LINGUIST List 17.169

Wed Jan 18 2006

Calls: Bantu/Romance Ling/UK;Ling Theories/Japan

Editor for this issue: Kevin Burrows <kevinlinguistlist.org>

Directory         1.    Cecile De Cat, The Bantu-Romance Connection
         2.    Toshio Ohori, 4th International Conference on Construction Grammar
Message 1: The Bantu-Romance Connection
Date: 17-Jan-2006
From: Cecile De Cat <c.decatleeds.ac.uk>
Subject: The Bantu-Romance Connection



Full Title: The Bantu-Romance Connection
Date: 26-May-2006 - 27-May-2006 Location: Leeds, United Kingdom Contact Person: Cecile De Cat
Meeting Email: < click here to access email >
Web Site: http://www.modern.lang.leeds.ac.uk/BantuRom/
Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Morphology; Syntax

Call Deadline: 10-Feb-2006

Meeting Description:

The Bantu-Romance Connection project aims to bring together specialists of Bantu and Romance languages to explore striking morpho-syntactic similarities between these two unrelated language families, in an effort to better understand the nature of linguistic structure, its diversity and constraints.

Second call for papers

-Attendance to this workshop is limited to 30 participants (as required by the European Science Foundation). If you are keen to attend, please submit an abstract!

Meeting Description:

The Bantu-Romance Connection project aims to bring together specialists of Bantu and Romance languages to explore striking morpho-syntactic similarities between these two unrelated language families, in an effort to better understand the nature of linguistic structure, its diversity and constraints.

Bantu and Romance languages display a number of morpho-syntactic similarities, including null subjects, object clitics, rich gender/class agreement systems, and extraposition of arguments resulting in a variety of surface word orders. Yet most scholars of Romance have little awareness of Bantu linguistic structures, and many Bantuists are not fully aware of the syntactic diversity of Romance languages. We would like to begin remeding this situation by proposing a 2-day workshop dedicated in equal parts to each language group. The format of the workshop will encourage debate as well as informal discussion between scholars.

A number of questions arise regarding the surface similarities found in these two language groups: Are the syntactic structures underlying these surface similarities really the same? or are they actually different, and how can we tell? What is the diversity of structures permitted in each of these domains, and how are they represented across these two language groups?

To address these questions, presentations and posters will be centred around three themes:

- The structure of the Determiner Phrase- Clitics, agreement and object drop- Focus, topic and Information Structure

Invited speakers:

Anna Cardinaletti (Università di of Venezia, Italy)Vicki Carstens (University of Mississippi, USA)Joao Costa (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal)Mara Frascarelli (Università di Roma Tre, Italy)Giuliana Giusti (Università di Venezia, Italy)Nancy Kula (University of Leiden, The Netherlands)Marie Labelle (Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada)Lutz Marten (SOAS, UK)Yukiko Morimoto (Zentrum für allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Germany)Nhlanhla Thwala (School for Oriental and African Studies, UK)Marianna Visser (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)Roberto Zamparelli (Università di Bergamo, Italy)

Submissions are invited for 12 posters (4 per theme, including 2 per language family). Preference will be given to those that demonstrate an interest in exploring these issues cross-linguistically. Contributions addressing acquisition issues are welcome.

Submission format: maximum 2 pages of A4, font size 12pt. Please email an anonymous version to c.decatleeds.ac.uk, including your name, affiliation and contact details in the body of the message.

Deadline for submission: 10 February 2006

Acceptance will be announced by 20 February 2006


Message 2: 4th International Conference on Construction Grammar
Date: 16-Jan-2006
From: Toshio Ohori <tohoriboz.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
Subject: 4th International Conference on Construction Grammar



Full Title: 4th International Conference on Construction Grammar Short Title: ICCG4
Date: 01-Sep-2006 - 03-Sep-2006 Location: Tokyo, Japan Contact Person: Seiko Fujii
Meeting Email: < click here to access email >
Web Site: http://gamp.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~iccg2006/iccg2006.html
Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories

Call Deadline: 01-Feb-2006

Meeting Description:

The Fourth International Conference on Construction Grammar (ICCG4), September 1-3, 2006, University of Tokyo, Japan


SECOND CALL FOR PAPERSThe Fourth International Conference on Construction Grammar (ICCG4)September 1-3, 2006University of Tokyo, Japanhttp://gamp.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~iccg2006/iccg2006.html

E-mail (general inquiries): iccg4komabaecs.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp by May 15, 2006. Authors will be notified of the details in due course.

DEADLINES AND IMPORTANT DATESThe deadline for submitting abstracts: February 1st, 2006(Late submission will be considered until February 20.)Notification of the result of selection: April 15, 2006The deadline for submitting (revised) abstracts of accepted papers: May 15, 2006Early registration deadline: June 1st, 2006