DIGS 11/call for abstracts

[filomena sandalo]

 Diachronic Generative Syntax 11
Call for papers for DIGS11, University of Campinas (Brazil). Deadline:
January 31 2009  DiGS (Diachronic Generative Syntax) is an established
international conference bringing together scholars working in the field of
syntactic change from a generative perspective. The conference provides a
forum for the presentation and discussion of current and innovative research
with special emphasis on (morpho)syntactic parameter change.

The meetings have been biennial and have alternated between venues in North
America and Europe in the last twenty years. This is the first time the
conference does not follow that tradition: in 2009, it will be held in South
America.

We invite abstracts for a 30-minute presentation followed by a 10-minute
discussion period. Abstracts should be anonymous and no longer than two
pages, including references and examples, with margins of at least 1 inch,
Times New Roman 12, single-spaced. Submissions are limited to a maximum of
one individual and one joint abstract per author.

Authors are requested to send an e-mail message to digs11 at iel.unicamp.br ,
with two copies of their abstract attached (in pdf format); one of them
anonymous.

Please include the title of the paper, the author's name, affiliation and
e-mail address in the body of the submission email. Subject should be
"submission".

The deadline for submission is Saturday, January 31, 2009.
Notification of acceptance will be made by March 15,  2009.

CALL FOR POSTERS
There will also be a poster session, for which we invite papers of an
empirically-driven nature or in a squib-like format when dealing with
theoretical issues.

Although all topics on formal historical syntax are welcome, the 11th
edition of DiGS encourages papers that approach topics related to the
understanding and modeling of how syntactic change comes about in languages,
or groups of languages, including but not restricted to: parameter theory,
the role of language acquisition and contact on language change, the
dynamics of syntactic change, grammaticalization, and language
reconstruction.

Invited speakers:
Ana Maria Martins (University of Lisbon)
Giuseppe Longobardi (University of Trieste)
Ian Roberts (University of Cambridge)
Jürgen Meisel (University of Hamburg / University of Calgary)
Mary Aizawa Kato (University of Campinas)
Michel DeGraff (MIT) :: to be confirmed ::

Organizing committee:
Charlotte Galves, Filomena Sandalo, Juanito Avelar, Ruth Lopes, Sonia Cyrino

For more information, please visit the conference website:

http://www.unicamp.br/~digs11/



-- 
Profa. Dra. Filomena Sandalo
Coordenadora de Graduação
Departamento de Lingüística
IEL, UNICAMP
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