Seminar on Micro-Perspectives in Contact Linguistics

Seminar on Micro-Perspectives in Contact Linguistics

8 April 2016

Room S-232

Chair: Anna Verschik

10.00-10.30 Ad Backus (Tilburg University)

Integrating seemingly incompatible grammars: Dutch-Turksih mixing and the disappeaing Matrix Language

10.30-11.00 Kristiina Praakli (University of Tartu/University of Helsinki)

Multilingual practices in Estonian-Finnish written discourse

11.00-11.30

Päivi Kuusi, Hanna Lantto, Lea Meriläinen, Helka Riionheimo (University of Eastern Finland)

Loan translations as a language contact phenomenon: observations from contact linguistics, second language acquisition research and translation studies

11.30-12.00

Olga Loitšenko (Tallinn University)

Micro-sociolinguistic study of Estonian-Russian code-copying

12.00-13.15 Lunch break

Chair: Kristiina Praakli

13.15-14.45

Helin Kask (Tallinn University)

Morphosyntactic integration of English stems in Estonian blogs

14.45-15.15

Anette Ross (Tallinn University)

Estonian Lotfitka-type dialects in contact with Russian and Russian Romani

15.15-15.45

Kimmo Granqvist (University of Helsinki/ Södertörn University, Stockholm)

Documenting a ‘new’ variety of Finnish Romani

15.45-16.00 Coffee break

Chair: Kristiina Praakli

16.00-16.30

Mai Frick (University of Oulu)

Ravioli and farfalle – bi-partite constructions that attract codeswitching

16.30-17.00

Anna Verschik and Elīna Joenurma (Tallinn University)

Estonian-Latvian code-copying: linguistic and cognitive aspects