Languages of the Caucasus

International workshop within the SCCC-3

Attention!

Due to COVID-19, SCCC-3, which was originally scheduled for 7-9 October, 2020 in Paris, France has been postponed until Fall 2021. However, this one-day workshop will still take place virtually in September 2020. See below for details.

  • Dates: September 2020 (virtually due to COVID-19)
  • Location: INALCO, 2, rue de Lille, 75007 Paris, France

This one-day workshop focuses on the languages of the Caucasus more generally and is intended to bring together linguists working on the languages spoken in the Caucasus area regardless of their genetic affiliation (Nakh-Daghestanian, Abkhazo-Adyghean, Iranian, Turkic, Armenian, etc.).

The Caucasus is characterized by a relatively high level of linguistic diversity, in terms of number of languages and number of language families. The longstanding contact between the latter has either favored the spreading of features across the boundaries separating languages and families or resulted in convergent features between neighboring languages. The study of these features is the main, though not the exclusive, focus of this workshop. We invite contributions on various aspects of the languages spoken in the Caucasus.

Invited Speakers: