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Tracking down linguistic convergence. Contact languages in Eastern Central Europe

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Abstract

The workshop took place in Prague, in the Campus Hybernská, a part of the Faculty of Arts, on October 24th to 26th, 2019. The organization was possible due to the collaboration of the Department of Czech Language and Theory of Communication (František Martínek, Eva Lehečková) and the Department of the Central European Studies (Jiří Januška).

The workshop involved research teams (academicians and students) from the Charles University (Prague), Humboldt University (Berlin) and Vienna University. It followed up on the first Central workshop that took place in Berlin in June 2019, presented first results of empirical research agreed upon in Berlin and integrated the methods and techniques used by data analyses.

Four invited talks were given by academicians from the Charles University, Faculty of Arts. Several parts of the workshop, mainly the invited talks, were attended by academicians from several departments of the Faculty of Arts and researchers from the Institute of Czech Language and the Slavonic Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences as well as by pre- and postgraduate students of the Faculty of Arts. the participants of the workshop presented the results from their research between July and October, which included collected data mainly from written corpora of Czech and their preliminary analyses.

The teams Vienna and Berlin were concentrated on the motion verbs, the team Prague dealt mainly with topics already presented in Berlin which concerned verbal constructions. Then, the first working group draw up an annotating rules.

The second working group dealt with the language variation, mainly with the non-standard varieties of the Central European languages. As a follow-up to discussions in both the working groups, the findings of both groups were confronted.