Bibliographie
Substratum and Adstratum in the Development of Romance Morphosyntax
Date : 07-Dec-2017 - 09-Dec-2017
Location : Bucharest, Romania
Contact Person : Alexandru Nicolae
Meeting Email : < click here to access email >
Web Site : http://gromance.litere.ro/
Linguistic Field(s) : General Linguistics ; Historical Linguistics
Language Family(ies) : Romance
Call Deadline : 25-Aug-2017
Meeting Description :
The effects of the substratum languages spoken by the indigenous populations of the Romanized territories (e.g. the Gaulish substratum of French) and of the adstratum languages with which the newly coined Romance languages came into contact (e.g. Old (Church) Slavonic viz. Romanian) on the morphosyntactic development of the Romance languages have not been explored in a systematic fashion to date. The workshop intends to bring together researchers interested in the early morphosyntactic history of the Romance language, and aims at answering questions / raising issues like the following : (i) while it is a well-known fact that the phonology and lexical stock of the Romance languages were affected by substratum languages and by early contact, the degree to which the grammar of the early Romance languages was influenced is still largely obscure ; (ii) what are the phenomena / linguistic structures which have been affected by early contact ? ; (iii) are we dealing with deep/macroparametric effects or with superficial/microparametric phenomena ? ; (iv) are there situations of parametric overlapping/convergence ? ; and (v) what is the relevance of areal (Sprachbund) features in the early morphosyntactic development of the Romance languages ?
Call for Papers :
Abstracts are invited for oral presentations (20 + 10 minutes) and poster presentations.
Abstracts should be anonymous and no longer than two A4 pages, including references and examples, with margins of at least 1 inch, font size 12, single-spaced. The file should be anonymous both in the body of the text and in the filename. Please make sure all fonts and figures are correctly rendered.
The abstract should be sent as an e-mail attachment in both PDF and Word format to the following email address : goingromance2017
unibuc.ro . Submissions will be accompanied by a separate file containing : title, author’s name and address, affiliation and email address.
Extended deadline for abstract submission (workshop) : 25 August 2017
Notification of acceptance : 15 September 2017
A small number of accommodation grants will be offered to young researchers (PhD candidates) by The Research Institute of the University of Bucharest. More details will be available after the notification of acceptance.
The first call for papers is also posted on the Linguist List :
http://linguistlist.org/issues/28/28-2090.html