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MESSAGE 3 A message from the LINGUIST list. LINGUIST List: Vol-8-185. Thu Feb 6 1997. ISSN: 1068-4875. Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 16:27:24 MET From: Riny Huybregts, Riny.Huijbregts@kub.nl Subject: Symposium Code Switching THE TILBURG UNIVERSITY WORKSHOP ON CODE SWITCHING AND LANGUAGE CHANGE May 15-16, 1997 Organizers: Hendrik Boeschoten (Language & Minorities Group) & Riny Huybregts (Grammar Models group) Deadline for submitting abstracts: March 15, 1997 CALL FOR PAPERS Code switching and Language Change Code switching (CS) is a perfectly normal way of linguistic behavior of bilingual speakers and can be studied from several perspectives like any other aspect of linguistic activity. The workshop will primarily focus on general rules and principles which underlie these products of linguistic behavior rather than on the products themselves. Some new initiatives from this perspective (DiSciullo et al., 1986, Woolford, 1983) were very important even though the general principles advanced were empirically contradicted, at least apparently. Some researchers have gone so far as to conclude on the basis of these counterexamples that there are no general principles in this domain. This logic is curious and reminiscent of earlier debates within theoretical linguistics. Clearly, such general mechanisms must exist. To deny their existence would be equivalent to asserting that the phenomenon is random noise unworthy of scientific inquiry. A more optimistic position seems more realistic. It is reasonable to assume that code switching holds no privileged position among all other types of linguistic behavior: they all tap the same universal principles, which can be studied in a variety of ways that supplement or complement each other. In this workshop we would like to concentrate on the form and structure of grammatical principles underlying forms of CS (What are they? How do they arise in the individual?), and on the way these relate to characteristic features of language change (What principles underlie convergence of language varieties in contact?). This relationship is an interesting, though difficult, problem of linguistically based CS research: the data reflect not only the interaction of rules from different systems, but also repeated/conventionalized patterns with individuals and among groups. We invite papers that shed light on this problem and which support or undermine the following claim that we formulate in order to focus interest: the grammar of code switching is essentially not different from non-switching grammars. The entailment is that any explanatory theory of grammar can be tested against CS behavior and furthermore that everything there is to say about CS (provided it is linguisti- cally significant) must be minimally explainable by the same grammar that accounts for monolingual behavior. The workshop offers room for 12 talks (6 of which will be reserved for invited speakers and 6 of which will be selected from the abstracts submitted). Talks will be one hour each (including discussion). Invited Speakers: Ad Backus (Tilburg University) Lars Johanson (University of Mainz) Patrick McConvell (Northern Territory University) Pieter Muysken (University of Amsterdan) Jacomine Nortier (University of Utrecht) Nancy Stenson (University of Minnesota) Abstracts (three hard copies, no longer than one page) should be sent (no later than March 16th) to: Selection Committee Workshop Code Switching & Language Change c/o Riny Huybregts Grammaticamodellen, Faculty of Language and Literature Tilburg University P.O. Box 19153 NL-5000 LE Tilburgg, The Netherlands e-mail address: huybregt@kub.nl --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-8-185

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