It has been known since antiquity that migration and the mobility of speakers as carriers of different languages and cultures play a significant role in the development of language areas. In the early modern period, for example, the expansion policy of the European colonial powers was intricately connected with the expansion of the corresponding speech communities. Thus, languages native to Europe found their ways to colonies on all continents, where they have been enjoying different statuses ever since. Not least, the slave trade, a violent and forced form of migration, lead to the emergence of new languages, so-called creole languages.

In today’s globalized society, migration and multilingualism have become commonplace. On the one hand, the internationalization of speakers is associated with enrichment. On the other hand, it also gives rise to language, cultural, and identity conflicts which are partly due to the stigmatization of certain speaker groups and are rooted in the ideological idealization of national monolingualism. All forms of migration-related contact bring about a wide range of phenomena that are addressed in language contact and multilingualism research, for example, code-switching, code-mixing, the development of ethnolects, language attrition, and numerous instances of language transfer.

This year’s LIPP Symposium offers a platform to discuss the topic of Language and Migration from different perspectives. Research from all linguistic disciplines, including synchronic and diachronic studies of the topic, as well as studies of all language varieties will be represented. The detailed programme of the symposium as well as the book of abstracts can be found on our website https://www.symp.gwi.uni-muenchen.de/

Keynote Speakers

Prof. Dr. Thomas Krefeld (University of Munich, Germany)
Prof. Dr. Katja Ploog (Université d’Orléans, France)
Prof. Dr. Christoph Schröder (University of Potsdam, Germany)
Prof. Dr. Antonella Sorace (The University of Edinburgh, Scotland)

Registration

Since the symposium will take place online via Zoom, we kindly ask you to register on Eventbrite (https://www.eventbrite.de/e/27th-lipp-symposium-language-and-migration-tickets-167330844059). The Zoom link to the event will be sent to you via Eventbrite a few days before the 27th LIPP Symposium. The registration period ends on November 7, 2021 at 23:00 (CET).

If you have any further questions regarding the registration or the symposium itself, please do not hesitate to contact us at symposium2021@lipp.uni-muenchen.de.

We look forward to your participation and lively discussions!

Organizing Committee

Marina Albers
Beatrice Colcuc
Veronika Gacia
Christina Mutter
Maximilian Schmerbeck
Sandrine Temgoua-Hiom
Yana Vodchyts