LINGUIST List 22.3518 Thu Sep 08 2011 Calls: Germanic, Romance, Historical Ling, Typology/Netherlands Editor for this issue: Alison Zaharee <alisonlinguistlist.org> New! Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships:             http://multitree.linguistlist.org/ LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.     Petra Sleeman , Adjectives in Germanic and Romance: Variation and Change Message 1: Adjectives in Germanic and Romance: Variation and Change Date: 06-Sep-2011 From: Petra Sleeman <p.sleemanuva.nl> Subject: Adjectives in Germanic and Romance: Variation and Change E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Adjectives in Germanic and Romance: Variation and Change Date: 29-Mar-2012 - 30-Mar-2012 Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands Contact Person: Petra Sleeman Meeting Email: < click here to access email > Web Site: http://www.hum.uva.nl/adjectives Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Typology Language Family(ies): Germanic; Romance Call Deadline: 16-Dec-2011 Meeting Description: Adjectives in Germanic and Romance: Variation and Change 29 March - 30 March, 2012 Amsterdam, University of Amsterdam (ACLC) Although the Germanic and Romance languages are two branches of the same language family and both have developed the adjective as a separate morphological and syntactic category, the syntax and semantics of adjectives is by no means the same in these two language groups. The goal of this conference is to map the differences and similarities in meaning and syntactic behavior of the Germanic and Romance adjective, and to find an answer to the question: are the (dis)similarities the result of autonomous development in each of the two branches of the Indo-European language family or are they caused by language contact. Invited Speakers: Guglielmo Cinque (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia) Frans Plank (Universität Konstanz) Call for Papers: Topics to be discussed at the conference may include (but are not limited to) the following: - Predicative vs. attributive adjectives - Adjectival positions - Adjectival agreement - Weak and strong adjectives - Relational adjectives - Functional adjectives - Gradable vs. non-gradable adjectives - Superlatives Abstracts are invited for 30 minute talks (20+10) relevant to the conference theme. Submissions are limited to one single-authored and one joint-authored abstract. The abstracts should be sent by e-mail to variation-change-fgwuva.nl no later than 16 December 2011. Abstracts should be anonymous both in the body of the text and the file name and should not exceed two A4 pages with a 2.5cm margin on each side and in 12 pt font. A second document (in a separate file) should be submitted with the title of the paper and name(s), affiliation(s), and preferred contact details of the author(s). Submission deadline: 16 December 2011 Notification of acceptance: 20 January 2012 Organizing Committee: Harry Perridon, Petra Sleeman & Freek Van de Velde Submission Address: variation-change-fgwuva.nl Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 08-Sep-2011       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.