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<p style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:13pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"><b>Workshop on Copulas</b></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Times"></span></p>


<p style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:13pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">University of Bologna, Italy. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Times"></span></p>


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<p style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:13pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">This is a preliminary
call for papers to be presented at the workshop on copulas taking place at the
University of Bologna, Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures
(LILEC) on March 13^th, 2014. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Times"></span></p>

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<p style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:13pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">The aim of this workshop is to gather together scholars
and students studying copulas from all domains of linguistic analysis. We have adopted
a broad definition of copula including attributive, ascriptive,
identificational, equative, locative and existential sentences. Contributions
may address one or more of the following subjects:</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Times"></span></p>

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 <li style="vertical-align:baseline;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:13pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Copular taxonomy; </span></li>
 <li style="vertical-align:baseline;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:13pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">The semantics of copular items;</span></li>
 <li style="vertical-align:baseline;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:13pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Dropping, omission deletion or absence of
     copulas;</span></li>
 <li style="vertical-align:baseline;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:13pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Copula variation due to semantic and/or
     syntactic factors;</span></li>
 <li style="vertical-align:baseline;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:13pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Copulas in pidgin and creoles;</span></li>
 <li style="vertical-align:baseline;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:13pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Emergence of copular items - the copula
     cycle;</span></li>
 <li style="vertical-align:baseline;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:13pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Copulas in first and second language
     acquisition;</span></li>
 <li style="vertical-align:baseline;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:13pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Micro-variation: comparative studies of the
     copular systems in typologically related languages, languages pertaining
     to the same dialect cluster, or even in different registers of the same
     language;</span></li>
 <li style="vertical-align:baseline;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:13pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Multi-copula systems;</span></li>
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<p style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:13pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">All papers will be allocated 20 minutes plus 10
minutes for discussion.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:13pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"></span></p>

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<p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:13pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Invited speakers:</span></p>

<p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:13pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Alessandro Panunzi (University of Firenze)</span></p>

<p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:13pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Andrea Moro (IUSS - Pavia)  (to be
confirmed)</span></p>

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<p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:13pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:13pt;text-align:justify">Abstracts should be no more than 500 words
including title, main text and references (word count to be written at the
bottom of your text). Please send your proposal as a PDF or Word file attached to
an email containing your personal information (name, surname and affiliation).</span></p>

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<p style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:13pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">By September 15^th, please send your
expression of interest or any other queries to: </span></p><p style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:13pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:13pt">Katia Golovko </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:13pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"><a href="mailto:ekaterina.golovko4@unibo.it" target="_blank">ekaterina.golovko4@unibo.it</a></span></span><br>

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<p style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:13pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Maria Mazzoli </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:tefra.tefra@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:13pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">tefra.tefra@gmail.com</span></a></span><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:13pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></font></span></p>
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<div>-- <br>Katia Golovko <br>via Olindo Guerrini, 17 <br>40134 Bologna<br>Italia <br>
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</div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>Katia Golovko <br>via Olindo Guerrini, 17 <br>40134 Bologna<br>Italia <br>
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