Conference: Possessive Constructions in Romance (PossRom2018)

Conference information

The conference is dedicated to the investigation of synchronic and diachronic functioning and variation of possessives from a great variety of perspectives and in any Romance varieties.

For an extensive introduction, see the central part of this document.

For the full programme of the conference, see this document.

For the book of abstracts, see this document.

For all practical information concerning your stay in Ghent during the conference, see this page.

For all information concerning the Conference Dinner, see this document.

 

We welcome contributions that deal with the following aspects:

  • The syntactic, semantic, pragmatic and prosodic functioning of prenominal and postnominal possessives in diatopic and other types of Romance varieties;
  • The intra- and extra-linguistic factors that govern the morphosyntactic variation in the various possessive constructions in Romance, both synchronically and diachronically;
  • The genesis and diachronic development of the different syntactic possessive configurations, within any of the sentential domains (nominal, adverbial, verbal, etc.);
  • The grammatical interaction between the different domains in which possessives can be used.

 

We encourage contributions from scholars working on any of the Romance languages, as well as Romance-based creoles and pidgins.

Conference venue: Ghent University, Het Pand (Belgium)

Conference dates: 27th – 29th of June, 2018

Deadline for the submission of abstracts: 15th of March, 2018   EXTENDED DEADLINE: 3rd of April, 2018

Abstract submission: through EasyChair:  https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=possrom2018

Presentations can be held in one of the Romance languages, as well as English. Each speaker will have 30 minutes for their presentation, and 10 minutes for discussion. There will also be a poster session.

Abstracts need to be written in Times New Roman, 12 pt., 1.5 spacing. and should be max. 1 page (plus one page for references). They need to be anonymous, submitted as Word or Pdf file and contain the title. When submitting an abstract for a poster, this should also be stated explicitly.

 

 

Invited speakers

  • Virginia Bertolotti (University of the Republic of Uruguay)
  • Giuseppina Silvestri (Cambridge University)
  • Carme Silva Domínguez (University of Santiago de Compostela)

 

Organising committee

  • Miriam Bouzouita (Ghent University)
  • Claudia Crocco (Ghent University)
  • Renata Enghels (Ghent University)
  • Vanessa Casanova (Ghent University)
  • Matti Marttinen Larsson (Ghent University)
  • Antoine Primerano (Ghent University)
  • Bert Cornillie (Catholic University of Leuven)
  • Pedro Gras (University of Antwerp)
  • Barbara De Cock (Catholic University of Louvain)

 

Scientific committee

  • Miriam Bouzouita (Ghent University)
  • Claudia Crocco (Ghent University)
  • Renata Enghels (Ghent University)
  • Liliane Haegeman (Ghent University)
  • Vanessa Casanova (Ghent University)
  • Matti Marttinen Larsson (Ghent University)
  • Bert Cornillie (Catholic University of Leuven)
  • Pedro Gras (University of Antwerp)
  • Barbara De Cock (Catholic University of Louvain)
  • Ana Estrada (University of Liege)
  • Laura Álvarez López (Stockholm University)
  • Carlota de Benito Moreno (University of Zurich)
  • Guliana Giusti (Ca’Foscari University of Venice)
  • Miguel Gutiérrez Mate (Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen)
  • Álvaro Octavio de Toledo y Huerta (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)
  • Enrique Pato (University of Montreal)
  • Malte Rosemeyer (Catholic University of Leuven)
  • Ioanna Sitaridou (Cambridge University)