7th study day on Finno-Ugric languages

The Centre de Recherches Europes-Eurasie-CREE (Inalco), the UMR Structure et Dynamique des Langues (SeDyL, Inalco-CNRS) and the LLF laboratory, with the support of the Association pour le développement des études finno-ougriennes (www.adefo.org) and the financial backing of the Inalco Scientific Council and the Lattice and Lacito laboratories, are pleased to invite you to the 7th Study Day on Finno-Ugric Languages on May 16 and 17, 2025 at Inalco.
Logo avec des lettres un chiffre et un cercle bleu
Logo de la journée d'étude sur les langues finno-ougriennes © Association pour le développement des études finno-ougriennes‎

Scientific event presentation

This event is designed to provide a meeting place for French-speaking linguists working on one or more Finno-Ugric languages. After a twelve-year hiatus, it follows on from the study days organized first by the Centre interuniversitaire d'études hongroises (CIEH), then by the Centre interuniversitaire d'études hongroises et finlandaises (CIEH-CIEFi) until 2013.

Invited speakers: We are delighted to welcome three speakers, representing different branches of Finno-Ugric studies, who will each offer a paper:

Svetlana Edygarova, University of Helsinki, Permian languages,
Emese Fazakas, Babeș-Bolyai University, Kolozsvár (Cluj), Hungarian linguistics,
Riho Grünthal, University of Helsinki, Fennic languages.

Interventions

The remainder of the program is devoted to a variety of papers with the aim of taking stock of Francophone research on Finno-Ugric languages. A dozen papers have been selected, including those from students engaged in Master's research. Many fields of linguistics are represented:

  • phonology, morphology, syntax,
  • discourse analysis and semantics,
  • descriptive or theoretical approaches,
  • diachronic or synchronic linguistics, etc.

Scientific event program

Friday, May 16, 2025 from 9am to 5:15pm
Auditorium of the Pôle des Langues et Civilisations

9am-10am: Invited lecture (chair: Thierry Poibeau)

  • Emese Fazakas: "Problematic issues in research on historical multilingualism"

10am-12.15pm: Syntax and semantics (chair: Thierry Poibeau)

  • Outi Duvallon: "Les particules enclitiques =kin et =kAAn dans les relatives sans antécédent en finnois"
  • Alexandra Akochiat :"Étude contrastive des verbes initiant un processus en français et en finnois : le cas des sujets inanimés"
  • Suzanne Lesage:"Syntactic, semantic and pragmatic factors determining the use of possessives in Estonian"
  • Phan Quan Dinh: "Anticausative feeling verbs in the zero-person construction: study of the verb innostua in Finnish"

2pm-3pm: Invited lecture (chair: Outi Duvallon)

  • Svetlana Edygarova: "Udmurt Newspeak in the 1930s"

3pm-5.15pm: Documentation and sociolinguistics (chair: Outi Duvallon)

  • Hadrien Boudier: "Linguistic biography of the kvene: perception of a national minority language within its people"
  • Antoine Chalvin:"Le Grand dictionnaire estonien-français et le Corpus parallèle estonien-français: bilan de vingt années de travail collectif sur la construction de ressources linguistiques franco-estoniennes"
  • Martin Carayol:"Distilles et ornithoptères: neologisms from Dune (Frank Herbert) in Hungarian, Finnish and Estonian translations"
  • Eva Toulouze:"Some peculiarities of traditional Udmurt prayers"
Saturday May 17, 2025 from 9am to 12:15pm
Room 3.05 - Pôle des Langues et Civilisations

9am-10am: Guest lecture (chair: Suzanne Lesage)

  • Riho Grünthal:"After diffusion and disintegration: the secondary integration of Fennic languages"
  • 10am-12.15pm: Diachrony and typology (chair: Suzanne Lesage)
  • Lena Borise, Katalin Gugán, Balázs Surányi :"Why has there been no OV-to-VO shift in Surgut Khanty?"
  • Jules Bouton : "Analogical change and predictability of plural nouns in live"
  • Jean-Léo Léonard, Tanguy Solliec, Marco Patriarca, Els Heinsalu : "Dialectometric exploration of the Fennic dialectal network : A multidimensional and critical approach to the construction of typological data for quantitative processing"
  • Thierry Poibeau: "Passive or indefinite, a question of definition?"
Organizing committee
  • Antoine Chalvin (Inalco, CREE)
  • Outi Duvallon (Inalco, SeDyL)
  • Emese Fazakas (Université Babeș-Bolyai)
  • Jean-Léo Léonard (Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3, DIPRALANG)
  • Suzanne Lesage (University of Freiburg)
  • Marc-Antoine Mahieu (Inalco, LACITO)
  • Thierry Poibeau (CNRS, Lattice)
  • Eva Toulouze (Inalco, CREE)
  • Jules Bouton (Université Paris-Cité, LLF, CNRS)
Contact:
antoine.chalvin@inalco.fr