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Proceedings of the 1St Conference on Central Asian Languages and Linguistics Proceedings of the 1st Conference on Central Asian Languages and Linguistics (ConCALL -1) Volume 1 Edited by 16- 17 May 2014 Dr. Öner Özçelik and Bloomington, Indiana Amber Kennedy Kent (C) ConCALL-1 2014 Proceedings copyrighted by Indiana University, CeLCAR (C) All papers copyrighted by the authors 2014 Proceedings of the 1st Conference on Central Asian Languages and Linguistics (ConCALL) Volume 1/edited by Dr. Öner Özçelik and Amber Kennedy Kent ISBN: 978-0-9961762-0-0 1. Central Asian Languages - Congresses For information on ConCALL-1 (held on 16-17 May 2014, Bloomington, Indiana), visit our website at http://www.iub.edu/~celcar/ConCALL/ Published by Center for Languages of the Central Asian Region Eigenmann Hall 702 1900 E. Tenth Street Bloomington, IN 47406-7512 USA http://www.iub.edu/~celcar/ iii History of ConCALL The Conference on Central Asian Languages and Linguistics (ConCALL) was founded in 2014 at Indiana University under the leadership of Dr. Öner Özçelik, the residing director of the Center for Languages of the Central Asian Region (CeLCAR), with grants and contributions from the U.S. Department of Education and several units at Indiana University, including the Ostrom Grant Programs, College of Arts and Humanities Center (CAHI), Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource, College of Arts and Sciences, School of Global and International Studies (SGIS), Sinor Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies (SRIFIAS), Department of Cen- tral Eurasian Studies (CEUS), and Department of Linguistics. As the nation’s sole U.S. Department of Education funded Language Resource Center focusing on the languages of the Central Asian Region, CeLCAR’s main mission is to strengthen and improve the nation’s capacity for teaching and learning Central Asian languages through teacher training, research, materials devel- opment projects, and dissemination. As part of this mission, CeLCAR has an ultimate goal to unify and fortify the Central Asian language community by facilitating networking between linguists and language educators working on Central Asian languages, encouraging research projects that will inform language instruction, and provide opportunities for professionals in the field to both showcase their work and receive feedback from their peers. Thus, ConCALL was established to be the first international academic conference to bring together linguists and language educators working on the languages of the Central Asian region, focusing primarily on Altaic (Turkic, Mongolic, Tungusic) and Eastern Indo-European languages, among others, with the aim of encouraging research into how these specific languages are (i) represented formally, (ii) acquired by second/for- eign language learners, and (iii) best taught given research driven teaching methods. Languages served by ConCALL 2014 include, but are not limited to: Azerbaijani, Dari, Karakalpak, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Mari, Mongolian, Pamiri, Pashto, Persian, Russian, Shughnani, Tajiki, Tatar, Tibetan, Tofalar, Tungusic, Turkish, Turkmen, Tuvan, Uyghur, Uzbek, Wakhi and more! In general, ConCALL represents all languages spoken in Central Asia and the surrounding areas, as well as languages that are genetically related to Central Asian languages (such as Turkish and Persian, which are directly related to Central Asian Turkic and Iranian languages respectively)! Conference Proceedings Conference presenters were selected via a peer-review process. All conference invited speakers and ac- cepted presenters were invited to publish their papers as part of the conference proceedings. CONTENTS OF VOLUME 1 History of ConCALL iii Editor’s Introduction vii Acknowledgements viii PART 1. PLENARY AND INVITED PAPERS OR ABSTRACTS I KORNFILT, Jaklin, Syracuse University 3 Turkish Relative Clauses: How Exceptional are they from a Central Asian Turkic Perspective? II BECKWITH, Chris, Indiana University 25 What Did the Earliest Central Asian Languages Sound Like? III HANKAMER, Jorge, University of California, Santa Cruz 26 Turkish Suspended Affixation IV KARIMI, Simin, University of Arizona 27 Contrast in Focus Persian and Turkish focus constructions PART 2. FORMAL LINGUISTICS AND RESEARCH 1 ABUDUREHEMAN, Kaili Binu, Northwest University for Nationalities 31 Uyghur Consonants and Electropalatograph 2 BAEK, Sangyub, Hokkaido University 36 Tungusic Converb -mi from the Perspective of Linguistic area 3 BOKHARI, Hassan, and WASHINGTON, Jonathan, Indiana University 51 Stress in Saudi Diaspora Uzbek and its relation to stress in Turkish 4 BOLGUN, Ali, Monterey Institute of International Studies 62 Why situation-theory cannot explain the accusative case marking in Turkish 5 DEMIR, Duygu, Hacettepe University 73 Adverbial Clauses in Modern