http://linguistlist.org Latest Calls Issues en-us Copyright 2008 The LINGUIST List linguist@linguistlist.org linguist@linguistlist.org http://backend.userland.com/rss Thu, 25 Feb 2016 21:20:01 EST 60 http://linguistlist.org/images/lllogo-large.png http://linguistlist.org http://www.lc.mahidol.ac.th/mleconf/2016/background.htm http://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-993.html Kyungah Kristy Bang <k.bang@unesco.org> Thu, 25 Feb 2016 14:23:00 EST Full Title: 5th International Conference on Language and Education

Date: 19-Oct-2016 - 21-Oct-2016
Location: Bangkok, Thailand
Contact Person: Jennifer Goodman
Meeting Email: email link
Web Site: http://www.lc.mahidol.ac.th/mleconf/2016/background.htm

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Call Deadline: 30-Mar-2016

Meeting Description:

Since 2003, members of the Asia-Pacific Multilingual Education Working Group have been co-organizing international conferences on language and education every two to three years. These conferences bring together hundreds of policy-makers, researchers, practitioners, and development actors. The conferences facilitate MLE advocacy, create momentum for stronger MLE programs, and contribute to the mainstreaming of MLE policies around the region. They also function as a platform to share views, good practices, and experiences, as well as to explore issues concerning the importance of mother tongue-based learning and broader language issues in sustainable development. The conferences also encourage researchers and practitioners to provide evidence to support MLE advocacy efforts in the region.

The 5th International Conference on Language and Education will take stock of recent developments in MLE policies and practices in the Asia-Pacific region, with a special focus on multilingual education in early childhood and primary education. It will likewise look at innovative pedagogies in the training of MLE teachers. Finally, it will examine challenges and lesson learned from the EFA experience and give opportunities for forward-looking discussions on both the role of language in achieving the new SDGs and preserving a harmonious relationship between the global and local contexts.

Objectives:

- Showcase promising practices in MLE and local language use in education in order to increase understanding of the importance of expanding access to effective multilingual education and accelerating momentum for MLE in the Asia-Pacific region
- Document challenges and lessons learned from existing MLE policies and practices
- Identify innovative pedagogies in teacher training and MLE practice at early childhood and primary education levels
- Enhance understanding of the linkages among language, social cohesion, and the SDGs
- Support the mainstreaming of MLE policies by highlighting recent MLE policy developments in the Asia-Pacific region
- Discuss the role of and balance among different languages – local, national, and international – in MLE policies and practices

In order to address equity and equality in education, members of the Asia Pacific Multilingual Education Working Group have been co-organizing the International Conference on Language and Education every two to three years, since 2003. The conference has been strengthening momentum for MLE and influencing the mainstreaming of MLE policies in the region by bringing together relevant MLE policy-makers, researchers and development partners. The conference functions as a platform to share views, good practices and experiences, as well as, explore issues concerning the importance of mother tongue learning and broader language issues in development (health, economic opportunity, etc.). In addition, the conference will encourage researchers and practitioners to provide evidence to increase awareness of MLE in the region.

Call for Papers:

- Abstracts of proposed papers will be accepted until 30 March 2016. We welcome the submission of papers and perspectives that highlight relevant local, national, international, or comparative research and practice in the four thematic areas.

- Abstracts should be no longer than 250 words in English and should clearly identify the paper's topic and its relevance to the conference. If possible and relevant, please include in the abstract title the name of the country that the proposal is discussing.

- Choose a track category: Proposals should indicate which track is best suited for the paper. The conference steering committee reserves the right to include a paper for consideration in a track other than the one you may identify, if deemed appropriate.

Submission details:

The first page of the submission should not bear any marks that would identify the author or authors. The first page should contain only two items:
- The title of the abstract. If possible and relevant, please include in the abstract title the name of the country that the proposal is discussing.
- The abstract. The abstract should be no longer than 250 words in English and should clearly identify the paper's topic and its relevance to the conference.

The second page should contain:
- Title of the abstract
- Name of the author/authors
- Author title/s (Mr/Mrs/Ms/Dr, etc.)
- Author/s gender
- Author/s affiliation/s
- Author/s position/s
- Email address/es
- Preferred conference track (1, 2, 3, or 4)

Use a standard font (such as 12 point Times New Roman) to format the text.

Submit your abstract as a Microsoft Word file (submission template available on the website) to the following address: abstract.2016mleconference@gmail.com

Abstracts will be reviewed by three independent reviewers per track.



[Linguist List announcement 27.993]]]> http://conference.pixel-online.net/FOE/index.php http://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-992.html Tullio Perrotta <foe@pixel-online.net> Thu, 25 Feb 2016 14:22:09 EST Full Title: The Future of Education International Conference, 6th edition
Short Title: FOE 2016

Date: 30-Jun-2016 - 01-Jul-2016
Location: Florence, Italy
Contact Person: Tullio Perrotta
Meeting Email: email link
Web Site: http://conference.pixel-online.net/FOE/index.php

Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition

Call Deadline: 21-Mar-2016

Meeting Description:

The Future of Education International Conference has the aim to promote transnational cooperation and share good practice in the field of innovation for education. The conference is also an excellent opportunity for the presentation of previous and current educational projects.

The 6th edition of the Future of Education International Conference will take place in Florence, Italy, on 30 June – 1 July 2016.

2nd Call for Papers:

The Future of Education conference is an excellent opportunity for the presentation of previous and current education projects and initiatives. The Call for Papers is addressed to teachers, researchers and experts in the field of education as well as to coordinators of teaching and training projects.

Experts in the field of education are therefore invited to submit an abstract of a paper to be presented in the conference.

Important dates Language Acq
- 21 March 2016: Extended deadline for submitting abstracts
- 17 April 2016: Deadline for final submission of papers
- 30 June - 1 July 2016: Dates of the conference

There will be three presentation modalities: oral, poster and virtual presentations.

