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SUMMARY:Allochthonous languages\, Brazilian Zeeuws\, and Dummy Auxiliaries
  - Andrew Nevins (co-authored with Gertjan Postma and Elizana Schaffel-Bre
 menkamp)
DTSTART:20130320T153000Z
DTEND:20130320T170000Z
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CONTACT:Joe Perry
DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\nIn the middle of the state of Espirito Santo\, Braz
 il\, a group of around 500 Dutch settlers from the province of Zeeland mov
 ed in the 1850s with the hopes of agricultural opportunities. 150 years la
 ter\, with little contact with Holland\, and overshadowed not only by Braz
 ilian culture and the Portuguese language\, there are a dozen speakers lef
 t. Their allochthonous language variety is most severely impacted\, howeve
 r\, not by the dominant national language\, but by another allochthonous l
 anguage\, namely Pomeranian. In this presentation we will describe our ini
 tial efforts to document the variety of Brazilian Zeeuws both in terms of 
 its sociolinguistic and historical development\, as well as its structural
  properties\, and focus on its increasing use of dummy auxiliaries\, a phe
 nomenon that parallels the rise of do-support in many Germanic varieties b
 ut has no clear historical source in the variety in question and is theref
 ore likely either a contact phenomenon or an spontaneous innovation.
LOCATION:Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies\, Room 8/9
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