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Documenting Convergence And Diversity: Mande And Atlantic Languages In Contact

Sep 07, 2008 - Sep 09, 2008
London, England, United Kingdom

Highlights: Mande and Atlantic languages are spoken in a particularly multilingual area of West Africa characterised by many linguistic and cultural convergences. The workshop will unite specialists on the areas of Mande and Atlantic languages, contact and historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, anthropology, and multilingualism research in order to sketch an agenda for an emerging interdisciplinary field: the description and documentation of languages together with their contact situation and its linguistic conse-quences

Event Profiles: Attendees: for information purposes only - this meeting is not open to the public

Contact Details: Contact person: Friederike Lüpke; Event website: http://www.esf.org/activities/exploratory-workshops/humanities-sch/workshops-detail.html?ew=6647; Phone: +33 (0) 388767100; Fax: +33 (0) 388370532

Tags: Tag: mande atlantic description_and_documentation language_contact multilingualism sociolinguistics

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