Language Islands and Language Contact in Iran
Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS)
Trajekte-Room (308), 3rd floor
Berlin, October 19 - 20, 2018
Trajekte-Room (308), 3rd floor
Berlin, October 19 - 20, 2018
October 19
9:00 Welcome
9:30 - 10:00 The Neo-Aramaic dialects of Iran
Geoffrey Khan
University of Cambridge, UK
10:00 - 10:30 The Jewish New-Aramaic Dialect of Sablagh (Persian Azerbaijan)
Helen Younansardaroud
Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
10:30 - 11:00 Khorasan-Arabic as a bridge between Mesopotamian and Central-Asian Arabic
Shabo Talay
Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:00 Language and Music of the Arab Minority in the provinces of Bushehr and Hormozgan
Dina El Zakra (Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz)
Babak Nizkat (Kunstuniversität Graz),
Sandra Ziagos (Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Austria)
12:00 - 12:30 Language contact phenomena in Khuzestan-Arabic
Bettina Leitner (Universität Wien, Austria)
12:30 - 13:00 Mandaic in Ahwaz
Werner Arnold (Universität Heidelberg, Germany)
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 15:00 Between Assimilation and Reintegration - Language Island Revisited
Marina Beridze
(Ivane Javakhishvili State University, Tbilisi, Georgia)
15:00 - 15:30 Toward a History of the Georgian Language Island in Iran. How did the Fereydanian Island come into existence and how did it become what it is today?
Lia Bakuradze
Ivane Javakhishvili State University, Tbilisi, Georgia
15:30 - 16:00 Conventional Dialect Research Methods in an Unconventional Environment - Fereydan in Focus
Zakharia Pourtskhvanidze
(University of Frankfurt)
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 - 17:00 Georgian Linguistic Island in Iran - An exceptional case of Afus
Nikoloz Nakhutsrishvili
(G.Tsereteli Institute of Oriental Studies)
17:00 - 17:30 Proverbial Wisdom of Georgian Linguistic Island in Fereydan Region
Tea Shurgaia
Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia
17:30 - 18:00 Some notes on the Phonology and Morphology of Fereydani Georgian
Donald Stilo
Department of Linguistics, Max Planck Institute for evolutionary Anthropology Leipzig, Germany
18:00 - 19:00 Book launch of The Languages and Linguistics of Western Asia: An Areal Perspective.
The World of Linguistics 6. Berlin: De Gruyter (Haig, Geoffrey, and Geoffrey Khan, eds. 2018)
19:30 Dinner (Tapas y más)
October 20
9:30 - 10:00 A linguistic Survey of (Southern) Khorasan: Implications for Language Isolation , Language Change, and Contact Linguistics
Mohammad Dabir Moghaddam
(Allameh Tabataba'i University, Iran)
10:00 - 10:30 Judeo-Shirazi: Historical, Areal, and Cultural Associations
Habib Borjian
(Columbia University, USA)
10:30 - 11:00 Establishing the genetic relationship between Zoroastrian Dari (Behdini) in Yazd and Judeo-Yazdi
Saloumeh Gholami
(Goethe University of Frankfurt, Germany)
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:00 Phonological borrowings from Arabic in some non-standard varieties of spoken Persian
Mehrdad Naghzguye Kohan (Bu-Ali University, Hamadan, Iran), &
Shadi Davari (Tehran University of Medical Science, Iran)
12:00 - 12:30 Oghuzic and non-Oghuzic Turkic Languages in Iran
Elisabetta Ragagnin
(Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)
12:30 - 13:00 Balanced bilingualism: Patterns of contact influence in L1 and L2 Turkic and Bakhtiari speech in Juneqan, Iran
Erik Anonby (Carleton University, Canada), Laurentia Schrieber (University of Bamberg, Germany)
Mortaza Taheri-Ardali (Shahrekord University, Iran)
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 15:15 Residual enclaves and displaced enclaves: two cases from Kurdish
Geoffrey Haig
(Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, Germany)
15:15 - 15:45 Arabic influence on Kurdish: paths, domains, and layers of borrowing
