33.839, Calls: Germanic; Syntax/France

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Subject: 33.839, Calls: Germanic; Syntax/France

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Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2022 05:13:45
From: Pierre-Yves Modicom [pymodicom.ling at yahoo.fr]
Subject: Cracks in the Bottleneck: Verb-third and the Polyoccupation of the Initial Slot in Verb-second Languages - Insights from Germanic and Beyond

Full Title: Cracks in the Bottleneck: Verb-third and the Polyoccupation of the Initial Slot in Verb-second Languages - Insights from Germanic and Beyond 
Short Title: V2V3 

Date: 16-Feb-2023 - 17-Feb-2023
Location: Sorbonne Université, Paris, France 
Contact Person: Pierre-Yves Modicom
Meeting Email: pymodicom.ling at yahoo.fr
Web Site: https://v2v3.sciencesconf.org/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Syntax 

Language Family(ies): Germanic 

Call Deadline: 15-Oct-2022 

Meeting Description:

With the exception of English and its varieties, all Present-Day Germanic
languages display some kind of verb-second (V2) rule, according to which the
finite verbal form has to be put in the second position of the clause, at
least in declarative utterances and wh-questions. But the exact contours of
the V2 rule vary strongly from one language to the other. For instance, in
some languages, the selection of the pre-finite constituent is totally blind
to whether it is the subject argument or not (e.g. High German), whereas
others make a significant difference (e.g. Icelandic). But above all, the
“bottleneck” (originally a theory-internal label, going back to Haegeman 1996)
demanding that one and only one constituent be placed before the finite verb
is not equally respected in all Germanic varieties. Previous cross-Germanic
insights into these V3 phenomena can be found, among others, in Freywald et
al. (2015), Walkden (2017), Alexiadou & Lohndal (2018), or in some of the
studies collected in Meklemborg & Wolfe (2021).

The present conference is concerned with all kinds of violations of this
“bottleneck” in any variety of Germanic, present and past (including former V2
stages of English). We warmly encourage cross-Germanic comparison, studies
from a historical perspective, sociolinguistic analyses, and investigations
centred on language contact including code-switching. V3 has been extensively
mentioned in syntactic descriptions of urban vernaculars, and comparison with
other varieties may prove fruitful.

The conference is open to contributions from all theoretical frameworks. We
also welcome contrastive proposals comparing Germanic and non-Germanic V2
languages, such as Medieval Romance languages or subsisting V2 varieties in
Romance; Estonian; or any other language, regardless of their family and
location. 

Details: https://v2v3.sciencesconf.org/

Convenors: Sarah Harchaoui (Sorbonne Université) & Pierre-Yves Modicom (U.
Bordeaux Montaigne)

Call for Papers:

THE FULL CALL IS AVAILABLE AT : https://v2v3.sciencesconf.org
Convenors: Sarah Harchaoui (Sorbonne Université) & Pierre-Yves Modicom (U.
Bordeaux Montaigne)

With the exception of English and its varieties, all Present-Day Germanic
languages display some kind of verb-second (V2) rule, according to which the
finite verbal form has to be put in the second position of the clause, at
least in declarative utterances and wh-questions. But the exact contours of
the V2 rule vary strongly from one language to the other. For instance, in
some languages, the selection of the pre-finite constituent is totally blind
to whether it is the subject argument or not (e.g. High German), whereas
others make a significant difference (e.g. Icelandic). But above all, the
“bottleneck” (originally a theory-internal label, going back to Haegeman 1996)
demanding that one and only one constituent be placed before the finite verb
is not equally respected in all Germanic varieties. Previous cross-Germanic
insights into these V3 phenomena can be found, among others, in Freywald et
al. (2015), Walkden (2017), Alexiadou & Lohndal (2018), or in some of the
studies collected in Meklemborg & Wolfe (2021).

The conference is concerned with all kinds of violations of this “bottleneck”
in any variety of Germanic, present and past (including former V2 stages of
English). We warmly encourage cross-Germanic comparison, studies from a
historical perspective, sociolinguistic analyses, and investigations centred
on language contact including code-switching. V3 has been extensively
mentioned in syntactic descriptions of urban vernaculars, and comparison with
other varieties may prove fruitful.

The conference is open to contributions from all theoretical frameworks. We
also welcome contrastive proposals comparing Germanic and non-Germanic V2
languages, such as Medieval Romance languages or subsisting V2 varieties in
Romance; Estonian; or any other language, regardless of their family and
location. 

Proposals for contributions (3000 signs max., excluding references) should be
sent to:

conference.v2v3 [AT] protonmail.com

before October 15, 2022

The working language of the conference will be English.

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