TALK: N. R. Dobrushina / multilingualism in Daghestan (02.03.2026, 12:00, online)

[Egor Kashkin]

Дорогие коллеги,

2 марта 2026 года в 12:00 (московское время) состоится заседание
семинара по языковым контактам ИРЯ РАН. Выступит Нина Роландовна
Добрушина (д.ф.н., Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage (CNRS, Lyon),
directrice de recherche) с докладом «Decomposing societal
multilingualism into factors of language change».

Семинар пройдет онлайн. За получением ссылки следует обращаться к
Егору Владимировичу Кашкину (egork...@gmail.com).

Английская версия объявления доступна наряду с русской на
https://ruslang.ru/news/seminar-po-yazykovym-kontaktam-02032026

Аннотация:

Language contact plays a crucial role in the history of languages,
being one of the main mechanisms of language change. The term language
contact implies social contact between speakers of different
languages. Encounters between populations which speak different
languages often take the form of multilingualism and lead to the
exchange of linguistic features between languages.

Multilingualism can take different shapes, ranging from active and
fluent mastery of L2 (second language) to passive bilingualism where
individuals understand the language of the interlocutor but do not
speak it. The results of language contact can also vary greatly,
ranging from superficial changes affecting only the lexicon to deep
restructuring of the grammar. Understanding how various multilingual
settings lead to different changes in languages is one of the main
tasks of language contact studies.

In this talk, I will address the issue by examining the case of
Daghestan. Daghestan is the most multilingual area in Europe. With
more than fifty languages spoken side by side, it features many
different situations of multilingualism and language contact. In this
talk, I will provide an overview of Daghestanian multilingualism, to
show that different parameters of multilingualism have different
impacts on language change.