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

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Subject: 35.276, Calls: The Emergence of Syntactic Categories in the History of Linguistics - From Medieval to Early Modern Age

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Date: 22-Jan-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


Full Title: 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 Person: Annamaria Bartolotta
Meeting Email: annamaria.bartolotta at unipa.it
Web Site: https://prin2017-sire.eu/

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Syntax

Call Deadline: 07-Apr-2024

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)

Call for Papers:

Papers should be of 20 minutes' duration with 10 minutes for
discussion. Proposals of no more than 300 words, including speakers’
names and affiliation, should be sent to the colloquium organiser,
Annamaria Bartolotta (annamaria.bartolotta at unipa.it) by 7 April 2024.

Deadline for abstract submission: April 7, 2024
Notification of acceptance: April 20, 2024
Workshop dates: May 27 & 28, 2024

We look forward to your valuable contributions to this exploration of
syntactic categories in the history of linguistics.

Best Regards,
SiRe Workshop Organizing Committee



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