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          "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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        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
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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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          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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