30.3616, Calls: Romanian; Romance; Syntax/Romania

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LINGUIST List: Vol-30-3616. Wed Sep 25 2019. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 30.3616, Calls: Romanian; Romance; Syntax/Romania

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Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2019 04:18:47
From: Alexandru Nicolae [alexandru.nicolae at unibuc.ro]
Subject: Third Bucharest Workshop on Formal Approaches to Romance Microvariation

 
Full Title: Third Bucharest Workshop on Formal Approaches to Romance Microvariation 
Short Title: FARM Bucharest 

Date: 22-Nov-2019 - 23-Nov-2019
Location: Bucharest, Romania 
Contact Person: Alexandru Nicolae
Meeting Email: alexandru.nicolae at unibuc.ro
Web Site: https://sites.google.com/view/microvariation/home 

Linguistic Field(s): Syntax 

Subject Language(s): Romanian (ron)

Language Family(ies): Romance 

Call Deadline: 20-Oct-2019 

Meeting Description:

This workshop is part of the Annual Conference of the Department of
Linguistics of the University of Bucharest. It is thematically devoted to
linguistic variation in the Romance languages, as part of the Formal
Approaches to Romance Microvariation (FARM) initiative
(https://sites.google.com/view/microvariation/home?authuser=0). 

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. 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, 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 and diachronic (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, and (ix) deixis.


Call for Papers:

We invite submissions for 30 (20+10) minute long oral presentations dealing
with issues in Romance 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:
alexandru.nicolae at unibuc.ro (Alexandru Nicolae), 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.

Workshop language: English.

Important dates for submission:

- Deadline for submissions: October 20, 2019
- Notification of acceptance: October 25, 2019
- Conference dates: November 22-23, 2019




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