21.4144, Calls: Historical Ling, Morphology, Syntax, Romance Langs/Germany

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Subject: 21.4144, Calls: Historical Ling, Morphology, Syntax, Romance Langs/Germany

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Date: 18-Oct-2010
From: Johannes Kabatek [kabatek at uni-tuebingen.de]
Subject: Workshop on Sentence-Initial Bare Noun
 

	
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Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 11:12:12
From: Johannes Kabatek [kabatek at uni-tuebingen.de]
Subject: Workshop on Sentence-Initial Bare Noun

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Full Title: Workshop on Sentence-Initial Bare Noun 

Date: 26-May-2011 - 27-May-2011
Location: Tübingen, Germany 
Contact Person: Johannes Kabatek
Meeting Email: kabatek at uni-tuebingen.de
Web Site: http://www.sfb833.uni-tuebingen.de 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Morphology; Syntax 

Language Family(ies): Romance 

Call Deadline: 31-Dec-2010 

Meeting Description:

The possibilities and constraints of starting a sentence with a bare noun 
vary strongly in the different Romance languages and varieties. In the last 
years, increasing research on nominal determination (general as well as on 
Romance) has offered new empirical data (elicited or from corpora), new 
methodological insights and new theoretical explanations for the particular, 
language-specific bare noun distribution. The range of types of sentence-
initial bare nouns in Romance languages is related to a series of 
heterogeneous syntactic, semantic and pragmatic factors as well as to other 
phenomena, and the aim of the workshop is to discuss, on the one hand, 
particular (and partly striking) cases in the different languages as well as, 
on the other hand, overall explanations allowing to classify the individual 
cases. 

Call For Papers

The phenomena discussed in this workshop could include among others:

-determiner omission in topicalizations:
(1)(Span. )Ø Gente hay que no sabe lo que dice.
(2)(Braz. Port.) Ø Nariz já saiu muito sangue.

-determiner omission with contrastive focus:
(3)(Ital.) Ø Pollo io voglio, non pesce.

-'heavy' bare subjects:
(4)(Ital.) Ø Cani con difetti con geniti sono molto comuni.
(5)(Eur.Port.) Ø Amigos de Coimbra partiram ontem.

-singular bare subjects (generic as well as specific):
(6)(Braz. Port) Ø Bicicleta não polui.
(7)(Braz. Port) Ø Bicicleta ia se arrebentar.
(8)(Old Span.) & Ø carçel esta muy lana
(9)(Old Span.) e Ø respuesta de Dios fue tal, que ...	

The workshop aims at bringing together researchers working on this kind of 
phenomena in order to bundle approaches, methods and new data into one 
all-embracing and open discussion without framework restriction. 
Contributions are welcome on any aspect of sentence-initial bare nouns 
including synchronic as well as diachronic and/or contrastive approaches. 
Since some of the data are challenged by native speakers and researchers, 
contributions on methodological (e.g. psycholinguistic, prosodic, corpus-
specific) questions for the synchronic and diachronic investigation of 
marginal phenomena would be appreciated as well. The workshop will be 
held at the University of Tübingen on May 26th & 27th, 2011 and is hosted 
by the Research Project C3 'The variation and dynamics of nominal 
determination' within the Collaborative Research Center 833 'Emergence of 
Meaning' (http://www.sfb833.uni-tuebingen.de). Abstracts should be 
submitted by December 31st; acceptance will be communicated by January 
31st, 2011.
Address:
Prof. Dr. Johannes Kabatek - Albert Wall
University of Tübingen
Romanisches Seminar
Wilhelmstr. 50
D-72074 Tübingen
kabatek at uni-tuebingen.de - albert.wall at uni-tuebingen.de





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