15.3013, Confs: Morphology/Semantics/Balkan/Brussels, Belgium

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Date: 21-Oct-2004
From: Liliane Tasmowski < liliane.tasmowski at ua.ac.be >
Subject: Clitic Doubling in the Balkan Languages 
 

	
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Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 23:10:37
From: Liliane Tasmowski < liliane.tasmowski at ua.ac.be >
Subject: Clitic Doubling in the Balkan Languages 
 
Clitic Doubling in the Balkan Languages 

Date: 11-Dec-2004 - 11-Dec-2004 
Location: Brussels, Belgium 
Contact: Liliane Tasmowski 
Contact Email: liliane.tasmowski at ua.ac.be 

Linguistic Sub-Fields(s): Morphology; Semantics; Syntax 

Meeting Description: 

Presentation
Clitic Doubling has been recognized as a Balkan phenomenon by Sandfeld
(1930), and it was first studied in this context in a thorough comparative
perspective by Lopachov (1978) who acknowledges the existence of the
phenomenon in Albanian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Demotiki and Romanian, but
to different extents and with different conditions for realization.

The nature of clitic doubling. Clitic Doubling has been diversely appreciated:
- as a inflectional category of agreement with the object, to be compared
with subject agreement;
- as an agreement marker with a topic;
- as a specifity and/or prominence marker;
- as an anaphoric semantico-pragmatic device;
- as a defocalizing device.

The problems to be solved. Following questions arise:
- is clitic doubling a Balkan phenomenon? or is it the result of a general
tendency present in languages that are endowed with simple or special clitics?
- does clitic doubling obey the same restrictions when it anticipates the
full-fledged complement or when it follows it?
- are clitic doubling conditions different for DO and IO, and if so, why?
- is it justified to compare DO and IO with ''clitic doubling'' of the
subject? Is clitic doubling an agreement marker with the object (and/or
with the subject), or does it have a semantic correlate?
- what is the relationship between referentiality, definiteness,
specificity, prominence and clitic doubling?
- what is the nature and what are the common properties of clitic doubling
throughout the Balkan Sprachbund?  Is it indeed a diagnostic feature, as it
is generally considered, or a mere coincidence?
- what can history tell us about its development?
- how can the phenomenon fit into a theory of language?

Program
9.30-9.45   Registration
9.45-10   Welcoming speech by professor Mark Eyskens, president of the Academy
10-10.20   V. Friedman (keynote speaker- Chicago): Introduction to the
linguistic problem
10.20-10.40  R. Ismajli (Pristina): TBA
10.40-11   D. Kallulli (Vienna):  An account of clitic doubling in Albanian
11-11.30   coffee
10.30-11.50  M. Stavrou (Thessaloniki): Clitic doubling in Greek
11.50-12.10  G. de Boel (Gent) : Evolution of clitic doubling from Old to
Modern Greek
12.10-12.30  Z. Guentcheva (Latico, Paris): Le redoublement clitique en bulgare
12.30-12.50  O. Tomic (Skopje): Clitic doubling in Serbo-Croatian dialects
and in Macedonian
12.50-13.10  M. Vulchanova (Trondheim): Clitic doubling and Old Bulgarian
Lunch
14.10-14.30  C. Dobrovie (CNRS - Paris 7): Clitic doubling in Romanian
14.30-14.50  L. Tasmowski (Antwerpen): Le redoublement clitique en ancien
roumain
14.50- 15.10  V. Friedman (Chicago): Clitic doubling in Megleno-romanian
and Arumanian
15.10-15.30  V. Friedman (Chicago): Related phenomena in neighbouring languages
15.30-18  General panel with all participants
Coffee and reception

Location: Paleis der Academiën, Hertogsstraat 1, 1000 Brussel, entrance A,
room Baron Lacquet

Participation in the general afternoon discussion: please send a proposal
(about 25 lines, Times New Roman 11, space 1,5) to liliane.tasmowski at ua.ac.be
before November 19th. Notification within the week.

Registration:  before November 26th

Information: liliane.tasmowski at ua.ac.be

With support of the Flemish Scientific Foundation and the Royal Flemish
Academy of Belgium.



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