LINGUIST List 25.2178
Sat
May 17 2014
Calls: Romance,
Historical Linguistics,
Syntax/Portugal
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Anna White <awhitelinguistlist.org>
Date: 16-May-2014
From: Alexandra Fiéis
<afieis
fcsh.unl.pt>
Subject: Going Romance
Workshop #2: Subordination in Old Romance
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Full Title: Going Romance Workshop #2:
Subordination in Old Romance
Date: 06-Dec-2014 - 06-Dec-2014
Location: Lisbon, Portugal
Contact Person: Alexandra Fiéis
Meeting Email:
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Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics;
Syntax
Language Family(ies): Romance
Call Deadline: 21-Jul-2014
Meeting Description:
Workshop #2: Subordination in Old Romance
Organized by Alexandra Fiéis, Maria Lobo and
Ana Madeira (Project
PTDC/MHC-LIN/4564/2012)
The idea that every sentence has a lexical and
a functional domain is
consensual. Recent debates in syntactic theory
discuss whether the
functional structure is universal or
parametrized, and how to determine the
value of functional categories. The question of
how these domains interact
also remains on the cutting edge of research in
formal syntax, and the
study of the mechanisms of subordination may
help shed light on these
questions. For example, an analysis of
complementation and adverbial
subordination in diachronic data may show that
in certain domains of
subordination some functional nodes might be
absent depending on the
properties of the constituent introducing the
subordinate clause. This will
help determine functional structure. Moreover,
there are good grounds for
expecting important results in relating the
findings of diachronic research
to other domains, namely, L1 and L2 language
development, which is
important in order to answer the central
questions of linguistic theory,
namely what is linguistic knowledge and how it
is represented in the mind.
Call for Papers:
As a contribution to the workshop goal, we
welcome abstract submissions for
oral presentations on any topic relating to
Subordination in particular
Romance varieties, across Romance languages or
in a broader comparative
perspective that includes Romance. 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 workshop #2
(Subordination in Old Romance)
should be sent to afieis
fcsh.unl.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