32.946, Confs: Socioling/Online

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LINGUIST List: Vol-32-946. Mon Mar 15 2021. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 32.946, Confs: Socioling/Online

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Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2021 19:19:54
From: Hanna Fischer [hanna.fischer at uni-marburg.de]
Subject: Veronese Workshop on Morphological and Syntactic Variation along the Dialect-Standard Axis

 
Veronese Workshop on Morphological and Syntactic Variation along the Dialect-Standard Axis 
Short Title: VerMoSyn 2021 

Date: 09-Apr-2021 - 09-Apr-2021 
Location: Verona // Online, Italy 
Contact: Hanna Fischer 
Contact Email: vermosyn at web.de 
Meeting URL: https://www.dlls.univr.it/?ent=avvisoin&cs=819&id=158048 

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics 

Meeting Description: 

Morphological variation has always been a major topic in dialect research.
However, little is known about either geography-induced morphological
variation in standard-near registers or how the dialect-standard axis –
continuum or diglossia? – is shaped from the point of view of morphological
(and syntactic) variation. Attempts at capturing the linguistic features of
what can be labeled Regional Dialect, Regiolects, Regional Standard or New
Standard (i.e. standard-near registers characterized by regional features) in
continental European languages are largely based on phonetic and phonological
if not lexical variables, cf. Christen et al. (2010) for German in
Switzerland, Cerruti, Crocco & Marzo (2017) for Italian. The consideration of
morphological and syntactic features in determining the structure of a
dialect-standard axis for those languages is only just beginning, for German
cf. Kallenborn (2019), for Dutch in Flanders cf. Taeldeman (2008). Research on
English morphosyntax is slightly more advanced, especially with respect to
pidgin/creole and L2 varieties, cf. Szmrecsanyi & Kortmann (2009) and Kortmann
& Lunkenheimer (2012). Nevertheless, the structure of morphological variation
along the dialect-standard axis is still a major desideratum in the study of
language variation and change in Europe and beyond.

Questions that need to be discussed include – but are not limited to – the
following: Which morphological variables show variation on the
dialect-standard axis? How are morphological variants used according to the
variety or speech level that is used in the situation? Is it possible to
divide morphological variants into primary and secondary dialectal features,
according to their degree of salience? How are morphological and phonological
variants intertwined with each other?

The workshop is intended as a forum to discuss theoretical and empirical
approaches to the vertical structure of languages and varieties from a
morphological point of view.
 

Program Information: 
 
1. English & English based creoles
Benedikt Szmrecsanyi: Grammatical analyticity and syntheticity in varieties of
English and in English-based creole languages

2. Danish
Torben Jensen/Marie Maegaard/Nicolai Pharao: Investigating indexicality and
regional mor­phological change

3. German varieties in Switzerland 
Melanie Bösiger: wo and der as Swiss German Relative Markers

4. German varieties in Austria 
Katharina Korecky-Kröll: Morphological variation in German dialects spoken in
Austria on the dialect-standard axis: general tendencies and specific evidence
from noun diminutive forma­tion

5. German varieties in Germany  
Simon Kasper/Jeffrey Pheiff: Variation and Change in the Morpho-Syntax of the
Regional Languages of German

6. Summary & Final discussion 
Hanna Fischer/Stefan Rabanus: New Perspectives on Morphological and Syntactic
Variation along the Dialect-Standard Axis

Please find the detailed program here:
https://www.dlls.univr.it/?ent=avvisoin&cs=819&id=158048. The workshop will be
held digitally. Participation is free of charge. Presentations will take 45
minutes including 15 minutes of discussion. Registration: Please send an
e-mail to vermosyn at web.de until 02.04.2021. All relevant access details on the
online conference will then be sent via e-mail.





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