Project presentations:
Yaron Matras and Jeanette Sakel:
2005 PAT, pivot and language convergence. Annual Meeting of the LAGB, University of Cambridge, 30 August 2005.
2005 A procedure for compiling data on contact-induced change: The Manchester Convergence Project. Workshop on Loanword Typology. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, 5-7 June, 2005.
2005 The Manchester Convergence Project. Symposion on Language contact in Romance. Bremen University, 4-6 May, 2005.
Yaron Matras:
2005 Grammatical borrowing in Domari. Conference on Grammatical borrowing in cross-linguistic perspective. University of Manchester.
2005 Towards a theory of language contact.University of Cologne. 20 June 2005.
2005 Towards a theory of language contact.University of Düsseldorf. 21 June 2005.
2005 Towards a theory of language contact.University of Hamburg. 21 June 2005.
2005 Endangered languages, contact, and the 'better linguist': The case of Domari. Workshop on Endangered Languages, Hans Rausing Endangered Language Documentation Project, SOAS, February 2005.
2004. Toward a theory of language contact, LAGB Annual Meeting, Roehampton, September 2004.
2004. Borrowing, convergence and bilingualism: Toward an integrated theoretical perspective. Workshop on Loanword Typology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, May 2004.
2003. Category hierarchies in structural borrowing. Colloquium on Categories and Contact, University of Hamburg, November 2003.
Jeanette Sakel:
2005. Borrowing of Spanish function words and discourse markers in Mosetén. SSILA meeting at the LSA conference, Oakland, California, 8 January 2005.
2003. Complex predicates in Mosetén. SOAS, London, 28 October 2003.
Francesco Goglia
2005 Grammaticalisation, reanalysis and contact-induced innovations in the Italian of Igbo-Nigerian. Annual Meeting of the LAGB, University of Cambridge, 30 August 2005.
Anton Tenser
2005 Convergence of case representation: A case for grammaticalisation? Annual Meeting of the LAGB, University of Cambridge, 30 August 2005.