German abroad

variationist, language contact and multilingualism research perspectives

July 4-5, 2014
University of Vienna

The conference focuses on systemic linguistic and sociolinguistic distinctive features of German language minorities from the research perspectives of variationist linguistics and the studies of language contact and multilingualism. A special point of interest is research on language minorities in North and South America. Yet presentations on other (language)contact situations are welcome as well.

Invited Speakers

Variation im Texas Deutschen: Interne und Externe Faktoren
Hans Boas (University of Texas at Austin)

Pennsylvaniadeutsch im Spiegel deutsch-amerikanischer Sprachvarietäten
Mark Louden (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Unserdeutsch: eine vergessene koloniale Varietät des Deutschen im Pazifik
Péter Maitz (Universität Augsburg)