Frequency effects in language contact: Asian Englishes

Day 1: June 30th, 2014

09:00 - 09:30 Welcome and introduction
09:30 - 10:15 Claudia Winkle (Freiburg): “Dislocation and fronting constructions in spoken varieties of English: a cross-varietal and corpus-based study”
10:15 - 11:00 Laura Terassa (Freiburg): “Frequency effects in structural simplification: the case of Asian Englishes”
11:00 - 11:30 coffee break
11:30 - 12:15 Stephanie Horch (Freiburg): “Conversion in Asian Englishes: frequency effects in language contact”
12:15 - 13:00 Elisabeth Bruckmaier (Munich): “A semasiological-syntactic approach to GET in World Englishes”
Lunch break
16:15 - 17:45 Keynote address by Zhiming Bao (Singapore): “Frequency of use and the stabilization of grammar” !!! different location: KG III, 3044 !!!

Day 2: July 1st, 2014

09:00 - 10:00 Keynote address by Claudia Lange (Dresden): “Actuation and propagation in contact-induced language change: perspectives from Indian English”
10:00 - 10:45 Tobias Bernaisch (Giessen): “The lexis and lexicogrammar of Sri Lankan English: a corpus-based and cross-varietal study”
10:45 - 11:00 coffee break
11:00 - 11:45 Sven Leuckert (Dresden): “Topicalization in Asian Englishes”
11:45 - 12:30 Christopher Koch (Giessen): “Mapping lexical routines world-wide: an ICE-based study of n-grams”

Organizers: Stephanie Horch, Laura Terassa, Claudia Winkle

For further information or registration please write to:
laura.terassa@frequenz.uni-freiburg.de