EUROLINGUISTICS:  Contact Typology, Convergence / Divergence 
and the Rise of New Languages and Nations in Europe

2nd Symposium on Eurolinguistics organised conjointly by the Faculty of General Linguistics of the University of St. Petersburg and the Institute of Foreign Languages of the University of Finances of St. Petersburg, Seminar für Allgemeine Linguistik, University of Mannheim and the Faculty of the Humanities, University of Stockholm to be held at the

Ucebuij centr podgotowki rukowoditelej
(Educational Centre for the Training of Managers, Ministry of Education of Russia)
ul. Radischtschewa N4
189620 St. Petersburg, Pushkin, Russia
Sept. 10 - 16, 1999

Friday, September 10
16.00 - 20.00
Arrival and registration of the participants at the Pushkin Educational Centre, Pushkin, Russia

Saturday, September 11
9.00 - 9.30
Opening of the symposium by Prof. P. Sture Ureland and Prof. Vadim Kassevich.

Welcome greetings by Prof. Victoria Jamschanova, Dean of the Foreign Language Institute of the University of Finances, St. Petersburg and Prof. Erling Wande, Dean of the Faculty of the Humanities, University of Stockholm

SECTION A: GENERAL HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL ASPECTS OF THE LINGUISTIC SITUATION IN THE EUROPEAN UNION AFTER 1957

9.30 - 10.00
Frédéric Hartweg, Strabourg
Le débat en France sur la Charte europénne des languages minoritaires et régionales

10.00 - 10.30
Henri Giordan, Paris
Une nouvelle politique pour la France

10.30 - 11.00
Discussion and coffee break

11.00 - 11.30
Vadim Kassevich, St. Petersburg
Cultural identity and self-identity in European languages

11.30 - 13.00
Discussion and lunch break

13.30 - 17.00
isit to Catherine the Great’s Summer Palace in Pushkin

Sunday,Sept. 12

9.15. - 9.45
Desmond Fennell (Rome)
The European dialect of lingua humana

9.45 - 10.15
P. Klubkov and T. Klubkova
Die Vorgeschichte der russischen Sprachwissenschaft im 18. Jahrhundert

10.15 - 10.45
Discussion and coffee break

SECTION B: ATLAS LINGUARUM EUROPAE

10.45 - 11.15
6.Peter Wagener, Mannheim
Zur Methodologie der Eurolinguistik: Sprachgeographie. eine Diskussion von Ansätzen und Perspektiven am Beispiel des ALE

11.15 - 11.45
Discussion and coffee break

SECTION C: LANGUAGE AND POLITICS

11.15 – 11.45
7.Daniel Weiss, Zurich
The language of Communist Propaganda: diagnosis and historical change (in Poland and the Soviet Union)

12.15 – 12.45
8.Gerd Simon, Tübingen
NS-Sprache aus der Innensicht. Der Linguist Manfred Pechau und der Massenmord in den Sümpfen bei Lokna (in Video)

12.45 – 14.00
Discussion and lunch break

14.00 - 17.00
Visit to Paul the First’s Summer Palace and the Gardens of Pavlovsk

Monday Sept. 13

SECTION D: THE EURO-TYP PROJECT

9.15 - 9.45
9.Johan van der Auwera, Antwerp
The results of the Europe-wide investigation of the project EURO-TYP financed by the European Science Foundation 1990 - 1995. On the validation of Standard Average European.

