Language Islands and Language Contact in Iran

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Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS)
​Berlin, October 19-20, 2018

The conference is organized by: 

• Institute for Empirical Linguistics at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universitaet, Frankfurt
• Institute for Iranian Studies at the Freie Universitaet, Berlin
• Seminar for Semitic and Arabic Studies at the Freie Universitaet, Berlin
• Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS), Berlin
• Endangered Languages Documentation Programme (ELDP), at SOAS, University of London

Organising Committee:
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• Saloumeh Gholami
• Mandana Seyfeddinipur
• ​Alberto Cantera
• Manfred Krifka
• Shabo Talay 

SUB-THEMES:
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The theme of the Symposium allows for rich and concentrated dialogues to take place among scholars coming from different disciplinary backgrounds. As a broad but non-exhaustive guide, some of the sub-themes that will be covered by the symposium include:

• Aramaic language islands in Iran
• Arabic language islands in Iran
• Georgian language island in Iran
• Religious minority languages as contact languages: Zoroastrian Dari and Jewish languages/dialects in Iran
• Kurdish and Azeri as contact languages in Iran
•  Developing new models and methods for studying language islands and language contact in Iran