LANGUAGE CONTACT AND MINORITY LANGUAGES

[Harold F. Schiffman]

LANGUAGE CONTACT AND MINORITY LANGUAGES ON THE LITTORALS OF WESTERN
EUROPE

Short Title: SAILL04

Date: 11-Jun-2004 - 13-Jun-2004
Location: St. Andrews, Scotland, United Kingdom
Contact: Snezha Mathewson
Contact Email: saills04 at st-andrews.ac.uk
Meeting URL:

http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/academic/modlangs/saills/conference2004.html

Linguistic Sub-field: Historical Linguistics

Meeting Description:

The conference, organised by the St Andrews Institute for Language and
Linguistic Studies (SAILLS), in collaboration with the Europischer
Linguistischer Arbeitskreis Mannheim (ELAMA), will explore the effects
of language contact (since 1500) in four areas of western Europe:
Scandinavia and the Low Countries, the British Isles, France and the
Iberian Peninsula.  While most attention will be devoted to contact
between the traditional languages of Europe, space will be given to
contact with immigrant languages from outside the Continent.

For further information please contact: Snezha Mathewson (conference
administrator) e-mail: saills04 at st-andrews.ac.uk

School of Modern Languages
ST ANDREWS UNIVERSITY
ST ANDREWS KY16 9 PH

FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

LANGUAGE CONTACT AND MINORITY LANGUAGES ON THE LITORALS OF WESTERN
EUROPE EUROLINGUSTICS WEST

St Andrews University, June 11-13 2004

Plenary speakers:

Peter Trudgill (Fribourg)
Sture Ureland (Mannheim)
Peter Nelde (Brussels)
Ralph Penny (London)

While both Neogrammarians and Structuralists recognise the effects of
language contact on the development of the languages of Europe,
especially in the remote past, they have on the whole preferred
endogenous and language-internal explanations of language
change. Nowadays, linguists are perhaps less subject to the influence
of nationalism and the cult of language 'purity', and more sensitive
to the mobility of populations and to the role of exogenous
influences.

This conference, organised by the St Andrews Institute for Language
and Linguistic Studies (SAILLS), in collaboration with the
Europischer Linguistischer Arbeitskreis Mannheim (ELAMA), will
explore the effects of language contact (since 1500) in four areas of
western Europe: Scandinavia and the Low Countries, the British Isles,
France and the Iberian Peninsula.  While most attention will be
devoted to contact between the traditional languages of Europe, space
will be given to contact with immigrant languages from outside the
Continent.

Papers will include, but need not be limited to, topics such as:

- levelling and koinization
- lexical borrowing
- language obsolescence and death
- language shift and language planning

For further information please contact: Snezha Mathewson (conference
administrator) e-mail: saills04 at st-andrews.ac.uk

School of Modern Languages
ST ANDREWS UNIVERSITY
ST ANDREWS KY16 9 PH