9.45 - 10.00
Discussion

SECTION E: PENETRATION OF STANDARD LANGUAGES IN PERIPHERAL MULTILINGUAL AREAS OF EUROPE AFTER 1957

10.00 - 11.30
10.P. Sture Ureland
Presentation of the Europe-wide project (1986 - 1999)

11.Ralf Holtzmann, Mannheim
Mehrsprachigkeit als ”Topos der Postmoderne” am Beispiel Südtirols

12.Olga Voronkova, Vilnius
 In Lithuania (1996 - 1997)

11.30 – 12.30
Discussion and lunch break

12.30 - 17.00
Excursion to Peterhof and Petersburg amusements

Tuesday, Sept. 14

SECTION F: SUPERSTRATUM AND PERSTRATUM EFFECTS OF MAJOR EUROPEAN LANGUAGES

9.15 – 9.45
13.Gabrielle Birken-Silverman, Mannheim
Französische Elemente im Deutschen unter besonderer berücksichtigung des Wiener Deutsch

9.45 - 10.15
14.Birute Sinochkina, Vilnius
The German-Russian conversational dictionary by Tönnies Fenne – A dialogue between two cultures

10.15 - 10.45
Discussion and coffee break

SECTION G: CONVERGENCE AS A FACTOR FOR THE RISE AND CHANGE OF EUROPEAN LANGUAGES

EUROLATIN

10.45 - 11.15
15.Erwin Huizenga, Leiden
The relationship between Latin and Middle Dutch in the Artes-Literature during the Late Middle Ages.

11.15 – 11.45
16.Hans Aili, Stockholm
The influence of Latin on Continental Scandinavian with special reference to Swedish

11.45 - 12.30
Discussion and lunch break

12.30 - 17.00
Excursion to the Winter Palace and Petersburg amusements

Wednesday Sept. 15

NORTH GERMANIC - (MIDDLE LOW) GERMAN/(MIDDLE) DUTCH - EAST EUROPEAN LANGUAGES

9.15 - 9.45
17.Evgeny Nossov, St. Petersburg
North Germanic - East Slavic (The Varangian - Rus’ complex: Historical and archaeological asspects

9.45 - 10.15
18.Tatiana Rozhdestvenskaja and Alexander Bondarko, St. Petersburg
North Germanic- East Slavic: Linguistic aspects (lecture in Russian which will be interpreted into English)

10.15 - 10.45
19.Evgeny Rjabynin, St. Petersburg
Nordgermanisch – Volgafinnisch – Ostslawisch: Ethnische und archäologische Aspekte (lecture in Russian which will be interpreted into German)

10.45 - 11.15
Discussion and coffee break

11. 15 – 11.45
20.Leschek Bednarzcuk, Krakow
East Slavic - West Slavic and Lithuanian

11.45 - 12.15
21.Johanna Laakso, Helsinki
The Finnic Area revisited: Convergence and Divergence

12.15 - 13.30
Discussion and lunch break

13.30 - 14.00
22.Natalia Kozinseva, St. Petersburg
Armenian – Russian

14.00 - 14.30
23.Andrej Malchukov, St. Petersburg
Paleo-Sibirian languages and Russian

14.30 - 15.00
24.Ulrike Kiefer, Mannheim
Language and Nationhood. A case of Central European Jewry

15.00 – 15.30
Discussion and Coffee break

15.30 – 17.00
Summing up and planning for future Eurolinguistic events

Thursday, Sept. 16

8.00 - 9.15
Breakfast and departure for Pulkovo Airport for those who have not booked for a longer stay. Bus will take the participants to the airport.

11.00 -
Departure for a hotel in the city centre for those participants who stay longer than the symposium.

12.00
Check-in for accommodation in the hotel and lunch there.

13.00 - 18.00
Excursion to the Peter and Paul’s Fortress and a visit to the Dept. of Linguistics of the University of St. Petersburg (at 16.00) and possibly the Institute of Material Culture.

18.00 -
Free evening in the city centre, possibly with a ballet or opera performance.

Friday, Sept. 17

8.00 - 9.15
Breakfast

9.15
Departure for the Museum of the Leningrad Blockade 1941 - 1944 (by foot).

11.15 - 13-15
Visit to Russkij Musei (The Russian Museum) (by foot).

13.15 – 14.00
Lunch

14.00 - 16.00
Excursion by boat on the Petersburg canals if the weather permits.

17.00
Free evening.

Saturday, Sept. 18

Free day in St. Petersburg or departure for the airport

Sunday, Sept. 19
Departure for the airport