30.925, Calls: General Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Language Acquisition, Typology/Italy

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Subject: 30.925, Calls: General Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Language Acquisition, Typology/Italy

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Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2019 23:56:21
From: Silvia Luraghi [luraghi at unipv.it]
Subject: Partitive Cases, Pronouns and Determiners: Diachrony and Variation

 
Full Title: Partitive Cases, Pronouns and Determiners: Diachrony and Variation 

Date: 02-Sep-2019 - 02-Sep-2019
Location: Pavia, Italy 
Contact Person: Silvia Luraghi
Meeting Email: luraghi at unipv.it
Web Site: http://paviapartitives.wikidot.com/ 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Typology 

Call Deadline: 31-Mar-2019 

Meeting Description:

The workshop aims at bringing together researchers on partitive cases,
including genitives or ablatives used as partitives, partitive determiners,
partitive pronouns, and other partitive elements, and focusing on their
diachronic development, on dialectal variation, language contact and language
acquisition.

It is the second Workshop of the PARTE Network, and follows the Workshop on
Partitive Determiners and Partitive Case (Venice, 13-14 November 2017). PARTE
(PARTititvity in European languages) is a network of nine research teams from
European universities, which combines theoretical linguist, dialectologists,
historical linguists, typologists, and applied linguists. It is funded by NWO
(the Netherlands Organization for scientific research) and co-funded by the
Universities of Zurich, Venice, Budapest and Pavia.


Call for Papers:

Abstracts are invited for oral and/or poster presentation. 
Abstracts must be anonymous and no longer than two pages, 12 pt single spaced
in pdf format.
Please submit your abstract through Easychair:
https://easychair.org/cfp/Partitives2

Possible Topics:

- The rise of partitive cases, pronouns and determiners: origin of the
development, grammaticalization, constructional change.
- Partitives and indefiniteness: Moravcsik (1978: 272) mentions among typical
semantic correlates of partitives the definitness-indefinitness of the noun
phrase. How does this function of partitives emerge, and how does it correlate
with the morphological status of the partitive element (case marker vs.
determiner, cf. Luraghi/Kittilä 2014: 20-27).
- What is the relation between partitive elements and other markers of NP
indefiniteness, e.g. indefinite articles? Is the relation the same in
different linguistic areas? 
- How specific cases (genitives, ablatives, ...) develop into partitive
markers and possible constrains on ensuing syncretism: what is the relation
between the genitive, the partitive and the ablative in languages that feature
distinct cases? Do other cases e.g. locatives, or other determiners e.g. the
numeral one/indefinite article (see Budd 2014 on Oceanic languages) also
develop into partitives?
- Partitive elements deriving from case markers (cases, adpositions) do not
show the typical function of case markers to indicate grammatical relations
(Moravcsik 1978, Luraghi 2003, Luraghi/Kittilä 2014 among others). How does
this shift come about precisely?
- Contact induced change and the rise or loss of partitive elements as
documented in historical varieties (e.g. Ibero-Romance, see Carlier/Lemiroy
2014)
- Dialectal variation, including field studies and documentation of vernacular
and sub-standard varieties of poorly documented languages.
- The acquisition of partitives: bilingual speakers and learners. How are
partitive elements acquired? Do bilingual speakers of languages that feature
different types of partitive elements show interference in their use of
partitive elements?




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