31.749, Calls: Gen Ling/Italy

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Subject: 31.749, Calls: Gen Ling/Italy

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Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2020 10:07:00
From: Emanuela Sanfelici [emanuela.sanfelici at unipd.it]
Subject: Theoretical and Empirical Approaches to Microvariation

 
Full Title: Theoretical and Empirical Approaches to Microvariation 
Short Title: TEAM 

Date: 18-Jun-2020 - 19-Jun-2020
Location: Padova, Italy 
Contact Person: Emanuela Sanfelici
Meeting Email: emanuela.sanfelici at unipd.it
Web Site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=team2020 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 23-Mar-2020 

Meeting Description:

“More languages than we might have thought.
Fewer languages than there might have been.”
(R. S. Kayne, Lectio Magistralis, Honorary Degree in Language Sciences, Venice
18 December 2015).

Over the past decades micro-comparative studies have greatly contributed to
theoretical linguistics, allowing scholars not only to test hypotheses on
language structures and language properties on a much larger empirical basis
but also to refine them in a non-trivial fashion. Minimally different related
languages offer a valuable test-bed for the identification of the primitive
principles of grammar: keeping the major linguistic variables (fairly)
coherent across languages, we come closer to the best possible experimental
setting and can better single out clusters of correlating properties and how
they fit together in terms of inclusion, exclusion, coincidence or
intersection. Dialects have been used in recent decades as a magnifying lens
to pin down differences and variation patterns that escape us in a broad
typological framework which constitutes the other side of the medal of
language variation.  We intend to capitalize on this amount of research and
discuss to what extent macro and micro variation are similar and test the idea
that macro and micro variation are different not only quantitatively but also
in a qualitative sense.  At present we have important tools that allow us to
deal with big data and can help us to better understand what the internal
mechanisms of variation really are. This conference is set to be a meeting
point for scholars who work on micro and macro-variation and compare their
methodologies and results to achieve a more precise picture of how the
internal mechanisms of variation work.

Invited Speakers: 
Maria Rita Manzini (University of Florence)
Michelle Shehaan (Anglia Ruskin University)
Marjo van Koppen (University of Utrecht)
Jeroen van Craenenbroeck (University of Leuven)


Call for Papers: 

We invite contributions dealing with any aspect of linguistic variation. We
encourage submissions including novel crosslinguistic, dialectal, diachronic
or experimental data and discussing them in light of the current linguistic
theories.

Submission details: 
Abstracts are invited for 20-minute talks (+ 10 minutes for discussions).
Abstracts should be anonymous and should not exceed two pages in length
(including examples and references):
 -A4 format
 -12-point Times New Roman
 -2,5 cm (1 in.) margins

Submissions are limited to 1 individual and 1 joint abstract per author, or 2
joint abstracts per author.
Submission for TEAM2020 is being managed with EasyChair at the link
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=team2020
The deadline for submission is March 23, 2020.
A notification of acceptance and a provisional program will be sent by the
beginning of April 2020.
Conference dates: University of Padua 18-19 June 2020.




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