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mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Workshop
"Grammatical hybridization and social conditions”<br>
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17-18 October 2014<br>
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Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig
(Germany)</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:
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Organizers: Susanne Maria Michaelis & Martin Haspelmath,
with Claudia Bavero<br>
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Description</span></b><b><span
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It is clear that different social conditions of language contact
lead to different kinds of hybridization (= contact-induced
change). In fact, Thomason & Kaufman (1988) have argued that
the kinds of change that we find in contact situations primarily
depend on the social conditions. But the exact dependencies
between social situations and kinds of hybridization are still
far from clear. </span><span
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workshop will work toward a more fine-grained and empirically
based typology of the kinds of social encounters and their
structural outcomes, with special reference to grammatical
change. Eventually, we should be able to fill in the missing
information in both directions:<br>
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Given certain hybrid structures (e.g. word order calquing, loan
valency, affix borrowing), which social settings (e.g.
longstanding bilingualism, colonial plantation settings, written
prestige language) are the most likely to have brought these
linguistic structures about? And vice versa: <br>
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(ii) Given a specific social contact situation, which structural
features do we expect as the result of such an encounter?</span><span
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Invited speakers</span></b><b><span
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Malcolm Ross (Australian National University, Canberra)<br>
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Pieter Muysken (Radboud University Nijmegen)</span><span
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abstracts</span></b><b><span
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In this workshop we are primarily interested in grammatical
hybridization, i.e. borrowing (adoption or imposition) of
grammatical patterns or grammatical items. We welcome papers
from different subdisciplines: historical linguistics, contact
linguistics, pidgin and creole studies, quantitative
linguistics. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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can treat specific language contact situations both on the
individual and on the social level, as well as historical
linguistic topics or papers generalizing over different kinds of
contact situations.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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send your anonymous abstracts (about 300 words) to: <a
href="file://localhost/javascript/linkTo_UnCryptMailto%28%27jxfiql7zixrafx_yxsbolXbsx+jmd+ab%27%29%3B"><span
style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">claudia_bavero@eva.mpg.de</span></a>
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Deadline: 31 May 2014<br>
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Notification of acceptance: 15 June 2014<br>
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Contact: <a
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style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">michaelis@eva.mpg.de</span></a></span><span
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Important dates</span></b><b><span
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New Roman"">Deadline for submission: 31 May 2014<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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New Roman"">Notification of acceptance: 15 June 2014<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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