28.2090, Calls: Romance, General Linguistics/Romania

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Subject: 28.2090, Calls: Romance, General Linguistics/Romania

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Date: Thu, 04 May 2017 11:29:07
From: Alexandru Nicolae [nicolae_bibi at yahoo.com]
Subject: Going Romance 31

Full Title: Going Romance 31 
Short Title: GR31 

Date: 07-Dec-2017 - 09-Dec-2017
Location: Bucharest, Romania 
Contact Person: Alexandru Nicolae
Meeting Email: nicolae_bibi at yahoo.com
Web Site: http://gromance.litere.ro/ 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Language Family(ies): Romance 

Call Deadline: 25-Jul-2017 

Meeting Description:

The Faculty of Letters of the University of Bucharest will host the 31st
edition of Going Romance, on December 7-9, 2017. On December 9 there will be a
workshop, titled 'Substratum and adstratum in the development of Romance
morphosyntax'.

Invited speakers for the Main Session:

Donca Steriade (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Adam Ledgeway (University of Cambridge)

Conference website: http://gromance.litere.ro/

Call for Papers:

We invite presentations which combine theory and data, set in a formal
framework with a solid empirical basis in all areas of Romance linguistics:
phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics. This year's conference
especially aims at addressing issues in Romance diachronic and diatopic (and,
to a lesser extent, diastratic, diaphasic, and diamesic) variation and
microvariation, with the more general methodological goal of determining the
relevance of linguistic variation for a better understanding of the structure
of language. In this context, the Romance languages represent a fertile
test-bed for the analysis of linguistic variation through their relatively
well-known history, their common (and attested) ancestry, and the rich array
of data available in traditional sources (linguistic atlases, corpora,
monographic descriptions, etc.).

Workshop 'Substratum and adstratum in the development of Romance morphosyntax'
(convenors: Adina Dragomirescu, Adam Ledgeway and Alexandru Nicolae)

The effects of the substratum languages spoken by the indigenous populations
of the Romanized territories (e.g. the Gaulish substratum of French) and of
the adstratum languages with which the newly coined Romance languages came
into contact (e.g. Old (Church) Slavonic viz. Romanian) on the morphosyntactic
development of the Romance languages have not been explored in a systematic
fashion to date. The workshop intends to bring together researchers interested
in the early morphosyntactic history of the Romance language, and aims at
answering questions / raising issues like the following: (i) while it is a
well-known fact that the phonology and lexical stock of the Romance languages
were affected by substratum languages and by early contact, the degree to
which the grammar of the early Romance languages was influenced is still
largely obscure; (ii) what are the phenomena / linguistic structures which
have been affected by early contact?; (iii) are we dealing with
deep/macroparametric effects or with superficial/microparametric phenomena?;
(iv) are there situations of parametric overlapping/convergence?; and (v) what
is the relevance of areal (Sprachbund) features in the early morphosyntactic
development of the Romance languages?

Abstracts are invited for oral presentations (20 + 10 minutes) and poster
presentations.

Abstracts should be anonymous and no longer than two A4 pages, including
references and examples, with margins of at least 1 inch, font size 12,
single-spaced. The file should be anonymous both in the body of the text and
in the filename. Please make sure all fonts and figures are correctly
rendered.

Submissions are limited to a maximum of one individual and one joint abstract
per author. Please indicate in your submission whether your abstract should be
considered for the main session or for the workshop. Abstracts are invited for
oral presentations or poster presentations.

The abstract should be sent as an e-mail attachment in both PDF and Word
format to the following email address: goingromance2017 at unibuc.ro .
Submissions will be accompanied by a separate file containing: title, author's
name and address, affiliation and email address.

Deadline for abstract submission: 25 July 2017
Notification of acceptance: 15 September 2017

A small number of accommodation grants will be offered to young researchers
(PhD candidates) by The Research Institute of the University of Bucharest.
More details will be available after the notification of acceptance.

All authors who present their work in the Main Session will be invited to
submit their paper for a volume of selected contributions to be published by
John Benjamins. A publication for the workshop contributions is also foreseen.

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