languages contact conference languages contact groningen university november 2526 1999 first call papers conference languages contact held november 2526 1999 university groningen conference include sessions devoted descriptive theoretical aspects language contact aim conference discuss language contact issues discussion involve pidgins creoles minorities languages diaspora situations sprachbund phenomena extralinguistic correlates variety contact situations problems endangered languages typology languages particularly welcome reports contact phenomena languages russia survival influence russian includes yiddish mennonite dialects low german special session devoted topic languages contact russian conference held occasion degree honorary doctor st petersburg dr tjeerd de graaf welcome contributions 30 minute presentations including 10 minutes discussion invited speakers alphabetical order liya bondarko university st petersburg evgenij golovko russian academy sciences pieter muysken university leiden sally thomason university pittsburg abstracts restricted two pages including examples references two copies abstracts submitted one anonymous one mentioning author name affiliation postal address email address deadline submission abstracts april 1 1999 abstracts sent organizing committee john nerbonne jos schaeken dicky gilbers department linguistics university groningen oude kijk jatstraat 26 9712 ek groningen netherlands information email nerbonne let rug nl schaeken let rug nl gilbers let rug nl fax 3150 3636855