28.1657, Confs: Morphology, Semantics, Syntax, Text/Corpus Linguistics, Typology/Spain

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Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2017 16:37:09
From: Ángel J. Gallego [angel.gallego at uab.cat]
Subject: Spanish Dialects Meeting

 
Spanish Dialects Meeting 

Date: 20-Apr-2017 - 21-Apr-2017 
Location: Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain 
Contact: Ángel J. Gallego 
Contact Email: spadisyn at gmail.com 

Linguistic Field(s): Morphology; Semantics; Syntax; Text/Corpus Linguistics; Typology 

Subject Language(s): Spanish (spa)

Meeting Description: 

Dialects of Spanish have been the focus of systematic research ever since the
first linguistic atlases were developed at the beginning of the 20th century
(e.g., Menéndez-Pidal’s ill-fated ALPI; cf. Fernández-Ordóñez 2009,
García-Mouton 2016), an interest that grew with the advent of structuralism,
and is nowadays exploiting new tools and technologies to obtain a better
mapping of the properties and boundaries of Spanish varieties. Significantly,
dialectal studies have largely neglected phenomena falling out of the domains
of phonetics, morphology, and the lexicon-for which strategies capitalizing on
statistical, reconstructive, and comparative techniques have proved useful
(cf. Chambers & Trudgill 1998, Chambers & Schilling-Estes 2013, Labov 1994,
2001, Labov, Ash & Boberg 2006, Petyt 1980, Campbell 2001). Most of those
works take into account geographic and social factors in order to explain
variation (and change), and made it possible to understand sociolinguistic
phenomena such as “diglosia,” “dialectal continua,” and “transitional areas.”
Another of the results of this line of research was that of achieving an
adequate characterization of units such as “phoneme,” “morpheme,” and
“distinctive feature,” which allowed and boosted the investigations based on
fieldwork, leading to typological studies like those of Joseph Greenberg (cf.
Greenberg 1963). 

In the case of Spanish, studies on dialectal variation have focused on those
very domains: the lexicon, phonetics, and morphology (cf. Alvar 1996a, 1996b,
Fernández-Ordóñez 2011, García-Mouton 1994, Kany 1945, among others). In the
last decades, different lines of research have emerged trying to favor a
transition towards studies where other components of grammar (especially
syntax) have a more prominent position. Those attempts gave rise to a
significantly growing literature with doctoral theses, papers, handbooks, and
conference proceedings (cf. Hualde et al. 2012, Gutiérrez-Rexach 2016, and
references therein), but it can be said that the key turning point arises with
the publication of the Gramática Descriptiva de la Lengua Española (Bosque &
Demonte 1999) and the Nueva Gramática de la Lengua Española (RAE-ASALE 2009,
2011), works where entire sections are devoted to discuss different case
studies of variation. 

Along with the appearance of such publications, in the last forty years,
syntactic theory has developed and put into practice tools and methods that
complement the existing structuralist work, making it possible to approach
dialectal variation in a comprehensive, detailed and formal fashion. Many of
those tools have its origin in the Principles and Parameters (P&P) framework
(cf. Chomsky 1981), which has proved very useful in order to characterize many
languages, establishing points of uniformity (the “principles”) and points of
variation (the “parameters”) (cf. Belletti y Rizzi 1996, Barbiers 2014,
Biberauer 2008, Cinque & Kayne 2005, Gallego 2011, Kayne 2000, 2005, Mendívil
2009, Picallo 2014, and references therein). This line of research evolved
into the concept of “micro-parameter” (i.e., specific points of variation in
closely related varieties of the same language or languages). Given that we
have these tools, along with all we have learnt in the last almost 20 years
(precisely when the two reference grammars of Spanish have been published),
there is no reason for studies on grammatical variation not to move into new
terrain.

Invited Speakers:

Ángela Di Tullio
Instituto de Filología y Literaturas Hispánicas “Dr. Amado Alonso”
Universidad de Buenos Aires

Ricardo Etxepare
IKER, Centre de Recherche sur la Langue et les Textes Basques
CNRS, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
 

Program:

April 20:

08:45:
Registration

09:15:
Opening Remarks

09:30:
Invited speaker:
Ángela DI TULLIO
(Instituto de Filología y Literaturas Hispánicas “Dr. Amado Alonso”, UBA)
TBA

10:30: Coffee Break

11:00:
Michael Zimmermann (University of Konstanz)
''Reconsidering the syntax of interrogatives in Caribbean Spanish. With
especial reference to Dominican”

11:40:
Raquel González (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha)
“Variación dialectal en el sujeto léxico de las cláusulas de infinitivo”

12:20: Short Break

12:35:
Lorena Castillo (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
“El caso de los SSDD objetos en las estructuras de MEC”

13:15: Lunch Break

15:15:
Adolfo Ausín (Michigan State University)
“A formal account of Spanish courtesy leísmo”

15:55:
Samanta Planells (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
“Impersonales transitivas con se. Frecuencia y distribución del giro
concertado. Evidencias del ASinEs”

16:35: Coffee Break

17:05:
Paz González & Margarita Jara (Universiteit Leiden & University of Nevada)
“The microvariation of the Spanish perfect and its grammaticalization path”

17:45:
María Luisa Regueiro Rodríguez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
“Meronimia léxica en construcciones gramaticales características del español
de América”

18:25: Short Break

18:40:
Edita Gutiérrez (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha)
“La construcción ''de + infinitivo'' en oraciones copulativas”

19:20: 
Conclusion of Day 1

21:00: Conference Dinner

April 21:

10:00:
Montse Batllori & Assumpció Rost (Universitat de Girona & Universitat de les
Illes Balears)
“Estructuras e interpretación del imperativo: variación microparámetrica
vinculada a la proclisis o enclisis pronominal”

10:40:
Laura González López (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
“Por qué determinados vocativos son vocativos determinados”

11:20: Coffee Break

11:50:
Laura González & Gema Cuesta (Universidad Complutense de Madrid & Universidad
de Alcalá de Henares)
“Variación diatópica y diastrática en los adverbios locativos intransitivos en
español”

12:30:
Silvia Gumiel, Isabel Pérez & Norberto Moreno (Universidad de Alcalá de
Henares)
“Geolectal variation in ''estar + adjective'' copular structures”

13:10: Lunch Break

15:30:
Mª Victoria Pavón Lucero & Avel·lina Suñer (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid &
Universitat de Girona)
''Subordinación de anterioridad inmediata y doubling en español”

16:10:
Project Section

16:15:
Hiroto Ueda (University of Tokyo)
“Datos de VARIGRAMA en el sistema LYNEAL − Aproximación a la realidad de
variación sintáctica española a través de análisis multivariados
pluridimensionales”

16:55:
Lorena Castillo, M. Pilar Colomina, Samanta Planells & Francesc Roca
(Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona & Universitat de Girona)
“El Atlas Sintáctico del Español: Antecedentes, Objetivos y Funcionamiento”

17:35: Short Break

17:50:
Invited speaker:                                  
Ricardo ETXEPARE (IKER - CNRS)
TBA

18:50:
Concluding Remarks





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