30.1090, Calls: Romance; Historical Ling, Lang Acquisition, Morphology, Syntax, Text/Corpus Ling/Spain

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LINGUIST List: Vol-30-1090. Mon Mar 11 2019. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 30.1090, Calls: Romance; Historical Ling, Lang Acquisition, Morphology, Syntax, Text/Corpus Ling/Spain

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Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2019 22:32:33
From: Isabel Pérez-Jiménez [isabel.perezj at uah.es]
Subject: Copulas within and across Romance Languages

 
Full Title: Copulas within and across Romance Languages 
Short Title: COROLA 

Date: 16-Oct-2019 - 16-Oct-2019
Location: Alcalá de Henares (Madrid), Spain 
Contact Person: Isabel Pérez-Jiménez
Meeting Email: linguistica.teorica at uah.es
Web Site: https://corola.weebly.com/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Morphology; Syntax; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Language Family(ies): Romance 

Call Deadline: 01-Jun-2019 

Meeting Description:

The Workshop COROLA ''Copulas within and across Romance Languages'' wishes to
bring together researchers that work on the properties of copular structures
in Romance languages, with a special focus on both dialectal and
cross-linguistic variation.

The study of copular sentences, specifically in languages with a bi-copular
system (cf. Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan -ser, estar-, Italian -essere,
stare-), has tried to answer the following general questions:

- The meaning of copulas. What are the truth-conditional /
non-truth-conditional semantic differences between the two copulas existing in
many Romance languages (mainly in shared syntactic contexts, as in
predicational copular sentences)? 

- The syntax of copulas. Are there syntactic differences between the two
copulas (mainly in shared syntactic contexts, as in predicational copular
sentences)? Can these differences explain the distributional (and also
semantic) properties of these two verbs? 

- Pragmatic properties. What are the differences between predications
involving the two copulas regarding information structure? How does the
so-called ''evidential reading'' arise in estar copular sentences? Do
''coercion processes'' take place in copular sentences?

- Language acquisition. What can the first/second language acquisition process
of the copulas tell us about their semantic/syntactic differences? And
conversely, what does the acquisition process of copulas tell us about the
relevance of semantic / pragmatic and syntactic cues in first/second language
acquisition?

- Non-copular uses of ser and estar (and Romance equivalents). Can the copular
and non-copular uses of these verbs --in progressive verb forms, passives or
locative sentences-- receive a unified explanation in syntactic or semantic
terms? Is there a syntactic or semantic core common to all uses of these
verbs? 

COROLA aims at answering these (or related) questions from different research
perspectives. In this sense, we welcome papers studying copular structures in
any Romance language, contributions addressing dialectal variation within any
Romance language, as well as submissions dealing with cross-Romance variation
or comparison between Romance and non-Romance varieties. We accept
description-oriented papers offering new data and phenomena, as well as
theory-oriented papers, both in synchronic and diachronic perspectives.

Invited Speakers:

Victoria Escandell-Vidal (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia)
Montserrat Batllori & Francesc Roca (Universitat de Girona)

Organizers:

Research group: Lingüística Teórica - UAH
Research Project: ''Variación intra e interlingüística en construcciones
copulativas en lenguas iberorromances'' (Vicerrectorado de Investigación,
Innovación y Transferencia - UAH)


Call for Papers:

We invite submissions for 40 (30 + 10) minute long oral presentations.

Submission guidelines: 
- Submissions are restricted to one single-authored and one co-authored
abstract at most.
- Abstracts should be anonymous.
- Abstracts should not exceed two pages, including examples and references.
Page format: A4, 2.5 cm margins on all sides, at least 12 pt Times New Roman
font, single line spacing
-Abstracts must be sent as word and pdf files (please, name the files as
surname.pdf / surname.doc) to the following e-mail address: 

linguistica.teorica at uah.es

As soon as we receive your abstract, we will send you a confirmation email. If
you do not get our confirmation in three working days, please, contact us
again, with CC to isabel.perezj at uah.es.

Languages of the workshop: English and Spanish

Important dates
- Deadline for submissions: June 1 
- Notification of acceptance: July 10 

Webpage
https://corola.weebly.com/

COROLA will take place right after the III Spanish Dialects Meeting (14-15
October). We invite you to participate in both events. Information about III
SpaDiSyn is available at
https://uah-spadisyn.weebly.com/




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