"Methods for linguistic convergence research" seminar at the Linguistic Convergence Laboratory
From November 27 to December 1, 2017 a seminar on "Methods for linguistic convergence research" was held at the laboratory. The seminar was devoted to discussing the intermediate results of research projects, as well as the immediate tasks and general goals of the participants. It was the first joint meeting of all employees and partners.
Documenting a West Circassian Dialect in Israel
From October 25 to November 1 2017, Yury Lander and Irina Bagirokova spent over a week in Israel, documenting a West Circassian dialect.
Alexandra Kozhukhar at Depling 2017 on Universal Dependencies
From 18 to 20 September the international conference on dependency linguistics Depling 2017 took place in Pisa (Italy).
Anastasia Panova presented the Corpus of Daghestanian Russian at the Twelfth conference of the Slavic Linguistics Society
Anastasia Panova, intern-researcher at the Linguistic Convergence Laboratory, participated in the Twelfth conference of the Slavic Linguistics Society, from 21 to 24 September in Ljubljana (Slovenia), where she gave a poster presentation "A corpus outlook on regional varieties of Russian in Daghestan".
The results of our grant competition for the creation of spoken language corpora have been announced
The results of the competition for grants to create spoken language corpora, which was held by the International linguistic convergence laboratory from May 30th to June 25th, have been announced. The scientific committee selected five winners, who will receive funding to create their corpora.
Website of the Atlas of Multilingualism of Daghestan Launched
Employees of the Linguistic Convergence Laboratory are working on an Atlas of Multilingualism of Daghestan. With support of the laboratory and the Collegium de Lyon a website was created recently, which can be used as a resource for the research of social and georgraphical particularities of multilingualism in Daghestan.
The laboratory organized a grant competition for creating spoken language corpora
The international linguistic convergence laboratory organized a grant competition for creating spoken language corpora. The admission of applications ended on June 25th. What was the aim of the competition and why is it important to record spoken language?