International Symposium: Vernacular Universals vs.Contact-Induced Language Change

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4 day sessions with world-renowned scholars in the field of language variation (synchronic and diachronic)/change, contact linguistics, sociolinguistics, language complexity, typological universals, historical linguistics, dialectology, second-language acquisition

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Participants: Prof. Sarah Thomason, Prof. Peter Trudgill, Prof. Jack Chambers, Prof. Anders Ahlqvist, Prof. Tertu Nevalainen, Prof. Terence Odlin, Prof. Sali Tagliamonte, Prof. Markku Filppula, Prof. Juhani Klemola, Prof. Daniel Schreier, Prof. Benedikt Szmrecsanyi, among others.
Period31 Aug 2006 → 3 Sept 2006
Event typeOther
LocationFinlandShow on map
Degree of RecognitionInternational

Keywords

  • Vernacular universals
  • Language contacts
  • English linguistics
  • Varieties of English
  • Language variation
  • Language change
  • second language acquisition
  • sociolinguistics
  • Historical-sociolinguistics
  • Historical linguistics
  • dialectology
  • language complexity

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