Keynote speeches

Alexandra N. Lenz (University of Vienna, Austria) & Mateusz Maselko (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
Opening lecture
Variationist linguistics and contact linguistics: Perspectives on German and its varieties – Variations- und Kontaktlinguistik: Perspektiven zum Deutschen und seinen Varietäten

Péter Maitz (University of Augsburg, Germany)
Monday plenary lecture
Sprachkontakt und Sprachvariation in den deutschen Südseekolonien

Janne Bondi Johannessen (University of Oslo, Norway)
Tuesday plenary lecture
Dialect syntax in Scandinavia and America: research infrastructure and research results

Peter Rosenberg (Viadrina European University Frankfurt/Oder, Germany)
Wednesday plenary lecture
Variation, Contact, and Change: What can we learn from language islands in the “flood”?