27.1423, Confs: Romance, Ling Theories, Morphology/USA

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Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2016 14:31:26
From: Jonathan MacDonald [jonnmacd at illinois.edu]
Subject: Workshop on Romance Se/Si

Workshop on Romance Se/Si 

Date: 21-Apr-2016 - 22-Apr-2016 
Location: Madison, Wisconsin, USA 
Contact: Jonathan MacDonald 
Contact Email: romance.se.si at gmail.com 
Meeting URL: http://publish.illinois.edu/workshop-romance-se-si/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories; Morphology 

Language Family(ies): Romance 
Meeting Description: 

A workshop on Romance SE/SI constructions will be held on April 21 and 22,
2016 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

The reflexive (SE/SI) clitic is one of the most widely studied topics in
Romance Linguistics, both in traditional descriptions and theoretical
analyses. This stems, in part, from the vast range of constructions in which
the clitic may appear, including reflexives, reciprocals, impersonals,
passives, middles, anti-causatives, as a marker of telicity with some verbs
(aspectual SE/SI), as an inherent part of a certain class of intransitive
verbs called ‘pronominal verbs’ (inherent SE/SI), and, in part, from the range
of theoretical issues it bears on, including argument structure, the
lexicon-syntax interface, the morphology-syntax interface, movement,
agreement, Case, binding theory, and (parametric) variation.

The search for a “common core” that triggers fundamentally the same
morphological reflex (= SE/SI) in all of these constructions is something that
has alluded grammarians and linguists alike and continues to be a fundamental
guiding question in current research (see Sánchez López 2002, Dobrovie-Sorin
2006 and Mendikoetxea 2012 for the most recent overviews). While the “common
core” question is a key component of research on Romance SE/SI, detailed
research on individual SE/SI constructions is just as important as it
clarifies our understanding of the nuances of each environment where SE/SI
appears and thus leads us toward a better understanding of precisely what they
all have in common and also where they differ.

A related important question concerns variation within Romance languages. Not
all Romance languages have all of the SE/SI constructions mentioned above (see
Zubizarreta 1982, Cinque 1988, Mendikoetxea & Battye 1990, Dobrovie-Sorin
1998, D’Alessandro 2007), nor do all the “same” SE/SI constructions behave the
same way in all languages (Cinque 1988, Dobrovie-Sorin 1998). While variation
is recognized to exist, the question remains whether this variation can be
given a principled explanation. This question is especially important within a
Minimalist climate, where the nature and locus of variation raises deep
theoretical questions about the architecture of the grammar (see Sigurdsson
2004, Baker 2008, Boeckx 2011 among others).

Program:

Workshop on Romance SE/SI

Thursday, April 21

9:00 – 9:30
Registration and welcome address

9:30 – 10:30am 
Plenary 1:  Paula Kempchinsky, University of Iowa (Title: TBA)

10:30 – 11:50am  
Session 1: PCC and impersonal constructions:
''SE constructions and the PCC'' - Javiar Ormazabal & Juan Romero (University
of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) & University of Extremadura)

''On some syntactic and interpretative differences between Catalan-Spanish and
Italian impersonal SE'' - Francisco Ordóñez (Stonybrook University)

11:50am – 1:15pm Lunch 

1:15pm – 2:35pm 
Session 2: The Projection of Arguments

''SE in Spanish and the projection of External and Internal Arguments'' -
David Basilico (University of Alabama, Birmingham)

''Valence expanding se in Spanish'' - Ismael Teomiro (National University for
Distance Education (UNED))

2:35pm – 2:55pm Break

2:55pm – 4:15pm 
Session 3: Historical analyses of SE

''Grammaticalization of Se from Latin to Spanish and the Object Agreement
Cycle'' - Matthew Maddox (University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana)

''Why is French different? Evidence for diverging paths in the
grammaticalization of se in Medieval French and Spanish'' -  Anne Wolfsgruber
(University of Salzburg/University of Girona)

6:30 – Workshop dinner 

Friday, April 22

9am – 10:00am 
Plenary 2: Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin, CNRS-Université Paris 7 (Title: TBA)

10:00am-10:10am Short break

10:10am – 12:10pm 
Session 4: Anticausatives and light verbs

''Two types of anti-causative se: the case of Spanish light verbs'' - Alfredo
García Pardo (University of Southern California)

''Scalar constraints on anticausative SE: the aspectual hypothesis revisited''
- Margot Vivanco (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

''Disappearing SE in predicates embedded under causative light verbs'' - María
Cristina Cuervo (University of Toronto)

12:10pm – 1:15pm Lunch

1:15pm – 3:15pm 
Session 5: Unergatives, figure reflexives and motion verbs

''Unergative frames for non-argument SE verbs: case study'' - Alexandra
Cornilescu & Alexandru Nicolae (University of Bucharest & Romanian
Academy/University of Bucharest)

''On a class of figure reflexives in Romanian'' - Monica Alexandrina Irimia &
Virginia Hill (University of York & University of New Brunswick)

''The role of se’n in causativized verbs of motion: evidence from Catalan'' -
Anna Pineda (Autonomous University of Barcelona)

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