LINGUIST List 23.231 Thu Jan 12 2012 Confs: Sociolinguistics, Language Contact/Germany 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.     Marina Wienberg , Language Empires in Comparative Perspective Message 1: Language Empires in Comparative Perspective Date: 11-Jan-2012 From: Marina Wienberg <mwienberguni-bremen.de> Subject: Language Empires in Comparative Perspective E-mail this message to a friend Language Empires in Comparative Perspective Date: 03-Mar-2012 - 07-Mar-2012 Location: Bremen, Germany Contact: Marina Wienberg Contact Email: < click here to access email > Meeting URL: http://www.fb10.uni-bremen.de/language_empires/ Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics Other Specialty: Language Contact, Asymmetric Language Contact Meeting Description: The first international conference dedicated to ‘Language Empires in Comparative Perspective’ is going to take place at the University of Bremen 3-7 March, 2012. It will be organised by the scientific research network ’Language contact and language comparison’ under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Thomas Stolz. During this conference contributions addressing asymmetric language contacts between Russian, Chinese, Arabic and the Roman languages on the one hand and the languages influenced by them on the other hand are supposed to throw light on potential similarities and differences, so that first generalisations about the phenomenology of Language Empires can be made. The talks will focus on the influence of the dominant prestige language on the lexicon, idioms, syntax, morphology, semantics and phonology of the recipient language. Moreover, cultural, social, political and other contextual conditions circumstances as well as aspects of language policy need to be covered, too. Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 12-Jan-2012       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.