Dynamics of Contact-Induced Language Change
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Bettina Migge is Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at University College Dublin. Isabelle Léglise is a permanent Researcher in Linguistics at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS, Paris) where she heads a programme on Language Contact at the SeDyL/CELIA-CNRS (Structure et Dynamique des Langues/Centre d'Etudes des Langues Indigènes d'Amérique). Since 2000, she has been engaged in research projects in French Guiana, and, more recently, in Suriname and Brazil, with a special focus on multilingualism, contact-induced changes, language and migration, and educational issues. Her main research interests are language contact, language variation and change, discourse analysis, sociology of language and applied linguistics.