29.3439, Calls: Romance; Syntax/Romania

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LINGUIST List: Vol-29-3439. Fri Sep 07 2018. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 29.3439, Calls: Romance; Syntax/Romania

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Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2018 02:00:03
From: Alexandru Nicolae [nicolae_bibi at yahoo.com]
Subject: Syntactic Variation in Romance

 
Full Title: Syntactic Variation in Romance 

Date: 23-Nov-2018 - 24-Nov-2018
Location: Bucharest, Romania 
Contact Person: Alexandru Nicolae
Meeting Email: nicolae_bibi at yahoo.com
Web Site: https://litere.ro 

Linguistic Field(s): Syntax 

Language Family(ies): Romance 

Call Deadline: 05-Oct-2018 

Meeting Description:

This two-day workshop is part of the Annual Conference of the Department of
Linguistics of the University of Bucharest
(https://linguistlist.org/issues/29/29-3396.html). It is thematically devoted
to linguistic variation in Romanian and Romance. The workshop is part of
Formal Approaches to Romance Microvariation (FARM) initiative and represents a
continuation of the workshop held in Bucharest in 2016.

In the past 20 years, syntactic variation and microvariation in particular
have played a crucial role in shaping the principles and parameters approach
to the architecture of the language faculty. Issues in morphological and
phonological variation also bring important contributions to the current
development of theories of morphology and phonology. The Romance languages
represent a fertile test-bed for formulating theoretical hypotheses on the
nature, source and extent of (micro)variation, which may bring relevant
contributions to the formal modelling of linguistic variation. Given their
relatively well-known history and their common ancestry, the Romance languages
also present a unique opportunity for understanding how linguistic variation
emerges (i.e. the same input leading to different, variant outputs). The set
of phenomena which are known in the literature to be subject to intense
(syntactic, morphological and phonological) variation from both a
cross-Romance and a dialectal (intralinguistic) perspective includes (but is
not restricted to): (i) clitics, (ii) verb movement, (iii) negation, (iv)
agreement, (v) gender and number, (vi) reduplication, (vii) doubling, (viii)
ellipsis, (ix) deixis i.a.


Call for Papers:

We invite submissions for 30 (20+10) minute long oral presentations dealing
with issues in Romance syntactic variation and microvariation. Ideally, topics
should be relevant for syntax, morphology and phonology (and also semantics).
A (cross-Romance and intralinguistic, dialectal) comparative and diachronic
perspective is strongly encouraged: proposals dealing with more than one
Romance variety and with the historical source of phenomena subject to
linguistic variation will have priority in the selection process.

Submissions should be sent by attachment, as anonymous pdfs, to:
colocviu_lingvistica at yahoo.ro, accompanied by a file containing the title of
the paper, the authors and their affiliation.
Submissions must be no longer than two single-spaced pages, in Times New Roman
12, including references and examples.

Registration fee: € 40 (or RON 180); students: € 20 (RON 90). The registration
fee can be paid upon arrival.

Workshop languages: English and French

Important dates for submission:

- Deadline for submissions: October 5, 2018
- Notification of acceptance: October 15, 2018
- Conference dates: November 23-24, 2018




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