37.913, Confs: Development of German in Contact (Portugal)

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Subject: 37.913, Confs: Development of German in Contact (Portugal)

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Date: 03-Mar-2026
From: Cristina Flores [cflores at elach.uminho.pt]
Subject: Development of German in Contact


Development of German in Contact

Date: 29-Jun-2026 - 30-Jun-2026
Location: Braga, Portugal
Contact: Cristina Maria Moreira Flores
Contact Email: cflores at elach.uminho.pt
Meeting URL:
https://eventos.cehum.elach.uminho.pt/germanincontact2026/index.html

Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition
Subject Language(s): German (deu)

Submission Deadline: 15-Apr-2026

This workshop aims to bring together research focusing on German as a
contact language. We welcome contributions focusing on various
linguistic aspects and involving German as a contact language across
diverse sociolinguistic settings and in interaction with a wide range
of contact languages.
The workshop seeks to foster dialogue between theoretical and
empirical approaches to language contact, with particular emphasis on
developmental perspectives. We are especially interested in studies
that explore how different types of language acquisition shape
linguistic outcomes in contact contexts, including (but not limited
to) heritage speakers, returnees, simultaneous and sequential
bilinguals, L2 learners, and multilingual speakers.
Topics & Questions:
We invite papers addressing, among others, the following questions:
 - Which linguistic phenomena of German are particularly vulnerable to
contact-induced change?
 - Which linguistic phenomena of German display stability across
contact settings?
 - How do developmental trajectories differ across acquisition types?
 - What do contact settings reveal about the architecture of grammar
and the limits of variation?
 - We welcome contributions employing experimental, corpus-based,
longitudinal, comparative, or theoretical approaches.
Keynote Speakers:
Aldona Sopata (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland)
Nadine Kolb (University of Stavanger, Norway)
Abstract Submission:
Abstract length: max. 500 words (excluding references and
tables/graphs).
Presentation format: 20-minute oral presentation + 10 minutes
discussion, or Poster presentation.
Working languages: English or German.



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