Submission Guidelines

Authors are asked to submit their abstracts in an anonymous PDF file to the following site: 

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=varint21

An abstract, including examples, tables, or figures, where needed, must not exceed one page in length, in a 12 point font. Margins should be at least 2.5 cm on all sides.

The main aim of this workshop is to widen our understanding of the empirical phenomena displaying linguistic variation, their relevance for the design of the overall grammatical architecture and the current status of parameter-based perspectives on variation.

Descriptive-formal generative approaches to variation are founded on the hypothesis that language variation is channeled by an input-based decision-making process leading to a cascade of binary options (parameters), ultimately yielding a network. Typically, such approaches offer a rather limited scenario of networks (cf. Baker 2008, Biberauer & Roberts 2015, a.o.), whose complexity may reflect constraints imposed to the Faculty of Language, be these of the 3^rd Factor type (cf. Chomsky 2005) or anchored to the various interfaces. This relatively wide view allows us to address both language “variation” and language “contact” among phylogenetically and non-phylogenetically related varieties in a comprehensive fashion.

We welcome contributions that, with such a broad-spectrum taken in mind, focus on the lexicon-syntax and syntax-discourse interfaces, the syntax-semantics interface, the syntax-morphology interface, and language contact and language variation phenomena.

REFERENCES

Chomsky, N. 2005. “Three factors in language design”. Linguistic Inquiry 36: 1-22.

Baker, M. C. 2008. “The macroparameter in a microparametric world’”. In T. Biberauer (ed.). The Limits of Syntactic Variation. 351-373. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Biberauer, T. and I. Roberts. 2015. “Rethinking formal hierarchies: a proposed unification”. In J.Chancharu, X. Huand and M. Mitrović (eds.). Cambridge Occasional Papers in Linguistics 7: 1-31. https://www.mmll.cam.ac.uk/files/copil_7_1_biberauerroberts.pdf

Committees

Organizing committee

• Ángel J. Gallego (UAB)
• Jaume Mateu (UAB)
• Luis Eguren (UAM)
• Olga Fernández Soriano (UAM)
• Isabel Pujol (UdG)
• Francesc Roca (UdG)
• Cristina Sánchez López (UCM)

Invited Speakers

• Roberta D'Alessandro (Utrecht University)
• Ricardo Etxepare (IKER - CNRS)
• Isabel Oltra-Massuet (Universitat Rovira i Virgili)
• Michelle Sheehan (Anglia Ruskin University)

Venue

The conference will be held in Barcelona, Spain.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to elias.gallardo@uab.cat