14:00h - 15:30h, Starkenstr. 44, Seminarraum 1. OG chair: Stefan Pfänder

Presentation: Using linguistic variation to analyze grammaticalization (Shana Poplack, Ottawa)

In addition to tracing the pathways by which the go + infinitve construction grammaticalizes into a future marker in 3 Romance languages, this presentation will also introduce a number of the variationist notions which will inform all my subsequent presentations, and so will constitute a good introduction for the week's lectures.

15:30h - 16:00h

Coffee break

16:00h - 18:00h, Starkenstr. 44, Seminarraum 1. OG

Posterseesion: GRK PhD students meet Shana Poplack

GRK students only.

9:00h - 10:30h, Starkenstr. 44, Seminarraum 1. OG

Presentation: Towards a dynamic visualization of language change in written corpora (Daniel Alcón, Stefan Pfänder and Martin Hilpert, Freiburg)

10:30h - 11:00h

Coffee break

11:00h - 12:30h, Starkenstr. 44, Seminarraum 1. OG

chair: Stefan Pfänder

Presentation: Putting theories to the test:  Corpus constitution and exploitation? (Shana Poplack, Ottawa)

This is a discussion of how we can build corpora around specific linguistic questions and use them to test theories (e.g. on the origins of AAVE, the existence of contact-induced change, the role of the school in promulgating the standard, etc. etc.), illustrating with the rationales behind a variety of corpora we have constructed at the Sociolinguistics Laboratory at the University of Ottawa.

18:15h - 19:45h, KG I, Raum 1273, Bibliothek Romanistik

chair: Stefan Pfänder

As guest of the weekly linguistics colloquium the romance department:

Presentation: Detecting contact-induced change in French: Preposition stranding as a diagnostic (Shana Poplack, Ottawa)

14:15h - 15:45h, KG III, Deutsches Seminar, Raum 3305

chair: Peter Auer

As guest of the FRIAS weekly colloquium:

Presentation: Four and a half centuries of variability, stability and change in speech (Shana Poplack, Ottawa)

This presentation will give an overview of the diachronic trajectory of several morphosyntactic variables, using the 19th century Récits du français québécois as a diachronic benchmark, as well as a number of other "unorthodox" corpora representing earlier stages of the spoken language.

09:30h - 09:45h, Starkenstr. 44, Seminarraum 1. OG

Introduction

09:45h - 11:00h, Starkenstr. 44, Seminarraum 1. OG

chair: Stefan Pfänder

Presentation: Myths and facts about code-switching and borrowing (Shana Poplack, Ottawa)

11:00h - 12:00h , Starkenstr. 44, Seminarraum 1. OG

Presentation: From language mixing to "mixed languages" (Peter Auer, Freiburg)

12:00h - 12:15h

Coffee break

12:15h - 13:00h, Starkenstr. 44, Seminarraum 1. OG

chair: Peter Auer

Presentation: Communication Accommodation Theory and code switching: Some Namibian data (Gerald Stell, Brussels, FRIAS)

13:00 - 14:30h

Lunch Break

14:30h - 15:30h , Starkenstr. 44, Seminarraum 1. OG

chair: Peter Auer

Presentation: Patterns of code-mixing in the languages of Suriname (Kofi Yakpo, Nijmegen, FRIAS)

15:30h - 16:30h

Coffee break

16:00h - 18:00h, Starkenstr. 44, Seminarraum 1. OG

chair: Monika Schulz

Data Sessions:

French-English code switching in Manitoba (Inga Hennecke, Bochum)

Code-switching: Russian German (Nikolay Khakimov, Freiburg, GRK 1624)

15:00h - 16:30h, Starkenstr. 44, Seminarraum, 1. OG

Discussion: What counts as contact-induced change? (Shana Poplack, Ottawa)

We review of the criteria for contact-induced change enunciated in Poplack & Levey 2010 as well as in the Tuesday afternoon lecture. We confront these with the commentary offered by 6 commentators to the preposition stranding article in Bilingualism: language and cognition and discuss as a group.

Readings (Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 15(02):

Poplack, Shana, Zentz, Lauren & Dion, Nathalie (2011a): "Phrase-final prepositions in Quebec French: An empirical study of contact, code-switching and resistance to convergence", 203-225.

Otheguy, Ricardo (2011): "Concurrent models and cross-linguistic analogies in the study of prepositional stranding in French in Canada", 226-229.

Elsig, Martin (2011): "Benchmark varieties and the individual speaker: Indispensable touchstones in studies on language contact", 230-232.

Torres Cacoullos, Rena (2011): "A milestone study: Structured variability as the key to unraveling (contact-induced) language change", 233-236.

Muysken, Pieter (2011): "Another icon of language contact shattered", 237-239.

Kaiser, Georg A. (2011): "Preposition stranding and orphaning: The case of bare prepositions in French", 240-242.

Roberge, Yves (2011): "On the distinction between preposition stranding and orphan prepositions", 243-246.

Poplack, Shana, Zentz, Lauren & Dion, Nathalie (2011b): "What counts as (contact-induced) change", 247-254

Poplack, Shana & Levey, Stephen (2010): "Contact-induced grammatical change". In: Language and Space – An international handbook of linguistic variation: Volume 1 – Theories and methods, ed. by Auer, Peter & Schmidt, Jürgen Erich, 391-419. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 243-246.