On 21st October, as well as an LEL research seminar at the usual time with Daniel Gutzmann (details to follow), Ad Backus (University of Tilburg) will be giving both a masterclass and a talk.
The masterclass, from 9-11 in Graduate School Seminar 2, Ellen Wilkinson, is titled Usage-based linguistics and language contact data: a match made in heaven? There are three papers to read in preparation, all very recent: contact Eva or George for copies.
- Backus, Ad, A. Seza Doğruoz, & Bernd Heine. 2011. Salient stages in contact-induced grammatical change: Evidence from synchronic vs. diachronic contact situations. Language Sciences 33, 738-752.
- Demirçay, Derya, & Ad Backus. 2014. Bilingual constructions: Reassessing the typology of code-switching. Dutch Journal of Applied Linguistics 31, 30-44.
- Backus, Ad. 2014. Towards a usage-based account of language change: implications of contact linguistic for linguistic theory. In Robert Nicolaï (ed.), Questioning language contact: limits of contact, contact at its limits, 91-118. Leiden: Brill.
The talk is on Language repertoires in a globalizing world: theoretical and methodological challenges, at 1pm, in Samuel Alexander A101.
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Posted on October 11, 2014 by manling