All accepted papers will be included in the Conference Proceedings published by LibreriaUniversitaria with ISBN and ISSN (2384-9509) codes. This publication will be sent to be reviewed for inclusion in SCOPUS (https://www.elsevier.com/solutions/scopus). Papers will also be included in ACADEMIA.EDU (https://www.academia.edu/) and Google Scholar.

For further information, please contact us at the following address: foe@pixel-online.net or visit the Future of Education conference website: http://conference.pixel-online.net/FOE/



[Linguist List announcement 27.992]]]> http://www.let.rug.nl/tabudag/ http://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-991.html Charlotte Lindenbergh <c.g.lindenbergh@rug.nl> Thu, 25 Feb 2016 14:21:25 EST Full Title: TABU Dag

Date: 03-Jun-2016 - 03-Jun-2016
Location: Groningen, Netherlands
Contact Person: Charlotte Lindenbergh
Meeting Email: email link
Web Site: http://www.let.rug.nl/tabudag/

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Neurolinguistics; Syntax

Call Deadline: 10-Mar-2016

Meeting Description:

The annual TABU Dag is an international linguistics conference organized at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. Researchers, students and other interested people are warmly invited to participate! TABU Dag originated from the university's linguistic journal TABU (taalbulletin, language bulletin) and over the last 37 years has developed into a well-established conference with a varied programme and guest speakers from different fields.

The conference offers excellent opportunities to meet other linguists and discuss current research in several areas of linguistics. Graduate students and postdoctoral researchers in particular are encouraged to present their work.

This year's keynote speakers are:
- David Adger (Professor of Linguistics at Queen Mary University of London)
- Paola Merlo (Professor in Computational Linguistics at the Université de Genève)

For more information, please visit our website www.tabudag.nl

Final Call for Papers:

- EXTENDED DEADLINE -

The Center for Language and Cognition Groningen is pleased to announce the 37th TABU Dag, which will take place at the University of Groningen on June 3 2016. TABU Dag is an annual international linguistics conference, which offers excellent opportunities to meet other linguists and discuss current research. Graduate students and (post)doctoral researchers in particular are encouraged to present their work.

The keynote speakers are:

- David Adger (Professor of Linguistics at Queen Mary University of London)
- Paola Merlo (Professor in Computational Linguistics at the Université de Genève)

We invite abstracts for presentations in English in any field of linguistics including, but not limited to: syntax and semantics, phonetics and phonology, sociolinguistics, discourse and communication, computational linguistics, and neurolinguistics. Abstracts should not be longer than 300 words excluding title, keywords and references. They should be submitted via the following link: http://www.tabudag.nl/abstracts.php. We invite submissions for oral presentations of 20 minutes plus 5 minutes for discussion.

Important dates and information:

- The deadline for abstract submission is March 10, 2016
- Notifications of acceptance will be sent in the second half of April.
- The official language of the conference is English.
- Abstracts should be submitted via the following link: http://www.tabudag.nl/abstracts.php
- For further information, please visit the conference website: www.tabudag.nl
- Conference location: Groningen, The Netherlands
- Contact information: tabudag@rug.nl



[Linguist List announcement 27.991]]]> https://bilforum2016.wordpress.com http://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-990.html Lucia Badiola <lbadio2@uic.edu> Thu, 25 Feb 2016 14:20:58 EST Full Title: 2016 UIC Bilingualism Forum

Date: 20-Oct-2016 - 21-Oct-2016
Location: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Contact Person: Lucía Badiola
Meeting Email: email link
Web Site: https://bilforum2016.wordpress.com

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Call Deadline: 27-Mar-2016

Meeting Description:

The UIC Bilingualism Forum is dedicated to research in any area related to bilingualism: theoretical linguistics, codeswitching, SLA, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, neurolinguistics, cognitive sciences, heritage languages, bilingual acquisition, etc. Presentations will be 20 minutes each with 10 minutes for discussion.

Keynote Speakers:

Bill VanPatten (Michigan State University)
Carmel O’Shannessy (University of Michigan)

2nd Call for Papers:

- Acceptance response by: June 1, 2016
- 2 page anonymous abstract including examples and references
- 1 separate page with name, title and affiliation
- No more than two submissions per person
- Please specify whether you would like to be considered for an oral presentation or a poster

Abstracts will be submitted via LINGUIST List:
http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/uicbilforum2016

We look forward to receiving your abstracts, and hope you will join us next Fall in Chicago. Please contact uicbilforum@uic.edu with any questions.



[Linguist List announcement 27.990]]]> http://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-988.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-988.html Hans Boas <hcb@mail.utexas.edu> Thu, 25 Feb 2016 13:56:00 EST Full Title: German Abroad 2

Date: 02-Nov-2016 - 04-Nov-2016
Location: Austin, TX, USA
Contact Person: Hans Boas
Meeting Email: email link

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Call Deadline: 01-Mar-2016

Meeting Description:

Conference “German Abroad 2” – Perspectives from variationist sociolinguistics, language contact, and multilingualism

November 2–4, 2016
The University of Texas at Austin

The conference “German Abroad 2,” the follow-up conference to “German Abroad,” held in Vienna in July 2014, focuses on structural and sociolinguistic issues of German-speaking minority groups from the perspectives of variationist sociolinguistics, language contact, and multilingualism. The focus of the conference is on German-speaking minorities in the Americas, Asia, Europe, Africa, and Oceania, but contributions focusing on other language contact situations involving German-speaking minority groups are also welcome.

Invited plenary speakers:

Ana Deumert (University of Cape Town)
Bill Keel (University of Kansas)
Alexandra Lenz (University of Vienna)

Konferenz “German Abroad 2” – Perspektiven der Variationslinguistik, Sprachkontakt- und Mehrsprachigkeitsforschung
2.–4. November 2016
The University of Texas at Austin

Die Konferenz “German Abroad 2” fokussiert system- und soziolinguistische Besonderheiten deutschsprachiger Sprachminderheiten aus den Perspektiven der Variationslinguistik sowie der Sprachkontakt- und Mehrsprachigkeitsforschung. Ein Schwerpunkt liegt dabei auf Sprachminderheiten in Nord- und Südamerika, Asien, Europe, Afrika und Ozeanien, aber Vorträge zu anderen (Sprach)kontaktsituationen sind auch willkommen. Dies ist die Nachfolgekonferenz der Konferenz “German Abroad,” welche im Juli 2014 an der Universität Wien statt fand.

