This is the page of the Languages in Contact group (LinC) of the RU Linguistics department & Centre for Language Studies. It aims to inform you of the ongoing research of the people involved in LinC. They investigate language contact from various angles, in different times and places, including Brazil, Suriname, The Netherlands, West Africa and the Solomon Islands. Projects in our group (both prev
ious and recent ones):
- ERC Traces of Contact: Language contact studies and historical linguistics
> ToC Multilingual Processing
> ToC Multilingual Netherlands (Roots of Ethnolects; Heritage languages in the Netherlands)
> ToC Suriname and the Caribbean
> ToC South America
- VIDI Language diversity in the Guaporé region, 2005-2010
- VIDI Reconstructing prehistoric language contact in the Solomon Islands
- VENI Subordination strategies in South-American languages
- VENI Creoles at birth? The role of nativization in language formation
Please visit http://www.ru.nl/linc/projects/ for more info.
