The International Workshop on Balto-Slavic Accentology (abbreviated IWoBA) was an annual international conference on comparative and historical

Balto-Slavic The Balto-Slavic languages form a branch of the Indo-European family of languages, traditionally comprising the Baltic and Slavic languages. Baltic and Slavic languages share several linguistic traits not found in any other Indo-European bran ...

accentology Accentology involves a systematic analysis of word or phrase stress. Sub-areas of accentology include Germanic accentology, Balto-Slavic accentology, Indo-European accentology, and Japanese accentology. See also *Proto-Slavic accent Proto-Slavic ...

, including the prehistory and history of the separate

Baltic Baltic may refer to: Peoples and languages * Baltic languages, a subfamily of Indo-European languages, including Lithuanian, Latvian and extinct Old Prussian *Balts (or Baltic peoples), ethnic groups speaking the Baltic languages and/or originati ...

and Slavic languages, as well as synchronic and dialectal issues that have to do with accentology. The first conference was held in Zagreb 1–3 July 2005 with contributions by some of the world's foremost Balto-Slavists, Baltologists and Slavists, organized by the Croatian linguists

Ranko Matasović Ranko Matasović (born 14 May 1968) is a Croatian linguist, Indo-Europeanist and Celticist. Biography Matasović was born and raised in Zagreb, where he attended primary and secondary school. In the Faculty of philosophy at the University of ...

and Mate Kapović. It proved to be an immense success and was thus followed by annually held IWoBA conferences, until the final conference in 2015.

Conferences

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Zagreb Zagreb ( , , , ) is the capital and largest city of Croatia. It is in the northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb stands near the international border between Croatia and Slov ...

, Mate Kapović , - , IWoBA II , 1–3 September 2006 ,

Copenhagen Copenhagen ( or .; da, København ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a proper population of around 815.000 in the last quarter of 2022; and some 1.370,000 in the urban area; and the wider Copenhagen metropolitan ar ...

Thomas Olander Thomas may refer to: People * List of people with given name Thomas * Thomas (name) * Thomas (surname) * Saint Thomas (disambiguation) * Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, and Doctor of the Church * Thomas the A ...

, Adam Hyllested and Jenny Helena Larsson , - , IWoBA III , 27–29 July 2007 ,

Leiden Leiden (; in English and archaic Dutch also Leyden) is a city and municipality in the province of South Holland, Netherlands. The municipality of Leiden has a population of 119,713, but the city forms one densely connected agglomeration wi ...

Tijmen Pronk Tijmen Pronk (born 1979) is a Dutch comparative linguist, his research focuses on etymology, historical phonology, morphology and prosody, and dialectology. Pronk studied Slavic languages and literature and Comparative Indo-European linguistic ...

, - , IWoBA IV , 2–3 July 2008 ,

Scheibbs Scheibbs () is a town in Austria in the Scheibbs district of Lower Austria. In 1886, it became the first town in Austria to have street lighting powered by electricity. Population Mayors *1950-1965: Anton Herok *1965-1983: Alois Derfler *1983 ...

, Elena Stadnik-Holzer , - , IWoBA V , 7–10 July 2009 ,

Opava Opava (; german: Troppau, pl, Opawa) is a city in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 55,000 inhabitants. It lies on the river Opava. Opava is one of the historical centres of Silesia. It was a historical capital of ...

, Roman Sukač , - , IWoBA VI , 7–10 July 2010 ,

Vilnius Vilnius ( , ; see also other names) is the capital and largest city of Lithuania, with a population of 592,389 (according to the state register) or 625,107 (according to the municipality of Vilnius). The population of Vilnius's functional urb ...

, Vytautas Rinkevičius , - , IWoBA VII , 7–10 July 2011 ,

Moscow Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 millio ...

, Mikhail Oslon , - , IWoBA VIII , 6–8 July 2012 ,

Novi Sad Novi Sad ( sr-Cyrl, Нови Сад, ; hu, Újvidék, ; german: Neusatz; see below for other names) is the second largest city in Serbia and the capital of the autonomous province of Vojvodina. It is located in the southern portion of the Pan ...

(Serbia) , Dragana Novakov , - , IWoBA IX , 19-21 September 2013 , Pula (Croatia) , David Mandić , - , IWoBA X , 16-18 October 2014 ,

Ljubljana Ljubljana (also known by other historical names) is the capital and largest city of Slovenia. It is the country's cultural, educational, economic, political and administrative center. During antiquity, a Roman city called Emona stood in the are ...

, Matej Šekli , - , IWoBA XI , 28-31 October 2015 ,

, Vytautas Rinkevičius, Mikhail Oslon and

External links

All available IWoBA proceedings in pdf on Miša Oslon's page

Frederik Kortlandt's remarks to the contributions to IWoBA I (pdf)

Mate Kapović's review of IWOBA I (pdf, in Croatian)

Frederik Kortlandt's remarks to the contributions to IWoBA II (pdf)

Frederik Kortlandt's remarks to the contributions to IWoBA III (pdf)

Konstantin Bogatyrev's review of the Proceedings of IWoBA III (pdf)

Miguel Villanueva Svensson's review of the Proceedings of IWoBA V (pdf)

Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Balto-Slavic Accentology (Baltistica 2011, 7 priedas, all articles in pdf format)

Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Balto-Slavic Accentology

I.P.Kotoedov's review of IWoBA VII (pdf, in Russian)

D.Tamulaitiene's review of IWoBA VIII (pdf, in Lithuanian)

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