28.1202, Summer Schools: Heritage Languages : Theories, Domains and Methodologies/France

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Subject: 28.1202, Summer Schools: Heritage Languages : Theories, Domains and Methodologies/France

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Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2017 10:31:24
From: Anamaria Falaus [anamaria.falaus at univ-nantes.fr]
Subject: Heritage Languages : Theories, Domains and Methodologies/France

Heritage Languages : Theories, Domains and Methodologies

Host Institution: 
Website: https://langherit.sciencesconf.org/

Dates: 03-Jul-2017 - 07-Jul-2017
Location: Roscoff, Finistère, France

Focus: The Laboratoire de Linguistique de Nantes (UMR 6310, CNRS & University of Nantes) is pleased to invite you at a summer school on heritage languages, which will be held at the Marine Station in Roscoff, Finistère (France), from the 3rd to the 7th of July. 

A Heritage Language (HL) is a language learned from birth in the home environment, in a context where the ambient language spoken outside the home - the dominant language - is different. The notion covers both immigrant and regional languages (although their social and political status is different).

Despite a growing interest for the topic, manifested mostly in work on the extinction of regional languages and the debates concerning immigrant languages, the linguistic study and grammatical analysis of HL has received little attention. This summer school seeks to contribute to some of the core open issues raised by HL for linguistic theories, such as:

- What are the most suitable methodologies for the study of HL?
- If the goal of linguistics is to characterize the knowledge/competence that a speaker has in a given language, what is the best way to deal with heritage speakers, who may understand very well their heritage language, but may rarely (and sometimes poorly) speak it.  
- How are HL acquired, given that their acquisition differs from both L1 and L2 acquisition?
- How is the grammatical competence/knowledge of a heritage speaker? What are the main (morpho-phonological, syntactic, semantic or pragmatic) criteria that determine the ‘quality’ of the resulting competence?
Minimum Education Level: Undergraduate

Description:
The summer school is organized over 5 days, combining courses and workshops
that offer complementary views on heritage languages. 

- Courses:

-- Abbas Benmamoun (University of Illinois) - "General and theoretical issues
in the study of heritage languages" 
-- Henry Davis and Lisa Matthewson (University of British Columbia) -
"Explorations in the syntax and semantics of Pacific Northwest languages" 
-- Silvina Montrul (University of Illinois) - "The acquisition of heritage
languages"
-- Maria Polinsky (University of Maryland) - "Heritage languages from a
theoretical and experimental perspective"

- Workshops: 

-- Outi Bat-El (Tel Aviv) - "Universal principles in phonology"
-- Anne Dagnac (CLLE-ERSS UMR 5263) & Mélanie Jouitteau (IKER UMR 5498) -
"Syntactic transmission in ultraminorized contexts: Case study in Breton and
Picard"
-- Ricardo Etxepare (IKER UMR 5498) - "(Weak) emergent properties in language
contact"
-- Bèrtran Ôbrée (Chubri) - "Local minority languages: the case of gallo"

Abstracts and details on the programme can be found on the summer school
website.

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                      Language Acquisition
                      Linguistic Theories

Tuition Explanation: Registration fees:

- Students/Unemployed: 250 €
- Others : 450 €

The registration fees cover course and workshop attendance, as well as lunch,
dinner and accommodation at the Marine Station in Roscoff.

Registration: 15-Mar-2017 to 31-May-2017

Contact Person: Anamaria Falaus
                Email: langherit at gmail.com

Apply on the web: https://www.azur-colloque.fr/DR17/inscription/

Registration Instructions:
Information concerning registration can be found here: 

https://langherit.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/4

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