PlenarsprecherInnen:

Ana Deumert (University of Cape Town)
Bill Keel (University of Kansas)
Alexandra Lenz (Universität Wien)

Second Call for Papers:

The abstracts can be in PDF or Wordl; 300 words long.

Means of submission: http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/germanabroad2

Notification: April 1, 2016.



[Linguist List announcement 27.988]]]> http://rgcl.wlv.ac.uk/disco/ http://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-986.html Sandra Kuebler <skuebler@indiana.edu> Thu, 25 Feb 2016 13:07:38 EST Full Title: Workshop on Discontinuous Structures in Natural Language Processing

Date: 16-Jun-2016 - 17-Jun-2016
Location: San Diego, CA, USA
Contact Person: Sandra Kuebler
Meeting Email: email link
Web Site: http://rgcl.wlv.ac.uk/disco/

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics

Call Deadline: 06-Mar-2016

Meeting Description:

This workshop is concerned with modeling discontinuous structures across different disciplines in NLP.­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­ The modeling of certain structures in natural language requires a mechanism for discontinuity,in the sense that we must account for two or more parts of the structure that are not adjacent. This is true across many languages and on different description levels. For instance, on the lexical level, this concerns discontinuous morphological phenomena such as transfixation (templatic morphology), as well as phrasal verbs, and non­contiguous multiword expressions.

On the syntactic level, discontinuity is caused by phenomena such as extraposition and topicalization, or argument scrambling. Morphologically rich languages (MRLs) are particularly likely to exhibit such phenomena. Other examples include disfluency and anaphora/coreference resolution with discontinuous antecedents; modeling in both of the latter areas requires an extended domain of locality. On a higher level, discontinuity is a relevant factor in machine translation, as well as in complex question answering and in topic structure modeling.

Discontinuity has been studied intensively in a range of different areas, including but not limited to grammar development, syntactic and semantic parsing, morphological analysis, machine translation, anaphora resolution, discourse modeling, automatic summarization and complex question answering. Nevertheless, the treatment of discontinuous structures remains a challenge, Recovering of non­local information is generally associated with a high computational cost; and discontinuities are inherently a low­ frequency phenomenon, i.e. statistical approaches tend to analyze them incorrectly as local phenomena.

The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers from the different areas to exchange ideas and problem solutions, create synergy effects, and enable more powerful solutions. This encompasses linguistic analyses and work on analyzing or recovering the corresponding structures, but also studies on ''use cases'', which show how information about discontinuity can be used to enhance NLP tasks.

Program Committee:

­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­Anne Abeille, University Paris 7
Laura Alonso Alemany, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
Marianna Apidianaki, LIMSI
Eric de la Clergerie, INRIA
Andreas van Cranenburgh, Huygens Institute for Netherlands History
Corina Forascu, University ''Al. I. Cuza'' Iaşi
Carlos Gomez Rodriguez, University of A Coruña
Eva Hasler, University of Cambridge
Mijail Kabadjov, University of Essex
Laura Kallmeyer, University of Düsseldorf
Philipp Koehn, University of Edinburgh
Johannes Leveling, Elsevier
Timm Lichte, University of Düsseldorf
Georgiana Marsic, University of Wolverhampton
Detmar Meurers, University of Tübingen
Jean­Luc Minel, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense
Sara Moze, University of Wolverhampton
Philippe Muller, University of Toulouse/IRIT
Preslav Nakov, Qatar Computing Research Institute
Mark­Jan Nederhof, University of St. Andrews
Yannick Parmentier, University of Orléans
Ted Pedersen, University of Minnesota
Irene Renau, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile
Lonneke van der Plas, University of Malta
Djamé Seddah, University Paris 4
Khalil Sima'an, University of Amsterdam
Yannick Versley, University of Heidelberg
Suzan Veberne, University of Nijmegen
Andy Way, Dublin City University­­­­­­­­­­­­­­

Final Call For Papers:

N E W S!

Submission deadline extended! New deadline is
Workshop on Discontinuous Structures in Natural Language Processing
*** March 6, 2016, 23:59 PST ***

The areas of interest of this workshop include but are not limited to the following topics:

- Theoretical and empirical analyses of non-local/discontinuous phenomena
- Comparisons of different descriptions of the same type of non-local information
- Use, development, and comparison, of techniques for handling non-local/discontinuous within NLP tasks, especially wrt. to examples of NLP tasks which can benefit from handling discontinuous phenomena are machine translation, complex question answering, modelling of discourse, automatic summarisation and coreference resolution
- ''Use cases'' that show how information about discontinuity can enhance an NLP task
- Annotation of information about non-locality

Submission modalities:

We invite papers which present completed research including new experimental results, resources and/or techniques. The maximum length of the papers is 8 pages plus an unlimited number of pages for references. All submissions must be in PDF format and must follow the NAACL 2016 formatting requirements (available at the NAACL 2016 website: http://naacl.org/naacl-pubs/). We strongly advise the use of the provided Word or LaTeX template files.

Reviewing will be double-blind, and thus no author information should be included in the papers; self-reference should be avoided as well. Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review. Accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings.

Papers can be submitted at https://www.softconf.com/naacl2016/DiscoNLP2016/.


Important dates:

*** NEW! ***

March 6, 2016, 23:59 PST: Workshop paper submission deadline

March 20, 2016: Notification of Acceptance

March 30, 2016: Camera-ready papers due

June 17, 2016: Workshop Date



[Linguist List announcement 27.986]]]> http://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-981.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-981.html Nadežda Stojković <nadezda.stojkovic@elfak.ni.ac.rs> Thu, 25 Feb 2016 10:21:28 EST Full Title: Journal of Teaching English for Specific and Academic Purposes


Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Language Acquisition

Subject Language(s): English

Call Deadline: 01-May-2016

Call for Papers - Special Issue (ESP in Iran)

9th issue call

Papers received after this date will be considered for publication in the forthcoming issue(s).

