Linguapax
Call For Paper: “Dialect and Regiolect Syntax”
Organizers: Jürg Fleischer (Marburg), Alexandra N. Lenz (Vienna), Helmut Weiß (Frankfurt)
Following the impulses of Kayne's theory of micro-variation, a broad spectrum of areal syntactic studies and projects with predominant theoretical interests and objectives has emanated over the last 20 years (s. Bayer 1984, Benincà 1989, Abraham & Bayer 1993, Black & Motapanyane 1996, Barbiers et al. 2002, Tortora 2002, Haegeman 1992, Henry 1995, Zanuttini 1997, Poletto 2000). Overall, areal syntactic projects have broadened the empiric basis of modern linguistics and have shown that areal syntax provides very fruitful insights for different linguistic disciplines. A central aim of this workshop is to combine and discuss experiences, results and problems of current areal syntactic projects and papers. Thereby we strive towards a mixture of theoretically aligned contributions by linguists of different theoretical backgrounds as well as more empirically based papers. But the session is not limited to the syntax of dialects as the 'deepest' pole of the continuum of colloquial speech; rather it is the second central goal of the workshop also to focus on the syntax of 'higher' (regiolectal) varieties approaching the standard. Including this vertical dimension represents an innovative approach to the investigation of variation in syntax.
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