33.2026, Confs: Historical Linguistics, Syntax, Typology/Switzerland

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Subject: 33.2026, Confs: Historical Linguistics, Syntax, Typology/Switzerland

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Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2022 02:14:22
From: Robin Meyer [robin.meyer at unil.ch]
Subject: Quid est «qui»? Relative clauses from Proto-Italic to Proto-Romance

 
Quid est «qui»? Relative clauses from Proto-Italic to Proto-Romance 
Short Title: QIQ2022 

Date: 01-Jul-2022 - 02-Jul-2022 
Location: Université de Lausanne, Switzerland 
Contact: Robin Meyer 
Contact Email: robin.meyer at unil.ch 
Meeting URL: https://www.unil.ch/quidestqui 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Syntax; Typology 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)
                     French (fra)
                     Latin (lat)
                     Oscan (osc)
                     Umbrian (xum)

Language Family(ies): Italic; Romance 
Meeting Description: 

In the research on historical syntax of early Indo-European languages, few
constructions have received as much attention as relative clauses (e.g.
HETTRICH 1988 on Vedic Sanskrit, POMPEI 2011 on Latin, PROBERT 2015 on early
Greek, to name but a few), and for good reason: they are among few syntagmata
which can be studied with any degree of certainty and rigour across time, and
are frequently the cradle of other constructions such as object clauses. While
their ultimate origin within Proto-Indo-European remains a matter of further
research and debate, the variety and complexity of relative clause
constructions in the Indo-European daughter languages coincides with
typological observations of such structures in other languages and language
families (HEINE & KUTEVA 2002:113–15, 251; HENDERY 2012: 48–55; DRYER 2013).

The purpose of this conference is to explore further the synchronic structure
and semantics, diachronic development, and syntactic typology of relative
clauses in one of the most well documented branches of Indo-European: the
Italic languages. We hope to bring together young and already established
researchers from historical linguistics and classical philology working on
these and related topics, ranging in time from Proto-Italic to Proto-Romance.
Some of the key questions we seek to address are the following:

- What does the Sabellic evidence mean for our reconstruction of Proto-Italic
relative clauses?
- To what extent and for what reason do relativisation strategies in
pre-Classical, Classical, and post-Classical Latin differ?
- Do different relativisation strategies exhibit different semantic
restrictions?
- What, if any, influence has Greek syntax had on Latin relativisation
strategies?
- Does the ancient grammatical tradition coincide with our modern
understanding of how relative clauses were used?
- How far are later developments in the Romance languages prefigured in late
Latin relative clauses and related syntagmata?

References:
DRYER, M. S. (2013) “Order of Relative Clause and Noun”, in M. S. DRYER & M.
HASPELMATH (eds), The World Atlas of Language Structures Online. Leipzig: Max
Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
HEINE, B. & KUTEVA, T. (2002) World lexicon of grammaticalization, Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press.
HENDERY, R. (2012) Relative clauses in time and space, Amsterdam: John
Benjamins.
HETTRICH, H. (1988) Untersuchungen zur Hypotaxe im Vedischen, Berlin/New York:
Walter de Gruyter.
POMPEI, A. (2011) “Relative Clauses”, in P. Baldi & P. Cuzzolin (eds), New
Perspectives on Historical Latin Syntax, Volume 4: Complex Sentences,
Grammaticalization, Typology, Berlin: De Gruter Mouton, 427–548.
PROBERT, P. (2015) Early Greek Relative Clauses, Oxford: Oxford University
Press.
 

Programme:

The programme for the conference can be found here:
https://wp.unil.ch/quidestqui/programme/

Colleagues from afar may be interested in participating via Zoom. To do so,
please register using the following link:
https://wp.unil.ch/quidestqui/registration/
Registration for online participation closes on 29 June 2022.





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