35.2536, Calls: Panel "Differential Object Marking in Spanish: New Perspectives" ("Marcado diferencial de objeto en español: Nuevas perspectivas de análisis") - LIII SEL

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Subject: 35.2536, Calls: Panel "Differential Object Marking in Spanish: New Perspectives" ("Marcado diferencial de objeto en español: Nuevas perspectivas de análisis") - LIII SEL

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Date: 16-Sep-2024
From: Carlos Martínez-García [carlma27 at ucm.es]
Subject: Panel "Differential Object Marking in Spanish: New Perspectives" ("Marcado diferencial de objeto en español: Nuevas perspectivas de análisis") - LIII SEL

Full Title: Panel "Differential Object Marking in Spanish: New
Perspectives" ("Marcado diferencial de objeto en español: Nuevas
perspectivas de análisis") - LIII SEL
Short Title: LIII SEL

Date: 20-Jan-2025 - 23-Jan-2025
Location: Salamanca, Spain
Contact Person: Carlos Martínez-García
Meeting Email: carlma27 at ucm.es
Web Site: https://sel2025.usal.es/

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics; Semantics; Syntax
Subject Language(s): Spanish (spa)
Language Family(ies): Romance

Call Deadline: 30-Sep-2024

Meeting Description:

Differential object marking (DOM) is a morphosyntactic phenomenon
found in several languages that consists of the occurrence of a
morphological marking with certain direct objects. In Spanish, DOM
takes the form of the preposition a, and depends on the referential
properties of the object (animacy and definiteness), and on various
factors related to verbal semantics (telicity, affectedness and
agentivity) and information structure (topicality).

The impact of the referential properties of the object, labelled in
Laca (2006) as local factors, has been extensively studied from
synchronic and diachronic perspectives. The prominence scales that
categorize animacy and definiteness have determined the
obligatoriness, possibility and impossibility of DOM, as shown in (1)
(Aissen 2003; Laca 2006).

(1) a.  Veo a la niña / Veo (a) la vaca / Veo *a la mesa.
     b.  Veo a Ana / Veo (a) la niña / Veo (a) una niña / Veo *a
niñas.

The variation observed in the occurrence of DOM is not random, but can
be explained by different factors related to the semantics of the verb
and the information structure (global factors). The influence of these
factors is not as well known as that of local factors, but there are
several recent works that addressed their impact on DOM from different
perspectives (see von Heusinger & Kaiser 2011; García García 2018;
Romero Heredero 2022, among others).

The study of DOM has recently transcended synchronic studies, and has
begun to account for the historical evolution of the phenomenon, the
differences between Spanish varieties, its impact on other levels, or
even its comparison with other phenomena determined by the same
factors.

This panel aims to address the current developments in the study of
DOM, and what are the directions in which further work is worthwhile.

Organizing committee of the panel: Javier Caro Reina (Universität zu
Köln) Marco García García (Universität zu Köln) Carlos Martínez-García
(Universidad Complutense de Madrid) Diego Romero Heredero (Universidad
Complutense de Madrid)

2nd Call for Papers:

The goal of this session is to approach DOM from different
perspectives, such as:

 - linguistic change, both in diachrony and synchrony. The evolution
of DOM throughout the history of Spanish has been governed by the
scale of animacy and referentiality (Laca 2006). In Old Spanish, DOM
was obligatory in canonical position (SVO) with strong pronouns and
personal nouns, while in Modern Spanish it is also obligatory with
certain (in)definite, human nominal phrases. Furthermore, it is
necessary to take into account the role of verbal factors, such as
affectedness, which had an impact on the grammaticalization of DOM not
only diachronically, with (in)definite nominal phrases (Romero
Heredero 2022), but also synchronically, with bare nominals.

 - linguistic variation. Recent sociolinguistic studies, based on
corpora such as PRESEEA, have shown that DOM is subject to dialectal
and sociolinguistic variation. DOM is more grammaticalized in European
Spanish than in Cuban Spanish, where it occurs less frequently with
(in)definite, human nominal phrases (Caro Reina et al. 2021). In other
varieties, DOM is accompanied by clitic doubling. While clitic
doubling is limited to strong pronouns in European Spanish, it also
occurs with person nouns and definite, human nominal phrases, as in
Argentinian and Peruvian Spanish, as well as in Judeo-Spanish (Kurtz
2022; Rinke et al. 2023). In addition, DOM can undergo simplification
or loss in language contact situations (Montrul 2014).

 - discourse structure. One of the least studied aspects is the
prominence of DOM in discourse. Laca (1995) assumes that the use of
DOM with an indefinite object indicates that more information is
expected about this referent, presenting it as a possible discursive
topic. This hypothesis has recently been confirmed in a corpus study
showing that marked indefinite, human objects tend to be retrieved
later in discourse more frequently than the corresponding unmarked
ones (von Heusinger et al. 2024). However, further research is needed
to better understand the role of DOM in discourse. In addition, the
influence that the interaction of markedness and clitic doubling may
have for discourse has not been explored yet.

With this proposal, we invite abstracts on one of the panel topics.

Oral presentations will be 20 minutes long, followed by 10 minutes for
discussion. Please indicate in your submission that your abstract
should be considered for the panel. For the panel we only accept oral
presentations. We will notify the authors by October 31, 2024.

Submission guidelines: Abstracts must be no longer than 500 words,
including references, font size 12, single-spaced. Submissions are
limited to a maximum of one individual and one joint abstract per
author (or two joint abstracts) for the entire conference. Submissions
open September 1, 2024. Please submit here:
https://sel2025.usal.es/convocatoria/

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