29.3847, Calls: Germanic; Romance; Gen Ling, Historical Ling, Syntax/Norway

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Subject: 29.3847, Calls: Germanic; Romance; Gen Ling, Historical Ling, Syntax/Norway

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Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2018 05:58:59
From: Christine Meklenborg Salvesen [c.m.salvesen at ilos.uio.no]
Subject: Secrets of Success. Or: How to preserve a Verb Second word order?

 
Full Title: Secrets of Success. Or: How to preserve a Verb Second word order? 

Date: 10-Jan-2019 - 11-Jan-2019
Location: Oslo, Norway 
Contact Person: Christine Meklenborg Salvesen
Meeting Email: traces-of-history at ilos.uio.no
Web Site: https://www.hf.uio.no/ilos/english/research/projects/traces-of-history/secrets-of-success---workshop-january-2018/ 

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

Language Family(ies): Germanic; Romance 

Call Deadline: 09-Nov-2018 

Meeting Description:

This workshop asks the fundamental question why did the Germanic languages
retain a V2 word order while the Romance languages lost it.


Call for Papers:

>From a typological point of view, Verb Second (V2) is a very rare word order.
It is first and foremost found in the Germanic languages, but not exclusively.
In a historical perspective, it has been attested in several Old Romance
languages (Vanelli et al. 1985; Roberts 1993; Adams 1989; Vance 1997; Salvi
2004; Benincà 2006; Ledgeway 2012; Vance et. al. 2009; Wolfe 2015a, 2015b,
2016), but it was lost in the late Middle Ages. The parallels between
historical Germanic and Old Romance are striking: the languages observed a V2
word order, but they also permitted V3 orders in constructions where they are
not permitted in modern V2 languages (Walkden 2015). For instance, fronted
adverbial clauses were a trigger for V3 in the medieval languages (Donaldson
2012, Vance et al 2010, Salvesen in press), while fronted clauses are
generally the first element of the V2 construction in present day V2 languages
(but see Haegeman & Greco 2018ab for examples of V3 in Modern West Flemish).
We also find that both Old Romance and Old Germanic made use of resumptive
particles, that also lead to a surface V3 word order (Salvesen in press).

The medieval V2 languages combined this word order with an (admittedly
limited) possibility of omitting the pronominal subject (see among others
Adams 1987, Walkden 2013, Zimmermann 2014, Wolfe 2015, Kinn 2015). Some of
these languages developed a general pro drop syntax, while others established
a non-pro drop syntax.

The striking differences between the Medieval V2 languages, however, do not
necessarily lie in synchronic comparisons. In a diachronic perspective, we
find that while V2 is lost in all Romance languages (with the exception of
certain Rhaeto-Romance varieties, see Poletto 2002), it is retained in Modern
Germanic (with the exception of English). 

This workshop asks the fundamental question why did the Germanic languages
retain a V2 word order while the Romance languages lost it. We welcome papers
that discuss questions related to the retention and loss of V2. Papers
treating the issue from a comparative perspective are particularly welcome.

Papers should be aimed at a presentation of 20 minutes + 10 minutes for
discussion. 

Who?:

Everybody working on word order related to Verb Second are welcome. Project
members of the Traces of History group will present their research, including
George Walkden, Sam Wolfe, and Tolli Eythorsson. 

When & Where:

The workshop will take place on the University of Oslo on 10–11 January 2018.

Submission:

Anonymous abstracts should be e-mailed to traces-of-history at ilos.uio.no. The
e-mail should include name, affiliation and title of the abstract.




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