Call information:

We invite scholarly contributions for the ninth issue of the Journal of Teaching English for Specific and Academic Purposes. The papers are to be in the fields and the related areas of English for Specific and Academic Purposes, General and Applied Linguistics, such as (but not limited to): language policy, assessment and evaluation, translation/interpretation, the place of ESP in language education, methodology of English language teaching, ESP and English as a lingua franca, material design, needs assessment, collecting ESP corpora, academic writing, the use of contemporary teaching and learning technologies, lexicography, language planning, stylistics, pragmatics, CALL, discourse analysis, blended learning, language pedagogy, conversation analysis, phonetics, morphology, syntax, semantics, sociolinguistics.

All papers are double blind peer reviewed in a process that is efficient and without delay.

There is no publication fee.

Ass. Prof. Nadežda Stojkovic
Editor-in-Chief
Nadezda.Stojkovic@elfak.ni.ac.rs


[Linguist List announcement 27.981]]]> http://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-970.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-970.html Kwondeuk Choi <j-cs@j-cs.org> Wed, 24 Feb 2016 13:01:58 EST Full Title: Journal of Cognitive Science


Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science

Call for Papers

http://j-cs.org

Aims & Scope:

The Journal of Cognitive Science (JCS) is published quarterly (from the year 2011) as the official journal of International Association for Cognitive Science (IACS) by the Institute for Cognitive Science at Seoul National University, located in Seoul, Korea. It aims to publish research articles of the highest quality and significance within the disciplines that form cognitive science, including philosophy, psychology, linguistics, artificial intelligence, neuroscience, anthropology, and education. Submissions that cross traditional disciplinary boundaries in either themes or methods are especially encouraged.

Contributions may be in the form of articles, brief reports, reviews, or squibs. The JCS showcases quality research, encourages the exchange of ideas, and illustrates the interdisciplinary work that is the hallmark of cognitive science. Authors who have published in JCS include Paul Smolensky, Alfonso Caramazza, Dedre Gentner, Paul Thagard, and Jean-Pierre Descles.

Three consecutive Special Issues on David Chalmers' Computational Theory of Mind and his detailed reply to other scholars are available all online free (2012 vol and 2011 vol) at http://j-cs.org.

JCS vol. 10 (2009) includes the special issues of 'Color in Thought and Language' and 'Quantification in East Asian Languages,' and JCS vol. 11, Issue 1 (2010) is the special issue of 'Reading Development and Reading Disorders in Asian Languages.'

Editor-in-Chief:

Chungmin Lee, Seoul National University

Editors:

Gualtiero Piccinini, University of Missouri - St. Louis
Stella Vosniadou, Flinders University
Koiti Hasida, University of Tokyo
Kyoung-Min Lee, Seoul National University

The Editorial Board and Advisory Editorial Board are listed on http://j-cs.org/editors/editors.php.

Submission Guidelines:

All submissions must be in English, written clearly and in sufficient detail that referees can assess the merits of the work. Papers should be no longer than 10,000 words and should conform to the JCS style guide (See For Authors on: http://j-cs.org/). Papers will be received anytime and processed as promptly as possible.

Authors should send an electronic copy (both MS Word and PDF files) of their submission to j-cs@j-cs.org and clee@snu.ac.kr.

Each submission will be sent to three international reviewers. The reviews will be forwarded to the authors, who will then have an opportunity to make revisions if warranted.

Bibliographic Information:

Commenced publication in 2000

ISSN: 1598-2327

Year 2000 - Volume 1, Issues 1 & 2 (Combined)
Year 2001-2010 - Volumes 2-11, 2 Issues each
Year 2011 - Volume 12, Issue 1, 2, 3, & 4 (quarterly from year 2011)
Year 2012 - Volume 13, Issue 1, 2, 3, & 4
Year 2013 - Volume 14, Issue 1, 2, 3, & 4
Year 2014 - Volume 15, Issue 1, 2, 3, & 4
Year 2015 - Volume 16, Issue 1, 2, 3, & 4

Questions? Please direct any questions, comments or concerns to j-cs@j-cs.org. For more information visit http://j-cs.org


[Linguist List announcement 27.970]]]> http://www.com2016.ugent.be/ http://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-968.html Evy Woumans <evy.woumans@ugent.be> Wed, 24 Feb 2016 10:26:43 EST Full Title: Conference on Multilingualism 2016
Short Title: COM 2016

Date: 11-Sep-2016 - 13-Sep-2016
Location: Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium
Contact Person: Evy Woumans
Meeting Email: com2016@ugent.be
Web Site: http://www.com2016.ugent.be/

Linguistic Field(s): Neurolinguistics; Psycholinguistics

Call Deadline: 18-Mar-2016

Meeting Description:

The Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences at Ghent University is
organising the Conference on Multilingualism from 11th September to 13th
September 2016 in the centre of historic Ghent, in Belgium. The call is now
open for oral and poster presentations.

The Conference on Multilingualism actually has a longstanding tradition. It
started in 2005 at the University of Trento under the name ‘Workshop on
Bilingualism’. Since then, the name has been changed a couple of times to
‘Neurobilingualism’ and ‘Workshop of Neurobilingualism’. This makes the
current conference the ninth edition of the gathering. We decided to continue
the tradition under the somewhat broader label of ‘Conference on
multilingualism’ in order to include different aspects of cognition and not
limit the scope to just bilingualism.

Invited speakers are Tamar H. Gollan (UC San Diego), Jon Andoni Duñabeitia
(BCBL), and Narly Golestani (University of Geneva).


2nd Call for Papers:

Participants wishing to present should submit a title and an abstract for
their presentation before 18 March 2016 by email to com2016@ugent.be. Please
use the abstract template, which you can find on the website
(http://www.com2016.ugent.be).

