LINGUIST List 17.1259
Tue Apr 25 2006
Confs: General Ling/Hamburg, Germany
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Language Contact and Contact Languages
Message 1: Language Contact and Contact Languages
Date: 24-Apr-2006
From: Peter Siemund <peter.siemunduni-hamburg.de>
Subject: Language Contact and Contact Languages
Language Contact and Contact Languages
Date: 06-Jul-2006 - 08-Jul-2006
Location: Hamburg, Germany
Contact: Peter Siemund
Contact Email: < click here to access email >
Meeting URL: http://www.uni-hamburg.de/fachbereiche-einrichtungen/sfb538/koll2006.html
Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
Meeting Description:
Language contact is an indispensable prerequisite for the development of contact languages. The place where language contact begins is in the mind of the individual. Such language contact may result in a change of the linguistic behavior of an entire speech community – a contact language arises.
The colloquium explores language contact and contact languages with this broad perspective in mind. The contributions to the colloquium cover the simultaneous and successive acquisition of multiple languages, the analysis of new and unexplored social situations involving several languages, language contact in specific institutional settings, contact in specific modes of communication or between specific linguistic subsystems, the consequences of language contact for language change (contact-induced change) as well as the relevance of language-internal variation.
The investigation of language contact and contact languages is at its best when it comes to discovering patterns of and limits to language contact phenomena. The colloquium places special emphasis on the description, elaboration and explanation of such universal constraints on language contact. Both functionally oriented analyses of contact phenomena and contact universals as well as those given within Universal Grammar will be discussed.
Plenary speakers:
Peter Auer, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg Mary Beckman, The Ohio State University Hendrik Boeschoten, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz Martha Crago, Université de Montréal Rosalie Finlayson, University of South Africa Itziar Idiazabal, Universidad del País Vasco Wulf Oesterreicher, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Michael Noonan, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee Shana Poplack, University of Ottawa Erich Steiner, Universität des Saarlandes
The full programme of the conference can be found at the following URL:
http://www.uni-hamburg.de/fachbereiche-einrichtungen/sfb538/programme.pdf
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