30.2480, Confs: Historical Linguistics, Morphology, Sociolinguistics, Syntax/Germany

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Subject: 30.2480, Confs: Historical Linguistics, Morphology, Sociolinguistics, Syntax/Germany

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Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2019 05:11:04
From: Christian Zimmer [christian.zimmer at fu-berlin.de]
Subject: German(ic) in Language Contact: Grammatical and Sociolinguistic Dynamics

German(ic) in Language Contact: Grammatical and Sociolinguistic Dynamics 

Date: 03-Jul-2019 - 05-Jul-2019 
Location: Berlin, Germany 
Contact: Christian Zimmer 
Contact Email: christian.zimmer at fu-berlin.de 
Meeting URL: http://www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/en/v/namdeutsch/Workshop/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Morphology; Sociolinguistics; Syntax 

Meeting Description: 

Organisers: Research team on German in Namibia (HU Berlin & FU Berlin;
https://www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/v/namdeutsch/Workshop/)

Contact between speakers of different languages or varieties leads to dynamics
in many respects. This workshop is going to focus on German and other Germanic
languages in multilingual contexts, bringing together two strands that are
motivated by our research on German in Namibia: On the one hand, we invite
contribution focusing on the dynamics of German in contact, i.e., on language
variation and change within German. Topics to be discussed include grammatical
change, the role of norms, normative orientations, and the role of speakers'
attitudes. On the other hand, the workshop aims to integrate this with papers
focusing on the specifics of language contact phenomena when closely related
Germanic languages come into contact. Interesting topics will be, for
instance, how to handle contact phenomena of closely related languages (such
as German in contact with Afrikaans and English in Namibia, given the further
possibility of a Low German substrate), or how to disentangle language
internal and language external factors (such as contact) in the explanation of
innovations.

The workshop will bring together scholars who share a general interest in
language contact phenomena but work in different frameworks, such as
colleagues who are concerned with Sprachinseln, historical
(socio-)linguistics, theoretical approaches to multilingualism et cetera.

Invited speakers:

Dalit Assouline (Haifa)
Hans C. Boas (Austin)
Ana Deumert (Cape Town)
Steffen Höder (Kiel)
Nils Langer (Flensburg)
Rosemarie Tracy (Mannheim)

Program:

Registration: 

https://ssl2.cms.fu-berlin.de/geisteswissenschaften/en/v/namdeutsch/PM-Registr
ation_conference

The full programme is available at: 

https://www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/v/namdeutsch/Workshop/

Wednesday, 3 July 2019

9:30 - 10:30:
Hans C. BOAS (Austin) 
A constructional approach to case syncretism in Texas German 

10:30 - 11:10:
Sheena SHAH (Hamburg) 
German communities in rural South Africa 

11:40 - 12:20:
Sebastian KÜRSCHNER (Eichstätt-Ingolstadt) & Mechthild HABERMANN
(Erlangen-Nürnberg) 
Language variation in the Bavarian dialect of São Bento do Sul, Brazil  

12:20 - 13:00:
Neele HARLOS (Marburg) 
Mennonite German(s) in Uruguay (MGU) 

14:20 - 15:20:
Rosemarie TRACY (Mannheim) 
Germanic sisters online: competition, cooperation and co-production 

15:20 - 16:00:
Chaya R. NOVE (City University of New York) 
Contact Effects in New York Hasidic Yiddish Peripheral Vowels 

16:00 - 16:40:
Marc PIERCE (Austin) 
Language Contact and the History of /pf/ in Texas German 

17:10 - 17:50:
Maike ROCKER (Pennsylvania State University) 
East Frisians achter de Penn: language contact in letters to a German
newspaper in America 

17:50 - 18:30:
Claudia BUCHELI BERGER (Genève) 
Is Jenish more than a restricted lexicon? 

Thursday, 4 July 2019 

9:30 - 10:30:
Dalit ASSOULINE (Haifa) 
Contact-induced change in American and Israeli ultra-Orthodox Yiddish

10:30 - 11:10:
Noa GOLDBLATT (Jerusalem) 
The borrowed discourse marker well in German speech islands 

11:40 - 12:20:
Nantke PECHT (Maastricht) 
Progressive aspect in Cité Duits 

12:20 - 13:00:
Edgar BAUMGÄRTNER (Frankfurt, Oder) 
Variation in the placement of finite verbs - examples from speakers of a
German Sprachinsel in Russia 

14:20 - 15:20:
Steffen HÖDER (Kiel) 
Grammatical arealisms across the Danish-German border from a constructional
perspective 

15:20 - 16:00:
Claudia Maria RIEHL (LMU München) 
Language contact and language attrition: Restructuring processes in
Barossa-German (South-Australia) 

16:00 - 16:40:
Christian ZIMMER (FU Berlin) 
Intra-speaker variation and implicational scales in Namibian German 

17:10 - 17:50:
Margaret BLEVINS (Austin) 
Orthographic Normalization of Language Contact Data 

17:50 - 18:30:
Thomas SCHMIDT (IDS Mannheim) 
News on corpora of extraterritorial varieties in the AGD 

Friday, 5 July 2019

9:30 - 10:30:
Ana DEUMERT (Cape Town) 
Settler Colonialism Speaks – Scripts of Supremacy, Servitude and Resistance

10:30 - 11:10:
Patrick WOLF-FARRÉ (Duisburg-Essen)
German minorities in Latin America: Towards a classification of former
language islands

11:40 - 12:20:
Henning RADKE (Universiteit van Amsterdam) Namibian German in
Computer-Mediated Communication: on the Correlation between Sociolinguistic
Variables and Multilingual Speech Acts

12:20 - 13:20:
Nils LANGER (Flensburg) ''Book-Frisians are pretty perfect as regards grammar
but they are also exhausting, as they keep correcting us'' - On evaluating
language use, language change and language contact in North Frisian

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