Program

CoTiSp will be conducted virtually, September 13-14, 2021.

CoTiSp has been moved to an online format. All presentations are made available as pre-recorded videos on the designated conference platform starting September 1 (access information will be send out to all registered participants on September 1). Participants are then invited to watch the presentations before the panel discussions taking place on September 13 and 14.

Download the full program here (Last update: September 2)

Download the Book of Abstracts here (Last update: September 2)

Program overview

*All times in CEST timezone

September 13

10:15-10:30 Conference opening

10:30-11:30 Focus on Diachrony

13:30-14:30 Migration & Language Contact

15:30-16:30 Focus on Microlinguistic Outcomes


September 14

09:00-10:00 Globalization & Power Relations

11:00-12:00 Language Contact & Group Identity

14:00-15:00 Roundtable Discussion

15:00-15:15 Conference Closing

List of accepted talks

  • How Spanish Natives Phonically Integrate Anglicisms: The Case of <j>, <ge> and <gi> - Linda Bäumler (University of Vienna)

  • Translation as Language Contact: Backgrounding and Foregrounding in Old Spanish Translations from Arabic in the 13th Century - Hans-Jörg Döhla (University of Tübingen)

  • Linguistic Repertoires and Language Contact Phenomena in the Speech of Mobile Speakers - Klaudia Dombrowsky-Hahn (University of Bayreuth) & Axel Fanego Palat (University of Frankfurt)

  • The “Unnecessary” Use of French in Moroccan Arabic: Social Discriminant or Collaborative Enterprise? - Jacopo Falchetta (University of Aix-Marseille/University of Bayreuth)

  • French-based Creoles in Montreal: Language Use and Language Attitudes - Magnus Fischer & Katrin Mutz (University of Bremen)

  • The Discursive Construction of Codeswitching in Yanito among the Young Population of Gibraltar - Marta Rodríguez García (University of Basel)

  • Reshaping Identity: Language and Culture Shift among the Baṭāḥira of Oman - Fabio Gasparini (Freie Universität Berlin)

  • Creating a Class of Elite Palestinian Multilinguals in the Habitus of Segregated Monolingualisms in Israel - Nancy Hawker (University of London)

  • Discourse-Pragmatic Systems in Contact - Inga Hennecke (University of Tübingen)

  • “Gemma Kino?!” – Let’s go change?” The Non-Use of Prepositions as Contact-Induced Phenomenon or as Indexical Sign in the Socio-Semiotic Space? - Nadja Kerschhofer-Puhalo (University of Vienna)

  • Language Contact in Late Medieval Italy: Verschriftung/Verschriftlichung in Old Sicilian? - Vince Liégeois (University of Burgundy - University of Düsseldorf)

  • Dialect Contact and Stance-taking in a Remote Mennonite Community in Canada - Miriam Neuhausen (University of Freiburg)

  • Attributive Possession in Tunisian Arabic: Focus on French Insertions - Lotfi Sayahi (University at Albany)

  • Language Contacts and Asymmetrical Power Relations: The Case of Equatorial Guinea - Sandra Schlumpf-Thurnherr (University of Basel)

  • TPAHClanguaging in Bulgarian Street Signs - Emilia Slavova (University of Sofia)

  • Rhyming Position as a Factor in the Persistence of Early Middle English Lexis - Johanna Vogelsanger (University of Zurich)

Roundtable

  • Yaron Matras (University of Manchester)

  • Bettina Migge (University College Dublin)

moderated by Edgar Schneider (University of Regensburg)