[lg policy] calls: Dialect and Regiolect Syntax

[Harold Schiffman]

Dialect and Regiolect Syntax

Date: 02-Aug-2011 - 06-Aug-2011
Location: London, Ontario, Canada
Contact Person: Alexandra Lenz
Meeting Email: < click here to access email >
Web Site: http://westernlinguistics.ca/methods14/dialect_and_regiolect_syntax.html

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics; Syntax

Call Deadline: 31-Dec-2010

Meeting Description:

'Dialect and Regiolect Syntax' - Workshop organized as part of the
'Methods in Dialectology 14'

Workshop Organizers: Jürg Fleischer (Marburg), Alexandra N. Lenz
(Vienna), Helmut Weiß (Frankfurt)

Scope of Session:

Following the impulses of Kayne's theory of micro-variation, a broad
spectrum of areal syntactic studies and projects with predominant
theoretical interests and objectives has emanated over the last 20
years (s. Bayer 1984, Benincà 1989, Abraham & Bayer 1993, Black &
Motapanyane 1996, Barbiers et al. 2002, Tortora 2002, Haegeman 1992,
Henry 1995, Zanuttini 1997, Poletto 2000). Overall, areal syntactic
projects have broadened the empiric basis of modern linguistics and
have shown that areal syntax provides very fruitful insights for
different linguistic disciplines. A central aim of this workshop is to
combine and discuss experiences, results and problems of current areal
syntactic projects and papers. Thereby we strive towards a mixture of
theoretically aligned contributions by linguists of different
theoretical backgrounds as well as more empirically based papers. But
the session is not limited to the syntax of dialects as the 'deepest'
pole of the continuum of colloquial speech; rather it is the second
central goal of the workshop also to focus on the syntax of 'higher'
(regiolectal) varieties approaching the standard. Including this
vertical dimension represents an innovative approach to the
investigation of variation in syntax.

References:

Abraham, Werner / Bayer, Josef (eds.) (1993): Dialektsyntax
(Linguistische Berichte, Sonderheft 5). Opladen.
Barbiers, Sjef, Cornips, Leonie und van der Kleij, Susanne (eds.)
(2002): Syntactic Microvariation (Meertens Institute Electronic
Publications in Linguistics. Vol. II). Amsterdam.
Bayer, Josef (1984): COMP in Bavarian Syntax. In: The Linguistic
Review 3: 209-274.
Benincà, Paola (eds.) (1989): Dialect Variation and the Theory of
Grammar. Dordrecht.
Black, James R. und Motapanyane, V. (eds.) (1996): Microparametric
Syntax and Dialectic Variation. Amsterdam, Philadelphia.
Haegeman, Liliane (1992): Generative Syntax: Theory and Description. A
case study of West Flemish. Cambridge.
Henry, Alison (1995): Belfast English and Standard English: Dialect
Variation and Parameter Setting. New York.
Poletto, Cecilia (2000): The higher Functional Field: Evidence from
Italian Dialects. New York, Oxford.
Tortora, Christina (ed.) (2002): The Syntax of Italian Dialects
(Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax). New York, Oxford.
Zanuttini, Raffaella (1997): Negation and Clausal Structure. New York, Oxford.


Call for Papers:

Three groups of central research questions will be discussed in the
presentations:

I. Questions regarding the horizontal (areal) dimension of syntax:

-What are the horizontal-areal structures of dialect syntax?
-How do these syntactic areal structures correspond to 'traditional'
dialect-geographic areas defined mainly on the basis of
phonetic/phonological data?
-How do the linguistic areal structures correspond to other
'extralinguistic' (e.g., geographic, political or social) areas?

II: Questions regarding the vertical (social) dimension of syntax:

-How do syntactic structures vary along the vertical axis of
non-standard spectra of varieties?
-What does the syntax of intermediate (regiolectal) varieties between
dialects and standard languages look like?
-To what extent does the syntax of intermediate varieties differ from
the syntax of the dialects and standard varieties, respectively?
-Which 'vertical structure(s)' can be hypothesized on the basis of
syntactic data?
-Does the syntactic level provide evidence for different varieties on
the vertical axis or is there a syntactic continuum from the base
dialects up to the standard languages?
-To what extent is syntactic variation in line with what we find for
phonetic and phonological data?

III. Questions regarding the implications for syntactic theory:

-How can variation be modelled within structural or cognitive theories?
-Where is the locus of variation (lexicon, morphology, syntactic structures)?
-What is the consequence for the concept of competence?

Presentations will be 20 minutes in length, followed by a 10-minute
discussion period. Abstracts, of up to 300 words excluding
bibliography, should be submitted by e-mail attachment (as Word, RTF
or PDF files) to 'alexandra.lenzunivie.ac.at'.

The deadline for submission is 31 December 2010. Authors will be
notified of acceptance before the end of January 2011.

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