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Workshop: Language Variation and Change in Contact SituationsTuesday 5 September 2017
Proudly hosted by Stellenbosch University and the University of the Western Cape, South Africa
Location: J.S. Gericke Library Auditorium, Stellenbosch University
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08:30 – 08:45
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Welcome - Prof Felix Banda (UWC)
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08:45 – 09:45
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INVITED SPEAKER Charlotte Galves (Campinas)
The role of Niger-Congo languages in the genesis of Brazilian Portuguese |
| 09:45 – 10:15 |
Coffee Break
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| 10:15 – 10:55 | Tonjes Veenstra (Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin)
Kreol Morisien as a Bantu Language |
| 10:55 – 11:35 | Brita Ramsevik Riksem (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim)
Stability or Change in Heritage Norwegian? Diachronic Development in the Patterns of Language Mixing
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| 11:35 – 12:15 | Sigríður Sigurjónsdóttir (University of Iceland), Iris Edda Nowenstein (University of Iceland), Sigríður Mjöll Björnsdóttir (University of Tromsø), Ásgrímur Angantýsson, Anton Karl Ingason (University of Iceland), and Eiríkur Rögnvaldsson (University of Iceland) Language Contact without Contact: A Nationwide Study of Digital Minoritization |
| 12:15 – 13:30 |
Lunch
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| 13:30 – 14:10 | Adam Ledgeway (University of Cambridge), Norma Schifano (University of Cambridge) & Giuseppina Silvestri (University of Cambridge)
Greek and Romance in Contact: When Finite Becomes Non-finite |
| 14:10 – 14:50 | Cristina Guardiano (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia) & Melita Stavrou (Aristotle University, Thessaloniki)
Syntactic Change Under the Pressure of Contact: The Loss of Polydefiniteness in Italiot Greek |
| 14:50 – 15:30 | Alessandra Tomaselli (Università di Verona) & Cecilia Poletto (Università di Padova)
From VPR to VO through German Linguistic Islands in the North East of Italy |
| 15:30 – 16:00 |
Coffee Break
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| 16:00 – 17:00 |
INVITED SPEAKER Pieter Muysken (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen)
Microvariation, contact, change in Ecuadorian Quechua |
