35.1292, Confs: The Emergence of Syntactic Categories in the History of Linguistics - From Medieval to Early Modern Age

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Subject: 35.1292, Confs: The Emergence of Syntactic Categories in the History of Linguistics - From Medieval to Early Modern Age

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Date: 21-Apr-2024
From: Annamaria Bartolotta [annamaria.bartolotta at unipa.it]
Subject: The Emergence of Syntactic Categories in the History of Linguistics - From Medieval to Early Modern Age

The emergence of syntactic categories in the history of linguistics -
>From Medieval to Early Modern Age
Short Title: SiRe workshop 2024

Date: 27-May-2024 - 28-May-2024
Location: Palermo, Italy
Contact: Annamaria Bartolotta
Contact Email: annamaria.bartolotta at unipa.it
Meeting URL: https://prin2017-sire.eu/

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Syntax

Meeting Description:

SiRe workshop 2024: Advances in the history of linguistics

A two-days colloquium on the history of linguistics to be held at the
University of Palermo, Italy.

This workshop is organised under the auspices of the project funded by
the Italian Ministry of University and Research: "Parts of Speech Meet
Rhetorics: Searching for Syntax in the Continuity between the Middle
Ages and the Modern Age" (SiRe PRIN 20172F2FEZ, PI Paola Cotticelli,
University of Verona).

The workshop seeks to bridge gaps in linguistic historiography by
delving into the emergence of syntactic categories from Late Antiquity
to the pre-Port-Royal theories of 1660. In contemporary linguistic
historiography, the theory of the 'clause' has often been overlooked,
with a prevailing belief that concepts such as ‘main clause’ and
‘subordinate clause’ did not exist before Port Royal. Despite the rich
syntactic insights found in Priscian’s Institutiones Grammaticae, they
lack a cohesive syntactic theory and a specific metalanguage for
syntax. Adopting a word-based approach, Priscian’s model relied on a
dependency-oriented rather than a constituency-oriented structure,
shaping subsequent linguistic perspectives. Even humanist grammars in
the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries, including first grammars of
‘exotic’ languages, influenced by the Latin traditional model,
primarily focused on morphology and the syntactic binary linkage
between individual words.

We invite scholars and researchers to contribute papers on the
historiography of linguistics, exploring medieval and early modern
treatises dedicated to language, glossary and commentary traditions,
grammars of both European and extra-European languages, and the
interplay of syntax within grammar, rhetoric, and logic.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Medieval and Early Modern grammatical theory of syntax
- missionary grammars and related works
- syntactic metalanguage and emergent syntactic notions
- description of subordinating strategies
- clausal embedding
- coordination vs subordination
- sentence linear vs structural order

Keynote Speakers (confirmed):
Anne Grondeux (CNRS - Université Sorbonne Nouvelle)
Otto Zwartjes (CNRS - Université Paris Cité and Université Sorbonne
Nouvelle)

Registration is now open (it includes lunch and coffee breaks). The
participation at the workshop is free of charge, but registration is
required.
Registration link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe5FOcOfgV
zK9hXZkYjy8hS3uUEWDuJNp3n-L8Gm5ED6-pexQ/viewform
Registration closes on April 30th.

The workshop venue is the Department of Humanities at the University
of Palermo, Viale delle Scienze, Building 12, Aula Seminari
In order to attend the workshop online, please send an email to
sire.prin2024 at gmail.com
For further information about travel and accomodation, please contact
the organising committee at sire.prin2024 at gmail.com

Monday 27 May

15.00-15.15 - Opening session

15.15-16.15 - Keynote: Anne Grondeux (Paris, CNRS / Université
Sorbonne Nouvelle): Immensum Prisciani pelagus: the (first) many ways
of reading Priscian in the mediaeval West

16.15-16.45 - S. Merlin Defanti (Napoli Federico II): Le pronom
relatif et les phrases relatives dans la pensée grammaticale latine :
les enjeux de la syntaxe

16.45-17.15 - P. Cotticelli (Verona): Towards a classification of
sentences in Medieval grammars: the role of the positurae

17.15-17.45 - Coffee Break

17.45-18.15 - M. Longo (Palermo): A pre-Latin Syntax in Medieval
Iceland? A Comparative Investigation of Samsetning and Málsgrein in
Icelandic Grammatical Treatises

18.15-18.45 - F. Cotugno (Verona): Dependens e terminans: alla ricerca
di una definizione nella costellazione modista

20.00 - Social dinner

Tuesday 28 May

9.15-10.15 - Keynote: Otto Zwartjes (Université Paris Cité /
Laboratoire d'histoire des théories linguistiques - HTL): How to learn
and teach syntax in missionary grammars? (with particular focus on
Chinese syntax in 17th century Spanish missionaries’ grammars)

10.15-10.45 - A. Perri (Napoli Suor Orsola Benincasa): From Nebrija to
Carochi: the Arte de la lengua mexicana (1665) between tradition and
innovation

10.45-11.15 - A. Bartolotta & G. Quartararo (Palermo): Conjunctions as
a grammatical category in missionary grammars of South America
(16th-17th centuries)

11.15-11.45 - Coffee Break

11.45-12.15 - L. Alfieri (Roma Marconi): The autonomisation of the
syntactic category “adjective” between the Middle Ages and the early
Modern Era

12.15-12.45 - O. Pazdírek (Brno): Vietnamese syntax in de Rhodes’
Linguae annamiticae seu Tunchinensis brevis declaratio (1651)

12.45-13.15 - D. Poli (Macerata): La questione della lingua nel
Collegio Romano: una ipotesi fondata sugli scritti in italiano di
Matteo Ricci

13.15-14.30 - Lunch

14.30-15.00 - N. Santoni (Macerata): La grammatica medievale dei
dictamina tra Italia e Francia: l’eredità bolognese in un confronto
teorico e terminologico con le scuole di Orléans

15.00-15.30 - C. Nigrelli (Palermo):Servire vs regere. On metaterms
about prepositions in the medieval Donatian tradition

15.30-16.00 - G. Di Bartolo (Köln): To what extent do conjunctions fit
into syndesmoi?

16.00-16.30 - L. Melazzo (Palermo): Some thoughts on the micro-syntax
of the so-called idiomata casuum

16.30-17.00 - Coffee Break

17.00-17.30 - P. Meng (Virginia): Interplay of Syntax, Rhetoric, and
Logic in Clausal Embedding: Insights from Medieval and Early Modern
Linguistic Treatises 

17.30-18.00 - E. Nardi (Palermo) & B. Grieco (Roma Sapienza): Per
periphrasin loquimur: ‘periphrasis’ in language description, from
discourse to grammar

18.00-18.30 - A. Bianchi (Macerata): Un gesuita a Port-Royal: Philippe
Labbé tra grammatica ed etimologia

18.30-18.45 - Closing Remarks

https://prin2017-sire.eu/convegno-the-emergence-of-syntactic-categorie
s-in-the-history-of-linguistics-from-medieval-to-modern-age/

Scientific Coordinator: Annamaria Bartolotta

Organising Committee:
Annamaria Bartolotta
Jan Casalicchio
Laura Conte
Gabriele Ganau
Michele Longo
Edoardo Nardi
Castrenze Nigrelli
Domenico Portera
Geraldine Quartararo

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