27.4882, Calls: The Morphosyntax of the Romance Languages and its Formal Analysis (Workshop at the 35. Romanistentag)

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Subject: 27.4882, Calls: The Morphosyntax of the Romance Languages and its Formal Analysis (Workshop at the 35. Romanistentag)

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Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2016 14:11:20
From: Eva-Maria Remberger [eva-maria.remberger at univie.ac.at]
Subject: Romance, Morphology, Syntax/Switzerland

Full Title: The Morphosyntax of the Romance Languages and its Formal Analysis (Workshop at the 35. Romanistentag) 

Date: 08-Oct-2017 - 12-Oct-2017
Location: Zurich, Switzerland 
Contact Person: Eva-Maria Remberger
Meeting Email: eva-maria.remberger at univie.ac.at
Web Site: http://www.romanistentag.de/index.php?id=1926 

Linguistic Field(s): Morphology; Syntax 

Language Family(ies): Romance 

Call Deadline: 06-Jan-2017 

Meeting Description:

Dynamics, Encounter and Migration (the main topic of the 35. Romanistentag)
are the notions that build the focus of this workshop in three different ways:

1. Morphology and syntax generate structure and are therefore the dynamic
components of the grammar. Morphosyntax in a narrow sense is thus to be
understood as the area of the grammar where syntactic features are encoded by
morphological means. It is also the area where morphology and syntax meet
(encounter) in a very special way. An example of this convergence is
agreement, whereby the features of an element ‘migrate’ on to another. Classic
examples are gender and number agreement within the nominal phrase, past
participle agreement as well as subject-verb agreement. In relation to the
latter, the question is still debated as to whether a direct correlation
between rich verb inflection and verb movement exists. This section, though,
also aims to examine agreement phenomena in a wider sense (e.g. negative
concord, semantic agreement) and hence to shed light on phenomena that more
generally belong to the syntax-morphology interface, such as the inheritance
of argument structure in derivational processes, specific morphosyntactic and
semantic aspects of compounds, etc. As for diachrony, also those phenomena
that show how a syntactic process for the coding of a feature, a function,
etc., can be replaced by a morphological process (and vice-versa) could be
here included. With respect to this, possible questions to be asked are: Which
are the factors that cause such a change? How can this change be formally
captured? How did agreement arise diachronically? 

2. The notions Dynamics, Encounter and Migration also lend to another
interpretation within the purposes of this section: a further goal of this
section is indeed to bring together scholars (encounter) from different
theoretical approaches (e.g. grammatical theory, dialectology,
sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, corpus linguistics) in order to acquire
new insights into morphosyntactic phenomena in Romance, to promote the
discussion (dynamics) on the meaningfulness of the theoretical models, and, if
needed, to increase their compatibility (migration or rather the transfer of
insights from one theory to the other). In many syntactic approaches, for
instance, the gender and number features related to agreement are treated
similarly; however, neuro- and psycholinguistic studies point out that
inherent features (e.g. gender) behave differently from non-inherent features
(e.g. number). 

3. For this section Dynamics, Encounter and Migration additionally means that
we would like to discuss morphosyntactic phenomena in the Romance languages
from the perspective of language contact, that is, the encounter of two
languages and/or varieties. We will therefore also concentrate on aspects of
(also variational) bilingualism, but also on the interaction between migration
and language change in general (dynamics). The following points could be the
subject of discussion here: Do different social conditions lead to different
types of (contact-induced) language change? Is the social situation
independent from the types of language change? Since many hypotheses and
analyses are based on the standard Romance varieties, a further point on the
agenda of this section is to expand the dataset for analysis by including
diatopic, diaphasic, and diastratic variation. From a methodological
viewpoint, moreover, comparing language acquisition data with dialectal or
diachronic corpora is a very interesting enterprise that can help us to
identify possible parallelisms between language acquisition and the
development of morphosyntactic phenomena and, thus, to understand better
language development in relation to acquisition and diachrony.

Convenors: Natascha Pomino (Wuppertal), Eva-Maria Remberger (Vienna),
Marc-Olivier Hinzelin (Hamburg)

Call for Papersː

The morphosyntax of the Romance languages and its formal analysis

Proposals for talks should discuss one of the aspects mentioned in the
workshop description and should be mainly concerned with one or more of the
Romance languages. Please send your abstract (ca. 300 words) for a
20-minute-talk (in Romance, English or German) to 

Natascha Pomino (pomino at uni-wuppertal.de), 
Eva-Maria Remberger (eva-maria.remberger at univie.ac.at), 
Marc Olivier Hinzelin (marc.hinzelin at gmail.com) 

by January 6 at the latest.

This workshop is part of the 35th Romanistentag (the biannual meeting of the
German association of scholars in Romance studies) in Zurich from the 8-12
October 2017. The general topic of this conference, which hosts 25 workshops
on several topics in Romance linguistics, cultural and literary studies, and
didactics, is “Dynamics, Encounter, Migration” (Dynamik, Begegnung,
Migration).

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