29.3438, Calls: Linguistic Theories, Morphology, Phonology, Syntax/Spain
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Subject: 29.3438, Calls: Linguistic Theories, Morphology, Phonology, Syntax/Spain
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Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2018 01:57:14
From: Anna Pineda [pinedaicirera at gmail.com]
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:
Challenge:
How can we model clitic placement in order to capture the above interaction
between C heads and clitic placement?
How can the same model account for the interaction between lexical selection
and clitic placement in order to account for patterns of allomorphy and
suppletion?
What are the predictions that your model makes with respect to contact between
varieties with clitics obeying different constraints?
Invited Speakers:
Rita Manzini (University of Florence)
Paco Ordóñez (Stony Brook University)
Ian Roberts (University of Cambridge)
Conference Venue:
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Organizing Committee:
Roberta D’Alessandro (Utrecht University)
Anna Pineda (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Scientific Committee:
Heather Burnett
Jan Casalicchio
Silvio Cruschina
Roberta D’Alessandro
Adina Dragomirescu
Ángel Gallego
Alexandru Nicolae
Diego Pescarini
Anna Pineda
Francesc Torres-Tamarit
Submission Format:
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 12¬point font, single line spacing and 2,5 cm. margins.
Important Dates:
Deadline for submission: 30 November 2018
Notification of acceptance: 15 December 2018
Selected References:
Bafile, Laura. 1994. La riassegnazione postlessicale dell’accento nel
napoletano. Quaderni del Dipartimento di Linguistica dell’Università di
Firenze, 5: 1-23.
Fernández-Rubiera, Francisco 2010. Force, Finiteness and the placement of
clitics in Western Iberian Romance languages, Estudos de Linguistica Galega 2:
75-95
Manzini, M. Rita & Leonardo M. Savoia. 2017. Enclisis/Proclisis alternations
in Romance: allomorphies and (re)ordering. Transactions of the Philological
Society, 115: 98-136.
Munaro, Nicola. 2010. Towards a hierarchy of clause types. In Mapping the Left
Periphery, ed. by Paola Benincà & Nicola Munaro. Oxford/New York: Oxford
University Press, 125-162.
Ordóñez, Francisco and Lori Repetti. 2006. “Stressed Enclitics?” In New
Analyses on Romance Linguistics: Volume II: Phonetics, Phonology and
Dialectology (Selected Papers from the 35th LSRL 35), ed. by Jean-Pierre
Montreuil, 167-181. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Pescarini, Diego. Forthcoming. Stressed enclitics are not weak pronouns: a
plea for allomorphy. In Romance Linguistics 13, Selected papers from the 46th
Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), ed. by Francisco Ordóñez &
Lori Repetti. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Pescarini, Diego and Paola Benincà. 2014 ‘Clitic placement in the dialect of
S. Valentino in Abruzzo citeriore’ Archivio Glottologico Italiano 101: 37-65
Roberts, Ian. 2010. Agreement and head movement. Clitics, Incorporation and
Defective Goals, Cambridge University Press.
Sportiche, Dominique. 1998. Pronominal Clitic Dependencies, in Language
Typology. In Clitics in the European Languages, ed. by Henk van Riemsdijk.
Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 679-708.
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