Preliminary programme

The PhD course Language change: the invisible hand and the effects of contact is scheduled in Kristiansand (UiA) for a five-day period May 25–29, 2009.

Time table (preliminar):

	Monday 25 May
09:15 - 10:45	Keller: Introduction
11:15 - 12:45	Trudgill: Introduction
14:15 - 15:45	Trudgill: The view from sociolinguistics: contact, change and simplification

	Tuesday 26 May
09:15 - 10:45	Keller: A historical survey
11:15 - 12:15	Keller: Are explanations of language change functional explanations?
14:15 - 15:45	Trudgill: The view from typology: contact, change and complexification

	Wendnesday 27 May
09:15 - 10:45	Trudgill: Two types of language contact and change
11:15 - 12:15	Trudgill: A case study: Old English, Old Norse, Late British - what really happened
14:15 - 15:45	Trudgill: Change and spontaneous complexification

	Thursday 28 may
09:15 - 10:45	Keller: The ontological status of language
11:15 - 12:45	Keller: seamantic change: symbols grow
14:15 - 15:45	Keller: Examples for semantic change
19:00	Restaurant at 19:00

	Friday 29 May
09:15 - 10: 45	Keller: The idea of the invisible hand
11:15 - 12:45	11:15 - 12:00 Keller & Trudgill: Concluding remarks
14:15 - 15:45	13:15 - 15:00 SEMINAR (open) - Keller & Trudgill: Presentation in "Språkforum".

Publisert av Siren Vegusdal <siren.vegusdalSPAMFILTER@uia.no> 03.04.2009

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