BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:16905-f8ca081d1bdf54c049edf564b94a78f1@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260813T021827Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210205T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210205T103000 SUMMARY:James Essegbey (University of Florida) - Contact-induced Change in Ghan a-Togo Mountain Languages DESCRIPTION:Contact-induced Change in Ghana-Togo Mountain Languages\nLan guages used in multilingual ecologies tend to be influenced. Depending o n the nature of the contact\, the influence may be from a dominant regio nal language to another. The effects of such contact can lead to languag e shift\, thereby impacting the intergenerational transmission or it cou ld be in terms of language structure and culture leading to a homogeniza tion of the languages and reducing typological characteristics of the in fluenced language. In this talk\, Dr. Essegbey explores the contact-indu ced changes that have occurred in Ghana-Togo Mountain (GTM) languages. G TM languages\, as the name suggests\, are spoken along the mountain rang es along the Ghana-Togo border in West Africa. GTM speakers have one GTM language and at least one dominant regional language. Dr. Essegbey demo nstrates from his documentation work how Ewe - a (New) Kwa language spok en in Ghana\, Togo\, and Benin - has influenced the southern GTM languag es phonologically\, morpho-syntactically\, and semantically.\n\nFor more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/james-essegbey-university-of-f lorida-contact-induced-change-in-ghana-togo-mountain-languages/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Contact-induced Change in Ghana-Togo Mountain Languages
Languages used in multilin gual ecologies tend to be influenced. Depending on the nature of the con tact, the influence may be from a dominant regional language to another. The effects of such contact can lead to language shift, thereby impacti ng the intergenerational transmission or it could be in terms of languag e structure and culture leading to a homogenization of the languages and reducing typological characteristics of the influenced language. In thi s talk, Dr. Essegbey explores the contact-induced changes that have occu rred in Ghana-Togo Mountain (GTM) languages. GTM languages, as the name suggests, are spoken along the mountain ranges along the Ghana-Togo bord er in West Africa. GTM speakers have one GTM language and at least one d ominant regional language. Dr. Essegbey demonstrates from his documentat ion work how Ewe - a (New) Kwa language spoken in Ghana, Togo, and Benin - has influenced the southern GTM languages phonologically, morpho-synt actically, and semantically.
For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/e vent/james-essegbey-university-of-florida-contact-induced-change-in-ghan a-togo-mountain-languages/
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