22.3518, Calls: Germanic, Romance, Historical Ling, Typology/Netherlands

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Subject: 22.3518, Calls: Germanic, Romance, Historical Ling, Typology/Netherlands

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Date: 06-Sep-2011
From: Petra Sleeman [p.sleeman at uva.nl]
Subject: Adjectives in Germanic and Romance: Variation and Change
 

	
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Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2011 09:10:22
From: Petra Sleeman [p.sleeman at uva.nl]
Subject: Adjectives in Germanic and Romance: Variation and Change

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Full Title: Adjectives in Germanic and Romance: Variation and Change 

Date: 29-Mar-2012 - 30-Mar-2012
Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands 
Contact Person: Petra Sleeman
Meeting Email: variation-change-fgw at uva.nl
Web Site: http://www.hum.uva.nl/adjectives 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Typology 

Language Family(ies): Germanic; Romance 

Call Deadline: 16-Dec-2011 

Meeting Description:

Adjectives in Germanic and Romance: Variation and Change
29 March - 30 March, 2012 
Amsterdam, University of Amsterdam (ACLC)

Although the Germanic and Romance languages are two branches of the same language family and both have developed the adjective as a separate morphological and syntactic category, the syntax and semantics of adjectives is by no means the same in these two language groups. The goal of this conference is to map the differences and similarities in meaning and syntactic behavior of the Germanic and Romance adjective, and to find an answer to the question: are the (dis)similarities the result of autonomous development in each of the two branches of the Indo-European language family or are they caused by language contact.

Invited Speakers: 

Guglielmo Cinque (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia) 
Frans Plank (Universität Konstanz) 

Call for Papers:

Topics to be discussed at the conference may include (but are not limited to) the following: 

- Predicative vs. attributive adjectives
- Adjectival positions
- Adjectival agreement
- Weak and strong adjectives
- Relational adjectives
- Functional adjectives
- Gradable vs. non-gradable adjectives
- Superlatives

Abstracts are invited for 30 minutes talks (20+10) relevant to the conference theme. Submissions are limited to one single-authored and one joint-authored abstract. The abstracts should be sent by e-mail to variation-change-fgw at uva.nl no later than 16 December 2011. 

Abstracts should be anonymous both in the body of the text and the filename and should not exceed two A4 pages with a 2.5cm margin on each side and in 12 pt font. A second document (in a separate file) should be submitted with the title of the paper and name(s), affiliation(s), and preferred contact details of the author(s). 

Submission deadline: 16 December 2011
Notification of acceptance: 20 January 2012

Organizing Committee: 

Harry Perridon, Petra Sleeman & Freek Van de Velde

Submission Address: 

variation-change-fgw at uva.nl







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