Conference on Samoyedology, Moscow, Russia, September 8-10, 2016

1184951760_8f45665a85_mThe 6th International conference on Samoyedology will be held from the 8th to the 10th of September, 2016 in Moscow, Russia. Dedicated to the memory of Ariadna Kuznetsova (1932-2015), this conference will bring to together lexicographers, linguists, anthropologists, and folklorists whose research centers upon the group of Finno-Ugric languages spoken in Siberia and the Russian Arctic.

Samoyedic language researchers who are interested in presenting their work at this special event are asked to send in a scientific abstract of ca. 3,600 characters by the March 1st 2016. For more details regarding the call for papers and the conference, contact Andrey Shluinsky (samoyedology2016[@]yandex.ru).

CombiNet Conference, Rome, Italy, January 29-30, 2016

21638977192_9821353a24_mFrom the 29th to the 30 of January 2016, Roma Tre University in conjunction with the Universities of Pisa and Bologona, will be holding the CombiNet Conference. The theme of this year’s international conference is “Word Formats and Lexical Combinations: Structures, extraction methods, and lexicographic representations.” The event is scheduled to take place in Rome, Italy.

The aim of the conference is to strengthen collaborative ties between researchers interested in the analysis of the nature, structure, typology, and combination properties of words. Researchers working within the fields of lexicology, lexicography, and computational linguistics are encouraged to send in paper proposals by the December 1st 2015 deadline.

For more on the conference program and the call for papers, consult the CombiNet website.

Workshop “Hornucopia,” New Haven, CT, November 6-7 2015

5696222833_6ae4e5fddd_mFrom the 6th to the 7th of November 2015, in New Haven, Connecticut, the Yale Linguistics Department will hold a workshop entitled Hornucopia in honor of Laurence C. Horn.

This workshop is designed to bring together linguists and philosophers whose work builds upon Horn’s scholarship of in the field of natural language semantics and pragmatics. Experts in the areas of lexicography, pragmatics, semantics, and syntax are especially encouraged to attend.

Although the workshop is free, registration is required.

Name controversy hits Chandigarh International Airport

18227917006_a55104f2f3_mOn the 11th of September 2015, Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the international terminal of one the largest airports of Northern India. Although the airport is a technological triumph, it included onomastic hitch: the festivities were conducted without a final decision on the new terminal’s name.

According to an article in the Daily Mail, the Punjab government lobbied for the name Shaheed-E-Azam Sardar Bhagat Singh International Airport Mohali-Chandigarh. However, the Haryana government complained that the Punjabi suggestion was far too long and complicated. Covering over 305 acres of land, the 53,000 square meter terminal is due to open for business on or about the 19th of October 2015. In the meantime, the airport remains unnamed.