Negation and Clitics in Romance - Négation et clitiques dans les langues et variétés romanes
International conference – colloque international
24.02.2012-25.02.2012
University of Zürich, Université de Zürich
KO2-F-152
Provisional programme / programme provisoire:
Friday 24th February 2012 / Vendredi, 24 février 2012
09.30 Registration and Coffee / Inscription et café de bienvenue
| 10.00-10.30 | Welcome and introduction / Bienvenue et introduction | Charlotte Meisner, Harald Völker & Elisabeth Stark |
| 10.30-11.15 | When is preverbal negation reanalysed as a polarity marker? The case of French ne | Pierre Larrivée |
| 11.15-12.00 | The morpho-syntactic status of ne and its effect on the syntax of imperative sentences / Le statut morpho-syntaxique de ne et ses effets sur la syntaxe des phrases impératives | Hugues Peters |
| 12.00-12.45 | When negative imperatives aren’t negative | Paul Rowlett |
| 12.45-14.15 | Lunch at Sento / Déjeuner au Sento | |
| 14.15-15.00 | Synchronic variation in the expression of French negation | Charlotte Meisner & Natascha Pomino |
| 15.00-15.45 | Old French negation, the Tobler/Mussafia law, and V2 | Richard Ingham |
| 15.45-16.15 | Coffee break / Pause café | |
| 16.15-17.00 | The interplay of multiple descriptive factors for the understanding of a text language, illustrated by the negation in Old French. A study of manuscript variation of ne-Ø, ne-mie, ne-pas, and ne-point. | Lene Schøsler/Harald Völker |
| 17.00-17.45 | Variable ne in nineteenth-century French: corpus data and metalinguistic commentaries | Andreas Dufter |
| 17.45-18.30 | Factors affecting the use of impersonal il in Spoken French: implications for change in the clitic system. | Jennifer Culbertson |
19.30 Conference dinner at Bauernschänke / Dîner de conférence à la Bauernschänke
Saturday 25th February 2012 / Samedi, 25 février 2012
| 10.00-10.45 | On the status of subject clitics in Colloquial French: Evidence from 'expletive' il and 'negative' ne | Georg A. Kaiser |
| 10.45-11.30 | Leur chien il (*ne) m'obéit pas. L'incompatibilité de ne et du doublement clitique du sujet: une idiosyncrasie du français | Benjamin Massot |
| 11.30-12.15 | Reference and polarity markers as clitics: contrasting demands on form | Dieter Wanner |
| 12.15-13.45 | Lunch at Kunsthaus / Déjeuner au Kunsthaus | |
| 13.45-14.30 | Clitic subjects and negation canceled | Michele Loporcaro |
| 14.30-15.15 | On the status of the Negative Marker no in logudorese Sardinian | Franck Floricic |
| 15.15-16.00 | Negation and Focus: on the Syntax of emphasis | Cecilia Poletto & Raffaella Zanuttini |
| 16.00-16.30 | Coffee break - Pause café | |
| 16.30-17.15 | The distribution of preverbal en in (West) Flemish: syntactic and pragmatic properties | Liliane Haegeman |
| 17.15-18.00 | The Middle Dutch negative clitic: status, position and disappearance | Jack Hoeksema |
| 18.00-18.15 | Concluding remarks / Résumé | Charlotte Meisner, Harald Völker & Elisabeth Stark |