22.5134, Confs: Romance, Morphology, Syntax, Pragmatics, General Ling/Switzerland

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Subject: 22.5134, Confs: Romance, Morphology, Syntax, Pragmatics, General Ling/Switzerland

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Date: 20-Dec-2011
From: Natascha Pomino [npomino at rom.uzh.ch]
Subject: Negation and Clitics in Romance

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Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 12:39:04
From: Natascha Pomino [npomino at rom.uzh.ch]
Subject: Negation and Clitics in Romance

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Negation and Clitics in Romance 

Date: 24-Feb-2012 - 25-Feb-2012 
Location: Zurich, Switzerland 
Contact: Elisabeth Stark 
Contact Email: estark at rom.uzh.ch 
Meeting URL: http://www.rose.uzh.ch/colloque.html 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Morphology; Pragmatics; Syntax 

Language Family(ies): Romance 
Meeting Description: 

The conference Negation and Clitics in Romance is concerned with 
central aspects of the description and formalization of variation in the 
expression of negation in Romance, with a special focus on clitic 
exponents of negation or exponents in close morpho-syntactic 
interaction with clitics (distribution, cluster, morpho-phonologic 
phenomena etc.). Clitics can be considered as morpho-syntactic 
elements that are ' neither clearly independent words, nor clearly 
affixes ' (cf. Zwicky 1977: 1), they are phonologically weak and often 
show special syntactic behaviour as well as a tendency towards 
affixation and disappearance and are hence often subject to linguistic 
variation. This can be observed for instance in modern French (cf. Jean 
(n')aime pas les pommes), where the realisation of the clitic negation 
particle ne varies according to intra- and extra-linguistic factors, 
(such as the morphosyntactic and phonological environment, the 
socio-demographic and geographic origin of the speakers, and the 
communication situation).

>From a typological and diachronic point of view, the conference will 
examine the following questions: What type of morphemes appear in 
multi-morpheme negations in Romance? In which way are they related 
to the Jespersen cycle (cf. Jespersen 1917, 1924)? From a theoretic and 
formal point of view, the conference seeks to explain and to model the 
interactions between the different elements in clitic clusters: Which 
models are suitable for their description? Could cycles of 
grammaticalization be used as patterns in order to map synchronic 
variation? In the last decades questions have been raised concerning 
the status of negation as a functional phrase. Is it necessary and useful 
to assume a functional negation phrase and where is it located (in the 
Romance/Indo-European languages and in a general way)? Is it 
convincing to assume that a clitic (like French ne) is the head of the 
negation, or are we supposed to reconsider our formal models of 
negation (cf. the critical discussion in Peters 1999)? 

Friday 24th February 2012

10.00-10.30 
Welcome and introduction (Charlotte Meisner, Harald Völker & 
Elisabeth Stark)

10.30-11.15 
When is preverbal negation reanalysed as a polarity marker? The case 
of French ne (Pierre Larrivée)

11.15-12.00 
The morpho-syntactic status of ne and its effect on the syntax of 
imperative sentences (Hugues Peters)

12.00-12.45 
When negative imperatives aren't negative (Paul Rowlett)
Lunch

14.15-15.00 
Synchronic variation in the expression of French negation (Charlotte 
Meisner & Natascha Pomino)

15.00-15.45 
Old French negation, the Tobler/Mussafia law, and V2 (Richard Ingham)

Coffee break

16.15-17.00 
Factors affecting the use of impersonal il in Spoken French: 
implications for change in the clitic system (Jennifer Culbertson)

17.00-17.45 
The interplay of multiple descriptive factors for the understanding of a 
text language, illustrated by the negation in Old French. A study of 
manuscript variation of ne-Ø, nemie, ne-pas, and ne-point (Lene 
Schøsler & Harald Völker)

17.45-18.30 
Variable ne in nineteenth-century French: corpus data and 
metalinguistic commentaries (Andreas Dufter)

Saturday 25th February 2012

10.00-10.45 
The emergence of subject clitic pronouns in Romance (Georg A. Kaiser)

10.45-11.30 Reference and polarity markers as clitics: contrasting 
demands on form (Dieter Wanner)

11.30-12.15 
Clitic subjects and negation (Michele Loporcaro)

Lunch

13.45-14.30 
tba (David Heap)

14.30-15.15 
On the status of the Negative Marker no in logudorese Sardinian 
(Franck Floricic)

15.15-16.00 
Negation and Focus: on the Syntax of emphasis (Cecilia Poletto & 
Raffaella Zanuttini)

Coffee break

16.30-17.15 
The distribution of preverbal en in (West) Flemish: syntactic and 
pragmatic properties (Liliane Haegeman)

17.15-18.00 
The Middle Dutch negative clitic: status, position and disappearance 
(Jack Hoeksema)

18.00-18.15 
Concluding remarks (Charlotte Meisner, Harald Völker & Elisabeth 
Stark)

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