The second section deals with language attrition from a psycholinguistic perspective, and the third is fully devoted to the building of an integrated explanatory framework for processes of language shift and loss. In memory of Willem Fase, one of the initiators of the First and Second Conference on Maintenance and Loss of Minority Languages, who died in 1997, a new forum called the Willem Fase Lecture has been set up. This plenary lecture forum will be granted to a promising scholar, to be selected from the abstracts submitted. The conference will be held at Koningshof Conference Center, Veldhoven, the Netherlands. This modern conference center is situated in forested areas, only fifteen minutes from the city of Eindhoven and Eindhoven Airport.
All rooms have a shower, toilet, television and telephone.
Koningshof offers a wide range of indoor and outdoor sports and leisure facilities, including a swimming pool, sauna, fitness club and squash court. Dfl 285 conference programme, after July 1, 1998. Please add an additional Dfl 10 to cover international transfer charges if subscribing from abroad. You will receive confirmation of registration, and the final programme at the end of August, 1998. Those who arrive earlier or wish to stay longer must take care of further accommodations themselves.