PROGRAM

October 26 (Language center/Fabianinkatu 24, room 531)

9.30-10.15	Janne Saarikivi (Helsinki): Reconstructing historical speech communities and their areas in Uralic context. A critical reappraisal?
10.15-11.00	Ante Aikio (Oulu) & Sampsa Holopainen (Helsinki): Development of sibilants and the divergence of the Ugric languages
11.00-11.45	Juha Janhunen (Helsinki): The Samoyedization of the Arctic zone of European Russia: Pierre Martin de la Martinière’s travel book (1671) – online

LUNCH BREAK

13.30-14.15	Olesya Khanina & Kaisla Kaheinen (Helsinki): Northward spread of Samoyedic
14.15-15.00	Gerson Klumpp (Tartu): The Sayan Samoyed Convergence

COFFEE BREAK

15.45-16.30	Sampsa Holopainen (Helsinki): Early contacts between Indo-European and Uralic
16.30-17.15	Niklas Metsäranta (Helsinki): Loanword layers in Permic languages

 

October 27 (Language center/Fabianinkatu 26, room 203)

9.30-10.15	Riho Grünthal (Helsinki): An overview of the history of Mari
10.15-11.00	Mariann Bernhardt (Helsinki): The Mordvinic partitive case: its functions in the modern languages and development path from the Proto-Uralic ablative
11.00-11.45	Santeri Junttila (Helsinki): Time-scales of branching from Proto-Uralic to modern Finnic through loanword layers

LUNCH BREAK

13.30-14.15	Fedor Rozhansky & Elena Markus (Tartu): The development of Lower Luga Ingrian as a convergent variety
14.15-15.00	Ante Aikio (Oulu): An overview of the history of Saamic