23.3888, Calls: French, Spanish, Portuguese, Syntax, Morphology, Historical Ling/Brazil

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Subject: 23.3888, Calls: French, Spanish, Portuguese, Syntax, Morphology, Historical Ling/Brazil

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Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 15:05:15
From: Francisco Ordonez [francisco.ordonez at stonybrook.edu]
Subject: Romania Nova VI

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Full Title: Romania Nova VI 

Date: 01-Feb-2013 - 02-Feb-2013
Location: Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil 
Contact Person: Francisco Ordonez
Meeting Email: fordonez at notes.cc.sunysb.edu
Web Site: http://www.facebook.com/Romanianova 

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

Subject Language(s): French (fra)
                     Portuguese (por)
                     Spanish (spa)

Call Deadline: 30-Sep-2012 

Meeting Description:

'Romania Nova': VI Workshop
1-2 February 2013
during Abralin, Natal (Brazil)

The research commission of Romania Nova is interested in promoting and creating a space for comparative studies of the syntax and morphology of Romance languages spoken in the Americas from a synchronic and diachronic point of view.

Coordinated by:

Mary A.Kato (UNICAMP) 
Francisco Ordóñez (Stony Brook, SUNY)
Andrés Saab (Universidad del Comahue)

Invited Speakers:

Adriana Belletti (Università di Siena)
Shigeru Miyagawa (MIT) 

2nd Call for Papers: 

The commission of 'Romania Nova' invites papers to its sixth workshop to be held at Natal, Rio Grande do Norte. 

The areas of discussion are: 

- Strong and weak pronouns (datives, clitics, null subjects, clitic doubling, Binding) 
- Clause types (negation, imperatives, questions and wh-questions, evidentiality, impersonal, passives) 
- Ellipsis and null objects 
- Non-finite clauses (raising, causatives, hyper-raising, adjuncts) 
- Focus constructions (and other constructions involving the sentence and the vP periphery 
- DP and structure of DP 

We also encourage submissions of empirical variationist and historical work. 

The abstracts are invited for 30 minute talks (plus 10 minutes for discussion). Abstract should be maximum 2 pages with examples, references and trees included. Font 12. 

Send abstracts in PDF or Word to: 

Mary Kato: ma.kato at uol.com.br 
Francisco Ordóñez: fordonez at notes.cc.sunysb.edu 
Andrés Saab: al_saab75 at yahoo.com.ar 

Abstract deadline: September 30, 2012

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