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+<p><strong>5 March</strong></p>
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+<p><em>John Mansfield (University of Zurich)</em></p>
+<p><strong>When social contact promotes diversification</strong></p>
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+<summary>
+Abstract
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+In much linguistic literature, small, socially isolated speech communities are the main locus of diversification and grammatical complexity (e.g.&nbsp;Trudgill 2011). Similarly, linguistic differentiation is traditionally viewed as resulting from social separation of groups (Paul 1888), while intensive social contact between groups can lead to structural convergence of their languages (e.g.&nbsp;Gumperz &amp; Wilson 1971; Ross 1996). However, sociolinguistic literature shows that social groups in regular contact use language as a way of developing and maintaining distinct group identities (Eckert 2008), and in regions with many small ethnic groups this can drive diversification (François 2011; Evans 2019; Epps 2020), a kind of ‘sympatric speciation’ in linguistic evolution. In this presentation I consider evidence for contact-driven diversification, paying particular attention to which dimensions of language may be used to index group identity. I present a cross-linguistic database on dialect differentiation, which analyses grammatical variation and dialect differences in 42 languages, drawing on data from reference grammars. The main finding is that grammatical ordering very rarely differentiates dialects in close contact, but the form of grammatical markers (affixes, clitics and function words) frequently <em>does</em> differentiate dialects in close contact.
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 <p><strong>27 February</strong></p>
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 <p><em>Silvia Luraghi (University of Pavia) and Chiara Zanchi (University of Pavia)</em></p>

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+<p><strong>5 марта</strong></p>
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+<p><em>John Mansfield (University of Zurich)</em></p>
+<p><strong>When social contact promotes diversification</strong></p>
+<details>
+<summary>
+Аннотация
+</summary>
+In much linguistic literature, small, socially isolated speech communities are the main locus of diversification and grammatical complexity (e.g.&nbsp;Trudgill 2011). Similarly, linguistic differentiation is traditionally viewed as resulting from social separation of groups (Paul 1888), while intensive social contact between groups can lead to structural convergence of their languages (e.g.&nbsp;Gumperz &amp; Wilson 1971; Ross 1996). However, sociolinguistic literature shows that social groups in regular contact use language as a way of developing and maintaining distinct group identities (Eckert 2008), and in regions with many small ethnic groups this can drive diversification (François 2011; Evans 2019; Epps 2020), a kind of ‘sympatric speciation’ in linguistic evolution. In this presentation I consider evidence for contact-driven diversification, paying particular attention to which dimensions of language may be used to index group identity. I present a cross-linguistic database on dialect differentiation, which analyses grammatical variation and dialect differences in 42 languages, drawing on data from reference grammars. The main finding is that grammatical ordering very rarely differentiates dialects in close contact, but the form of grammatical markers (affixes, clitics and function words) frequently <em>does</em> differentiate dialects in close contact.
+</details>
+</div><div class="column" style="width:15%;">
 <p><strong>27 февраля</strong></p>
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 <p><em>Silvia Luraghi (University of Pavia) and Chiara Zanchi (University of Pavia)</em></p>