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LET.leidenuniv.nl>Call for Papers Workshop on Microvariation in the Syntax of Auxiliaries This two-day workshop will take place during the 34th Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE) meeting at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium), August 29-30, 2001. Topic of the workshop: Recent research on auxiliary DO has shown that its syntax is much more complicated than the study of standard varieties may suggest. Whereas auxiliary DO is a last resort dummy element in Standard English (cf. Chomsky 1995), it can also be used as a habitual aspect marker in closely related varieties such as Caribbean Creoles (Rickford 1986) and Irish English (Guilfoyle 1983). Similarly, auxiliary DO in Standard Dutch and German can only show up in contexts of VP-topicalization, whereas many non-standard varieties of Dutch and German allow a much wider use (Erb 2001). This is one of the many examples that show that the study of microvariation in auxiliary systems is necessary for a deeper understanding of the syntax of auxiliaries. For this workshop we invite papers on microvariation in the syntax of auxiliaries that shed light on theoretical questions such as: (i) How many different types of auxiliary positions are there and do languages differ in the number and order of positions? (ii) Why is there a difference within some languages but not within others between head movement of auxiliaries and head movement of lexical verbs (cf. Pollock 1989)? (iii) Do lexical and functional (auxiliary) instances of one and the same verb have one lexical entry or more? (iv) How can the variation in perfective auxiliary selection be explained (cf. Kayne 2000 for an analysis of variation in the selection of HAVE and BE in Romance dialects) (v) How can the difference between affixal and independent auxiliaries be captured? (vi) Does the distribution of auxiliaries in finite contexts differ from that in non-finite contexts, do languages differ in this respect and how can this be explained? (vii) What does morphosyntactic variation tell us about the syntax of auxiliaries? For example, the occurrence of the so-called Infinitivus pro Participio and the Participium pro Infinitivo effects on auxiliaries in verb clusters seems to correlate with the order of the verbs in these clusters. (viii) Auxiliaries can have clitic status. Languages differ with respect to the enclitic or proclitic status of these clitics. For example, English auxiliary clitics seem to be enclitic (they' d vs. *hawe (from have we), whereas Dutch auxiliary clitics seem to be proclitic (*z'ilden (from ze wilden 'they wanted') vs. hewwe (from hebben we 'have we'). What does this difference tell us about the different syntactic structures of English and Dutch? Abstracts Abstracts are invited for 16 presentations of 40 minutes, including 10 minutes of discussion. Submission deadline of abstract: Monday April 30, 2001 Notification of acceptance: Monday June 1, 2001 Abstracts should be at most two pages long, in a 12-point font with 1-inch margins. They may be sent either electronically (WordPerfect, PDF, or MSWord attachment) with name, title of the paper and affiliation on a separate page (i.e. not in the body of the abstract), or by regular mail (one card with name, title of the paper and affiliation and four anonymous copies). We strongly encourage you to send abstracts by e-mail. E-mail abstracts should be sent to: leonie.cornipsMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
staff.uiuc.edu>4th Conference on the Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese as First and Second Languages together with the 5th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium October 11, 12, 13 and 14, 2001 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Invited Speakers Jos=E9 Igancio Hualde, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Susana L=F3pez-Ornat, Universidad Complutense de Madrid Conxita Lle=F3, Universit=E4t Hamburg Diane Musumeci, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Carmen Silva-Corval=E1n, University of Southern California Juan Uriagereka, University of Maryland Lydia White, McGill University For the Conference on the Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese All topics in the field of first, second, bilingual and impaired acquisition of Spanish, Portuguese or other Iberian languages (Catalan, Gallego, Basque, etc.) will be fully considered. For the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium All topics in Hispanic Linguistics from different theoretical perspectives will be fully considered. Submission Guidelines for the two Conferences 1. Authors can submit two abstracts-one individual and one joint. These can be for one conference each or both for the same conference. 2. Five (5) copies of an anonymous, clearly titled one-page abstract (single-spaced with 1 inch margin throughout, Times New Roman, 12 point font) for review. There can be an additional page for references. 3. One (1) copy of the same abstract with name and institutional affiliation to include in the conference program. 4. For EACH author, an index card with the following information: conference, title of paper, area or research, name, academic affiliation, current/summer address, phone and fax number, e-mail, and audiovisual requests. Abstracts submitted must represent original research. Presentations will be minutes long, plus 10 minutes for questions. All authors who present papers at the conference will be invited to contribute their papers to a refereed volume of selected papers. Deadline: All submissions must be received by May 1, 2001. Send submissions to: Silvina Montrul (for the Acquisition conference) and Francisco Ord=F3=F1ez (for the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, 4080 Foreign Languages Building, MC-176, 707 S. Mathews Ave., Urbana, IL 61801, USA. e-mail: montrulMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue