21.1969, Calls: Romance Langs, General Ling: Brazil

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LINGUIST List: Vol-21-1969. Sat Apr 24 2010. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.

Subject: 21.1969, Calls: Romance Langs, General Ling: Brazil

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Date: 23-Apr-2010
From: Francisco Ordóñez < fordonez at notes.cc.sunysb.edu >
Subject: Romania Nova IV
 

	
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Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 13:40:35
From: Francisco Ordóñez [fordonez at notes.cc.sunysb.edu]
Subject: Romania Nova IV

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Full Title: Romania Nova. IV 

Date: 24-Nov-2010 - 26-Nov-2010
Location: Campos de Jordão, São Paulo, Brazil 
Contact Person: Francisco Ordóñez
Meeting Email: fordonez at notes.cc.sunysb.edu
Web Site: http://www.unicamp.br/iel/romanianova/ 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Language Family(ies): Romance 

Other Specialty: Romance Languages 

Call Deadline: 31-Jul-2010 

Meeting Description:

The commission of 'Romania Nova' invites papers to its fourth workshop to 
be held at Campos de Jordão, São Paulo. The research commission of 
Romania nova is interested in promoting and creating a space for 
comparative studies of the Romance languages spoken in the Americas. 

Call For Papers

Romania Nova:IV WORKSHOP
24-26 of November 2010

Coordinated by:
Mary A.Kato (UNICAMP) and Francisco Ordóñez (Stony Brook, SUNY and 
USP)

The commission of ¨Romania Nova¨ invites papers to its fourth workshop to 
be held at Campos de Jordão, São Paulo. The research commission of 
Romania nova is interested in promoting and creating a space for 
comparative studies of the Romance languages spoken in the Americas. 
The areas of discussion are:
-Syntax 
-Morphology 
-Semantics 
-Historical Linguistics 

The topics of discussion have been:
-Strong and weak pronouns (datives, clitics, null subjects,clitic doubling,
Binding....) 
-Clause types (negation, imperatives, questions and wh-
questions,evidentiality, impersonal, passives....) 
-Ellipsis and null objects. 
-Non-finite clauses (raising,causatives,hiper-raising, adjuntcts....) 
- Focus constructions.  
-DP and structure of DP  
- Morphology 

The abstracts are invited for 30 minute talks (plus 10 minutes for 
discussion). Abstract should be Maximum 2 pages with examples, 
references and trees included. Font 12.

Send abstracts in PDF or Word to:
Mary Kato:ma.kato at uol.com.br 
Francisco Ordóñez:fordonez at notes.cc.sunysb.edu

INVITED SPEAKERS:
José Camacho (Rutgers University)
Richard Kayne (NYU)

We encourage English as a lingua franca for the conference as it is usually 
done in many other Romance Language Fora. Nevertheless, papers may 
be presented in Portuguese or Spanish, but with handouts or Power-point
presentations in English.

Conference Fees:
Professors: 100 reais or $55
Students: 50 reais or   $30

Location:
Campos de Jordão is a quaint town in the state of São Paulo. We are
getting a package deal for the conference lodging.  Transportation to the 
site will be organized by us from Garulhos airport (São Paulo).  More 
information about the prices will be posted in our website soon. Any 
questions or doubts, send us a message.

Submission Deadline: July 31

Notification Acceptance: August 31.





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