24.547, Calls: Spanish, Catalan, Syntax/Spain

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Subject: 24.547, Calls: Spanish, Catalan, Syntax/Spain

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Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 15:29:59
From: Ángel Gallego [angel.gallego at uab.cat]
Subject: International Workshop ‘The Syntactic Variation of Catalan and Spanish Dialects’

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Full Title: International Workshop ‘The Syntactic Variation of Catalan and Spanish Dialects’ 
Short Title: SYNVADISPACAT 

Date: 26-Jun-2013 - 28-Jun-2013
Location: Barcelona, Spain 
Contact Person: Ángel J. Gallego, Francesc Roca
Meeting Email: syntactic.variation.spa at gmail.com
Web Site: http://filcat.uab.cat/clt/wsv/index.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Syntax 

Subject Language(s): Catalan-Valencian-Balear (cat)
                     Spanish (spa)

Call Deadline: 17-Feb-2013 

Meeting Description:

Even though Catalan and Spanish have been the focus of much theoretical and empirical research within the generative framework, most attention has been paid to specific phenomena (clitics, doubling, verb movement, subjunctive, agreement, differential object marking, etc.) or specific cross-linguistic contrasts (English-Spanish, French-Spanish, Italian-Spanish, Catalan-Spanish, etc.). These and other factors made it difficult to construct comprehensive dialectal route-maps of these languages. Even in recent large-scale descriptive surveys (cf. Bosque & Demonte 1999, RAE-ASALE 2009, 2011, Solà et al. 2002), the role of dialectal varieties of Catalan and Spanish has not been at the forefront of formal studies.

As is well-known, the interest in finding out what the relevant varieties of Catalan and Spanish are has typically focused on the domains of lexicology, morphology, and phonology, where much descriptive work has been done since the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In the domain of syntax, however, little work can be found, a singularity that is reflected in the availability of few major studies of variation of Catalan and Spanish dialects (cf. Kany 1945, Veny 1978). This situation is unexpected, given the recent meticulous work on syntactic variation in other Romance languages (most notably, Italian; cf. D’Alessandro et al. 2010 and references therein). 

Ever since the fifties, syntactic theory has developed and put in practice methods and tools to complement previous structuralist comparative work (atlases, corpora, etc.), making it possible to approach dialectal variation in a comprehensive and fine-grained fashion. The methods and tools have the generative framework as a source (Chomsky 1965, 1981, and subsequent work), and this source has proved useful in characterizing several languages and establishing points of uniformity (principles / universals) and points of variation (i.e., parameters). Given the availability of these tools and the ever-present interest in studying the variation/uniformity tension, there is no reason why studies on syntactic variation should not become an important focus of research. This has been complemented and backed up with a growing interest and concern in the area of generative grammar, including more careful and detailed comparative studies, paying much attention to language internal (dialectal) variation. Both viewpoints can be said to naturally stem from the Principles & Parameters framework of the early eighties, which gave rise to the key notion of ‘parameter,’ which has been investigated from both MACRO and MICRO perspectives (Baker 1996, 2001, 2008, Biberauer 2008, Biberauer et al. 2010, Cinque & Kayne 2005, Kayne 2000, 2005, among many others).

The present workshop aims at stimulating the study of the syntactic phenomena of Catalan and Spanish that show variation, hoping that it will help set the stage for subsequent investigations on the syntactic variation of these languages, deepen its relationship with other Romance cognates, and improve our understanding of the faculty of language.

The workshop will take place at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Bellaterra, Barcelona), in June 26-28, 2013.

Invited Speakers:

Roberta D’Alessandro (University of Leiden)
Anna Bartra (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Eulàlia Bonet (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Inés Fernández-Ordóñez (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Real Academia Española)
Francisco Ordóñez (Stony Brook University)

2nd Call for Papers:

Abstracts are invited for oral presentations (30-minute presentation plus 10-minute discussion) on any topic that contributes to improving our understanding of the syntactic variation of Catalan and Spanish dialects, including, but not limited to the following issues:

- Synchronic syntactic phenomena that manifest dialectal variation in Catalan and/or Spanish (Bonet 2008, Bonet & Mascaró 2012, Camus 2005, Fernández-Ordóñez 1999, 2009, 2011, Ordóñez 2000, 2007, RAE-ASALE 2009-2011, etc.)
- Diachronic syntactic phenomena that manifest variation in Catalan and/or Spanish (Bartra 2005a,b, 2007, Batllori & Hernanz 2009, 2011, Company Company 2007-2009, Fernández-Ordóñez 2012, etc. )
- Syntactic phenomena present in Catalan and/or Spanish, and other Romance languages (Portuguese, Italian, French, Romanian, etc.; Costa 2000, D’Alessandro et al. 2010, Dobrovie-Sorin 1994, Kayne 2000, 2005, etc.)
- The limits of syntactic variation in the present context of ‘Parameter Theory’ (Baker 2008, 2009, Biberauer 2008, Biberauer et al. 2010, Roberts & Holmberg 2010, Newmeyer 2005, and others)

Submission of Abstracts:

Abstracts should be at most two pages long (A4 paper), including examples and references, with 1 inch/2.5 cm margins on all sides and 12pt font size. The abstract should have a title but should not identify the author(s). Submissions are limited to 1 individual and 1 joint abstract per author, or 2 joint abstracts per author. Abstracts should be written in one of the languages of the workshop. Abstracts must be submitted electronically, only in PDF format to the following address:

syntactic.variation.spa at gmail.com

The body of the message should include the title of the abstract, the name of the author(s), his/her (their) affiliation(s) and contact details.

Languages of the workshop: Catalan, English, Spanish

Deadline for submission of abstracts: February 17, 2013
Notification of acceptance: March 31, 2013

Workshop website: http://filcat.uab.cat/clt/wsv/index.html  

Organizing Committee:

Ángel J. Gallego, M. Lluïsa Hernanz, Francesc Roca, Avel•lina Suñer 

Scientific Committee:

Ignacio Bosque, José M. Brucart, Cristina Buenafuentes, Glòria Claveria, Violeta Demonte, Luis Eguren, Arantzazu Elordieta, Ricardo Etxepare, Olga Fernández-Soriano, Pilar García Mouton, Rodrigo Gutiérrez Bravo, Aritz Irurtzun, Alazne Landa, Luis López, Pedro Martín Butragueño, Jaume Mateu, Javier Ormazábal, Isabel Pérez-Jiménez, Carme Picallo, Gemma Rigau,  Juan Romero, Joana Rosselló, Liliana Sánchez, Cristina Sánchez López, Carlos Sánchez, Myriam Uribe-Etxebarria, Luis Vicente

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