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<div class="moz-signature"> Dear members of the Linguistic
Association of Pakistan,<br>
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we would like to draw your attention to the <br>
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<b>5th World conference on pluricentric languages and their
non-dominant varieties </b>which is to take place in Mainz,
Germany July 13-16th 2017 and invite you to participate in the
conference and to present papers and workshops about the
situation of Urdu and other languages being part of a pluricentric
language . <br>
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The conference is organised by the Working Group on non-dominant
varieties of pluricentric languages (WGDV) (<a
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="http://www.pluricentriclanguages.org">www.pluricentriclanguages.org</a>).<br>
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The general theme of the conference is "<b>Models of
pluricentricity: Nation, space and language</b>". <br>
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This time the conference will try to focus on the influence of
geographic aspects on the modelling of dominant and non-dominant
varieties to further advance the understanding of whether
geographically contiguous varieties follow the same pathways in
their affirmation as own varieties as do geographically separated
ones (e.g. European and Brazilian Portuguese). <br>
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You find all necessary information on the web site of the
conference:<b> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.ndv-conf.org">http://www.ndv-conf.org</a></b><br>
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Best regards<br>
<br>
Benjamin Meissnitzer (Organiser of the conference)<br>
Rudolf Muhr (Co-ordinator of WGDNV)<br>
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