Abstracts should be no longer than 400 words, including references.
Notifications of acceptance will be sent on 25th March 2016. Suitable topics
for presentation are all cognitive and educational aspects related to
bilingualism and multilingualism, including (but not limited to) language
processing, language acquisition, neurolinguistics, bilingualism and cognitive
control, education in a foreign language, and bilingualism and (working)
memory. Please indicate in your email whether you prefer a poster or oral
presentation.
[Linguist List announcement 27.968]]]> http://clic-it2016.dieti.unina.it http://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-964.html Simonetta Montemagni <simonetta.montemagni@ilc.cnr.it> Wed, 24 Feb 2016 10:14:34 EST Full Title: 3rd Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics
Short Title: CLiC-it 2016

Date: 05-Dec-2016 - 06-Dec-2016
Location: Napoli, Italy
Contact Person: Simonetta Montemagni
Meeting Email: email link
Web Site: http://clic-it2016.dieti.unina.it

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics

Call Deadline: 15-Jul-2016

Meeting Description:

CLiC-it, Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics, is aimed at establishing a reference forum for research on Computational Linguistics organized by the recently founded Italian Association of Computational
Linguistics (AILC - www.ai-lc.it). Together with the co-located EVALITA 2016 evaluation campaign (http://www.evalita.org) specifically devoted to Natural Language Processing and Speech tools for Italian, the conference is intended to meet the need for a national and international forum for the promotion and dissemination of high-level original research in the field of Computational Linguistics (CL) by the Italian community. CLIC-it covers all aspects of automatic language understanding, both written and spoken, and targets state-of-the-art theoretical results, experimental methodologies, technologies, as well as application perspectives, which may contribute to advance the field.

The third edition of CLiC-it will be held in Napoli, at the University ''Federico II''.

The spirit of the Conference is inclusive. In the conviction that the complexity of language phenomena needs cross-disciplinary competences, CLiC-it intends to bring together researchers of related disciplines such as
Computational Linguistics, Linguistics, Cognitive Science, Machine Learning, Computer Science, Knowledge Representation, Information Retrieval and Digital Humanities. CLiC-it is open to contributions on all languages, with a particular emphasis on Italian.


CLiC-it 2016 CO-CHAIRS

Anna Corazza (Università di Napoli ''Federico II'')
Simonetta Montemagni (Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale ''Antonio Zampolli'', CNR)
Giovanni Semeraro (Università degli Studi di di Bari ''Aldo Moro'')

CLiC-it 2016 Organizing Committee (Università di Napoli ''Federico II'')

Anna Corazza
Franco Cutugno
Francesco Isgrò

Andrea Apicella
Dario Di Mauro
Fabrizio Esposito
Antonio Origlia
Valentina Schettino
Giuseppe Vettigli

Call for Papers:

The conference invites the submission of papers on research in all aspects of automated language processing. Relevant topics for the conference include, but are not limited to, the following areas:

- Cognitive modeling of language processing and psycholinguistics
- NLP for Digital Humanities
- Information Retrieval and Question Answering
- Information Extraction, Entity Linking and (Linked) Open Data
- Linguistic Resources
- Machine Translation and Multilingual Applications
- Pragmatics, Creativity and Linguistic Games
- Semantics and Knowledge Acquisition
- Spoken language processing and understanding
- Morphology and Syntax Processing
- NLP for Web and Social Media
- Linguistic Issues in CL and NLP
- Machine Learning for CL and NLP

Submission Information:

CLiC-it 2016 has the goal of a broad technical program. We invite papers in the following four broad categories: theoretical computational linguistics, empirical/data-driven approaches, resources/evaluation, applications/tools. We also invite papers describing a challenge in the field, position papers, survey papers, and papers that describe a negative result.

Papers may consist of up to four (4) pages of content, and two (2) additional pages of references. Paper can be either in English or Italian, with the abstract both in English and Italian. Accepted papers will be published on-line and will be presented at the conference either orally or as a poster. The deadline for paper submissions is July 15, 2016.

Paper submissions should follow the two-column format. We strongly recommend the use of LaTeX style files or Microsoft Word style files according to the ACL format, which will be soon available on the conference website under ''Submissions''. Submission must be electronic in PDF, using the Easychair submission software.

Reviewing will NOT be blind, so there is no need to remove author information from manuscripts.

Conference Venue:

University “Federico II”, Napoli, Italy, 5-6 December 2016

Important Dates:

22/2/2016: First call for papers
15/7/2016: Deadline for paper submission
15/9/2016: Notification to authors
15/10/2016: Camera ready version of accepted papers
5-6/12/2016: CLiC-it Conference

Conference Website:
https://clic-it2016.dieti.unina.it



[Linguist List announcement 27.964]]]> http://www.taels.org http://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-963.html Sayf Mohamed <contact@taels.org> Wed, 24 Feb 2016 10:14:15 EST Full Title: Discourses on Migration & Mobility

Date: 25-Nov-2016 - 26-Nov-2016
Location: hammamet, Tunisia
Contact Person: sayfeddine mohamed
Meeting Email: email link
Web Site: http://www.taels.org

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis

Call Deadline: 31-May-2016

Meeting Description:

The number of international migrants and internally displaced people has soared in the last few years because of major political and social upheavals in various parts of the world. From Africa, the Middle East, Burma to the Americas and the Caribbean, huge waves of migrants put their lives at risk trying to reach the shores of “a promised land”. This new international movement has contributed to the emergence of new discourses on migration and mobility.

The growing presence of these discourses on the radar of cultural, literary and media studies articulates the need to examine, evaluate and reassess dominant discourses in favour of thresholds and contact zones. The interdisciplinary theme this conference addresses is meant to bring under scrutiny the multi-dimensional aspect of migration and mobility in a globalised world dominated by trans-national movement and cross-border mobility. The conference will build upon the initial power and intensity of recent scholarship to further explore the politics and poetics of migration and mobility as represented in literary works as well as with regard to other discourses and academic fields.

