27.4286, Calls: Morphology, Semantics, Syntax, Text/Corpus Linguistics, Typology/Spain

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Subject: 27.4286, Calls: Morphology, Semantics, Syntax, Text/Corpus Linguistics, Typology/Spain

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Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2016 14:04:43
From: Ángel J. Gallego [angel.gallego at uab.cat]
Subject: Spanish Dialects Meeting

Full Title: Spanish Dialects Meeting 

Date: 20-Apr-2017 - 21-Apr-2017
Location: Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain 
Contact Person: Ángel J. Gallego
Meeting Email: spadisyn at gmail.com

Linguistic Field(s): Morphology; Semantics; Syntax; Text/Corpus Linguistics; Typology 

Subject Language(s): Spanish (spa)

Call Deadline: 08-Jan-2017 

Meeting Description:

Dialects of Spanish have been the focus of systematic research ever since the
first linguistic atlases were developed at the beginning of the 20th century
(e.g., Menéndez-Pidal’s ill-fated ALPI; cf. Fernández-Ordóñez 2009,
García-Mouton 2016), an interest that grew with the advent of structuralism,
and is nowadays exploiting new tools and technologies to obtain a better
mapping of the properties and boundaries of Spanish varieties. Significantly,
dialectal studies have largely neglected phenomena falling out of the domains
of phonetics, morphology, and the lexicon-for which strategies capitalizing on
statistical, reconstructive, and comparative techniques have proved useful
(cf. Chambers & Trudgill 1998, Chambers & Schilling-Estes 2013, Labov 1994,
2001, Labov, Ash & Boberg 2006, Petyt 1980, Campbell 2001). Most of those
works take into account geographic and social factors in order to explain
variation (and change), and made it possible to understand sociolinguistic
phenomena such as “diglosia,” “dialectal continua,” and “transitional areas.”
Another of the results of this line of research was that of achieving an
adequate characterization of units such as “phoneme,” “morpheme,” and
“distinctive feature,” which allowed and boosted the investigations based on
fieldwork, leading to typological studies like those of Joseph Greenberg (cf.
Greenberg 1963). 

In the case of Spanish, studies on dialectal variation have focused on those
very domains: the lexicon, phonetics, and morphology (cf. Alvar 1996a, 1996b,
Fernández-Ordóñez 2011, García-Mouton 1994, Kany 1945, among others). In the
last decades, different lines of research have emerged trying to favor a
transition towards studies where other components of grammar (especially
syntax) have a more prominent position. Those attempts gave rise to a
significantly growing literature with doctoral theses, papers, handbooks, and
conference proceedings (cf. Hualde et al. 2012, Gutiérrez-Rexach 2016, and
references therein), but it can be said that the key turning point arises with
the publication of the Gramática Descriptiva de la Lengua Española (Bosque &
Demonte 1999) and the Nueva Gramática de la Lengua Española (RAE-ASALE 2009,
2011), works where entire sections are devoted to discuss different case
studies of variation. 

Along with the appearance of such publications, in the last forty years,
syntactic theory has developed and put into practice tools and methods that
complement the existing structuralist work, making it possible to approach
dialectal variation in a comprehensive, detailed and formal fashion. Many of
those tools have its origin in the Principles and Parameters (P&P) framework
(cf. Chomsky 1981), which has proved very useful in order to characterize many
languages, establishing points of uniformity (the “principles”) and points of
variation (the “parameters”) (cf. Belletti y Rizzi 1996, Barbiers 2014,
Biberauer 2008, Cinque & Kayne 2005, Gallego 2011, Kayne 2000, 2005, Mendívil
2009, Picallo 2014, and references therein). This line of research evolved
into the concept of “micro-parameter” (i.e., specific points of variation in
closely related varieties of the same language or languages). Given that we
have these tools, along with all we have learnt in the last almost 20 years
(precisely when the two reference grammars of Spanish have been published),
there is no reason for studies on grammatical variation not to move into new
terrain.

Invited Speakers:

Ángela Di Tullio
Instituto de Filología y Literaturas Hispánicas “Dr. Amado Alonso”
Universidad de Buenos Aires

Ricardo Etxepare
IKER, Centre de Recherche sur la Langue et les Textes Basques
CNRS, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

Call for Papers:

This meeting wishes to bring together researchers that, from different
theoretical perspectives, work on the grammatical (especially syntactic)
variation that can be found in both American and European dialects. We invite
submissions for 40 (30 + 10) minute long oral presentations. Submissions
should be sent by attachment, as anonymous PDFs, to the following e-mail
address: spadisyn at gmail.com. Abstracts must be no longer than two
single-spaced pages, in Times New Roman 12, with 2.5 cm margins, including
references and examples. Authors can submit one joint and one individual
abstract.

Important dates:

- Deadline for submissions: January 8 2017
- Notification of acceptance: February 8 2017

Languages: English, Spanish

Organizing Committee:

Ignacio Bosque (Universidad Complutense de Madrid / Real Academia Española)
Inés Fernández Ordóñez (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid / Real Academia
Española)
Ángel J. Gallego (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Francisco Ordóñez (Stony Brook University)
Cristina Sánchez López (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

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