Areal Convergence in Eastern Central European Languages and Beyond

Abstract

Two of the papers published in this book (cf. Tetereva/Naukhatskaia and Kim/Scharf/Šimko) present results of two subsequent international cooperation projects funded by the CENTRAL network in 2016 and 2017, namely the CENTRAL-Kollegs Empirical perspectives on area-typological aspects of language contact and language change and From language contrast to language contact: Corpus linguistic approaches to language contact phenomena. This format for research based-learning aimed at junior researchers and students. Under the guidance of junior researchers, student research teams developed and carried out short-time research projects. The two above mentioned CENTRAL-Kollegs were both organised by Uliana Yazhinova (