25.1210, Confs: General Linguistics/Italy

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Subject: 25.1210, Confs: General Linguistics/Italy

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Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 10:53:04
From: Maria Mazzoli [tefra.tefra at gmail.com]
Subject: Workshop on Copulas

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Workshop on Copulas 

Date: 13-Mar-2014 - 13-Mar-2014 
Location: Bologna, Italy 
Contact: Maria Mazzoli 
Contact Email: tefra.tefra at gmail.com 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Meeting Description: 

We are pleased to announce the Workshop on Copulas which will be taking place at the University of Bologna, Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures (LILEC) on March 13, 2014. 

The aim of this workshop is to gather together scholars and students studying copulas from all domains of linguistic analysis. We have adopted a broad definition of copula including attributive, ascriptive, identificational, equative, locative and existential sentences. Discussions may address one or more of the following subjects:

- Copular taxonomy 
- The semantics of copular items
- Dropping, omission deletion or absence of copulas
- Copula variation due to semantic and/or syntactic factors
- Copulas in pidgin and creoles
- Emergence of copular items - the copula cycle
- Copulas in first and second language acquisition
- Micro-variation: comparative studies of the copular systems in typologically related languages, languages pertaining to the same dialect cluster, or even in different registers of the same language
- Multi-copula systems

Invited Speakers:

Alessandro Panunzi (University of Firenze)
Andrea Moro (IUSS - Pavia) 

Details of the program can be found at:

http://www3.lingue.unibo.it/copulas/?page_id=8

Program:

March 13, Thursday

9:00
Welcome

Invited Speaker
9:30 – 10:30
Andrea Moro, IUSS Pavia
'Disentangling the copulas across history'

Theoretical and Formal Approaches
Chair: Tonjes Veenstra

10:30 – 11:00
Elly van Gelderen, Arizona State University
'The copula cycle'

11:00 – 11:30
Arsalan Kahnemuyipour, Susana Bejar, University of Toronto
'Non-canonical agreement in copular contexts: Inversion vs. phi-sensitivity'

11:30 – 12:00
Coffee break

12:00 – 12:30
Monica-Alexandrina Irimia & Nicolas Welch, University of Toronto
'Three way splits in copular structures'

Acquisition of Copulas
Chair: Maria Mazzoli

12:30 – 13:00
Ekaterina Golovko, Università di Bologna
'Patterns of acquisition of the verb to be and of copular sentences: Evidence from Italian L2'

13:00 – 14:30
Lunch

14:30 – 15:00
Giuliano Bernini, Ada Valentini, Roberta Grassi, Jacopo Saturno, Università di Bergamo
'L'inizio di una L2: Strutture copulari tra input e output'

15:00 – 15:30
Manuela Pinto & Alexia Guerra Rivera, Utrecht University & Universidad Austral de Chile
'The role of aspect in L2 acquisition of 'ser' and 'estar''

Typological Description of Copular Systems
Chair: Monica-Alexandrina Irimia

15:30 – 16:00
Nina Sumbatova, RGGU Moscow
'Two types of copulas in Dargwa: Functions and syntax'

16:00 – 16:30
Coffee break

16:30 – 17:00
Valentin Vydrine, INALCO - LLACAN, CNRS UMR-8135
'Pronominal predicative markers and other copula-like elements in Dan'

17:00 – 17:30
Maarten Mous, University of Leiden
'Copula in every Iraqw sentence'

17:30 – 18:00
Francesco Grande, Università Ca' Foscari, Venezia
'Copulae in the nominal domain. Distributional evidence from classical Arabic'

March 14, Friday

Invited speaker
9:00 – 10:00
Alessandro Panunzi, Università di Firenze
'The semantics of being'

Creoles & Language Contact
Chair: Ekaterina Golovko

10:00 – 10:30
Maria Mazzoli, Università di Bologna
'Birth of a copula in Nigerian Pidgin. The case of the focus introducer na.'

10:30 – 11:00
Tonjes Veenstra, ZAS Berlin
'The copular system in Saramaccan. Synchronic and diachronic issues'

11:00 – 11:30
Coffee break

11:30 – 12:00
Tridha Chatterjee & Marlyse Baptista, University of Michigan
'The copula hocche of Bengali: An examination of its function and distribution'

12:00 – 12:30
Chiara Truppi, Humboldt Universitat, Berlin
'The null/overt copula in creoles: The case of Guinea-Bissau Creole'

12:30 – 13:00
Sabriya Fisher, University of Pennsilvania
'Evidence for a copula continuum: The case of pronominal copulas'

13:00 – 14:30
Lunch

Spanish
Chair: Monica-Alexandrina Irimia

14:30 – 15:00
Francesco-Alessio Ursini, Stockholm Universitet
'On the distribution of copulae and auxiliary verbs in Spanish'

15:00 – 15:30
Federico Silvagni, 'Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
'On the aspectual nature of Spanish copulas'

Slavic Languages
Chair: Federico Silvagni

15:30 – 16:00
Alexander Letuchiy, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow
'Differences between zero copulas and lexical verbs'

16:00 – 16:30
Coffee Break

16:30 – 17:00
Anna Bondaruk, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland
'Why does Polish have three types of predicational clauses?'

17:00 – 17:30
Hagen Pitsch, Georg August Universität Göttingen, Germany
'In favor of an abstract copula in Russian'

17:30 – 18:30
Discussion and summary of the most relevant issues emerged during the workshop
Conductors: Arsalan Kahnemuyipour, Ekaterina Golovko and Maria Mazzoli

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