Workshop programme
The Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas, now in its eighth year, focuses on both formal and sociolinguistic approaches to language context situations, especially in heritage language communities (naturally acquired languages spoken in a community where it is not the majority variety). The workshop covers topics from anthropological linguistics, general linguistics, historical linguistics, language documentation and sociolinguistics.
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12
- 9.00-9.45 REGISTRATION AND COFFEE
- 9.45-10.00 WELCOME by Dean Ulf Hedetoft and Professor Frans Gregersen
- 10.00-10.30 Anderssen & Westergaard: Complexity, frequency and cross-linguistic Influence in Heritage Language: Subject shift and object shift in Norwegian
- 10.30-11.00 Jónsson: Object shift in North American Icelandic
- 11.00-11.30 Jóhannsdóttir: Time transitions in North American Icelandic narratives
- 11.30-12.00 Johannessen: Case on pronouns in heritage Norwegian and European Norwegian
- 12.00-13.00 LUNCH at the University Cafeteria
- 13.00-13.30 Abramac: Language choices and language ideologies among Hasidic Jews in New York
- 13.30-14.00 Brown: Pennsylvania High German in the American Civil War
- 14.00-14.30 Hoffman & Kytö: Heritage Swedish, English, and textual space in rural Communities of Practice
- 14.30-15.00 COFFEE
- 15.00-15.30 Lykke: Verbal morphology and V2 word order in Heritage Norwegian
- 15.30-16.00 Lohndal & Alexiadou: Verb placement in American Norwegian: The emergence of a new system
- 16.00- POSTER SESSION and RECEPTION
Foget Hansen: A quantitative corpus-based approach to profiling heritage speakers
Juarros Daussa: Small fishes in a big pond: Language practices and ideologies among Catalan and Galician in North America
Kühl: Periphrastic passive formation in North American Danish
Rødvand: The definite suffix as a gender clue – evidence from American Norwegian
Boston Simonsen: Insertional Codeswitching in North American Danish
Yunatskaya: Latina/o Dual Identity Evolution: A Sociolinguistic Perspective
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13
- 10.00-10.30 Wolski-Moskoff: Polish dialects in Chicago – diglossia preserved
- 10.30-11.00 van Baal: Compositional Definiteness in Heritage Norwegian
- 11.00-11.30 Page, Putnam, Hoffman & Klosinski: Resisting change: get-passives in Pennsylvania Dutch
- 11.30-12.00 Kinn: Kinship nouns in American Norwegian: split possession in a heritage language
- 12.00-13.00 LUNCH at the University Cafeteria
- 13.00-13.30 Stolberg: Small steps in language shift: Language choice in private documents
- 13.30-14.00 Bischoff, Clegg, Odden & Thompson: Mon Language and well-being: A case study in community-based research and heritage language maintenance in the US
- 14.00-14.30 COFFEE
- 14.30-15.00 Hjelde: Real-time change in a Minnesota-Norwegian dialect; 1980s–2010s
- 15.00-15.30 Page, Putnam, Hoffman & Klosinski: Resisting contact-induced sound change in Heritage Swiss German
- 15.30-16.00 Auer & Derungs: Preserving Swiss Dialect features in the diaspora: The case of New Glarus
- 19.00 CONFERENCE DINNER at Restaurant ‘Kareten’, Hollænderdybet 1, 2300 Copenhagen
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14
- 10.00-10.30 Larsson, Eryd, Andreasson & Tingsell: Do you speak Swedish? American Swedish in the Corpus of American Nordic Speech
- 10.30-11.00 Peterson: Discourses about coffee (and other taboos)
- 11.00-11.30 Sippola: Finnish in Misiones
- 11.30-12.00 Heegård Petersen: Approximative mere eller mindre ’more or less’ in Argentine Danish as a case of frequential and combinatorial copying
- 12.00-13.00 LUNCH
- 13.00-13.30 Salmons: What Heritage German bilinguals say about language
- 13.30-14.00 Bousquette: On population- and community-based approaches to heritage language shift: a case study of 4 Wisconsin communities
- 14.00-14.30 COFFEE
- 14.30-15.30 PLENARY - Aneta Pavlenko: Immigrant languages in the British colonies and the USA 1683-1924: Who got to keep theirs, why and for how long?
- 15.30- GOODBYE and ANNOUNCEMENTS
- EXCURSION (TBA; venue depends on weather)