Locating migration and mobility at the cross-roads between literary, cultural and media studies, this conference offers a vibrant research platform for scholars from different areas of study to provide critical input on the versatile patterns of migration and mobility. However, as migration and mobility could offer gateways of hope, they could possibly entail piercing traumatic experiences. Our understanding of migration and mobility trespasses the cartographic mapping (i.e. physical and geographical dimensions) to address aesthetic, conceptual and discursive representations. Seeking a connection between cultural identities, political sensitivities and comparative studies, this two-day conference prospects to lay the foundations for a constructive dialogue covering a multiplicity of migration-related issues.



Call for Papers:

The steering committee welcomes proposals related, but not limited, to the following topics:

- Cross-border mobility
- Types of migration
Immigration and Globalization
Migration and development
Borders and migration policies
- Asylum seekers and refugee crisis
- Travel narratives
- Socio-cultural mobility
- Media Studies and mobility
- Media coverage of migratory experiences
- Literary representations of diasporic experiences
- Transnational identities
- Migration, exile and liminality
- Laws of migration
- Refugees Agencies and humanitarian law.

Participants are invited to send a 250-word abstract for a 20-minute presentation and a short biographical note to submissions@taels.org no later than May 31, 2016. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by June 15, 2016.

We accept abstracts and papers written in English, Arabic and French.
TAELS editorial board will select a number of papers that will be published after peer-reviewing in a collective volume on the proceedings of the conference.



[Linguist List announcement 27.963]]]> http://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-962.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-962.html Olivier Glain <olivier.glain@univ-st-etienne.fr> Wed, 24 Feb 2016 10:11:34 EST Full Title: English-Speaking Towns/Cities: Memoirs and Narratives

Date: 20-Oct-2016 - 21-Oct-2016
Location: Saint Étienne, France
Contact Person: Olivier Glain
Meeting Email: email link

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): English

Call Deadline: 30-Apr-2016

Meeting Description:

International conference
« English-speaking towns/cities: memoirs and narratives »
Université Jean Monnet de Saint-Etienne, France
CIEREC EA 3068
October 20 – 21, 2016

The focus of this conference is the linguistic manifestations of urban identities in the English-speaking world and the various changes they have undergone. The aim is to study the linguistic features typically associated with towns/cities and the artistic representations of urban language.

Guest speakers:

Joan Beal, University of Sheffield, England
Jane Stuart-Smith, University of Glasgow, Scotland


Call for Papers:

Submissions may consider traditional and/or modern manifestations of language and language usage in specific urban areas. The concepts of linguistic identity and of the linguistic imaginary may also be explored, particularly in the way that they define the relations of individuals with their languages/varieties and their linguistic communities. Synchronic and diachronic perspectives are welcome, across all fields of linguistics.

The following is a non-exhaustive list of areas that may be addressed:

- How do towns/cities speak? How do towns/cities sound?
- How can the plurality and diversity of towns/cities be heard? How can individuals be heard in towns/cities?
- How do the language practices of urban areas connect speakers locally? How do these practices connect speakers to other times or places (be they spatial, temporal, imaginary, constructed or reconstructed)?
- What contact phenomena best define towns/cities today/at some point in the past?
- What artistic signs bear testimony to the linguistic features of urban areas?

Presentations may address the representations of towns/cities in literature/films/plays/on television/in urban art and design, etc. They may explore how these representations allow for a construction or reconstruction of urban identity, and how they bear witness to a change in the “narratives” and in the imaginary of towns/cities.

Each talk will be 30 minutes long, followed by 10 minutes for discussion. Anonymous abstracts (300 words maximum), along with a separate document containing the author’s name and affiliation, should be sent, before 30 April 2016, to the following e-mail address: olivier.glain@univ-st-etienne.fr

Deadline for abstracts: 30 April, 2016
Notifications of acceptance: 30 June, 2016

Contact: Olivier Glain : olivier.glain@univ-st-etienne.fr

Language of the conference: English

The conference proceedings will be published (1 volume).

Scientific committee
Joan Beal, University of Sheffield
Anne Béchard-Léauté, Université Jean Monnet de Saint-Etienne
Rémi Digonnet, Université Jean Monnet de Saint-Etienne
Olivier Glain, Université Jean Monnet de Saint-Etienne
Vincent Hugou, Université François Rabelais de Tours
Manuel Jobert, Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3
Sylvain Navarro, Université Paris 7 Paris Diderot
Jane Stuart-Smith, University of Glasgow
Stephan Wilhelm, Université de Bourgogne
Gabriela Zapletalova, University of Ostrava



[Linguist List announcement 27.962]]]> http://conferences.sun.ac.za/cgsw31 http://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-961.html Theresa Biberauer <mtb23@cam.ac.uk> Wed, 24 Feb 2016 10:11:14 EST Full Title: 31st Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop
Short Title: CGSW31

Date: 02-Dec-2016 - 03-Dec-2016
Location: Stellenbosch, South Africa
Contact Person: Theresa Biberauer
Meeting Email: email link
Web Site: http://conferences.sun.ac.za/cgsw31

Linguistic Field(s): Syntax

Language Family(ies): Germanic

Call Deadline: 31-May-2016

Meeting Description:

The 31st edition of the Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop will be a historic one as this will be the first CGSW to be held in Africa. Stellenbosch University in South Africa’s beautiful Western Cape Province will be hosting this meeting, which will take place on 2-3 December 2016.

Invited Speakers:

Roland Hinterhölzl (Venice)
Jason Merchant (Chicago)
Tarald Taraldsen (Tromsø)

The Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop (CGSW) is an annual conference bringing together researchers with a comparative interest in the syntactic variation attested in Germanic languages, past and present. See http://www.let.rug.nl/~zwart/cgsw/ for an overview of CGSW's history.

Call for Papers:

We invite abstracts for thirty-minute talks (followed by ten minutes of discussion) on any aspect of comparative Germanic syntax, including diachronic syntax. Given the location of the conference, we are also very interested in research focusing on lesser studied Germanic varieties, particularly those that have developed and/or been used in contact situations, including “extraterritorial” varieties of continental Germanic. Papers focusing on formal aspects of “non-standard” varieties and on phenomena like code-switching are also very welcome, as are papers considering how aspects of the structure of non-Germanic languages spoken in southern Africa (may) have impacted on the structure of Germanic languages spoken in this part of the world.

