Romanisation world-wide:The impact of French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish on the autochthonous languages of Africa, the Americas, Asia and Austronesia

The conference brings together specialists of extra-European language contact constellations with a Romance language as donor language and an autochthonous language of Africa, Asia, Oceania or the Americas as recipient language. For the first time ever, overt and covert grammatical and lexical borrowing from Romance languages is viewed from a strictly comparative perspective in order to facilitate generalisations. In addition to the various case studies, a number of theoretical approaches to language contact phenomena in general are presented too and thus it is made possible to go beyond the role played by French, Italian, Spanish and/or Portuguese in the re-shaping of lexicon and grammar of languages outside Europe.InscripciónPrograma