The German Research Foudation has accepted a proposal for a scientific network that I am part of. The network on Language Contact Phenomena in Multilingual First Language Acquisition has been proposed by Stefan Hartmann (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf), Nikolas Koch (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich) und Antje Quick (Leipzig University). It brings together scholars working in the fields of multilingualism and first language acquisition from a usage-based perspective.