29.4514, Calls: Linguistic Theories, Morphology, Phonology, Syntax/Spain

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Subject: 29.4514, Calls: Linguistic Theories, Morphology, Phonology, Syntax/Spain

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Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2018 15:33:29
From: Anna Pineda [ANNA.pineda at upf.edu]
Subject: 1st FARMM Challenge Formal Approaches to Romance Microvariation and Microcontact

 
Full Title: 1st FARMM Challenge Formal Approaches to Romance Microvariation and Microcontact 

Date: 15-Feb-2019 - 15-Feb-2019
Location: Barcelona, Spain 
Contact Person: Anna Pineda
Meeting Email: formal.microvariation at gmail.com
Web Site: http://formalmicrovariati.wixsite.com/farm 

Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories; Morphology; Phonology; Syntax 

Call Deadline: 30-Nov-2018 

Meeting Description:

The FARMM initiative organizes the first Challenge, a workshop oriented at
providing an answer to specific questions to a specific datasets within a
relevant phenomenon. The event will be held in Barcelona, 15 February 2019.
The empirical domain of this challenge is clitics. The datasets are the
following:

Dataset 1

Current syntactic analyses claim that in most Romance languages clitic
placement occurs in either T or v (Kayne 1991, Sportiche 1998, Roberts 2010,
Gallego 2016 a.o.). However, in several varieties proclitic/enclitic placement
is affected by phenomena/features encoded in C:
 
- in most Romance languages, clitic placement is affected by Finiteness, see
(1);
- in all medieval Romance languages and in present day western Ibero-Romance,
enclisis is forbidden in sentences featuring Focus/Wh fronting, see (2);
- subject clitic inversion is conditioned by illocutionary Force (Munaro
2010);
- enclisis is never permitted with complementisers introducing
irrealis/subjunctive clauses, whereas realis/indicative clauses are more
liberal with respect to clitic placement (see Fernández-Rubiera 2010;
Pescarini & Benincà 2014). If the two Cs are located respectively in Fin0 and
Force0 (Ledgeway 2007), the pattern in (3) and (4) confirms that C heads
affect cliticisation. 

(1) 
a.     dice  che  lo  sa (Italian)
        pro.says that it= knows
       ‘He/she says that he/she know is’
b. Dice  di  saperlo
        pro.says to know=it
        ‘He/she says that he/she know is’

(2)  
a.  Quem  me   chamou    /   *chamou-me? (Port.)
 Who         1.ACC= call.PST.3SG        call.PST.3SG=1.ACC
 ‘Who called me?’ 
b. Só             ele  a   entende     /   *entende-a
 Only he 3SG.F=         understand.3SG   understand.3SG=3SG.F
 ‘Only he understands her’

(3) 
a. 'do:ʧə  ka           sə             lu   'maɲɲə 'sɛmprə
         says  that  to.him/her-self=  it=  eats       always
b. 'do:ʧə  ka           'maɲɲə sə  lu          'sɛmprə
  says    that  eats =to.him/her-self =it           always
  ‘He/she says that he/she always eats it’

(4) 
a. 'wojə      kə          tə              lu 'mɪɲɲə
        I.want that         to.you= it= eat
b.    *'wojə     kə       'mɪɲɲə te lu 
        I.want that        you.eat =to.yourself =it
       ‘I want you to eat it’

Dataset 2

Phonological analyses cannot always account for stress shift phenomena
triggered by enclitic placement, see (1) and (2). Enclisis/proclisis
asymmetries arguably result from a lexical alternation, as witnessed by
patterns of fully-fledged suppletion, cf. (3).  

(1) 
a. t  o  'portə  (Neapolitan)
        you= it=   I.bring
        ‘I’ll bring it to you’
b. porta-t-íllə
        bring=to.yourself=him/them.M/it.M 
 ‘bring him/it.m/them for you’

(2) 
Finir-lù ‘to end it’ (Viozene, Lig.)
saver-lù ‘to know it’
portama-rù ‘let us take it’
vindirù ‘sell it’
servirsì ‘to help oneself’
 
(3) 
a. Il   me   le  donne (French)
 He  to.me=  it= gives
 ‘He gives it to me’
b. Donne-le-moi!
 Give=it=to.me
 ‘Give it to me!’

The nature of the alternation, however, remains unclear. Ordóñez and Repetti
2006 argue that the alternation results from the presence of two classes of
pronouns, viz. weak vs clitic (but see Pescarini 2018 a.o.). However, one
wonders how the distribution of lexical variants – regardless of their inner
structure – is ultimately linked to (or affected by) the syntactic mechanisms
yielding proclitic/enclitic placement (see above).

Challenge --> See Call Information
Invited Speakers --> See Call Information


Call for Papers:

The empirical domain of this challenge is clitics. 

See full CfP:
https://sites.google.com/view/microvariation/the-challenge/clitics-2019?authus
er=0

Invited Speakers:

Rita Manzini (University of Florence)
Paco Ordóñez (Stony Brook University)
Ian Roberts (University of Cambridge)

Papers addressing one or more aspects of the challenge are welcome. New data
that can shed light on the issues are particularly encouraged. Each paper
presentation will be allotted 25 minutes plus 10 minutes for discussion.
Submissions are limited to a maximum of one individual and one joint abstract,
or two joint abstracts per author. Authors are asked to submit their anonymous
abstracts as a PDF file to the following address:
formal.microvariation at gmail.com (you will receive a confirmation email soon
after your submission arrives). Abstracts should be no longer than two pages
in length (including examples and references), in a 12point font, single line
spacing and 2,5 cm. margins.

Important Dates:

Deadline for submission: 30 november 2018
Notification of acceptance: 15 december 2018

Organizing committee:

Roberta D'Alessandro
Anna Pineda




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