Today, Thursday 15 November, Jan Casalicchio will give a talk at the University of Konstanz with the title Acquiring a minority language in a trilingual society: the influence of German and Italian on a Rhaeto-Romance variety.

TIME CHANGE! For our Microcontact team meeting on September 27 we will read a recent Nature paper on creolization, which is being largely debated these days in different venues: Blasi, Michaelis, and Haspelmath. 2017. Grammars are robustly transmitted even during the emergence of creole languages. Nature Human Behaviour. DOI: 10.1038/s41562-017-0192-4. For background prep, please read…