The Uralic Typology Days

                                                                                                                   In Estonian - In Russian

November 26-27, 2009, Institute of the Estonian Language, Tallinn. The sponsor of the event was the project 930113  A PSUTEA.

Here are some pictures by Pornsiri: 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29.

Here are some pictures by Sven-Erik: Jocelyn, Heete and Tuomas, Masja and Anne, reception

Here are some pictures by Anne:

Two different temperatures meet. Aleksey is cold. Aleksey is freezing. The Dutch (Helen and Sander) know that for any bad weather there is always an umbrella and are thus not concerned about temperature matters.  Sveti brings the sun.

Masja is fieldworking and learning Uralic languages. Here are the other native speaking informants 1, 2, 3. Masja becomes more immersed in Uralic culture and moreover, serves as a proactive missing link between the branches in the Uralic language tree (or at least its speakers). Helen acquires unbelievable proficiency in Udmurt folk dance. Now Masja is already proficient enough to sing with Sveti in one of these languages! The workshop had not only the best possible ratio of brains and elegance in the Eurasian linguistic network 

but also the most entertaining and most chivalrous guys.

Here are some pictures by Kristiina Bernhart Diana and the poster, Diana, Diana and Masja, Helle and Anne, Sven-Erik, Sveti, Tuomas, Larisa Ponomareva, Zsuzsa, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, Beata, Lotti, Pornsiri, Anne, Sirkka, audience, Yurij, Misha, Jocelyne, Peter, Tuomas, Krisztina, Anne, Anne, Yurij, Matti, Misha, Helle, Heete, Iris and several people from the Institute, Helle and Masja

Conference programme

This is the preliminary programme for the Typology Days. It is a twin event with Finiteness and Non-Finiteness (November 25, 2009). Thank you for checking this site for weekly updates! Here is some practical information about the venue, transport, etc. Here is some impractical information on Tallinn, scroll to "in danish town rivers are flowing".

• please check the website regularly for updates and do not hesitate to contact us if you have questions!

  iris.metsmagi at eki.ee, svenerik at eki.ee, anne.tamm at unifi.it

• Here is some information about the venue, transport, etc.

The purpose of the Typology Days in Tallinn is the following:

    * to advance the scientific study of the Uralic languages (official languages as well as variants) and define their structures within the context of cross-linguistic diversity;

    * to further mutual awareness, dialogue, and co-operation between the international community of linguists specialized in the particular Uralic languages and those interested in the Uralic data across theoretical frameworks and subdisciplines;

    * to provide a forum for the Uralic languages and for working towards a database structure that is useful for linguists across linguistic frameworks, in the spirit of linguistic typology;

    * and by doing so, to identify the areas of critically missing research in the Uralic linguistics.

     * it is a twin event with Finiteness and Non-Finiteness, taking place on November 25, 2009 at the Institute of the Estonian Language, Tallinn.

     * the focus of this event is lexical typology and it is the continuation for the previous seminar on Finno-Ugric Lexicography "Finno-Ugric Dictionaries: the Common and the Different".

     * We have invited contributions to the talk, exhibition and poster sessions of the conference. We expect contributions on lexical typology; in addition, any contributions on the lexical structure of the Uralic languages are welcome. To mention some topics: verb classes, lexicalized aspect, case marking of arguments, temperature expressions, and any areas where there are lexical restrictions on grammatical structures. If you click HERE then you can access the guidelines for collecting linguistic expressions for temperature concepts by Maria Kopjevskaja-Tamm.

     * we are open to all linguistic areas of the Uralic languages as long as they deal with the structure of these languages

Programme committee:

Helle Metslang

Marianne Bakró-Nagy

Johanna Laakso

Petar Kehayov

Tõnu Seilenthal

Riho Grünthal

Organizers:        Sven-Erik Soosaar

                         Iris Metsmägi

                         Anne Tamm