30.1166, Calls: Spanish; Morphology, Semantics, Syntax, Text/Corpus Ling, Typology/Spain

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Subject: 30.1166, Calls: Spanish; Morphology, Semantics, Syntax, Text/Corpus Ling, Typology/Spain

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Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2019 23:57:07
From: Isabel Pérez-Jiménez [isabel.perezj at uah.es]
Subject: II Encuentro sobre Dialectos del Español / III Spanish Dialects Meeting

 
Full Title: II Encuentro sobre Dialectos del Español / III Spanish Dialects Meeting 
Short Title: III SpaDiSyn 

Date: 14-Oct-2019 - 15-Oct-2019
Location: Alcalá de Henares (Madrid), Spain 
Contact Person: Isabel Pérez-Jiménez
Meeting Email: linguistica.teorica at uah.es
Web Site: https://uah-spadisyn.weebly.com 

Linguistic Field(s): Morphology; Semantics; Syntax; Text/Corpus Linguistics; Typology 

Subject Language(s): Spanish (spa)

Call Deadline: 01-Jun-2019 

Meeting Description:

This meeting wishes to bring together researchers that, from different
theoretical perspectives, work on the grammatical (especially syntactic)
variation that can be found in both American and European dialects. 
Dialects of Spanish have been the focus of research ever since the first
linguistic atlases were developed at the beginning of the 20th century (e.g.,
Menéndez-Pidal’s ill-fated ALPI; cf. Fernández-Ordóñez 2009, García-Mouton
2016), an interest that grew with the advent of structuralism, and is nowadays
exploiting new tools and technologies to obtain a better mapping of the
properties and boundaries of Spanish varieties. Significantly, dialectal
studies have largely neglected phenomena falling out of the domains of
phonetics, morphology, and the lexicon—for which strategies capitalizing on
statistical, reconstructive, and comparative techniques have proved useful
(cf. Chambers & Trudgill 1998, Chambers & Schilling-Estes 2013, Labov 1994,
2001, Labov, Ash & Boberg 2006, Petyt 1980, Campbell 2001). Most of those
works take into account geographic and social factors in order to explain
variation (and change), and made it possible to understand sociolinguistic
phenomena such as “diglossia,” “dialectal continua,” and “transitional areas.”
Another of the results of this line of research was that of achieving an
adequate characterization of units such as “phoneme,” “morpheme,” and
“distinctive feature,” which allowed and boosted the investigations based on
fieldwork, leading to typological studies like those of Joseph Greenberg (cf.
1963). 
In the case of Spanish, studies on dialectal variation have also focused on
the lexicon, phonetics and morphology (cf. Alvar 1996a, 1996b,
Fernández-Ordóñez 2011, García-Mouton 1994, Kany 1945, a.o.). In the last
decades, different lines of research have emerged trying to favor a transition
towards studies where other components of grammar (especially syntax) have a
more prominent position. Those attempts gave rise to a significantly growing
literature with doctoral theses, papers, handbooks, and conference proceedings
(cf. Hualde et al. 2012, Gutiérrez-Rexach 2016, and references therein), but
it can be said that the key turning point arises with the publication of the
Gramática Descriptiva de la Lengua Española (Bosque & Demonte 1999) and the
Nueva Gramática de la Lengua Española (RAE-ASALE 2009, 2011), works where
entire sections are devoted to discuss different case studies of variation. 
Along with the appearance of such publications, in the last forty years,
syntactic theory has developed and put into practice tools and methods that
complement the existing structuralist work, making it possible to approach
dialectal variation in a comprehensive, detailed and formal fashion. Many of
those tools have their origin in the Principles and Parameters (P&P) framework
(cf. Chomsky 1981), which has proved very useful in order to characterize many
languages, establishing points of uniformity (the “principles”) and points of
variation (the “parameters”) (cf. Belletti y Rizzi 1996, Barbiers 2014,
Biberauer 2008, Cinque & Kayne 2005, Gallego 2011, Kayne 2000, 2005, Mendívil
2009, Picallo 2014, and references therein). This line of research evolved
into the concept of “micro-parameter” (i.e., specific points of variation in
closely related varieties of the same language or languages). Given that we
have these tools, along with all we have learnt in the last almost 20 years
(precisely when the two reference grammars of Spanish have been published),
there is no reason for studies on grammatical variation not to move into new
terrain.

Invited Speakers:

Violeta Demonte
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Juan Romero Morales
Universidad de Extremadura


Call for Papers:

We invite submissions for 40 (30 + 10) minute long oral presentations.
Submissions should be sent by attachment, as anonymous PDFs, to the following
e-mail address: linguistica.teorica at uah.es 

Abstracts must be no longer than two single-spaced pages, in Times New Roman
12, with 2.5 cm. margins, including references and examples. Authors can
submit one joint and one individual abstract.

Important dates:

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

Languages: English, Spanish

Webpage: https://uah-spadisyn.weebly.com

Organizing committee III Meeting- Universidad de Alcalá:

Grupo Lingüística Teórica -UAH
Manuel Leonetti
Silvia Gumiel
Norberto Moreno-Quibén
Isabel Pérez Jiménez
Jennifer Tan Almazán

The III Spanish Dialects Meeting will be followed on October 16 by the one-day
Workshop COROLA - “Copulas within and across Romance Languages”. Information
about COROLA is available at https://corola.weebly.com/




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