LINGUIST List 22.4055 Mon Oct 17 2011 Confs: Syntax/Norway Editor for this issue: Amy Brunett <brunettlinguistlist.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.     Christine Meklenborg Salvesen , Challenging Clitics Message 1: Challenging Clitics Date: 17-Oct-2011 From: Christine Meklenborg Salvesen <c.m.salvesenilos.uio.no> Subject: Challenging Clitics E-mail this message to a friend Challenging Clitics Date: 27-Oct-2011 - 28-Oct-2011 Location: Oslo, Norway Contact: Christine Meklenborg Salvesen Contact Email: clitics-workshopilos.uio.no Meeting URL: http://www.hf.uio.no/ilos/forskning/aktuelt/arrangementer/konferanser-seminarer/2011/challenging-clitics/index.html Linguistic Field(s): Syntax Meeting Description: The publication of Richard Kayne's 1975 monograph on French syntax initiated a lot of research on French but also on more general theoretical issues. The book defines five tests of clitichood: a clitic may never be modified, stressed, separated from its host, and lastly, clitic clusters always have a fixed word order. Over the years clitics have come to play a central role in linguistics. Within diachronic syntax, for example, clitics are thought to represent an intermediary stage between a full lexical item and an inflexional affix. There is however evidence that Kayne's tests of clitichood should be challenged. In African French, clitics may be stressed, and in the history of Italian, the internal position of clitics has changed. It is also necessary to modify the basically Romance conception of clitics: Clitics in the Germanic languages are not primarily pronouns, and their host is not necessarily a verb. These facts raise some questions: What kind of words may cliticise? What kind of word may clitics cliticise to? Is there cross-linguistic evidence that suggests a different way of defining clitics than the five tests provided by Kayne? The workshop aims at looking at clitics from different angles, both with regards to the languages under study and the theoretical framework in use. Invited Speakers: Ur Shlonsky, University of Geneva Helge Lødrup, University of Oslo Mila D. Vulchanova, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Thursday October 27th 09.00-09.15 Coffee 09.15-09.20 Welcome 09.20-10.10 Mila Vulchanova: The Evolution of the Article in Old Bulgarian 10.10-10.40 Grete Dalmi: Polarity Question Clitics in South Slavic vs. Hungarian: a Cartographic Approach 10.40-11.10 Krzysztof Migdalski: Diachronic Source of Two Cliticization Patterns in Slavic 1110-1130 Coffee 11.30-12.00 Tabea Ihsane: One Clitic, Several 'sources' 12.00-12.30 Elizaveta Khachaturyan: The Acquisition of Italian and Russian Clitics by a Bilingual Child 12.30-13.45 Lunch 13.45-14.15 Alexandra Simonenko: Clitic-hood as a Phonological Correlate of Phase-head status: Evidence from Mainland Scandinavian DP 14.15-15.05 Helge Lødrup: Norwegian Possessive Pronouns: Phrases, Words or Suffixes? 15.05-15.20 Coffee 15.20-15.50 Cheikh Bamba Dione: Handling Wolof Clitics in LFG 15.50-16.20 Natalia Pavlou & Phoevos Panagiotidis: The Morhosyntax of -nde and Post-verbal Clitics in Cypriot Greek 16.20-16.50 Alexandra Galani & George Tsoulas: Doubling the Double Object Clitic Cluster: a Northwestern Greek Dialect 20.00 Dinner Friday October 28th 09.00-09.30 Diego Pescarini: The Evolution of Italo-Romance Clitic Clusters 09.30-10.00 Cinzia Russi & Janice Aski: On the Variable Order of Double Object Clitic Clusters in 14th Century Tuscan Varieties 10.00-10.20 coffee 10.20-11.10 Ur Shlonsky: Feature Incorporation and Criterial Freezing: Subject Clitics in Northern Italian Dialects 11.10-11.40 Francisco Jose Fernandez Rubiera: Revisiting Enclisis and Proclisis Alternations: Matrix and Embedded Clauses in Asturian 11.40-12.10 Filomena Sandalo & Charlotte Galves: Clitic Placement and Grammaticalization in Portuguese 12.10-13.15 lunch 13.15-13.45 Marios Mavrogiorgos: V-movement to a V-related head and Enclisis in Finiteness-sensitive and Tobler-Mussafia Languages: a View from PF/morphology 13.45-14.15 Francine A. Girard: To What Extent are Clitics in Cajun French a Challenge for Traditional Analysis? 14.15-14.45 Mohamed Jlassi: On the Existence of Subject Clitics in Arabic: Evidence from Particle Clitics in Tunisian Arabic 14.45-15.00 Closing remarks Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 17-Oct-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.