'Community' meeting Fall 2021

DOM in Catalan (and Romance) and language contact

This event is intended to be a presentation and starting point for Anna Pineda’s research project Differential Object Marking in Catalan and language contact, which has been recently funded by the Humboldt Foundation and which is being developed at the University of Cologne in close collaboration with Klaus von Heusinger and Marco García. You can read about it here.

Although the project is focused on Catalan (and its contact with Spanish), the present event will also gather scholars with an expertise on DOM in other Romance languages, such as Occitan or Italian dialects, as well as on Basque, another language which is in contact with Spanish and shows some instances of DOM.

Researchers interested in the phenomenon of DOM and the role of language contact in Romance are very welcome to attend the event. We hope it will be a platform to share knowledge and a starting point to establish collaborations.

REGISTRATION: Please fill in this form if you want to attend the event, so that we can send you the link for the meeting and any other relevant communication. Thank you for your interest: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSejqBE7j-25_wvuLJSp5Z6bi2XbhQYJLyHbECRtHpQ11qd3Uw/viewform

Dates: 4-5 November 2021, 4 pm – 7:30 pm

Program: you can download the program here

Thursday 4 November 2021. Presentation of the project + invited talks

Friday 5 November 2021. Topical discussion network

Research Topic I: The spread of DOM in Romance varieties. Moderator: Adam Ledgeway (University of Cambridge)

Research Topic II: DOM in language contact environments (minoritized languages + Spanish)

Research Topic III: Catalan-Spanish language contact setting. Moderator: Silvina Montrul (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)