Abstract Guidelines:
Abstracts should not exceed two pages, with 2.5cm margins on all sides and a font size of 12pt. This includes data, references and diagrams.
Each author may submit no more than one single-authored and one co-authored abstract, or two co-authored ones.
Abstracts must be anonymous and prospective presenters should submit their abstract in pdf to:
http://conferences.sun.ac.za/index.php/cgsw31/cgsw31/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions

The deadline for submission is 31 May 2016.
Notification of acceptance by 1 July 2016.

Further information
Please feel free to visit the conference website at the following address:

http://conferences.sun.ac.za/cgsw31

Here, you will (in due course) find information regarding CGSW31 itself, a pre-CGSW31 workshop involving international researchers (see below), visa applications, travel, and accommodation.

For local (Stellenbosch-related) information, please contact Erin Pretorius: erink@sun.ac.za
For directly CGSW-related information, please contact Theresa Biberauer: mtb23@cam.ac.uk

Additional workshop
This year, CGSW will be accompanied by a workshop taught by Theresa Biberauer, Mara Frascarelli, Roland Hinterhölzl and Ian Roberts (further details to follow).



[Linguist List announcement 27.961]]]> http://proviza-unizd.eu http://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-960.html Klara Bilić Meštrić <klara.bilic.mestric@gmail.com> Wed, 24 Feb 2016 10:10:27 EST Full Title: Perspectives on Language Sustainability: Discourses, Policies and Practices
Short Title: ProViZA

Date: 16-Sep-2016 - 17-Sep-2016
Location: Zadar, Croatia
Contact Person: Klara Bilić Meštrić
Meeting Email: klara.bilic.mestric@gmail.com
Web Site: http://proviza-unizd.eu

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Applied Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Sociolinguistics

Call Deadline: 15-Apr-2016

Meeting Description:

This two-day conference will be dedicated to the presentation and examination
of theoretically and empirically founded approaches to language endangerment,
vitality maintenance, and revitalization. We will be looking into the
intricate relationship between a variety of factors affecting language
vitality and sustainability with a special focus on their management across
diverse policy levels (global, local, individual). We are particularly
interested in hearing about how the issues of concern are linked to global
shifts in the modes of living marked by precarious conditions either stemming
from free-market economy or the global turmoil and unrest destabilising the
political orders in Europe, but also globally. Besides, we would also like to
open up the discussion of what other factors contribute to or are affected by
(recent) changes in local language ecologies and, specifically, in small (and
endangered) language communities worldwide. Finally, we are interested to hear
about various discourses and policies related to language endangerment as well
as practices related to rendering endangered languages more sustainable. The
applicability of research for social justice is particularly welcome.

The purpose of the conference is to bridge the gap between often purely
academically oriented discourses of the endangerment and the role of other
potential stakeholders from all policy levels – individual speakers,
communities, local, national and supranational governing bodies. Thereby, we
kindly ask you to draw on the scientific framework of your choice in a way
that will be accessible to a wider audience.
The conference is organized by The Department of Linguistics, University of
Zadar in the framework of the project Promicanje višejezičnosti u Zadru:
etnojezični vitalitet Arbanasa / Promoting multilingualism in Zadar:
ethnolinguistic vitality of the Arbanasi community (ProViZA) (European Social
Fund, HR 3.2.01 – 0347).

Key-note speakers:

Helen Kelly-Holmes (School of Languages, Literature, Culture and
Communication, University of Limerick)
Dina Mehmedbegović (Institute of Education, University College London)
Julia Sallabank (SOAS, University of London)


Call for Papers:

Linguists, language activists and practitioners, (language) policy makers, and
endangered community members are invited to submit abstracts of original
empirically- or theoretically-driven research and/or analysis of specific
practices in the context of language maintenance and revitalization efforts.
Abstracts should be between 300 and 500 words long and should include up to
five keywords.

The following information should be included in the body of your e-mail
message: the title of your paper as well as the name, affiliation, and e-mail
address of the author and co-authors.

The Conference language is English.

Please send your abstracts and a short bio (ca. 100 words) to
klara.bilic.mestric@gmail.com by 15 April 2016.

The number of accepted contributions will be limited due to the time
constraints of the conference. The prospective speakers will be informed about
the outcome of their application by 15 May 2016.

No conference fee will be charged.
[Linguist List announcement 27.960]]]> http://www.milsa.unibe.ch/colloquium_2016/index_eng.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-954.html Annie Cottier <annie.cottier@int.unibe.ch> Tue, 23 Feb 2016 14:26:00 EST Full Title: MILSA Colloquium: Facilitating Students' Intercultural Learning through Study Abroad
Short Title: MILSA

Date: 14-Apr-2016 - 15-Apr-2016
Location: Bern, Switzerland
Contact Person: Annie Cottier
Meeting Email: email link
Web Site: http://www.milsa.unibe.ch/colloquium_2016/index_eng.html

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Sociolinguistics

Call Deadline: 04-Mar-2016

Meeting Description:

MILSA is research project investigating methods for facilitating university students’ intercultural learning through study abroad programs; collaborators are the University of Bern, Switzerland, and the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. The colloquium will explore current practices and directions from a range of international contexts and perspectives and will inform and guide the direction of the MILSA project over the next two years.

The University of Bern (Switzerland) and the University of Technology Sydney (Australia) are collaborators on a research project investigating methods for facilitating university students’ intercultural learning through study abroad programs. The project which will run from 2016-17 is titled ‘MILSA’ (‘Mentoring Intercultural Learning through Study Abroad’ or ‘Mentoringprogramm für interkulturelles Lernen während des studentischen Auslandaufenthalts’) and is supported by the Mercator Foundation Switzerland, the International Office of the University of Bern and the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Technology Sydney.

