Symposium Language Contact and the Dynamics of Language: Theory and Implications

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Symposium
Language Contact and the Dynamics of Language: Theory and Implications
10-13 May 2007

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

Organizing institutions:

Institut Universitaire de France : Chair of Dynamics of Language and Language Contact (Nice)
and
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Leipzig)

Organizers:
Robert Nicolaï, Bernard Comrie

9 May

17.00 : Arrival of Participants. Informal meeting

I. “‘Contact’: an ‘obvious fact ? A notion to be rethought?”

II. “Contact, typology and evolution of languages: a perspective to be explored”

III. “Representation of the phenomena and the role of descriptors: a perspective to be established”

13 May
IV. “Emerging research perspectives”