Call for papers

final Call for Papers

 

Deadline: February 28, 2015

As is the case with any other natural language, the Ibero-Romance languages have entered in contact with diverse languages, due to their particular historical, geographical and political situations. The resulting diversification is apparent at the intercontinental, international, national and local level. Obvious examples are the European and Latin-American variants. Moreover, the colonialist and commercial endeavours that were undertaken in the previous centuries have contributed to the emergence of particular language contact situations over different continents, which have been an inexhaustible source of interesting language phenomena that have caught linguists’ attention.Therefore, the Ibero-Romance languages, as languages in contact and contrast with other languages, can be studied from various perspectives and within different approaches. In particular, interested researchers are kindly invited to present their work relating to the following issues:

 

  • Comparison of different varieties from the local to the intercontinental level (e.g. European, Latin-American, and African varieties, minority languages, …)
  • Contrastive syntactic, semantic and/or pragmatic analyses of two or more (Ibero-) Romance languages (e.g. the study of cognates in syntax and in the lexicon such as, the diverging polysemy of similar lexemes, different grammaticalization paths, the contrastive study of grammatical constructions, the dative, …)
  • Linguistic fixation and standardization (cf. orthographic norms, language politics, etc.)
  • Language contact inside the Ibero-Romance area
  • Creole languages, Judeo-Spanish, Spanglish
  • Ibero-Romance case studies that show that language contact can both accelerate and slow down linguistic change
  • Case studies on the convergence or divergence of the Ibero-Romance languages
  • Grammaticalization due to language contact

We invite abstracts for regular 20-minute conference presentations, which will be reviewed anonymously. Abstracts must not exceed 500 words, including references and data, and should mention main research question(s), methodology, dataset and (expected) results. The conference languages are any of the Ibero-Romance languages and English.

 

Please send in your abstract via Easychair at the following link

Please do not reveal the identity of the author(s) in the abstract.

 

Scientific Committee

  • Miriam Bouzouita (Ghent University)
  • Renata Enghels (Ghent University)
  • Clara Vanderschueren (Ghent University)
  • Bert Cornillie (KULeuven)
  • Pedro Gras (University of Antwerp)
  • An Vande Casteele (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
  • Eugeen Roegiest (Ghent University)
  • Johannes Kabatek (Universität Zürich)
  • Anthony Grant (Edge Hill University)
  • José Luis Blas Arroyo (Universitat Jaume I)
  • Elena Azofra (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia)
  • Kim Schulte (Universitat Jaume I)
  • Marleen Van Peteghem (Ghent University)
  • Augusto Soares da Silva (Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Braga)
  • Rainer Vesterinen (University of Stockholm)
  • Ioanna Sitaridou (University of Cambridge)
  • Barbara de Cock (Université Catholique de Louvain)
  • Adrián Cabedo Nebot (Universitat de València)
  • Celeste Augusto (Universiteit Utrecht)
  • Marie Comer (Universiteit Gent)
  • Kris Helincks (Universiteit Gent)
  • Sanne Tanghe (Universiteit Gent)
  • Marlies Jansegers (Universiteit Gent)
  • Hugo Salgado (Universiteit Gent)