RGCC2021: Romance grammars, context and contact Online @ University of Birmingham Birmingham, UK, March 24-26, 2021

Conference website	https://sites.google.com/view/judeospanish/workshop-rgcc-2021
Submission link	https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rgcc2021
Submission deadline	January 8, 2021
Notification of acceptance	February 5, 2021

This online workshop will bring together scholars with expertise in Romance morphosyntactic variation, working at different interfaces (generative, sociolinguistics, dialectology, and language contact), alongside scholars and stakeholders working on language ideologies, language policy/planning and language documentation.

We invite abstracts for 20-minute presentations on any aspect of 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.

We are particularly interested in receiving contributions which draw together, or offer comparative or interdisciplinary perspectives on, questions of morphosyntactic variation, language contact and language ideologies in relation to non-standard(ized), contested, oppressed or minoritized Romance or Romance-related varieties.

The workshop, which forms part of the project The Grammars of Judeo-Spanish (British Academy/Leverhulme Trust grant no. SRG1819\191358), will comprise general sessions as well a day dedicated to research on Judeo-Spanish and associated varieties of Romance (including but not limited to Judeo-Romance, Balkan Romance and non-territorial Romance varieties).

Invited speakers (confirmed):

Roberta D'Alessandro (Utrecht Institute of Linguistics, Universiteit Utrecht)

Silvina Montrul (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Shana Poplack (University of Ottawa)

Almeida Jacqueline Toribio (The University of Texas at Austin)

Public lecture: Eliezer Papo (Ben Gurion University of the Negev)

Submission Guidelines

• Abstracts for oral presentation must be submitted by 22 December 2020 8 January 2021 via EasyChair anonymously, in English or a Romance/Romance-related variety (if the latter, accompanied by an English translation), with a maximum length of two A4 pages formatted in Times New Roman, 12-point font size, single-spaced, 2.5cm margins.
• A maximum of two abstracts can be submitted: either one individual abstract and one joint abstract per author; or two abstracts as co-author.
• In lieu of posters, abstracts not selected for 20-minute oral presentation will be considered for lightning talks. Please indicate whether you would like your abstract to be considered for a lightning talk.
• Each oral presentation will be allotted 20 minutes, plus 10 minutes for questions.

List of Topics

Contributions on the following themes, based on any Romance or Romance-related varieties, are particularly welcome:

• Grammatical variation and dialect (morpho-)syntax
• Grammatical variation and linguistic theory (formal, variationist, generative, historical, or experimental etc.)
• Non-standard(ized), contested, oppressed or minoritized varieties
• Grammatical variation in the context of migration, multilingualism and/or language contact
• Language practices, identities and grammatical variation
• Language oppression, language erasure, language emancipation and linguistic justice
• Language policy relating to non-standard(ized), contested, endangered or minoritized varieties
• Language documentation of non-standard(ized), contested, endangered or minoritized varieties
• Language revitalisation and education in, of or for non-standard(ized), contested, endangered or minoritized varieties
• Language ideologies in relation to non-standard(ized), contested, endangered or minoritized varieties
• Language focus: Judeo-Spanish and related branches of Romance (including but not limited to Judeo-Romance, Balkan Romance and non-territorial Romance varieties)

We are particularly interested in receiving contributions which draw together, or offer comparative or interdisciplinary perspectives on, questions of morphosyntactic variation, language contact and language ideologies in relation to non-standard(ized), contested, oppressed or minoritized Romance or Romance-related varieties. Moreover, one day of the workshop will be dedicated to research on Judeo-Spanish and associated varieties of Romance (including but not limited to Judeo-Romance, Balkan Romance and non-territorial Romance varieties).

Key dates

Deadline for abstract submission: 22 December, 2020 8 January, 2021

Notification of acceptance: 18 January 30 January, 2021

Workshop: 24-26 March, 2021

Organizing Committee

• Alice Corr (Chair)
• Katie Blair
• Jonathan Kasstan
• Norma Schifano
• Carlos Yebra López
• Mikey Barnes
• Grace Croad

Contact

General questions about the workshop should be directed to rgcc2021@contacts.bham.ac.uk

Questions about submissions should be emailed to Alice Corr (a.corr AT bham.ac.uk).