LINGUIST List 21.3036 Thu Jul 22 2010 Confs: Socioling/Netherlands Editor for this issue: Amy Brunett <brunettlinguistlist.org> LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.    Dick Smakman, Rethinking Contact Induced Change Message 1: Rethinking Contact Induced Change Date: 20-Jul-2010 From: Dick Smakman <d.smakmanhum.leidenuniv.nl> Subject: Rethinking Contact Induced Change E-mail this message to a friend Rethinking Contact Induced Change Short Title: RCIC Date: 09-Jun-2011 - 11-Jun-2011 Location: Leiden, Netherlands Contact: Esrih Bakker Contact Email: RCIChum.leidenuniv.nl Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics Other Specialty: Language Contact Meeting Description: This conference addresses a number of fundamental questions in the domain of contact-induced change that have emerged from the debate in the last decades, and it also aims to formulate new questions: - Is there a difference in output of contact-induced change in language maintenance situations and in language shift situations? - Do mixed languages, creoles, and metatypized languages (in the definition of Malcolm Ross) reflect essentially different histories of language contact than other languages, or do they constitute the edges of a continuum? - To what extent do structural differences and similarities between the languages in contact shape the way they influence each other? Invited speakers (to be confirmed): Robert Nicolaï, Alexandra Aikhenvald, Sarah Thomason, Don Winford, Malcolm Ross. The conference will take place over two and a half days, namely Thursday, Friday, and Saturday morning, and in line with the aim to address and discuss the fundamental issues we will not have parallel sessions. The conference languages are English and French. Scientific Committee: Robert Nicolaï, Maarten Kossmann, Maarten Mous, Dick Smakman Organizing Committee: Esrih Bakker, Martine Bruil, Jenia Gutova, Maarten Kossmann, Maarten Mous, Alexander Schwager, Dick Smakman Registration: The general conference fee is 50 euro. Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 22-Jul-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.