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Workshop 4 (Fer):
Multilingualism and Universal Principles
of Linguistic Change
Ferraresi, Gisella (Hanover) / Rinke, Esther (Hamburg)
Wednesday, August 30, 2006
Conference room: GW1 B2130
10:00–10:15 Ferraresi, Gisella (Hannover) / Rinke, Esther (Hamburg)
Welcome/Introduction
10:15–11:00 Pietsch, Lukas (University of Hamburg)
What has changed in Hiberno-English: Constructions, “usage patterns” and/or
discourse preferences
Coffee break
11:30–12:15 Kolmer, Agnes (University of Zurich)
Cimbrian in Northern Italy: a case study into investigations of external
motivated grammatical change at the Germanic-Romance language border
12:15–13:00 Johanson, Lars (University of Mainz)
Language change in multilingual and multidialectal situations
Lunch break
15:00–15:30 Rehbein, Jochen (University of Hamburg)
On contact-induced language change of Turkish in Germany
15:30–16:15 Karakoç, Birsel (University of Hamburg) / Herkenrath, Annette
(University of Hamburg)
Linguistic connectivity in German-Turkish language contact
Thursday, August 31, 2006
10:15–11:00 Benet, Ariadna (University of Hamburg) / Lleó, Conxita (University of
Hamburg) / Cortés, Susana (University of Hamburg)
Factors predicting phonological adaptations of the Spanish phonemes /x/ and
/θ/ in Catalan
Coffee break
11:30–12:15 Goglia, Francesco (University of Manchester)
Language change in an Italian immigrant variety
12:15–13:00 Veenstra, Tonjes (University of Berlin)
The role of bilinguals in rapid language change