31.397, Calls: General Linguistics, Language Acquisition, Linguistic Theories, Syntax/Germany

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Subject: 31.397, Calls: General Linguistics, Language Acquisition, Linguistic Theories, Syntax/Germany

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Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2020 17:03:32
From: Leah Bauke [bauke at uni-wuppertal.de]
Subject: Optionality and Variation in Multilingual Syntax

 
Full Title: Optionality and Variation in Multilingual Syntax 
Short Title: OpVaMS 

Date: 23-Apr-2020 - 25-Apr-2020
Location: University of Wuppertal, Germany 
Contact Person: Leah Bauke
Meeting Email: bauke at uni-wuppertal.de
Web Site: https://leahbauke.wordpress.com/workshop-i/ 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Linguistic Theories; Syntax 

Call Deadline: 29-Feb-2020 

Meeting Description:

The network on Optionality and Variation in Multilingual Syntax (OpVaMS) will
hold its first workshop at the University of Wuppertal (Germany) from April
23rd to 25th.

The network will investigate the role of optionality and variation in
syntactic structures in multilingual contexts, such as L2 acquisition
contexts, bilingual contexts and heritage language contexts. Research
questions that will be addressed are:

What is the role of optionality and variation in multilingual contexts and how
can the two concepts be systematically distinguished and analyzed?
What is the role of syntactic variation in first language contexts and in how
far is that different from second language contexts and from simultaneous
bilingualism?
Can syntactic variation be observed in all these contexts?
Are there any differences in the effects that syntactic variation generates in
these three acquisition contexts?
What are such effects, i.e. are they reinforcing, counterbalancing, leveling,
…?


Call for Papers: 

We invite abstracts for speed talks (15 minutes followed by 5 minutes of
discussion) on these questions. We are interested in submissions on all kinds
of languages and from various theoretical frameworks. Abstracts are limited to
500 words (excluding references). 

The deadline for abstract submission is February 29th. 
Notification of acceptance: March 15th. 

The workshop will additionally feature talks by the network members Laia
Aranaus Gil, Leah Bauke, Holger Hopp, Tanja Kupisch, Tom Rankin, Tom Roeper,
Jacopo Torregrossa, Dennis Wegner and Marit Westergaard. 

Invited speakers are TBA.

Further information will be made available here:
https://leahbauke.wordpress.com/workshop-i/

Please submit your abstracts via Easy Abs:
http://linguistlist.org/confservices/EasyAbs/customabssub.cfm?Emeetingid=6202J
A445876464840A050441




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