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2016<\/strong><\/p>\n

Guido Seiler<\/strong> gave a lecture on \u201cWenn Dialekte Sprachen sind, dann ist Dialektkontakt Sprachkontakt\u201d (If dialects are languages, then dialect contact is language contact) at the workshop “Sprachkontaktforschung – -explanativ” (Language contact research — explanatory) at the University of Augsburg, 14-16 April 2016. Guido analyzed the specific type of mixed dialect resulting from contact between Bernese German and Pennsylvania Dutch in Indiana.<\/p>\n

Jonathan Kasstan<\/strong> and Anita Auer<\/strong> organised a panel on “Exploring attitude and prestige in the \u2018heritage language\u2019 context: a cross-linguistic perspective” at the Sociolinguistics Symposium 21<\/a> in Murcia, 15-18 June 2016. Relevant powerpoint slides can be downloaded HERE<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Anita Auer<\/strong> gave a talk on Swiss heritage speakers past and present\"\" at the\u00a0Oktoberfest on 4 November 2016, organised for the Friends of the Max Kade Institute in Madison (Wisconsin).<\/p>\n

Guido Seiler<\/strong> gave a guest lecture on “Eine neue Sprache entsteht: Aktuelle Entwicklungen in der Sprachinsel des ‘Shwitzer’ (Indiana, USA) zwischen Isolation und Kontakt” at the University of Zurich (CH) on 6 December 2016.<\/p>\n

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2017<\/strong><\/p>\n

Anita Auer<\/strong> and Alexandra Derungs<\/strong> gave an invited talk about the Swiss Islands in North America project, and in particular their recent visit to New Glarus, at the Glarnert\u00fc\u00fctsch Stubete in Hotel Glarnerhof<\/a>, Glarus (CH) on 29 January 2017.<\/p>\n

Guido Seiler<\/strong> gave a guest lecture on “Aktuelle Entwicklungen der Zwillingssprachinsel des ‘Shwitzer’ in Indiana (USA)” at the University of Bamberg (D) on 1 February 2017.<\/p>\n

Guido Seiler<\/strong> will give an invited talk on “Language structure as a mirror picture of social structure? The case of Shwitzer language of Adams County, IN”, as part of the workshop “People of Faith, Voices of Tradition: Germanic Heritage Languages among Christians and Jews”, at the Max-Kade Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison (30 March-1 April 2017).<\/p>\n

Anita Auer<\/strong> will give a plenary talk on “Preserving Swiss Dialects in the Diaspora: The Social Life of a Wisconsin Language Island” at the Historical Sociolinguistics 2017 Conference<\/a> at CUNY Graduate Center<\/span> in New York (6-7 April 2017).<\/p>\n

Guido Seiler<\/strong> will give a talk on “Borrowing a grammar without speaking the language? The case of Amish Shwitzer”, as part of the panel on “New historical perspectives on non-dominant speakers as agents of contact-induced language change” at ICHL 2017<\/a> at the University of Texas at San Antonio, 31 July – 4 August 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2016 Guido Seiler gave a lecture on \u201cWenn Dialekte Sprachen sind, dann ist Dialektkontakt Sprachkontakt\u201d (If dialects are languages, then dialect contact is language contact) at the workshop “Sprachkontaktforschung – -explanativ” (Language contact research — explanatory) at the University of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1001230,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-145","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/sina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/sina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/sina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/sina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1001230"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/sina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/sina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/sina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}