LINGUIST List 21.2561

Thu Jun 10 2010

Calls: General Ling, Language Contact/Netherlands

Editor for this issue: Di Wdzenczny <dilinguistlist.org>

        1.    Robert Borges, Kréyòl Seminar 2010
Message 1: Kréyòl Seminar 2010
Date: 09-Jun-2010
From: Robert Borges <r.borgeslet.ru.nl>
Subject: Kréyòl Seminar 2010
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Full Title: Kréyòl Seminar 2010

Date: 25-Aug-2010 - 28-Aug-2010 Location: Groesbeek, Netherlands Contact Person: Robert Borges Meeting Email: r.borgeslet.ru.nl

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Other Specialty: Language Contact

Call Deadline: 30-Jun-2010

Meeting Description:

This international seminar on creoles, pidgins and other outcomes of language contact, is aimed at junior researchers to share ideas and to discuss and debate current issues in contact linguistics. The seminar is especially intended for junior researchers (MA and PhD) working on pidgins, creoles, intertwined languages and other outcomes of language contact. There will be several senior researchers present, not only to lecture on their own research, but also to give feedback to the junior researchers' presentations and to moderate sessions with their expertise.

Confirmed Senior researchers: Peter Bakker - Aarhus University Enoch Aboh - University of Amsterdam Maarten Mous - Leiden University Norval Smith - University of Amsterdam Pieter Muysken - Radboud University Kofi Yakpo - Radboud University Margot van den Berg - Radboud University

Presentations on any contact languages are welcome. However, presentations on the languages of the Guyanas (Guyana, French Guiana and Suriname) are especially encouraged. A portion of the seminar will be dedicated to language contact in the Guyanas, past and present.

Lodging and meal's will be partially covered, however a small contribution will be asked of the participants, the amount of which will be determined based on the final number of participants.

Call For Papers

Each presentation should be approximately 20 minutes with a short discussion. This year's topics should fall into the following areas:

Phonology - Historical linguistics Syntax - Language contact Semantics - Research methodology Socio-linguistics - Language contact in the Guyanas

If you would like to present or participate, please contact us before June 30. For those who would like to present, please send your abstract, not longer than a single page of text and an additional page for examples and references.

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