of parameters for comparing different sociolinguistic settings across the world.