29.299, Calls: Spanish, Sociolinguistics, Typology/Spain

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Subject: 29.299, Calls: Spanish, Sociolinguistics, Typology/Spain

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Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2018 15:27:46
From: Maria del Pilar Perez Ocon [Pilar.Perez at uclm.es]
Subject: Spanish Dialects Meeting

Full Title: Spanish Dialects Meeting 

Date: 17-May-2018 - 18-May-2018
Location: Ciudad Real, Spain 
Contact Person: Angeles Carrasco
Meeting Email: grupo.grava at uclm.es

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics; Typology 

Subject Language(s): Spanish (spa)

Call Deadline: 04-Feb-2018 

Meeting Description:

This conference is hosted by the University of Castilla-La Mancha.

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
(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 (Greenberg
1963). 

In the case of Spanish, studies on dialectal variation have focused on those
very domains: the lexicon, phonetics, and morphology (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 (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 (
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”) (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. This
second edition of the Spanish Dialects Meeting brings together again those
researchers that, from different theoretical perspectives, work on the
grammatical (especially syntactic) variation that can be found in both
American and European dialects. 

Invited Speakers:

Georg Kaiser, Universität Konstanz 
Julio Villa-García, University of Manchester

2nd Call for Papers:

Submissions:

We invite submissions for 40 minutes (30 presentation + 10 debate) long oral
presentations. Submissions should be sent by attachment, as anonymous PDFs, to
the following e-mail address: grupo.grava at uclm.es. Abstracts must be no longer
than two single-spaced pages, in Times New Roman 12, with 2.5 cm margins,
including references and examples. Authors can submit one joint and one
individual abstract.

Important dates:

- Deadline for submissions: 4 February
- Notification of acceptance: 23 March

Registration, fees and certificates:

Registration: Registration will be possible from 4 February until 18th May
through the meeting website
(https://www.uclm.es/es/grupos/grava/actividades/encuentro).

Registration fees: Presenters (50 euros) / Attendees and students (20 euros).

A certificate of attendance will be given to registered participants.

Organizing Committee UCLM:

Bruno Camus (UCLM)
Ángeles Carrasco Gutiérrez (UCLM)
Raquel González Rodríguez (UCM)
Edita Gutiérrez Rodríguez (UCLM)
Pilar Pérez Ocón (UCLM)

Steering Committee Encuentro sobre Dialectos del español / Spanish Dialects
Meeting:

Ignacio Bosque (UCM)
Inés Fernández Ordóñez (UAM)
Ángel J. Gallego (UAB)
Francisco Ordóñez (Stony Brook University)
Cristina Sánchez (UCM)

Scientific Committee:

Carlota de Benito (UZürich)  
Ana Bravo (UMurcia)
José María Brucart (UAB)
Alba Cerrudo (UAB)
Luis Eguren (UAM)
Ricardo Etxepare (IKER-CNRS)
Antonio Fábregas (UTromsø)
Olga Fernández Soriano (UAM)
Irene Gil (UCM)
Mª Lluïsa Hernanz (UAB)
Aritz Irurtzun (IKER-CNRS)
Manuel Leonetti (UAH)
José Luis Mendívil (UZaragoza) 
Francesc Roca (UdG)
Avel·lina Suñer (UdG)

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