The IXth International Conference on Armenian Linguistics

79 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 10.00-10.40 10.40-11.10 11.10-11.40 Conference Opening: NIKOLAI N. KAZANSKIY, Guests. HRACH MARTIROSYAN, The development of Armenian dialects: archaisms and innovations. MATTHIAS FRITZ, Archaisms in Armenian dialects and Indo-European linguistics. ARMEN SARGSYAN, The place of the Mehtishen dialect among the Armenian dialects.

Coffee Break, 20 min. 12.00-12.30 12.30-13.00 Lunch Session 2 14.30-15.00 15.00-15.30 15.30-16.00 HAYKANUSH MESROPYAN, Dialect equivalents of atk prayer. Session 3 CHARLES DE LAMBERTERIE, Larmnien et lindo-europen balkanique. JAMES CLACKSON, Lexical blending and Armenian etymology.

VIKTORIYA KHURSHUDYAN, Armenian Adversative Conjunctions in a Diachronic Perspective. HASMIK KHACHATRYAN, Semantic field house and household in HRAYR KHANDJIAN, Headedness and word order in subordinate and Armenian dialects. relative clauses in spoken Western Armenian. th KHACHIK HARUTYUNYAN, The language of colophons in 15 -century TIMOFEY ARKHANGELSKIY, The group inflexion in Eastern Armenian Armenian manuscripts. nominal coordinating construction.

Coffee Break, 20 min. 16.20-16.50 16.50-17.20 19.00 GARIK MKRTCHYAN, The problem of interaction of the standard language LUSINE YEGHIAZARYAN, Case Morphology and Definiteness in and dialects in the Republic of Armenia. Armenian. BENEDEK ZSIGMOND, The Transylvanian Armenian language. VASILISA KRYLOVA, On the use of -/-n affix with postpositions in Modern Eastern Armenian. A visit to the St. Catherine Church of the Armenian Apostolic Church in Saint Petersburg (Nevsky Prospekt, 4042)

November 8, Thursday Session 4 10.00-10.40 10.40-11.10 11.10-11.40 12.00-12.30 12.30-13.00 Lunch Session 5 14.30-15.00 15.00-15.30 15.30-16.00 GIANCARLO SCHIRRU, The Old Armenian perfect in a comparative perspective. IRENE TINTI, Arm. linim / e and Gr. ggnomai in the Gospels: Remarks on Semantics and Actionality. ELLI PONOMAREVA, On some aspects of the evolution of the Armenian perfect. Session 6 ARTUR AMBARTSUMYAN, On the etymology of some Classical Armenian lexemes (gusan and geh). ARTEM TROFIMOV, On the etymology of Arm. erkin sky and erkir earth. LUSINE VANYAN, Some rhythmic and structural features of syntagmatic organization in Armenian. ANAD DONABDIAN-DEMOPOULOS, Non finite relative clauses in spoken Western Armenian and in Turkish: looking for the boundaries of language contact VLADIMIR PLUNGIAN, XENIA SENNOVA, On some uses of the Classical Armenian perfect. ANDREA SCALA, The language of the Armenian Bosha (lomavren): some considerations in the light of the mixed languages debate. JOHN GREPPIN, Correspondences between Armenian, the Languages of the North-East Caucasus, and Hurro-Urartian. AGNES KORN, BIRGIT OLSEN, On Armenian -agin.

Coffee Break, 20 min.

Coffee Break, 20 min. 16.20-16.50 16.50-17.20 19.00 RMY VIREDAZ, Origine du type canawt, anaem et questions ARMEN PETROSYAN, A new interpretation of the ethnonym Armen. connexes. PETR KOCHAROV, Diachronic morphosyntax of Arm. 'i-presents. TSOVINAR HARUTYUNYAN, Akhtamar Island in Lake Van the Mother Goddess sanctuary. 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 10.00-10.30 10.30-11.00 11.00-11.30 VARTAN KAZARYAN, Verbal u-stems in Armenian and other IndoEuropean languages. ARMINE GAGINYAN, Zu den Entwicklungstendenzen des Infinitivs im Armenischen, Deutschen und Russischen. AREN SANTOYAN, Some issues of morphemic analysis. Session 8 SUREN ZOLYAN, On the deep layer in the plot of the epic of David of Sassoun. BURISTAN ZULUMYAN, The Language of the poetry of the Armenian symbolists (Terian, Charents). ALVARD SEMIRJYAN, The Language of modern Armenian narrative literature.

Coffee Break, 20 min. 11.50-12.20 12.20-12.50 ANAHIT MURADYAN, OFELIA KHACHATRYAN, Structural and functional SERGE MOURAVIEV, Mesrop Mashtots as a natural phonologist. features of prepositional noun phrases in Western and Eastern Armenian. GAYANE GEVORGYAN, Effects of polysemy in the system of tense and SUSANNA GRIGORYAN, Comparison of the concordance for Grigor mood of Armenian dialects. Tatewacis Book of Questions and the Nor bargirk haykazean lezui dictionary. DAVIT GYULZATYAN, Functional isomorphy between inflexion, one-term GAYANE MKHITARYAN, Names of musical instruments in the Armenian syntagm, and general phrase (according to the data of Armenian, English, Psalter. and Russian).

12.50-13.20

Lunch Session 9 14.30-15.10 15.10-15.40 JAMES RUSSELL, Armenian secret languages and their alphabets. THEO VAN LINT, Hellenophile Armenian? The Language of Grigor Magistros Pahlawuni.

Coffee Break, 20 min. 16.00-16.30 16.30-17.00 17.00-17.30 19.00 VAZGEN HAMBARDZUMYAN, Lexicological and etymological remarks. KEVORK BARDAKJIAN, The rise of new, and Modern Western, Armenian literary standards: some observations. Conference Closing Closing dinner at Amrots Restaurant (Nevsky Prospekt, 176)