23.932, Confs: Portuguese, Historical Ling/UK

Fri Feb 24 15:02:34 UTC 2012

LINGUIST List: Vol-23-932. Fri Feb 24 2012. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 23.932, Confs: Portuguese, Historical Ling/UK

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Date: 21-Feb-2012
From: Miriam Bouzouita [mb829 at cam.ac.uk]
Subject: Norman MacColl Symposium 2012

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Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 10:12:05
From: Miriam Bouzouita [mb829 at cam.ac.uk]
Subject: Norman MacColl Symposium 2012

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Norman MacColl Symposium 2012 

Date: 28-Mar-2012 - 30-Mar-2012 
Location: Cambridge, United Kingdom 
Contact: Miriam Bouzouita 
Contact Email: maccoll2012 at gmail.com 
Meeting URL: http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/news/spanish/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics 

Subject Language(s): Portuguese (por)

Meeting Description: 

The Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Cambridge, is 
pleased to announce that the Second Cambridge Colloquium on the 'Histories 
of the Ibero-Romance languages' - 'Norman MacColl Symposium 2012', will 
be held Wednesday 28 to Friday 30 March 2012 at Queens' College, 
Cambridge.

The 2012 MacColl Lecturer will be Prof. Ana Maria Martins (University of 
Lisbon).  She will lecture on 'Issues in word order change in Portuguese and 
beyond', at 11.30 a.m. on Friday, 30 March.

You will find the complete programme, the poster of this event and further 
information (on how to get to Queens' College; accommodation in Cambridge, 
etc) on our News & Events page: http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/news/spanish/  
Note: that everyone wishing to attend must email maccoll2012 at gmail.com 
by Thursday, 15 march to register.  Registration is £25 (but there is no 
registration fee for students, Cambridge academics, and the event speakers). 
For any queries regarding this event, please use the above-mentioned email 
address too. 

28th March

17:00-18.00: 
Registration

19:30:	
Conference dinner

29th March

8:30-9:00: 
Registration

9:00-9:30: 
Welcome

9:30-10:00: Roger Wright (University of Liverpool): Studying Ibero-Romance 
before 1200

10:00-10:30: Rena Torres Cacoullos (Penn State University): Por + a 
/pora/para: Allative to Purposive Grammaticalization

10:30-11:00: 
Keith Tse (University of Oxford): The Grammaticalization of Romance Case-
Markers

11:00-11:30: 
Coffee break

11:30-12:00: 
Manel Pérez Saldanya (Universitat de València): ''Què fas aquí, March?'': Dixi 
binària i ternària en català (un camí d'anada i tornada)

12:00-12:30: 
Enrique Pato (University of Montreal): Pérdida léxico-gramatical: Algunos 
adverbios 'antiguos' del español

12:30-14:30: 
Lunch

14:30-15:00: 
Johannes Kabatek (University of Tübingen): On Directionality, 
Grammaticalization and Articles in Ibero-Romance

15:00-15:30: 
Miguel Calderón Campos (Universidad de Granada): Artículo + nombre propio 
en la documentación archivística del siglo XVIII

15:30-16:00: 
Esther Rinke (Goethe University Frankfurt am Main): The Diachronic 
Development of the Portuguese Noun Phrase

16:00-16:30: 
Coffee break

16:30-17:00: 
Mary Kato (Universidade Estadual da Campinas): Variation in Wh-Questions 
in Brazilian Portuguese

30th March
9:30-10:00: 
Paul O'Neill (University of Sheffield): Yod or no Yod: Metaphony and 
Allomorphy in the Ibero-Romance Verb

10:00-10:30: 
Montserrat Batllori Dillet (Universitat de Girona): Evidentiality  in Old Spanish 
and Old Catalan: Mesoclitic Configurations

10:30-11:00: 
Kristine Eide (University of Oslo): Information Structure in Old Portuguese

11:00-11:30: 
Coffee break

11:30-12:30: 
MACCOLL SPEAKER: Ana Maria Martins: Issues in Word Order Change in 
Portuguese and Beyond

12:30-14:30: 
Lunch

14:30-15:00: 
Chris Pountain (Queen Mary, University of London): Discourse Markers and 
Register in 16th-century Spanish

15:00-15:30: 
Pedro Gras Manzano & Maria Estellés Arguedas (Universitat de Barcelona, 
Universitat de València): From Subordination to Syntactic Independence: 
Constructions with a ver si in Spanish

15:30-16:00: 
Javier Rodríguez Molina & José Antonio Pascual (Universidad Carlos III, 
Real Academia Española): Lingüística de corpus, marcación diatópica y 
diccionario histórico

16:00-16:30: 
Coffee break

16:30-17:00: 
David Heap (University of Western Ontario): The Atlas Lingüístico de la 
Península Ibérica and its Implications for the History of the Spanish 
Language

17:00-17:30: 
Dieter Wanner (Ohio State University): Texts as Linguistic Evidence: 
Materials for Syntactic Development in Spanish

17:30-18:00: 
Closing comments

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