Program

venue: Seminar room H4.10, 4th floor

Thursday, 16 Oct

Time	Description
13:00-14:00	coffee
14:00-14:15	Susanne Maria Michaelis & Martin Haspelmath: Welcome [Introductory remarks]
14:15-15:00	plenary talk Malcolm Ross (ANU Canberra): Typologising contact-induced changes in grammatical constructions [slides]
15:05-15:35	Anna Jon-And (Stockholm U) & Elliot Aguilar (CUNY) Modelling contact-induced language change in Angolan Portuguese [slides]
15:40-16:10	Carol Myers-Scotton (Michigan State U) English Verbs in Nairobi Swahili-English CS: Socio-psychological Factors or Grammatical Structure? [slides]
16:10-16:40	coffee break
16:40-17:10	Ewa Zakrzewska (U Amsterdam) Greek influence on Coptic case? [slides]
17:15-17:45	Eleanor Coghill (U Konstanz) Grammatical borrowing in North-eastern Neo-Aramaic
17:50-18:20	Nicolas Brucato (Leiden U) & Søren Wichmann (MPI EVA Leipzig) Pairing gene-specific and language-specific evidence for population contacts—towards a typology [slides]

Friday, 17 Oct

Time	Description
9:15-9:45	Susanne Maria Michaelis & Martin Haspelmath: Hybridization, social conditions and word order [slides]
9:50-10:20	Mathias Jenny, Patrick McCormick & André Müller (U Zurich) Tracing Patterns of Contact and Movement in the Greater Burma Zone [slides]
10:25-10:55	Christian Döhler (ANU Canberra) Multilingualism in Southern New Guinea - the case of Kómnzo and Wára [slides]
10:55-11:25	coffee break
11:25-11:55	Jean-Christophe Verstraete (U Leuven) Personal multilingualism and contact-induced change in Cape York Peninsula, Australia
12:00-12:30	John Mansfield (ANU Canberra) Murrinh Patha: Post-colonial contact influences on a polysynthetic Australian language [slides]
12:35-13:05	Philip Baker (Westminster U) Accounting for contact-induced changes in Mauritian Creole [presentation]
13:05-14:20	lunch
14:20-14:50	Aymeric Daval-Markussen (Aarhus U) Testing the significance of sociohistorical factors in creole genesis [slides]
14:55-15:25	(Margot van den Berg &) Robbert van Sluijs (Radboud U Nijmegen) Property concepts in the Caribbean past and the West African present
15:25-15:55	coffee break
15:55-16:25	Johanna Nichols (UC Berkeley) Favored shifts in derivational morphology accompany expansive contact situations [slides]
16:30-17:00	Frank Seifart (U Amsterdam & MPI-EVA Leipzig) Affix borrowing and social setting [handout]
(18:00-19:00)	(Motet at St.Thomas Church)
19:30	Dinner at the restaurant “Apels Garten” (Kolonnadenstraße 2)

Saturday, 18 Oct

Time	Description
9:15-10:00	plenary talk Pieter Muysken (Radboud U Nijmegen) Multilingual ecologies in Surinam: observations, taxonomies, scenarios, constraints [slides]
10:05-10:35	Peter Bakker (Aarhus U) Genderlects: gender-differentiated results of language contact
10:40-11:10	Kim Schulte (UJI Barcelona) Hybridization of related languages: Which grammatical features are likely to be adopted? [presentation]
11:10-11:40	coffee break
11:40-12:10	Juanito Ornelas de Avelar (U Campinas) Social Conditions of 'Imperfect Second Language Learning' and 'Negotiation': Contact-Induced Changes in Prepositional Systems of Portuguese Varieties [handout]
12:15-12:45	Bridget Drinka (U Texas San Antonio) The role of social conditioning in the spread of the HAVE perfect across Europe [slides]
12:45-14:00	lunch
14:00-14:30	Richard P. Ingham (Birmingham City U) Differing forms of contact influence between Middle English and Anglo-Norman and their context [slides], [handout]
14:35-15:05	Dirk Noël (U Hong Kong) (& Timothy Colleman) Same formal pattern, different contact situation, different propagation: Evidential vs. deontic NCI constructions in Dutch (contrasted with English) [slides]
15:10-15:40	Iván Igartua (U Basque Country) Loss of grammatical gender and non-native language acquisition [slides]
15:45-16:15	Mark Donohue (ANU Canberra) Social histories and their different linguistic consequences [slides]
16:15-16:45	coffee break
16:45-17:15	Danny Law (U Texas Austin) The social roots of grammatical hybridity in Mayan languages
17:20-17:50	Laura Álvarez López & Anna Jon-And (Stockholm U) Afro-Brazilian Cupópia: language contact, lexically-driven deliberate change and its grammatical outcomes [slides]