29.48, Calls: Gen Ling, Lang Acquisition, Socioling, Typology/Italy

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Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2018 15:09:13
From: Silvia Rossi [rsylvia81 at gmail.com]
Subject: Theoretical and Empirical Approaches to Microvariation 2018

 
Full Title: Theoretical and Empirical Approaches to Microvariation 2018 
Short Title: TEAM 2018 

Date: 14-Jun-2018 - 15-Jun-2018
Location: Padua, Italy 
Contact Person: Silvia Rossi
Meeting Email: teamdisllpd at gmail.com
Web Site: https://sites.google.com/site/padovateam/home 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Sociolinguistics; Typology 

Call Deadline: 01-Mar-2018 

Meeting Description:

The second edition of the TEAM is centered on micro-comparative studies, which
have greatly contributed to theoretical linguistics in recent years. In the
tradition of our Giornata di dialettologia we invite papers coming from all
linguistic families and on all domains of grammar provided they analyze
minimally homogeneous linguistic areas. 

Comparison between genetically related languages can offer new insights into
the way language variation works which require going beyond the classic
parametric, or even the micro-parametric view towards new formal ways to model
grammatical divergence. In order to account for the peculiar ways variation
distributes across genetically homogenous areas we have a powerful heuristic
tool at our disposal, i.e. geographical distributional patterns can show us
whether apparently distinct phenomena are actually related or not at a higher
abstraction level. Dialects have been used in recent decades as a magnifying
lens to pin down differences and variation patterns that escape us in a broad
typological framework, but they can be used for much more and bring us to
still unexplored paths.

This year we also organize a round table on experimental methods used in
bidialectal as well as bilingual language acquisition. Whereas a lot of
research has been carried out on different types of bilingual population
(successive bilinguals, heritage speakers, second language learners, etc.),
the field has just started exploring the acquisition of two or more closely
related varieties. The question we address in this round table is whether we
find the typical phenomena of bilingualism in bidialectalism or whether
bidialectalism is qualitatively different from bilingualism from both a
linguistic and a cognitive perspective.  

Invited speakers:

Peter Svenonius (CASTL, University of Tromsø)
Sjef Barbiers (Leiden University) 

Roundtable: “Dialects meet acquisition”

Kristine Bentzen (CASTL, University of Tromsø)
Maja Roch (Università di Padova)


Call for Papers:

Abstracts are invited for 20-minute talks (+ 10 minutes for discussions). 

Abstracts should be anonymous and should not exceed two pages in length
(including examples and references):

- A4 format
- 12-point Times New Roman
- 2,5 cm (1 in.) margins

Submissions are limited to 1 individual and 1 joint abstract per author, or 2
joint abstracts per author.

Abstract should be submitted via Easy Chair
(https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=team2018) by no later than 01 March
2018.

Notifications of acceptance and a provisional programme will be sent by mid
April 2018.




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