Full Title: The Grammaticalization of Motion Verbs in Romance (workshop)

Date: 20-Sep-2019 – 21-Sep-2019
Location: Bucharest, Romania
Contact Person: Adina Dragomirescu
Meeting Email: < click here to access email >
Web Site: https://irhunibuc.wordpress.com/2018/10/04/moving-towards-aspect-copula-and-passive-the-diachronic-reanalysis-of-motion-verbs-in-romanian-mov/

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics

Language Family(ies): Romance

Call Deadline: 15-Jul-2019

Meeting Description:

This two-day workshop is part of the research project Moving towards aspect, copula and passive. The diachronic reanalysis of motion verbs in Romanian (MOV)
(https://irhunibuc.wordpress.com/2018/10/04/moving-towards-aspect-copula-and-passive-the-diachronic-reanalysis-of-motion-verbs-in-romanian-mov/), hosted by the Research Institute of the University of Bucharest

Invited speakers:

Adam Ledgeway (University of Cambridge)
Luigi Andriani (Università degli studi di Napoli “Federico II” & New York University)

Call for Papers:

We invite submissions for 30 (20+10) minute long oral presentations dealing with the following issues:

– common paths of grammaticalization of motion verbs in Romance (motion > tense, aspect markers)
– less common paths of grammaticalization of motion verbs in Romance (motion > passive auxiliaries)
– motion verbs used as copulas – a Pan-Romance path; possible explanations
– mechanisms of syntactic change explaining these phenomena
– the degree to which the motion (deictic) meaning is preserved in the novel (grammaticalized) structures
– the relevance of the Romance motion verbs data for the theory of grammaticalization (intermediate steps, switch context(s))
– the relevance of dialectal data for the theory of grammaticalization

Submissions should be sent by attachment, as anonymous pdfs, to: adina_drag(at)yahoo.com, accompanied by a file containing the title of the paper, the authors and their affiliation.

Submissions must be no longer than two single-spaced pages, in Times New Roman 12, including references and examples.

Workshop language: English.

Conference fee: 50 euros (payable upon arrival; it includes coffee breaks and two meals)

Important dates for submission:

– Deadline for submissions: July 15, 2019
– Notification of acceptance: July 25, 2019
– Conference dates: September 20-21, 2019