LINGUIST List 25.4232
Sat Oct 25 2014
Confs: Romance, General Ling, Historical Ling, Morphology, Syntax, Typology/Switzerland
Editor for this issue: Anna White <awhitelinguistlist.org>
Date: 22-Oct-2014
From: Giorgio Iemmolo <giorgio.iemmolo
uzh.ch>
Subject: Partitivity in Romance and Beyond
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Short Title: PiRAB
Date: 11-Dec-2014 - 13-Dec-2014
Location: Zurich, Switzerland
Contact: Giorgio Iemmolo
Contact Email:
< click here to access email > Meeting URL:
http://www.rose.uzh.ch/seminar/personen/stark/workshop.html
Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Morphology; Syntax; Typology
Language Family(ies): Romance
Meeting Description:
International Exploratory Workshop
''Partitivity in Romance and Beyond''
Zurich, 11-13 December 2014
This workshop on partitive elements in Romance and beyond, has a twofold aim. The first aim is to identify where these elements are present in Romance and Germanic varieties of Switzerland, as well as adjacent ones in France, Germany, and Italy, and to fill up the lacunae about their geographical distribution, lacunae to be further explored in collaborative research projects based on available databases, especially inside the Edisyn Network (e.g., ALAVAL for Francoprovençal, DADDIPRO for Occitan, ASiT for Northern Italian dialects, SADS for Swiss German dialects). Crucially, many of the researchers leading these projects will take part in the workshop. The second aim is to establish sound hypotheses about the geographical distribution of partitive elements with regard to their development: Did these elements develop (at least initially) independently for language-internal reasons? Did contact play a role (and which one) in the rise and spread of such elements? One crucial idea will be that explicit hypotheses about i) the internal motivation (correlations) of a given morphosyntactic element will permit to formulate predictions about its actual presence or absence in a given variety and ii) that its existence -despite it being unexpected- will give a sound reason to look for language contact as an explanation for it to appear nevertheless.
Program:
Thursday 11 December
Distribution and morpho-syntax of partitive elements in Romance
Room HIM-E-1
09.00
Welcome and coffee
09.30-10.00
Elisabeth Stark & Giorgio Iemmolo (Zurich)
Opening remarks
10.00-10.45
Johannes Kabatek (Zurich)
TBA
10.45-11.30
Núria Martí Girbau (Barcelona)
The Syntax of Partitives: Evidence from Catalan
11.30-12.15
Guido Mensching (Göttingen)
On de-dislocation (pseudo-partitive) in Romance: Catalan and beyond
12.15 - 13.45 Lunch (Sento)
13.45 -14.30
Georg Kaiser (Konstanz)
Looking for partitives in Alpine Romance
14.30-15.15
Anna Cardinaletti & Giuliana Giusti (Venice)
The internal syntax of indefinite dei/delle in Italo-Romance, a micro-parametric approach
15.15-16.00
Cecilia Poletto (Frankfurt a. M.) & Jacopo Garzonio (Venice)
Partitive phenomena in the Northern Italian varieties in synchrony and diachrony
16.00-16.30 Coffee break
16.30-17.15
Federica Diémoz & Andres Kristol (Neuchâtel)
L'expression de la partitivité dans les parlers francoprovençaux valaisans de l'ALAVAL
17.15-18.00
Tabea Ihsane (Geneva)
Partitive article and partitive pronoun in French: focus on the intersection
18.00-18.45
Ur Shlonsky (Geneva)
Two notes on ne-cliticization
Friday 12 December
Typology, dialectology, diachrony and language contact
Room SOE-E-8
09.00-09.45
Patrick Sauzet (Toulouse)
Partitives (zero, light and full) and number marking in Occitan
09.45-10.30
Michèle Oliviéri (Nice)
The 'THESAURUS OCCITAN' Morpho-Syntactic Module
10.30-11.15
Massimo Cerruti & Riccardo Regis (Turin)
Between contact-induced and language-internal changes: the case of partitives in Piedmontese
11.15-11.45 Coffee break
11.45-12.30
Yaron Matras (Manchester)
TBA
12.30-14.00 Lunch (Kunsthaus)
14.00-14.45
Paul Widmer (Zurich)
The expression of part-whole relationships in Indo-European
14.45-15.30
Silvia Luraghi (Pavia)
The diachrony of partitives
15.30-16.15
Thomas Strobel (Frankfurt a. M.)
Structural features of pronominal partitives in Germanic and Romance languages
16.15-16.30 Coffee break
16.30-17.15
Elvira Glaser (Zurich)
Partitivity in German dialects
17.15-18.00
Sjef Barbiers (Utrecht & Meertens Instituut)
(Un)grammatical and (Un)realized
19.30 Conference dinner
Saturday, 13 December
Room HIM-E-1
10.00-12.30
Discussion:
Looking for a strategy: What do we need to find out, which research projects could be conceived of, which funding instruments?
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