3rd Winter School for Finno-Ugric Studies (Munich 09 - 14 Februar 2015)

Programme

Language course (Kildin Saami): Rogier Blokland & Michael Rießler

Guest lectures: see below

Theoretical course “New approaches to Uralic historical phonology and etymology“: Ante Aikio, Marianne Bakró-Nagy & Janne Saarikivi

First & 2^nd unit:   Uralic Historical phonology and the search for new etymological cognate words (Ante Aikio)

Third unit: Status of Ugric within the Uralic language family in a comparative Perspective (Marianne Bakró-Nagy)

Fourth unit: Explaining regular and irregular phonematic correspondendes on the basis of internal borrowing (Janne Saarikivi)

Fifth unit: Towards the typology of etymologies (on the basis of Uralic comparative material) (Janne Saarikivi)

Workshop in corpus linguistics (corpora for research purposes; Uralic corpora): Jeremy Bradley, Maximilian Murmann & Zsófia Schön

We want to give students both an up-to-date overview of what is happening in this field, what is possible in this field, etc., and then get into the specifics on Uralic languages. The guest lecturers will take care of the first task by showing us their work, and the work of others, on English. Overviews on the individual Uralic languages will be given by the teachers (Jeremy Bradley for Mari, Zsófia Schön for Ob-Ugric), and by students as their assignments.

Reading and assignments for workshops will be put onto Moodle well in advance, students must register for topics and should upload their abstracts in advance as well. Presentations (15 – 20 min.) should be entered into the final program; papers on their base will be included into individual portfolios.

Student assignments will concern Corpora of individual languages/language families, archives people have good access to (e.g., Szeged: Hungarian National Corpus, Helsinki/Turku: Agricola-Corpus and digitization efforts of Finnish National Library, Tartu: Kamass, etc.)

                  First unit:  Guest lecture H.-J. Schmid, “Corpus linguistics and its theoretical basis”
                  Second unit: Guest lecture  (Martin Hilpert/Skype?, to be confirmed)

                  Third unit: Finno-Ugric/Uralic corpora (students and others)

                  Fourth unit: Finno-Ugric/Uralic corpora (students and others)

                  Fifth unit: Concluding discussion

Colloquium for advanced students (presentation of students’ research topics): Marianne Bakró-Nagy, Rogier Blokland, Johanna Laakso, Janne Saarikivi, Sirkka Saarinen, Elena Skribnik, Beáta Wagner-Nagy

Schedule

Teachers/Contact Persons

Saami: Rogier Blokland (r_blokland [at] yahoo.com)
Michael Rießler (m.riessler [at] gmail.com)

Corpus: Jeremy Bradley (J.Bradley [at] lmu.de)
Zsófia Schön (zsozsofifi [at] gmail.com)

Maximilian Murmann (m.murmann [at] web.de)

Etymology:  Janne Saarikivi (jsaariki [at] mappi.helsinki.fi)
Marianne Bakró-Nagy (bakro [at] nytud.hu)

Guest Lecturers

Hans-Jörg Schmid (LMU Munich), “Corpus linguistics and its theoretical basis”
The lecture will begin by introducing some corpus-based tools and techniques which have proved valuable for the study of the English language and have the potential to be applied to other languages as well. Examples will come from the fields of syntax, lexis, collocation and phraseology as well as variational linguistics. In the second step, the theoretical foundations for and the theoretical implications of corpus-linguistic studies will be discussed. What is the point of using corpora for linguistic research? Can corpora tell us anything intersting about grammar, as an abstract system, and about the way linguistic knowledge is represented in speakers’ minds?

Ante Aikio (University of Oulu), “Uralic Historical phonology and the search for new etymological cognate words”

Martin Hilpert  [to be confirmed]

(http://members.unine.ch/martin.hilpert/) - Assistant Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Neuchâtel interested in cognitive linguistics, language change, construction grammar, and corpus linguistics