Ergin Opengin
(Uppsala University, Sweden)
15:45 Round-Table
19:00 Dinner (China City)
October 19
9:00 Welcome
9:30 - 10:00 The Neo-Aramaic dialects of Iran
Geoffrey Khan
University of Cambridge, UK
10:00 - 10:30 The Jewish New-Aramaic Dialect of Sablagh (Persian Azerbaijan)
Helen Younansardaroud
Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
10:30 - 11:00 Khorasan-Arabic as a bridge between Mesopotamian and Central-Asian Arabic
Shabo Talay
Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:00 Language and Music of the Arab Minority in the provinces of Bushehr and Hormozgan
Dina El Zakra (Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz)
Babak Nizkat (Kunstuniversität Graz),
Sandra Ziagos (Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Austria)
12:00 - 12:30 Language contact phenomena in Khuzestan-Arabic
Bettina Leitner (Universität Wien, Austria)
12:30 - 13:00 Mandaic in Ahwaz
Werner Arnold (Universität Heidelberg, Germany)
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 15:00 Between Assimilation and Reintegration - Language Island Revisited
Marina Beridze
(Ivane Javakhishvili State University, Tbilisi, Georgia)
15:00 - 15:30 Toward a History of the Georgian Language Island in Iran. How did the Fereydanian Island come into existence and how did it become what it is today?
Lia Bakuradze
Ivane Javakhishvili State University, Tbilisi, Georgia
15:30 - 16:00 Conventional Dialect Research Methods in an Unconventional Environment - Fereydan in Focus
Zakharia Pourtskhvanidze
(University of Frankfurt)
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 - 17:00 Georgian Linguistic Island in Iran - An exceptional case of Afus
Nikoloz Nakhutsrishvili
(G.Tsereteli Institute of Oriental Studies)
17:00 - 17:30 Proverbial Wisdom of Georgian Linguistic Island in Fereydan Region
Tea Shurgaia
Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia
17:30 - 18:00 Some notes on the Phonology and Morphology of Fereydani Georgian
Donald Stilo
Department of Linguistics, Max Planck Institute for evolutionary Anthropology Leipzig, Germany
18:00 - 19:00 Book launch of The Languages and Linguistics of Western Asia: An Areal Perspective.
The World of Linguistics 6. Berlin: De Gruyter (Haig, Geoffrey, and Geoffrey Khan, eds. 2018)
19:30 Dinner (Tapas y más)
October 20
9:30 - 10:00 A linguistic Survey of (Southern) Khorasan: Implications for Language Isolation , Language Change, and Contact Linguistics
Mohammad Dabir Moghaddam
(Allameh Tabataba'i University, Iran)
10:00 - 10:30 Judeo-Shirazi: Historical, Areal, and Cultural Associations
Habib Borjian
(Columbia University, USA)
10:30 - 11:00 Establishing the genetic relationship between Zoroastrian Dari (Behdini) in Yazd and Judeo-Yazdi
Saloumeh Gholami
(Goethe University of Frankfurt, Germany)
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:00 Phonological borrowings from Arabic in some non-standard varieties of spoken Persian
Mehrdad Naghzguye Kohan (Bu-Ali University, Hamadan, Iran), &
Shadi Davari (Tehran University of Medical Science, Iran)
12:00 - 12:30 Oghuzic and non-Oghuzic Turkic Languages in Iran
Elisabetta Ragagnin
(Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)
12:30 - 13:00 Balanced bilingualism: Patterns of contact influence in L1 and L2 Turkic and Bakhtiari speech in Juneqan, Iran
Erik Anonby (Carleton University, Canada), Laurentia Schrieber (University of Bamberg, Germany)
Mortaza Taheri-Ardali (Shahrekord University, Iran)
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 15:15 Residual enclaves and displaced enclaves: two cases from Kurdish
Geoffrey Haig
(Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, Germany)
15:15 - 15:45 Arabic influence on Kurdish: paths, domains, and layers of borrowing
Ergin Opengin
(Uppsala University, Sweden)
15:45 Round-Table
19:00 Dinner (China City)
