29.2124, Calls: Romance, Gen Ling, Historical Ling, Lang Documentation, Sociolinguistics, Typology/France

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Subject: 29.2124, Calls: Romance, Gen Ling, Historical Ling, Lang Documentation, Sociolinguistics, Typology/France

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Date: Wed, 16 May 2018 14:24:08
From: Monica Alexandrina Irimia [irimiamo at unimore.it]
Subject: Differential Object Marking in Romance – Towards Microvariation

 
Full Title: Differential Object Marking in Romance – Towards Microvariation 

Date: 09-Nov-2018 - 10-Nov-2018
Location: Paris, France 
Contact Person: Monica Alexandrina Irimia
Meeting Email: irimiamo at unimore.it

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

Language Family(ies): Romance 

Call Deadline: 01-Jul-2018 

Meeting Description:

The presence of a grammaticalized preposition with certain classes of nominals
is a typical instantiation of differential object marking across Romance
(Niculescu 1965, Rohlfs 1971, 1973, Lazard 1984, Comrie 1989, Bossong 1991,
Torrego 1998, Fiorentino ed. 2003, Aissen 2003, von Heusinger and Kaiser 2005,
von Heusinger and Onea Gáspár 2008, López 2012, a.o.). Research from all
orientations has provided important hints into the nature of this phenomenon.
However, the discussion has mostly centered around major Romance varieties,
such as Standard Spanish. What is less understood is the picture at the
microvariation level, and thus the limits of differential object marking in
Romance.

Invited speakers:

-Virginia Hill (University of New Brunswick): DOM in Balkan Romance varieties
-Adam Ledgeway (University of Cambridge): DOM in Southern Italian varieties
-Javier Ormazabal (University of Basque Country) and Juan Romero (University
of Extremadura): DOM in Spanish varieties
-Anna Pineda (Universitat Pompeu Fabra): DOM in Catalan varieties

Conference Contact Email: monica_alexandrina at yahoo.com


Call for Papers:

We welcome submissions addressing any aspect related to microvariation in
Romance differential object marking, in both synchrony and diachrony, and
irrespective of any specific theoretical framework. The focus is mainly
empirical, and (novel) data from less discussed varieties (such as Catalan,
Corsican, Sardinian, Sicilian, Galician, Asturian, Provençal, Italo-Romance
varieties, Romanian South-Danubian varieties, French varieties, etc.) are
especially appreciated. Some of the topics of interest include, but are not
restricted to, the following: 

- Variation in the set of specifications that trigger differential object
marking 
- Interaction of differential marking and pronominal (clitic) doubling. What
are the points of variation with respect to permissibility of doubling under
overt differential object marking?
- Differential object marking and obligatoriness/non-acceptability of
definiteness morphology
- Extension of the differential marker to inanimates and other non-canonical
contexts; what are the precise configurations under which such extensions are
obligatory/possible?
- Differential marking and overt object agreement. What does co-occurrence
with overt object agreement indicate about the nature of the differential
marker?
- The presence of differential ‘object’ marker on subjects 
- Differential object marking and the accusative-dative debate
- Differential object marking under contact. How is differential object
marking affected under contact between Romance varieties? Are some parameters
more vulnerable than others? What does contact tell us about the nature of the
differential marker? What about contact with non-Romance varieties, or with
other types of differential object marking? 
- Other types of splits with non-displaced objects across Romance. Are various
strategies possible in the same language?
- Loss of differential object marking. What is the taxonomy of contexts where
the differential marker is still seen in languages in which the general
strategy has otherwise decayed? Are such contexts uniform? 
- Microvariation of differential object marking in diachrony. How does
diachrony affect microvariation? Do we see uniform compliance with the Scales
at all stages of differential marking? Or are there exceptions? If yes, what
do such instances indicate? 

Submissions:

Anonymous abstracts, in English or in French, not exceeding 2 pages (including
references and examples), with font no less than 11 Times New Roman, and 2 cm
margins, should be uploaded on Easychair by July 1, 2018 to
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=microvariationinroma

Presentations will be allotted 30-minutes slots.

The publication of a selection of papers as a special issue of an
international Romance journal is foreseen.

Important dates:

- Submission deadline: July 1st, 2018
- Notification of acceptance: September 15, 2018
- Workshop: November 9-10, 2018

Contact and organization:

Monica Alexandrina Irimia (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia),
irimiamo at unimore.it
Alexandru Mardale (INaLCO Paris, SeDyL UMR8202 CNRS),
alexandru.mardale at inalco.fr




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