Linguistic variation in postcolonial contexts

Description

LIVAPOCO Project (Una Europa seed funding) research network meeting with Una Europa Alliance partners.

Programme:

1) Postcolonial language varieties:
• Measuring the relatedness of/distance between (postcolonial) language varieties. Benedikt Szmrecsanyi (KU Leuven)
• Norms and Variation of French and French-based Creoles: Language Making in Postcolonial Societies Philipp Krämer (Freie Universität Berlin)
• What to study when classifying postcolonial varieties of Spanish? Eeva Sippola (Helsingin yliopisto)

2) Variation and language use:
• Phonological variation in post-colonial varieties of Spanish: an overview of experimental research. Michael Ramsammy (University of Edinburgh)
• Gender, society, and language use: Evidence from Mexico and Spain. Pekka Posio (Helsingin yliopisto)
• Temporal and spatial dimensions of the grammar used in Latin American political discourse. Carlos Soler Montes (University of Edinburgh)

3) Contexts and contacts:
• Dutch in postcolonial contexts. Matthias Hüning (Freie Universität Berlin)
• English and Spanish in contact in the United States. Reflections on the challenges, dilemmas and complexity of the situation in American sociolinguistics. American Spanish, Hispanic American, Spanglish. Silvia Betti (Università di Bologna)
• Spanish in the USA: extended varieties and education. Carmen Cazorla Vivas (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

Period	10 Dec 2021
Event type	Workshop
Degree of Recognition	International