International Conference on New Issues in Language Contact Studies

COVID-19

Due to the international coronavirus outbreaks, the conference must be postponed and will take place online from 27 to 29 May, 2021. We apologise for any inconvenience.

Department of Human Studies – Department of Excellence – Università degli Studi dell’Aquila, 27–29 May 2021

The international conference NILCS 2020 will focus on novel perspectives and approaches within the field of contact linguistics. This is a particularly dynamic research field, which often interfaces with other research areas such as sociolinguistics, theoretical linguistics, language acquisition, and language planning, among others.

Studies on language contact are relevant to both past and contemporary linguistic landscapes, where the encounter between two or more languages gives rise to a wide array of contact-induced phenomena ranging from borrowings, structural convergence, and code switching to the emergence of new varieties such as pidgins, creoles, and mixed languages.

NILCS 2020 aims to bring together researchers working on language contact from different perspectives with the purpose of enabling fruitful encounters and discussions.

Call for Papers

This international conference wants to bring together different research lines within the huge area of recent language contact studies with the intent to enhance fruitful encounters.

In this perspective, we welcome submissions on any topic in language contact studies, regardless to methodology and theoretical framework (e.g. sociolinguistics, theoretical linguistics, language acquisition, language planning, etc.)

In particular, we encourage contributions regarding the following topics:

• new theoretical modelling of language contact and contact-induced language change;
• description of contact-induced phenomena in any area of grammar;
• studies on languages / varieties resulting from language contact, such as pidgins, creoles, mixed languages;
• field research in contemporary contact settings;
• diachronic research on language contact situations;
• construction of identity/ies in multilingual or postcolonial scenarios.

We invite abstracts for talks (20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes of discussion) or posters. Each individual may submit a maximum of one abstract as first author (or sole author), and a maximum of two abstracts in total.

The abstracts of max. 400 words (references excluded) must be anonymized to omit all information about the author(s) and submitted via EasyAbs: http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/nilcs2020

Abstracts will be (blindly) peer-reviewed by an international panel of reviewers. Reviewing and notification of acceptance will be handled through EasyAbs.

Deadline for abstract submission: 15 October 2019

Extended deadline for abstract submission: 28 October 2019

Notification of acceptance: 15 December 2019

We intend to publish selected papers from the conference.

For any questions, please write to: nilcs2020@gmail.com.

The organisers:

Barbara Hans-Bianchi (Università degli studi dell’Aquila)
Barbara Vogt (Università degli studi dell’Aquila)
Invited organiser: Chiara Truppi (Universidade de Lisboa)

Invited Speakers

• Silvia Dal Negro (Libera Università di Bolzano)
• Tania Kuteva (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf)
• Stefan Rabanus (Università degli Studi di Verona)
• Claudia Maria Riehl (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
• Chiara Truppi (Universidade de Lisboa)

Programme

Click HERE to download the program in PDF. Click on the title to download the Abstract.