Short Title: RGCC2021
Date: 24-Mar-2021 – 26-Mar-2021
Location: Online University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
Contact: Alice Corr
Contact Email: < click here to access email >
Meeting URL: https://sites.google.com/view/judeospanish/workshop-rgcc-2021
Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation; Linguistic Theories; Sociolinguistics; Syntax
Language Family(ies): Romance
Meeting Description:
This online workshop will draw together interdisciplinary perspectives towards Romance grammatical variation in the context of migration, multilingualism, contact, language oppression and/or other social and material contextual factors in relation to Romance linguistic communities and/or their language practices.
Invited speakers:
Roberta D’Alessandro (Utrecht)
Silvina Montrul (University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign)
Eliezer Papo (Ben Gurion University of the Negev)
Shana Poplack, (Ottawa)
Almeida Jacqueline Toribio (University of Texas at Austin)
Program Information:
Full programme available at: https://sites.google.com/view/judeospanish/workshop-rgcc-2021/programme
Registration (required, free of charge): https://shop.bham.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/college-of-arts-law/school-of-languages-cultures-art-history-music/romance-grammars-context-and-contact-workshop-rgcc2021
All times below are UTC/GMT (UK time).
Wednesday 24 March
2-4pm: Doing Romance Linguistics roundtable + Q&A
Roberta D’Alessandro (Utrecht), Shana Poplack, (Ottawa), Almeida Jacqueline Toribio (University of Texas at Austin)
4.15-5.45pm: Session 1: Heritage languages and schools
Thursday 25 March
10.45-11.45: Session 2: Romance in contact and context
12.15-1pm: Lightning talks
2-3.45pm: Public activities: lecture and workshop
Eliezer Papo (Ben Gurion University of the Negev): La diferensia entre el ladino i el kristilyano [talk in Ladino].
Carlos Yebra López (New York): ‘How to write your name in Solitreo’ workshop
4-5.30: Session 3: Judeo-Romance
Fri 26 March
10.30-12:00 Session 4: Formal approaches to Romance syntax and morphology
12.15-1pm: Lightning talks
2-3pm Plenary lecture
Silvina Montrul (Urbana Champaign): Spanish, Romanian and Bilingual Language Change
3.30-5pm Session 5: Experimental approaches to Romance contact