Turkish 6 DJURABAEVA, Sharifa, Ball State University 79 Definition and clarification discourse markers in the speech of Uzbek speakers 7 HIDAKA, Shinsuke, Tokyo University 86 Uzbek’s Suffix Expressing Possession -li 8 ILOLOV, M., ILOLOVA, P., YUSUFBEKOV, Sh. P., 92 Academy of sciences of the Republic of Tajikistan Lingvo-Methodical Objectives and Frequency-Specific Approaches for Kazakh Language 9 KURYSHZHANOVA, Aliya, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies 97 Lingvo-Methodical Objectives and Frequency-Specific Approaches for Kazakh Language 10 NEMATOLLAHI, Narges, Indiana University 102 Development of the Progressive Construction in Modern Persian 11 ŞAHIN, Savaş, Amasya University 114 Metaphorical Approach to Mental Verbs in Turkmen Turkish 12 SUGAR, Alexander, University of Washington 123 Implementing a Machine-Readable Grammar of Uyghur 13 YAMAKOSHI, Yasuhiro, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies 131 How Can We Define The “Participles” In Mongolic Languages: Two Problems In Shinekhen Buryat PART 3. PEDAGOGY AND TEACHING 1 FEDERE, Marla and LEISHMAN, Clay, Naval Special Warfare 143 Developing a Learner-Centered Pashtu Curriculum for Navy SEALs: A Case Study 2 KRAUSE, Johnathan, Western Carolina University 154 Afghan Languages as a Source of Unity Rather Than Division 3 KUZEKOVA, Zeinekhan, Nazarbayev University 162 Functional-Semantic Fields and Teaching of Kazakh Language 4 SAYDEE, Farid, San Diego State University 167 Determinant Factors in Effective Teaching and Learning of Dari and Pashto Languages: An Action Research Paper 5 STERN-GOTTSCHALK, Ariann, Indiana University 186 Trends in US-based Central Asian Language Instruction: The Case of Indiana University’s Summer Language Workshop vii Editors’ Introduction On May 16th and 17th, 2014, the Center for Languages of the Central Asian Region (CeLCAR) hosted the first ever Conference on Central Asian Languages and Linguistics (ConCALL) at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana as a biannual academic conference. This first ConCALL was established to bring together linguists and language educators specializing in the languages of the Central Asian region, including Turkic, Iranian, Mongolic, Tungusic and Tibetan languages spoken in the region, among others. The theme of this founding conference, “Building a Bond: Strengthening the Central Asian Lan- guage Community,” was chosen based on our goals to create a stronger network of Central Asian language experts and to provide a unique opportunity for researchers, pedagogists, linguists, and educators in the field to present their work to an audience of their peers in the same language field. We feel pleased at the overall success of this first time conference. We had 79 registered attendees that came from all over the globe, including not only the Central Eurasian region, including Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkey, and Uzbekistan, but also attendees from such di- verse countries as Sweden, India, China, Japan, Malaysia, Pakistan, and Australia! Additionally, we had attend- ees from various American universities and institutions including Yale University, University of Kentucky, San Diego State University, University of Washington, University of Wisconsin, and the Defense Language Institute in Monterey. And of course our illustrious guest speakers Jaklin Kornfilt, Jorge Hankamer, Simin Karimi, and Chris Beckwith represented Syracuse University, University of California - Santa Cruz, University of Arizona, and Indiana University, respectively. We received 76 presentation proposals/abstracts. Although this was the first gathering of our confer- ence, we were impressed and inspired by the high level of quality submissions, and selected 30 of these for oral presentations, i.e. with an acceptance rate of 39.47%. Out of the remaining 46, we chose 15 as poster presenta- tions (32.61% acceptance rate). The selected presentations and posters covered an assortment of research topics related to syntax, semantics, phonetics, phonology, language acquisition, pedagogy, and more in an assortment of Turkic, Iranian, Mongolic, and even some Tungusic and (eastern) Uralic languages. We cannot express enough our sincere pleasure at being a part of the founding of this conference which we genuinely believe is just the beginning of a movement towards strengthening and uniting the community of our field, and increasing the teaching of these less commonly taught languages in more language programs across the world. And of course, once again, we would like to thank our main conference supporters: IU’s Ostrom Pro- gram Grant, IU’s College of Arts and Humanities Institute, the Inner Asian & Uralic National Resource Center, IU’s College of Arts and Sciences, IU’s Central Eurasian Studies Department, and IU’s Department of Linguis- tics. And we look
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