Note from July 2018
Upcoming trip of the project team to Australia
The Unserdeutsch research project team from Augsburg will travel to Australia in July, 2018. There, the team will participate in a workshop about "language emergence in multilingual contexts", which takes place on 11/12 July at the Language and Culture Research Center (LCRC) in Cairns. This is part of a two-year research project headed by Prof Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald (James Cook University, AUS) and Prof Péter Maitz (University of Augsburg, GER), which is funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) plus Universities Australia and involves research on Unserdeutsch. Apart from the workshop, the team will conduct some further fieldwork in the area of Cairns and Brisbane. The latest newsletter of the Australian Linguistic Society reports about the upcoming stay of the project team at the LCRC: