Conference Description
This conference takes up the issue of Contact Morphology raised by David
Wilkins 1996. In the majority of contact-related studies, morphology is at best
a marginal topic. According to the extant borrowing hierarchies, bound morphology
is copied only rarely, if at all, because morphological copies presuppose long-term
intensive contact with prior massive borrowing of content words and function words.
On the other hand, especially in studies of morphological change, contact is often
identified as the decisive factor which triggers the disintegration of morphological
systems. However, it remains to be seen whether these two standard treatments of
morphology in contact situations exhaust the phenomenology of Contact Morphology.
Programme
The conference programme hosts more than
45 papers which shed new light on the behaviour of morphology under the conditions
of language contact. Fresh empirical data from XX languages world-wide are presented
and new theory-based concepts are discussed. Morphologies in Contact is
a first in the history of both morphology and language contact studies. It is meant
to mark the beginning of an international research program which explores the entire
range of aspects connected to morphologies in contact and thus, paves the way for
a full-blown Contact Morphology qua linguistic discipline.
Posters
Posters are still welcome (see contact)
Venue
The conference will be hosted by the
University of Bremen (Germany) and is organised by the
Institute of General and Applied Linguistics (IAAS)
of the University of Bremen. The conference is scheduled for October 1–3, 2009 and
forms part of a series of fifteen international
conferences on the occasion of the
Festival of languages (Bremen/Germany, 17 September – 7 October, 2009),
also organised by the Institute of General and Applied Linguistics (IAAS)
at the University of Bremen.
For details on various aspects of the venue please consult the following pages:
Proceedings
There are plans for the conference proceedings be published with a major publishing
house.
Conference fees
The fees for this conference are as follows:
Conference fees
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Full rate |
Student rate |
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until 15/8/2009
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€ 100.00 |
€ 50.00
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after 15/8/2009 |
€ 150.00 |
€ 75.00 |
In case you are in interested in attending other conventions of our "conference
marathon" you should follow this link: Conference Fees
Summary.
Registration
Please note that you can register for more than one conference in one booking. For
details on the registraton procedure please consult
Registration.