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<span style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(47, 84, 150);">POZNAN, sept. 8-14, deadline February 1: </span><span style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(47, 84, 150); background-color: white;">Section
on Linguistic Diversity, Language Contact and Areal Typology. Focus on creoles.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(47, 84, 150);"> </span></li></ol>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: white; font-weight: 400;">Once every five years, there is <i>the International Congress of Linguists</i> (ICL). The
21st International Congress of Linguists (ICL) will take 8–14 September 2024 in Poznań, Poland. The first took place in 1928 in The Hague, Netherlands. We would like to invite interested scholars to send an abstract for the <i>Section on Linguistic Diversity,
Language Contact and Areal Typology</i>, taking place on September 9 and 10. </span></p>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: white; font-weight: 400;">This section brings together ideas and opinions about contact-induced language change. Typological
atlases such as the <i>World Atlas of Language Structures </i>(WALS.info) and the <i>Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures</i> (APiCS-online.info) have triggered increased attention for areal phenomena in language contact and contact languages. The
new GRAMBANK site </span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: rgb(149, 79, 114); background-color: white; font-weight: 400;"><u><a href="https://grambank.clld.org/" target="_blank" id="OWA991d0f1c-5efc-f910-993e-2afae4da1f8d" class="OWAAutoLink" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="0" style="margin: 0px;" data-loopstyle="linkonly">(grambank.clld.org</a></u></span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: white; font-weight: 400;">)
makes even more data available. Such databases enable researchers to map language influences across language borders. New computational techniques are available to work with large databases. </span></p>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: white; font-weight: 400;"> In typical linguistic area, a range of common features can be identified (e.g.
the Balkan, India, Central America) across language families, but even the most characteristic features rarely coincide with the boundaries of the defined area. Why is that? </span></p>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: white; font-weight: 400;">Properties of language families can be studied around their borders in order to investigate
contact phenomena. Languages located far away from the center of the family may both more conservative and more innovative around the boundaries, and one can wonder why. Some areal phenomena are found on both sides of geographical barriers such as mountain
ranges, bodies of water and deserts. </span></p>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: white; font-weight: 400;"> An increasing number of studies identify more properties that creole languages
have in common, more than continuities from the lexifiers or influences from the supposed substrates. Explanations for the similarities range from continuity from undocumented dialects of the lexifier, cognitive unity of humans, general typological similarities
of the substrate languages around the world to the presence of “scattered Sprachbund” areas even across oceans. If creoles indeed have more in common with each other than with other natural languages, why would that be the case? </span></p>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: white; font-weight: 400;"> Does language contact increase or decrease diversity? Can we identify different
contact phenomena in areas of widespread bilingualism compared to areas of massive language shift? </span></p>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: white; font-weight: 400;"> For this section, we invite contributions relating to diversity, language contact
and areal typology, including for contact languages pidgins, creoles and mixed languages. </span></p>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"><b>Abstracts submission.</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-weight: 400;"> The </span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"><b>deadline</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-weight: 400;"> for
abstract submission is </span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"><b>1 February 2024</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-weight: 400;">. It
will not be possible to add other abstracts after the deadline. The Easychair link for abstract submission is available on both websites </span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: rgb(149, 79, 114); font-weight: 400;"><u><a href="https://ciplnet.com/news/call-for-papers-and-workshop-proposals/" target="_blank" id="OWA07af1535-e3a4-a82a-a5c4-e44892002281" class="OWAAutoLink" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="1" style="margin: 0px;">https://ciplnet.com/news/call-for-papers-and-workshop-proposals/</a></u></span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-weight: 400;"> and </span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: rgb(149, 79, 114); font-weight: 400;"><u><a href="https://icl2024poznan.pl/?id=2" target="_blank" id="OWA4d6a3c9a-d944-b16d-b0a9-54b58a504df6" class="OWAAutoLink" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="2" style="margin: 0px;">https://icl2024poznan.pl/?id=2</a></u></span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-weight: 400;">. </span></p>
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