LINGUIST List 22.3764 Tue Sep 27 2011 Confs: Syntax, Historical Linguistics, Sociolinguistics/Portugal Editor for this issue: Amy Brunett <brunettlinguistlist.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.     Ernestina Carrilho , Workshop 'How Spatial is Dialect Syntax?' Message 1: Workshop 'How Spatial is Dialect Syntax?' Date: 25-Sep-2011 From: Ernestina Carrilho <e.carrilhoclul.ul.pt> Subject: Workshop 'How Spatial is Dialect Syntax?' E-mail this message to a friend Workshop 'How Spatial is Dialect Syntax?' Date: 23-Nov-2011 - 25-Nov-2011 Location: Lisbon, Portugal Contact: Ernestina Carrilho Contact Email: < click here to access email > Meeting URL: http://limiar.clul.ul.pt Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Sociolinguistics; Syntax Meeting Description: The workshop is organized by the CORDIAL team (research group Dialectology and Diachrony at Centre of Linguistics of the University of Lisbon - CLUL) as part of the International Symposium on Limits and Areas in Dialectology. The prolific development of dialect syntax over the last two decades widened up the space for dialectology and linguistic theory to meet. The rise and expansion of several national projects and transnational networks on this research domain led to the systematic study of syntactic properties of dialects, which brought to light a sharper awareness of syntactic variation and of its areal extent. While the theoretical impact of dialect syntax continues to renew the debate about the grammatical locus for variation, this workshop calls for contributions addressing the spatial dimension of so-called syntactic variation. The main objective is to provide a forum for researchers to present results from recent projects and discuss issues and challenges pertaining to the geolinguistic import of dialect syntax, together with its theoretical, empirical and methodological implications. Invited Speaker: Sjef Barbiers (Meertens Institute, Amsterdam) 09:30 Workshop Opening 09:45-10:25 On meteorological constructions at the boundaries of Occitania Georg Kaiser (Univ. Konstanz) & Michèle Olivieri (Univ. Nice-Sophia Antipolis) 10:25-11:05 On the nature and areal distribution of Romance subject clitics Michele Loporcaro (Univ. Zurich) 11:30-12:30 Invited talk Categorical and categorial word order variation in Dutch three-verb clusters Sjef Barbiers (Meertens Instituut & Univ. Utrecht) 14:00-14:40 Variation of verbal constructions in Estonian dialects Kristel Uiboaed & Liina Lindström (Univ. Tartu) 14:40-15:20 The am+INF construction in German varieties Christian Ramelli (Saarland University) 15:20-16:00 Vuliri + PP in the Linguistic Atlas of Sicily's data Luisa Amenta & Egle Mocciaro (Univ. Palermo) 16:30-17:10 Geolinguistic patterns in the spatial distribution of the northern subject rule Isabelle Buchstaller, Claire Childs, Karen Corrigan & Anders Holmberg (Newcastle University) 17:10-17:50 The limits of syntactic variation: the case of Dominican Spanish Cristina Martínez Sanz (Univ. Ottawa) 17:50-18:30 New methods in discovering syntactic areas Elvira Glaser & Gabriela Bart (Univ. Zurich) 18:30 Workshop & Symposium Closing Early registration deadline: 30th September Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 27-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.