<div dir="auto"></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Annika Labrenz</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:annika.labrenz@hu-berlin.de">annika.labrenz@hu-berlin.de</a>></span><br>Date: Tue, Jan 26, 2021, 4:33 AM<br>Subject: RUEG conference - Dynamics of Language Contact - 21-23-Feb-2021<br>To: <<a href="mailto:VAR-L@jiscmail.ac.uk">VAR-L@jiscmail.ac.uk</a>><br></div><br><br>
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<p>Hello,</p>
<p>we would be pleased if you could send the conference announcement
below to the list. If you need any further information, please
don't hesitate to contact me.</p>
<p>Kind regards,</p>
<p>Annika Labrenz<br>
</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span>RUEG
Conference -
Dynamics of Language Contact</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">Date: <b>21-Feb-2021 -
23-Feb-2021</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">Location: Humboldt-Universität
zu Berlin - <b>ONLINE</b> (Zoom, Gather.Town), Germany</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Contact
Email: <a href="mailto:coordination-rueg@hu-berlin.de" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">coordination-rueg@hu-berlin.de</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Meeting
URL: <a href="https://www.linguistik.hu-berlin.de/en/rueg/conference2021" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.linguistik.hu-berlin.de/en/rueg/conference2021</a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Linguistic
Field(s): Language
contact, Multilingualism, Heritage Languages, Linguistic theory,
General
linguistics</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Meeting
Description:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>In
linguistics, language
contact was often regarded as exceptional, and multilingualism
was seen as a
potential problem. According to this deficit-oriented view,
linguistic
practices and competences of multilingual speakers tended to be
investigated
from the point of view of deviations from a prescriptive
monolingual norm.
Recently, this perspective has changed in favor of acknowledging
linguistic
diversity as a normal characteristic of human languages, now
regarding
bilinguals as regular native speakers (e.g. Grosjean 2008,
Bayram 2013, Rothman
& Treffers-Daller 2014, Scontras et al. 2015,
Guijarro-Fuentes &
Schmitz 2015, Kupisch & Rothman 2016, Schroeder 2016, Bak
2017).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>The
Research Unit
“Emerging grammars in language contact situations: A comparative
approach”
(RUEG; </span><span><a href="https://www.linguistik.hu-berlin.de/en/rueg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.linguistik.hu-berlin.de/en/rueg</a>)
has picked up
on this change in perspective, pursuing an integrated,
large-scale
investigation driven by a positive, multilingual perspective on
heritage
speakers’ linguistic behaviour. Accordingly, we think of
dynamics, rather than
vulnerability, of differences in the development of linguistic
domains, rather
than incomplete acquisition, and of innovation, rather than
attrition and loss
in heritage speaker varieties.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>This
international
conference marks the completion of RUEG’s first 3-year period.
It aims to bring
together researchers from different fields who study the
dynamics of language
contact from a positive, multilingual perspective.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> Our
conference will
have three thematic sessions dedicated to different aspects of
heritage
speakers’ language production and comprehension (“Attrition vs.
Innovation”, “Transfer
vs. Internal Dynamics”, and “Methods in research on patterns
outside standard
language”), and a poster session. The three thematic sessions
will take place
on Feb 22, 2021, and Feb 23, 2021, and will include talks of
invited speakers.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Invited
speakers:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>- <b>Ad
Backus (Tilburg University)</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">- <b>Tanja Kupisch
(Universität Konstanz)</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">- <b>Maria M. Piñango (Yale
University)</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">- <b>Anatol Stefanowitsch
(Freie Universität
Berlin)</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>On the
first day, Feb
21, 2021, the conference will connect with the “International
Mother Language
Day”, focusing on educational implications for multilingual
settings. This
opening session will include a live talk by another invited
speaker,<b> Janet
Fuller (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)</b>, followed by a
discussion.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>The full
program of
the workshop is available on our website at <a href="https://www.linguistik.hu-berlin.de/en/rueg/conference2021" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.linguistik.hu-berlin.de/en/rueg/conference2021</a>.</span><span><br>
</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>If you
want to attend the
conference as a guest (free of charge), please register by
e-mail until Feb 18,
2021. Contact for registration: <a href="mailto:annika.labrenz@hu-berlin.de" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">annika.labrenz@hu-berlin.de</a>.</span></p>
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Annika Labrenz
Research Fellow RUEG Pd
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Unter den Linden 6
10099 Berlin
[Besucheradresse: Möhrenstr. 40/41, R.122]
Tel. 030-2093 70677</pre>
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