Romance grammars, context and contact (RGCC2021)

Online @ University of Birmingham, 24-26 March 2021

This online workshop will draw together interdisciplinary perspectives towards Romance grammatical variation in the context of migration, multilingualism, contact, language oppression and/or other social and material contextual factors in relation to Romance linguistic communities and/or their language practices.

Invited talks

Wednesday 24 March 2-4pm: Doing Romance Linguistics

Roundtable and Q&A with invited speakers Roberta D'Alessandro (Utrecht Institute of Linguistics), Shana Poplack (University of Ottawa), and Almeida Jacqueline Toribio (The University of Texas at Austin).

Thursday 26 March 2-5.30pm: Special session on Ladino and Judeo-Romance

2pm: Public lecture* La diferensia entre el ladino i el kristilyano (in Ladino) and Q&A by Eliezer Papo (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)

• Please note that the public lecture will be given in Judeo-Spanish/Ladino. Attendance is free but registration is required if you are not attending the workshop. Registration and further details can be found here.

Friday 26 March 2pm: Keynote Lecture Silvina Montrul (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Spanish, Romanian and Bilingual Language Change

Workshop programme

Full workshop programme: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/lcahm/departments/languages/events/2020/romance-grammars.aspx

Book of abstracts for all talks: Book of abstracts

Registration for the workshop (required, free of charge):

https://shop.bham.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/college-of-arts-law/school-of-languages-cultures-art-history-music/romance-grammars-context-and-contact-workshop-rgcc2021

Organizing Committee:

Alice Corr (chair), Jonathan Kasstan, Norma Schifano, Carlos Yebra López, Mikey Barnes, Katie Blair, Grace Croad