LINGUIST List 29.602
Mon Feb 05 2018
Calls: Spanish, Sociolinguistics, Typology/Spain
Editor for this issue: Kenneth Steimel <kenlinguistlist.org>
Date: 05-Feb-2018
From: Maria del Pilar Perez Ocon <Pilar.Perez
uclm.es>
Subject: Spanish Dialects Meeting
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Date: 17-May-2018 - 18-May-2018
Location: Ciudad Real, Spain
Contact
Person: Angeles Carrasco
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Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics; Typology
Subject Language(s):
Spanish
Call Deadline: 15-Feb-2018
Meeting Description:
This conference is hosted by the University of Castilla-La Mancha.
Dialects
of Spanish have been the focus of systematic research ever since the first
linguistic atlases were developed at the beginning of the 20th century (e.g.,
Menéndez-Pidal’s ill-fated ALPI; cf. Fernández-Ordóñez 2009, García-Mouton 2016), an
interest that grew with the advent of structuralism, and is nowadays exploiting new
tools and technologies to obtain a better mapping of the properties and boundaries
of Spanish varieties. Significantly, dialectal studies have largely neglected
phenomena falling out of the domains of phonetics, morphology, and the lexicon—for
which strategies capitalizing on statistical, reconstructive, and comparative
techniques have proved useful (Chambers & Trudgill 1998, Chambers & Schilling-Estes
2013, Labov 1994, 2001, Labov, Ash & Boberg 2006, Petyt 1980, Campbell 2001). Most
of those works take into account geographic and social factors in order to explain
variation (and change), and made it possible to understand sociolinguistic phenomena
such as “diglosia,” “dialectal continua,” and “transitional areas.” Another of the
results of this line of research was that of achieving an adequate characterization
of units such as “phoneme,” “morpheme,” and “distinctive feature,” which allowed and
boosted the investigations based on fieldwork, leading to typological studies like
those of Joseph Greenberg (Greenberg 1963).
In the case of Spanish, studies
on dialectal variation have focused on those very domains: the lexicon, phonetics,
and morphology (Alvar 1996a, 1996b, Fernández-Ordóñez 2011, García-Mouton 1994, Kany
1945, among others). In the last decades, different lines of research have emerged
trying to favor a transition towards studies where other components of grammar
(especially syntax) have a more prominent position. Those attempts gave rise to a
significantly growing literature with doctoral theses, papers, handbooks, and
conference proceedings (Hualde et al. 2012, Gutiérrez-Rexach 2016, and references
therein), but it can be said that the key turning point arises with the publication
of the Gramática Descriptiva de la Lengua Española (Bosque & Demonte 1999) and the
Nueva Gramática de la Lengua Española (RAE-ASALE 2009, 2011), works where entire
sections are devoted to discuss different case studies of variation.
Along
with the appearance of such publications, in the last forty years, syntactic theory
has developed and put into practice tools and methods that complement the existing
structuralist work, making it possible to approach dialectal variation in a
comprehensive, detailed and formal fashion. Many of those tools have its origin in
the Principles and Parameters (P&P) framework ( Chomsky 1981), which has proved very
useful in order to characterize many languages, establishing points of uniformity
(the “principles”) and points of variation (the “parameters”) (Belletti y Rizzi
1996, Barbiers 2014, Biberauer 2008, Cinque & Kayne 2005, Gallego 2011, Kayne 2000,
2005, Mendívil 2009, Picallo 2014, and references therein). This line of research
evolved into the concept of “micro-parameter” (i.e., specific points of variation in
closely related varieties of the same language or languages). Given that we have
these tools, along with all we have learnt in the last almost 20 years (precisely
when the two reference grammars of Spanish have been published), there is no reason
for studies on grammatical variation not to move into new terrain. This second
edition of the Spanish Dialects Meeting brings together again those researchers
that, from different theoretical perspectives, work on the grammatical (especially
syntactic) variation that can be found in both American and European dialects.
Invited Speakers:
Georg Kaiser, Universität Konstanz
Julio
Villa-García, University of Manchester
Final Call for Papers:
Submissions:
We invite submissions for 40 minutes (30 presentation + 10 debate) long
oral presentations. Submissions should be sent by attachment, as anonymous PDFs, to
the following e-mail address: grupo.grava
uclm.es. Abstracts
must be no longer than two single-spaced pages, in Times New Roman 12, with 2.5 cm
margins, including references and examples. Authors can submit one joint and one
individual abstract.
Important dates:
- Deadline for submissions:
15 February
- Notification of acceptance: 23 March
Registration, fees
and certificates:
Registration: Registration will be possible from 4
February until 18 May through the meeting website (
https://www.uclm.es/es/grupos/grava/actividades/encuentro).
Registration fees: Presenters (50 euros) / Attendees and students (20
euros).
A certificate of attendance will be given to registered
participants.
Organizing Committee UCLM:
Bruno Camus (UCLM)
Ángeles
Carrasco Gutiérrez (UCLM)
Raquel González Rodríguez (UCM)
Edita Gutiérrez
Rodríguez (UCLM)
Pilar Pérez Ocón (UCLM)
Steering Committee Encuentro
sobre Dialectos del español / Spanish Dialects Meeting:
Ignacio Bosque
(UCM)
Inés Fernández Ordóñez (UAM)
Ángel J. Gallego (UAB)
Francisco
Ordóñez (Stony Brook University)
Cristina Sánchez (UCM)
Scientific
Committee:
Carlota de Benito (UZürich)
Ana Bravo (UMurcia)
José
María Brucart (UAB)
Alba Cerrudo (UAB)
Luis Eguren (UAM)
Ricardo
Etxepare (IKER-CNRS)
Antonio Fábregas (UTromsø)
Olga Fernández Soriano (UAM)
Irene Gil (UCM)
Mª Lluïsa Hernanz (UAB)
Aritz Irurtzun (IKER-CNRS)
Manuel
Leonetti (UAH)
José Luis Mendívil (UZaragoza)
Francesc Roca (UdG)
Avel·lina
Suñer (UdG)
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