South Caucasian Chalk Circle 3 (SCCC-3)

Abstract

On October 2-4, 2023, the Linguistic Conference South Caucasian Chalk Circle 3 (SCCC-3) was held at Ilia State University, and the International Fall School of Linguists was also held within the same event (https://linguistics.iliauni.edu.ge/). The first SCCC met in Paris in September 2016 and was followed up by smaller meetings in North America and the second SCCC in Tbilisi in
2018. There was an unfortunate break due to the pandemic, and we were delighted to resume the meetings in person in 2023 at ISU, in Tbilisi. Following up on its general theme, SCCC-3 brought together linguists working on different aspects of the scientific study of language and experts in Georgian and South Caucasian (Kartvelian) languages and placed special emphasis on the
morphology and morphosyntax of polypersonal grammatical systems. As in the prior meetings, SCCC-3 included several tutorials, presentation and poster sessions, to create as much space for informal discussions as possible. In 2023, SCCC-3 also hosted tutorials on bilingualism, child language development, and experimental design in linguistic research. The conference was followed by the Fall School of Linguistics (5-10 October).
The conference and Fall School had a big variation of linguistic fields: Kartvelian languages (Georgian, Svan, Laz, Megrelian), Basque, endangered languages, language development, bilingualism, sign languages, neurolinguistics, morphology, phonology, syntax, lexicography, language heritage, dialectology, typology, corpus linguistics and language acquisition.
Together with Georgian linguists, the professors and doctoral students from different American and European Universities and research centres (University of Maryland, USA; University of Paris 8, France; CNRS – Université Côte d’Azur, IKER, Bayonne, France; University of South California, USA; Université Paris Cité, France; Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel; Boğaziçi University, Turkey; University of Milan Bicocca, Italy; University of Paul Valéry Montpellier 3, France; University of Chicago, USA; CNRS, SFL, Paris, France; Bar-Ilan University, Israel; Rice University Houston, Texas, USA, University of California, Berkeley, US; University of Montréal, Canada, Queen Mary University of London, UK; University of Toronto, Canada; University of Florence, Italy; University of Nantes, France participated in the event.