(English below)
2 марта 2026 года в 12:00 состоится заседание семинара по языковым контактам. Выступит Нина Роландовна Добрушина (д.ф.н., Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage (CNRS, Lyon), directrice de recherche) с докладом «Decomposing societal multilingualism into factors of language change».
Семинар пройдет онлайн. За получением ссылки следует обращаться к Егору Владимировичу Кашкину (egorka1988@gmail.com).
Аннотация доступна ниже в английской версии объявления.
The next meeting of the seminar on language contact will take place on 2 March 2026 at 12:00 (Moscow time). Nina Dobrushina (Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage (CNRS, Lyon), directrice de recherche) will give a talk entitled “Decomposing societal multilingualism into factors of language change”.
The seminar will be held online. If you need the link to participate, please contact Egor Kashkin (egorka1988@gmail.com).
Abstract
Language contact plays a crucial role in the history of languages, being one of the main mechanisms of language change. The term language contact implies social contact between speakers of different languages. Encounters between populations which speak different languages often take the form of multilingualism and lead to the exchange of linguistic features between languages.
Multilingualism can take different shapes, ranging from active and fluent mastery of L2 (second language) to passive bilingualism where individuals understand the language of the interlocutor but do not speak it. The results of language contact can also vary greatly, ranging from superficial changes affecting only the lexicon to deep restructuring of the grammar. Understanding how various multilingual settings lead to different changes in languages is one of the main tasks of language contact studies.
In this talk, I will address the issue by examining the case of Daghestan. Daghestan is the most multilingual area in Europe. With more than fifty languages spoken side by side, it features many different situations of multilingualism and language contact. In this talk, I will provide an overview of Daghestanian multilingualism, to show that different parameters of multilingualism have different impacts on language change.