28.210, Calls: Romance, Gen Ling, Historical Ling, Lang Acquisition, Socioling/Switzerland

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Subject: 28.210, Calls: Romance, Gen Ling, Historical Ling, Lang Acquisition, Socioling/Switzerland

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Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2017 18:18:01
From: Judith Meinschaefer [judith.meinschaefer at fu-berlin.de]
Subject: Perspectives on Interface Vulnerability

 
Full Title: Perspectives on Interface Vulnerability: Clitics in Language Change and Contact 
Short Title: CliticsDrv2017 

Date: 09-Oct-2017 - 11-Oct-2017
Location: Zuerich, Switzerland 
Contact Person: Judith Meinschaefer
Meeting Email: judith.meinschaefer at fu-berlin.de
Web Site: http://wp.me/P8gJxR-2 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Sociolinguistics 

Language Family(ies): Romance 

Call Deadline: 25-Jan-2017 

Meeting Description:

A core hypothesis of current theoretical modeling is that language change
happens primarily during language acquisition, both in first and in second
language acquisition. Furthermore, it is often assumed that in situations of
language acquisition and contact the external interfaces of grammar – i.e.,
the interface between syntax and information structure/pragmatics on the one
hand and the interface between syntax and phonetics/prosody on the other hand
– are more vulnerable to change than the internal interfaces – i.e., the
interfaces between phonology, morphology and syntax (cf. White 2011, Rothman &
Slabokova 2011, Kupisch & Rothman 2016 among others).

Clitics exist in all Romance languages and varieties (albeit only as clitic
pronouns, articles, negative particles, or prepositions) and provide excellent
data to investigate processes of (contact-induced) language change and,
therefore, the vulnerability of the interfaces. Indeed, clitics have long been
viewed as interface phenomena. As elements that are located on the
grammaticalization scale between autonomous words and affixes, several levels
of grammar must be referenced to describe their behavior adequately (Zwicky
1977). In phonological and grammatical respects they seem to have ‘a life of
their own’, often differing from other free forms of the same variety. For
that reason, they have been regarded as particularly unstable elements
(Léglise 2013) where, in situations of language change and language contact,
phenomena of change (e.g. reduction, doubling, replacement) become strikingly
obvious. The Romance languages, particularly rich in well-described historical
and dialectal varieties, with their rapidly evolving urban contact varieties
and their long history of creole formation, provide an excellent object of
investigation for research on change and variation in clitics and on interface
vulnerability in general.


Call for Papers:

Perspectives on interface vulnerability: Clitics in language change and
contact

Workshop organizers: Susann Fischer (Universität Hamburg), Judith Meinschaefer
(FU Berlin)
Contact: judith.meinschaefer at fu-berlin.de
URL: http://wp.me/P8gJxR-2

Important Dates:

Abstract submission: January 25, 2017
Notification of acceptance: January 30, 2017
Conference: October 9 to October 11, 2017

We welcome papers about change and variation of clitics in all Romance
languages and varieties, including creoles, especially from the perspective of
language contact, multilingualism, second language acquisition and heritage
speakers. In particular, we invite papers that investigate whether clitics are
indeed more susceptible to change concerning the external interfaces (prosody
and information structure) than the internal interfaces (syntax, morphology,
semantics). To what extent does language contact play a role? Is it true that
in contact-induced change the external interfaces are more vulnerable to
change than the internal ones? Or is it, in fact, primarily the duration and
intensity of the contact situation and the typology of the languages involved
that influence the outcome of the change, as some theories claim (Thomason &
Kaufman 1987, Heine & Kuteva 2003)? While our focus is on language change, we
also invite papers that give new synchronic insights into the special
phonological and grammatical characteristics of clitic systems across Romance
languages and varieties. 

Please send your abstract (approx. 500 words) for a 30 minutes talk (followed
by 10 minutes of discussion) by January 25, 2017 by email to:
judith.meinschaefer at fu-berlin.de

Abstracts should be submitted as .pdf files with the name of the author/s as
the file name.

Papers may be given in one of the following languages: English, French,
Italian, Spanish, or German.




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