The IXth International Conference on Armenian Linguistics

7–9 November, Saint Petersburg Institute for Linguistic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

All conference sessions are held at Tuchkov pereulok, 9.

November 7, Wednesday

Session 1

9.30-10.00 Conference Opening: NIKOLAI N. KAZANSKIY, Guests. 10.00-10.40 HRACH MARTIROSYAN, The development of Armenian dialects: archaisms and innovations. 10.40-11.10 MATTHIAS FRITZ, Archaisms in Armenian dialects and Indo-European linguistics. 11.10-11.40 ARMEN SARGSYAN, The place of the Mehtishen dialect among the Armenian dialects.

Coffee Break, 20 min.

12.00-12.30 CHARLES DE LAMBERTERIE, L’arménien et l’indo-européen balkanique. 12.30-13.00 JAMES CLACKSON, Lexical blending and Armenian etymology.

Lunch

Session 2 Session 3

14.30-15.00 HAYKANUSH MESROPYAN, Dialect equivalents of ałōtʽkʽ ‘prayer’. VIKTORIYA KHURSHUDYAN, Armenian Adversative Conjunctions in a Diachronic Perspective.

15.00-15.30 HASMIK KHACHATRYAN, Semantic field “house and household” in Armenian dialects.

HRAYR KHANDJIAN, Headedness and word order in subordinate and relative clauses in spoken Western Armenian.

15.30-16.00 KHACHIK HARUTYUNYAN, The language of colophons in 15th-century Armenian manuscripts.

TIMOFEY ARKHANGELSKIY, The group inflexion in Eastern Armenian nominal coordinating construction.

Coffee Break, 20 min.

16.20-16.50 GARIK MKRTCHYAN, The problem of interaction of the standard language and dialects in the Republic of Armenia.

LUSINE YEGHIAZARYAN, Case Morphology and Definiteness in Armenian.

16.50-17.20 BENEDEK ZSIGMOND, The Transylvanian Armenian language. VASILISA KRYLOVA, On the use of -ə/-n affix with postpositions in Modern Eastern Armenian.

19.00 A visit to the St. Catherine Church of the Armenian Apostolic Church in Saint Petersburg (Nevsky Prospekt, 40–42)

November 8, Thursday

Session 4

10.00-10.40 ANAÏD DONABÉDIAN-DEMOPOULOS, Non finite relative clauses in spoken Western Armenian and in Turkish: looking for the boundaries of language contact

10.40-11.10 VLADIMIR PLUNGIAN, XENIA SENËNOVA, On some uses of the Classical Armenian perfect. 11.10-11.40 ANDREA SCALA, The language of the Armenian Bosha (lomavren): some considerations in the light of the mixed languages debate.

Coffee Break, 20 min.

12.00-12.30 JOHN GREPPIN, Correspondences between Armenian, the Languages of the North-East Caucasus, and Hurro-Urartian. 12.30-13.00 AGNES KORN, BIRGIT OLSEN, On Armenian -agin.

Lunch

Session 5 Session 6

14.30-15.00 GIANCARLO SCHIRRU, The Old Armenian perfect in a comparative perspective.

ARTUR AMBARTSUMYAN, On the etymology of some Classical Armenian lexemes (gusan and geh).

15.00-15.30 IRENE TINTI, Arm. linim / ełē and Gr. gígnomai in the Gospels: Remarks on Semantics and Actionality.

ARTEM TROFIMOV, On the etymology of Arm. erkin ‘sky’ and erkir ‘earth’.

15.30-16.00 ELLI PONOMAREVA, On some aspects of the evolution of the Armenian perfect.

LUSINE VANYAN, Some rhythmic and structural features of syntagmatic organization in Armenian.

Coffee Break, 20 min.

16.20-16.50 RÉMY VIREDAZ, Origine du type canawt‘, čanač‘em et questions connexes.

ARMEN PETROSYAN, A new interpretation of the ethnonym Armen.

16.50-17.20 PETR KOCHAROV, Diachronic morphosyntax of Arm. č'i-presents. TSOVINAR HARUTYUNYAN, Akhtamar Island in Lake Van — the Mother Goddess sanctuary.

19.00 Vivaldi. Four Seasons. The Youth Symphony Orchestra of the Armenian Apostolic Church in Saint Petersburg directed by Migran Agajanian. Jaani Kirik Concert Hall (Dekabristov Street, 54 A)

November 9, Friday

Session 7 Session 8

10.00-10.30 VARTAN KAZARYAN, Verbal u-stems in Armenian and other Indo-European languages.

SUREN ZOLYAN, On the deep layer in the plot of the epic of David of Sassoun.

10.30-11.00 ARMINE GAGINYAN, Zu den Entwicklungstendenzen des Infinitivs im Armenischen, Deutschen und Russischen.

BURISTAN ZULUMYAN, The Language of the poetry of the Armenian symbolists (Terian, Charents).

11.00-11.30 AREN SANTOYAN, Some issues of morphemic analysis. ALVARD SEMIRJYAN, The Language of modern Armenian narrative literature.

Coffee Break, 20 min.

11.50-12.20 ANAHIT MURADYAN, OFELIA KHACHATRYAN, Structural and functional features of prepositional noun phrases in Western and Eastern Armenian.

SERGE MOURAVIEV, Mesrop Mashtots‘ as a “natural” phonologist.

12.20-12.50 GAYANE GEVORGYAN, Effects of polysemy in the system of tense and mood of Armenian dialects.

SUSANNA GRIGORYAN, Comparison of the concordance for Grigor Tatʽewacʽi’s Book of Questions and the Nor bargirkʽ haykazean lezui dictionary.

12.50-13.20 DAVIT GYULZATYAN, Functional isomorphy between inflexion, one-term syntagm, and general phrase (according to the data of Armenian, English, and Russian).

GAYANE MKHITARYAN, Names of musical instruments in the Armenian Psalter.

Lunch

Session 9

14.30-15.10 JAMES RUSSELL, Armenian secret languages and their alphabets. 15.10-15.40 THEO VAN LINT, Hellenophile Armenian? The Language of Grigor Magistros Pahlawuni.

Coffee Break, 20 min.

16.00-16.30 VAZGEN HAMBARDZUMYAN, Lexicological and etymological remarks. 16.30-17.00 KEVORK BARDAKJIAN, The rise of ‘new’, and Modern Western, Armenian literary standards: some observations. 17.00-17.30 Conference Closing

19.00 Closing dinner at Amrots Restaurant (Nevsky Prospekt, 176)