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SUMMARY:Romance grammars, context and contact
UID:www.birmingham.ac.uk/204896
DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to announce the second edition of 'Romance grammars, context and contact', taking place at the University of Birmingham.\n
 As in the previous edition (2021), this conference 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. \n
 Please note this is an in person event, not online.\n
 This second edition of RGCC forms part of the project Heritage speakers of Spanish: the case of Latin American Londoners (PI: Norma Schifano; British Academy/Leverhulme Trust SRG21\211281). It will comprise general sessions as well as half a day dedicated to challenges and opportunities raised by working and collaborating with linguistic minorities and associated organizations and stakeholders. \n
 The invited speakers for the general sessions are:\n

Laura Domínguez (University of Southampton)
Anna Pineda (Universitat de Barcelona) 

 The invited speakers for the special session on working with communities are:\n

Jonathan Kasstan (University of Westminster)
'Tomás Restrepo Garcés of Latin American House, a London-based charity offering a variety of free services for the Latin American communities of the UK, partner of “Heritage speakers of Spanish: the case of Latin American Londoners”

Registration for the conference has now closed
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Organising committee: Norma Schifano, Alice Corr 
Contact: rgcc2024@contacts.bham.ac.uk  

Programme
Monday 8 January 
 12:50-13:00     Norma Schifano: Welcome and introduction \n
 13:00-14:00     Keynote speaker - Laura Domínguez (University of Southampton): Spanish speakers in the UK/USA: investigating changes to their native grammars\n
 14:00-14:30     James Corbet (University of Southampton): Explaining cross-linguistic influence in bilingual contact grammars: the case of perfective and imperfective marking by Spanish heritage speakers\n
 14:30-15:00     Lewis Baker (Technische Universität Braunschweig): Morphosyntactic variation in a migration context: L1 attrition and L2 acquisition among L1 German – L2 Spanish bilinguals in Spain\n
 15:00-15:30     Coffee break\n
 15:30-16:00     Kim Groothuis (Universiteit Gent), Claudia Crocco (Universiteit Gent), Margherita Di Salvo (Università di Napoli Federico II), Sara Matrisciano-Mayerhofer (Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien): Pragmatic “quello” from dialect to regional standard\n
 16:00-16:30     Giulia Cerullo (Universität Hamburg): The transitivization of unaccusatives in spoken Italian\n
 16:30-17:00     Adam Ledgeway (University of Cambridge), Norma Schifano (University of Birmingham), Giuseppina Silvestri (UCLA): Language Contact in Magna Graecia: Convergence, Layering and Hybridism\n
 17:00-17:30     Sara N. Cardullo (University of Cambridge), Ștefania Costea (University of Cambridge): Comparative contact: Loss of N-to-D movement in Daco-Romance & Italo-Romance \n
Tuesday 9 January 
 9:00-9:30         Roberto Merlo (Università di Torino): “Stars and Tulips”: The Nominal Morphology of Romanian between Latin Heritage and Balkan Influences\n
 9:30-10:00       Ștefania Costea (University of Cambridge): When Latin meets Balkan: on head-directionality parameter in old Daco-Romance DPs\n
 10:00-10:30     Zara Fahim: Theoretical and sociolinguistics at the interface: Revisiting language contact intensity and morphosyntactic change through Ibero-Daco Romance\n
 10:30-11:00     Coffee break\n
 11:00-11:30     Jonas Grünke (University Mainz), Jorge Vega Vilanova (University Hamburg), Susann Fischer (University Hamburg), Christoph Gabriel (University Mainz): Focus marking in language contact: the case of Bulgarian Judeo-Spanish\n
 11:30-12:00     Norma Schifano (University of Birmingham): UK Ecuadorian Spanish: mood and V-movement under contact\n
 12:00-12:30     Michelle Sheehan (Newcastle University), Ioanna Sitaridou (University of Cambridge): Object realisation in heritage Portuguese: a tale of stability and change! \n
 12:30-13:00       Jorge Vega Vilanova (University of Hamburg), Susan Fischer (University of Hamburg): Morphosyntactic instability in Bulgarian Judeo-Spanish as a heritage language\n
 13:00-15:00         Lunch break\n
                         Community session: collaborating with linguistic minorities and associated organizations\n
 15:00-15:45         Norma Schifano (University of Birmingham): Introduction to the community session: the case of Latin American Londoners\n
 15:45-16:30         Keynote speaker -Tomás Restrepo Garcés (Latin American House): Supporting Spanglish and Portuguese speaking communities in London\n
 16:30-17:00         Coffee break\n
 17:00-18:00         Keynote speaker - Jonathan Kasstan (University of Westminster): Practicing community-based research in contexts of critical language endangerment \n
 19.30                 Social dinner – Edgbaston Park Hotel(Bantock Room) (G23 on map) \n
Wednesday 10 January 
 9:30-10:30       Keynote speaker – Anna Pineda (Universitat de Barcelona): The role of language contact in the context of a minoritized language: the emergence and expansion of Differential Object Marking in Catalan\n
 10:30-11:00     Laia Benavent-Llinares (University of Birmingham): Prescribing syntactic variation in Catalan\n
 11:00-11:30      Marc Olivier (University of Oxford), Anna Paradis (University of Oxford): Exploring the morphosyntax of minoritised varieties: Restructuring in the Gallo-/Ibero-Romance continuum\n
 11:30-12:00     Coffee break\n
 12:00-12:30     Alessandro De Angelis (Università di Messina): Phonetics as last: innovation and preservation in the Gallo-Italic dialects of Sicily\n
 12:30-13:00       Barbara Schirakowski (Freie Universität Berlin): Bilingual patterns of result lexicalization with manner verbs: Production data from two varieties of French in comparison to English\n
 13:00-13:30         Stéphane Goyette (Acadia University): Laurentian French and its Breton substrate \n
Travel to the conference
 Directions to Birmingham and to our Edgbaston campus are available on the Getting here page.  The conference will be based in our University House (Business School), O2 in the orange zone on our campus map\n
Accommodation
 We have our Edgbaston Park Hotel on campus. (Please note we do not have rooms reserved for the conference at the hotel, bookings are made by delegates on an individual basis.) Please also visit our accommodation page for advice on how to research other accommodation options. \n
Food and drink
 For more information on food and drink options on and off campus visit our Food and Drink page.  \n
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LOCATION:Muirhead Tower
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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