LINGUIST List 25.2177
Sat
May 17 2014
Calls: Romance,
Historical Linguistics,
Syntax/Portugal
Editor for this issue:
Anna White <awhitelinguistlist.org>
Date: 16-May-2014
From: Ana Martins
<anamartins
letras.ulisboa.pt>
Subject: Going Romance
Workshop #1: Constituent Order Variation
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Full Title: Going Romance Workshop #1:
Constituent Order Variation
Date: 06-Dec-2014 - 06-Dec-2014
Location: Lisbon, Portugal
Contact Person: Ana Martins
Meeting Email:
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Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics;
Syntax
Language Family(ies): Romance
Call Deadline: 21-Jul-2014
Meeting Description:
Workshop #1: Constituent Order Variation
Organized by Ana Maria Martins, Ernestina
Carrilho and Sandra Pereira
Project WOChWEL
http://alfclul.clul.ul.pt/wochwel/)
Word order is at the core of natural language
grammatical systems,
interacting with all their structural
components, linking syntax with sound
(prosody) and meaning (semantics/pragmatics),
manifesting the
characteristic ‘displacement property’ that
lays behind the opposition
between base-generated and derived word orders,
and feeding variation
across the geographic and temporal axes. After
a long path of investigation
on word order phenomena, novel findings may
arise from a good articulation
between the successful but often separate
efforts of typologists,
historical and theoretical linguists so as to
take full advantage of both
large-scale cross-linguistic surveys and the
more circumscribed and in
depth analyses of theory-oriented research.
Call for Papers:
As a contribution to the workshop goal, we
welcome abstract submissions for
oral presentations on any topic in Constituent
Order Variation in
particular Romance varieties, across Romance
languages or in a broader
comparative perspective that includes Romance.
Both synchronic and
diachronic approaches are welcome. Paper
proposals should be framed within
a theoretical framework.
Submission Details:
Abstracts are invited for 25-minute
presentations plus 10 minutes for
discussion.
Abstracts should be anonymous, written in
English, and no longer than two
pages, including references and examples, with
margins of at least 1 inch
(2.5 cm), in 12-point Times New Roman, single
spaced.
The anonymous abstracts should be sent as
e-mail attachments both in PDF
and Word format. Join separately a Word file
containing: title, author’s
name and address, affiliation and email
address. Also indicate if an
abstract submitted for the main session could
as well be considered for one
of the workshops or vice-versa.
Authors may submit two abstracts if one of them
is for the main session and
the other for one of the workshops. Otherwise,
submissions are limited to a
maximum of one individual and one joint
abstract per author.
Abstract submissions to the main session should
be sent to
goingromlisbon
fcsh.unl.pt
Abstract submissions to the workshop #1
(Constituent Order Variation)
should be sent to anamartins
letras.ulisboa.pt
Important Dates:
July 21, 2014: Abstract submission deadline
September 20, 2014: Notification of
acceptance
December 4-6, 2014: Conference and
workshops
Local Organizing Committee:
João Costa
Ana Maria Martins
Maria Lobo
Ernestina Carrilho
Alexandra Fiéis
Sandra Pereira
Page Updated: 17-May-2014