26.3693, Calls: Romanian, Romance, General Ling, Historical Ling, Morphology, Syntax, Typology/Romania

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Subject: 26.3693, Calls: Romanian, Romance, General Ling, Historical Ling, Morphology, Syntax, Typology/Romania

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Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2015 14:24:27
From: Alexandru Nicolae [nicolae_bibi at yahoo.com]
Subject: Comparative and Diachronic Perspectives on Romanian / Romance Syntax Workshop

 
Full Title: Comparative and Diachronic Perspectives on Romanian / Romance Syntax Workshop 

Date: 27-Nov-2015 - 28-Nov-2015
Location: Bucharest, Romania 
Contact Person: Alexandru Nicolae
Meeting Email: colocviu_lingvistica at yahoo.ro
Web Site: http://www.unibuc.ro/depts/litere/limba_romana/index.php 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Morphology; Syntax; Typology 

Subject Language(s): Romanian (ron)

Language Family(ies): Romance 

Call Deadline: 30-Sep-2015 

Meeting Description:

As in previous years, in the general conference (''Comparative and Diachronic Perspectives on Romanian''), we intend to cover a wide range of topics, encompassing all the domains and directions of research in the study of Romanian and in general linguistics, bringing together a large number of researchers from Romania and abroad.

Keynote Speakers:

Giuseppe Longobardi (University of York, U.K.)
Martin Maiden (University of Oxford, U.K.)
John-Charles Smith (University of Oxford, U.K.)

Furthermore, we will organize a workshop with the theme ''Romance Syntax. Comparative and Diachronic Perspectives'', co-organised with Dr. Michelle Sheehan (Anglia Ruskin University).

Call for Papers:

For the general conference (''Comparative and Diachronic Perspectives on Romanian''), we encourage a wide range of different types of abstracts, including but not limited to the following:

- Morphology, syntax, phonetics, and phonology
- Pragmatics and stylistics
- Lexicology and lexicography, semantics, and terminology
- History of language, philology, and dialectology
- Teaching Romanian as a mother tongue and as a foreign language

Conference languages: Romanian, English, French

For the workshop (''Romance Syntax. Comparative and Diachronic Perspective''), we invite proposals concerning issues in Romance syntax addressed from a comparative and/or diachronic perspective. Proposals dealing with more than one Romance variety will have priority in the selection process.
The workshop is devoted not only to general issues in Romance syntax (a)-(e), but also to particular issues related to the syntax of the Romance languages (f)-(j):

a. Syntactic variation in non-standard Romance varieties
b. The controversial delineation of a Romance type; how may this intuition be  couched in the recent approaches to linguistic typology and parameterization
c. (Relatedly) the notion of Romance syntax as opposed to the Syntax of individual Romance languages / groups of Romance languages (e.g. Ibero-Romance, Italo-Romance, etc.)?
d. Macro- and micro-parametric variation in Romance
e. Variation in Romance paralled by variation in other language families
f. The height of verb-movement and noun-movement in different Romance varieties
g. Agreement
h. Alignment (accusative vs ergative vs active-stative)
i. Null arguments
j. Clitics

Workshop language: English

Submitted abstracts should be 1 page in length (references excluded). Please send abstracts no later than September 30, 2015 to: colocviu_lingvistica at yahoo.ro. For further inquiries, please contact Alexandru Nicolae (nicolae_bibi at yahoo.com) or Adina Dragomirescu (adina_drag at yahoo.com). 

Notification of acceptance: October 15, 2015
Abstracts which are not accepted as oral presentations may be presented as posters.

Presentations will be scheduled for 30 minute slots (20 minutes followed by 10 minutes for questions).

Registration fee: € 40 (or RON 150); students: € 20 (RON 75). The registration fee can be paid upon arrival.




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