31.3382, Confs: Gen Ling, Hist Ling, Ling Theories, Morphology, Syntax/Online

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Subject: 31.3382, Confs: Gen Ling, Hist Ling, Ling Theories, Morphology, Syntax/Online

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Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2020 12:20:49
From: Emanuela Sanfelici [emanuela.sanfelici at unipd.it]
Subject: Theoretical and Empirical Approaches to Microvariation 2020

Theoretical and Empirical Approaches to Microvariation 2020 
Short Title: TEAM 2020 

Date: 19-Nov-2020 - 20-Nov-2020 
Location: Padua, Italy 
Contact: Emanuela Sanfelici 
Contact Email: emanuela.sanfelici at unipd.it 
Meeting URL: https://sites.google.com/site/padovateam/home 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Linguistic Theories; Morphology; Syntax 

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).

The third edition of the TEAM conference is centered on micro-comparative
studies, which have greatly contributed to theoretical linguistics in recent
years.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.

The third edition of the TEAM conference will be held online. You can find all
the details at this site: https://sites.google.com/site/padovateam/home

Invited speakers: 
Maria Rita Manzini (University of Florence)
Michelle Sheehan (Anglia Ruskin University)

Program Information: 

(The time schedule is based on Central European Time, UTC+1)

Thursday 19 November 2020 

15:00-16:00: Keynote speaker 
Michelle Sheehan (Anglia Ruskin University): Passives of causatives (and
perception verbs) in Romance languages: modelling the variation 

16:00-16:30 
Giuseppe Magistro (Ghent University), Claudia Crocco (Ghent University) and
Anne Breitbarth (Ghent University):  Diatopic microvariation as a window on
diachronic developments 

16:30-17:00
Mayowa Akinlotan (KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt): A corpus-driven account of the
internal structure, meaning and interpretation of wey-relative clauses in
Nigerian Pidgin English 

Friday 20 November 2020 

15:00-15:30 
Michela Cennamo (University of Naples Federico II), Francesco Ciconte
(University of Insubria-Como) and Luigi Andriani (University of Utrecht):
Differential object marking in Old Sardinian 

15:30-16:00 
Alice Barlassina (Università degli Studi di Padova) and Marco Biasio
(Università degli Studi di Padova / Univerzitet u Novom Sadu): How to promise
backward: Some crosslinguistic remarks on the temporal argument of PROMISE 

16:00-17:00: Keynote speaker 
M. Rita Manzini (University of Florence) : Clitics as functional heads and the
issue of linearization

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