29.912, Calls: Historical Ling, Ling Theories, Semantics, Socioling, Syntax/Belgium

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Subject: 29.912, Calls: Historical Ling, Ling Theories, Semantics, Socioling, Syntax/Belgium

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Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 17:14:42
From: Miriam Bouzouita [miriam.bouzouita at ugent.be]
Subject: Possessive Constructions in Romance

 
Full Title: Possessive Constructions in Romance 
Short Title: PossRom2018 

Date: 27-Jun-2018 - 29-Jun-2018
Location: Ghent, Belgium 
Contact Person: Miriam Bouzouita
Meeting Email: miriam.bouzouita at ugent.be
Web Site: http://www.dialing.ugent.be/conference-possessive-constructions-in-romance-possrom2018/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Linguistic Theories; Semantics; Sociolinguistics; Syntax 

Language Family(ies): Romance 

Call Deadline: 15-Mar-2018 

Meeting Description:

PossRom2018 is dedicated to the investigation of synchronic and diachronic
functioning and variation of possessives from a great variety of perspectives
and in any Romance varieties.

Invited Speakers:

- Virginia Bertolotti
- Giuseppina Silvestri
- Carme Silva Domínguez


2nd Call for Papers:

As is known, there are syntactic differences within the Romance languages wrt
the adjectival or article-like status of prenominal possessives: as such,
Italian and Catalan need to use the combination of an article and a
possessive, while for others, such as French, the possessive itself suffices.
Certain Romance languages also display so-called Differential Possessor
Marking (O’Connor 2003) as two constructions can express internal possession,
using for instance pre- and postnominal possessives. However, most accounts
that describe possessive structures limit themselves to the standard Romance
languages, leaving aside the rich microvariation displayed by the vernaculars.
To illustrate, the microvariation in the use of prenominals can be observed
not only between the various Romance languages, but also within different
historical and diatopic varieties of the same language, as in Old & Guatemalan
Spanish; or Old & Brazilian Portuguese (e.g. Brito & Lopes 2016; Company
Company 2009; Elsig 2017). This syntactic microvariation is not limited to the
prenominal domain, as shown by the Italian dialects, where the northern ones
favour the prenominal position, while the southern ones opt for the
postnominal distribution (e.g. Silvestri 2016).

Moreover, Differential Possessor Marking appears to be more complex in
diatopic vernaculars: Canarian Spanish, for instance, does not display two,
but (at least) three different internal possession constructions, as PPs with
personal pronouns, are also used. Despite this rich microvariation, to date
hardly any studies have tried to provide accurate descriptions of the
syntactic distribution of the possessive NP constructions for the diatopic
varieties of Spanish, which also detail their semantic and pragmatic
functions.

(1) detrás mío / mía - meu / mina - meu /*meva ‘Behind me’
(2) Gustas mío? - Gostas meu ‘Do you like me?’

Moreover, the use of possessives in domains other than the nominal one has
received only very recently some attention, and only for Spanish. Possessives
can be documented as complements of locative adverbials, as well as verbs, as
in (1) and (2). While the range of adverbs which can appear with possessive
complements has been studied for Spanish (eg. Marttinen Larsson & Bouzouita in
press), this remains to be done for other Romance languages, such as Catalan
and Galician. Interestingly, the adverbial possessives can also appear in the
feminine form in some varieties (eg. in Andalusian Spanish), but only in the
masculine in others, such as Catalan (Silva Domínguez 1995). It remains
unclear whether these cases genuinely mark gender or whether other factors are
at play.
The verbal possessives too can be found in different varieties, as in
Uruguayan Spanish and certain Brazilian Portuguese vernaculars. Nonetheless,
little is known about their syntactic behaviour, or the functional or
sociolinguistic factors that propagate their use.

Therefore it has become increasingly urgent to scrutinise the functioning of
possessives within the different sentential domains for Romance. We welcome
contributions that deal with:

- The syntactic, semantic, pragmatic and prosodic functioning of pre- and
postnominal possessives in Romance
- The intra- & extra-linguistic factors that govern the variation in the
various possessive constructions synchronically and diachronically
- The genesis and diachronic development of the different syntactic possessive
configurations, within any of the sentential domains (e.g. adverbial, verbal,
etc.)
- The grammatical interaction between the different domains in which
possessives are used

We encourage studies on any of the Romance languages, as well as Romance-based
creoles and pidgins.
Abstract submission: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=possrom2018




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