The project aims to understand how we as educators and program administrators can maximise the opportunities afforded by study abroad programs to facilitate student intercultural learning. One of the first activities of the project is a research colloquium to be held on 14 and 15 April 2016 in Bern to bring together experts working in the area of intercultural learning in study abroad. We are pleased to welcome Jane Jackson from Chinese University of Hong Kong and Fred Dervin from the University of Helsinki as confirmed plenary speakers, as well Josep-Maria Cots, University of Lleida; Mirjam Egli Cuenat, University of Teacher Education St. Gallen; Sybille Heinzmann, University of Teacher Education Luzern; Susan Oguro, University of Technology Sydney; Hiroshi Ota, Hitotsubashi University and Elspeth Jones, Emerita Professor Leeds Metropolitan University Leeds as our confirmed invited speakers.

The colloquium will explore current practices and directions from a range of international contexts and perspectives and will inform and guide the direction of the MILSA project over the next two years. The colloquium also provides an opportunity to scope an edited monograph.

The colloquium will provide opportunities to not only discuss educational models and teaching practices but also to explore theoretical perspectives. Posters should address one or more of the following areas:

- Ways to mentor students’ intercultural learning in study abroad programs (pre-departure and/or during exchange and/or post-sojourn)
- Experiences with technical tools for mentoring students during study abroad (chatrooms, learning platforms etc.)
- Ways of supporting students to reflect on and articulate their study abroad insights in sophisticated ways (that is, encouraging students to move beyond superficial reporting).
- Ways to explicitly link study abroad program/experiences to graduate attributes and careers
- Defining the parameters of intercultural competences for specific study abroad programs
- Ways of evaluating links between interculturality and study abroad programs

This conference will be of interest to Applied Linguists and Sociolinguists working within the areas of Language and Intercultural Education and Globalisation.

Call for Papers:

There will be one poster session per day where presenters can discuss their work with individual listeners.

Candidates are asked to email their poster title and an abstract of approximately 250 words to kathrin.beeler@int.unibe.ch by 4 March 2016. Notification of acceptance will be given within ten days of the deadline. For liaison on travel and accommodation matters, please contact kathrin.beeler@int.unibe.ch and/or consult our website www.milsa.unibe.ch.

In particular, we would like to encourage young researchers to submit abstracts. We look forward to your submissions and to meeting you at the Colloquium. Please do not hesitate to get in touch with any queries.



[Linguist List announcement 27.954]]]> http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/CIG9-CLC9 http://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-953.html Jonathan Morris <Morrisj17@cardiff.ac.uk> Tue, 23 Feb 2016 14:25:43 EST Full Title: 9th Celtic Linguistics Conference
Short Title: CLC9

Date: 01-Sep-2016 - 02-Sep-2016
Location: Cardiff, United Kingdom
Contact Person: Jonathan Morris
Meeting Email: email link
Web Site: http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/CIG9-CLC9

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Language Family(ies): Celtic

Call Deadline: 11-Apr-2016

Meeting Description:

We are happy to announce that the 9th Celtic Linguistics Conference (CLC9) will be held between the 1 - 2 September 2016 at the School of Welsh, Cardiff University.

Abstracts are welcomed for presentations on all aspects of linguistic research on the Celtic languages. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) phonology, phonetics, syntax, sociolinguistics, historical development, speech technology, and issues relevant to minority languages.

Invited speakers:
Dr Mari Jones (Cambridge University)
Emeritus Professor Patrick Sims-Williams (Aberystwyth University)

Important dates:
Submit abstracts by 11 April 2016
Notification of acceptance: 28 May 2016
Conference: 1–2 Sept 2016

Note that there are a limited number of rooms in Cardiff University halls of residence available during the conference: http://bookaccommodation.cardiff.ac.uk/CIG9-CLC9.bnb

Call for Papers:

Abstracts are welcomed for presentations on all aspects of linguistic research on the Celtic languages. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) phonology, phonetics, syntax, sociolinguistics, historical development, speech technology, and issues relevant to minority languages.

Abstract format:
1 page maximum (A4 or letter-sized, 12pt font, 2.5cm/1-inch margins), including examples and references.
Note whether you would like to deliver an oral presentation or poster.
Abstracts should be submitted as a .pdf, .doc or .odt file using EasyAbs here. Go to: http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/CIG9-CLC9

Abstracts will be reviewed anonymously, so authors are asked to avoid self-referencing.

The conference will include oral presentations (30 minutes, including discussion) and posters.

The language of the abstracts, oral presentations and posters will be Welsh or English.

Important dates:

Submit abstracts by 11 April 2016
Notification of acceptance: 28 May 2016
Conference: 1–2 Sept 2016

More information will be published in due course.

Local Committee:
Dr Jonathan Morris
Dr Iwan Rees

Contact us for more information: Morrisj17@cardiff.ac.uk



[Linguist List announcement 27.953]]]> http://swl-7.weebly.com/ http://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-951.html Sonia Cristofaro <sonia.cristofaro@unipv.it> Tue, 23 Feb 2016 14:23:41 EST Full Title: The Diachrony of Nominalization and Nominalizers

Date: 20-Aug-2016 - 20-Aug-2016
Location: Mexico City, Mexico
Contact Person: Sonia Cristofaro
Meeting Email: email link
Web Site: http://swl-7.weebly.com/

Linguistic Field(s): Syntax; Typology

Call Deadline: 15-Apr-2016

Meeting Description:

Over the past decades, nominalization has been the object of renewed attention in typologically oriented studies. While traditionally investigated in relation to subordinate clauses, word formation, and parts of speech classes (Koptjevskaja-Tamm 1993, Croft 1991 and 2001, Hengeveld 1992, Malchukov 2004, Comrie and Thompson 2007), nominalization has been shown to play a pervasive role in a wider variety of grammatical domains cross-linguistically. For example, the reanalysis of consructions involving nominalizations can give rise to new alignment, TAM, voice and word order patterns (Gildea 1998, Yap and Wrona 2011, among others). The ellipsis of a main predicate taking a nominalized complement can lead to a pattern where the latter is used independently to convey the meaning originally associated with the construction as a whole (insubordination: Evans 2007, Mithun 2008, Cristofaro to appear).

While these phenomena highlight several diachronic processes applying to nominalizations, research on nominalization has mainly remained synchronically oriented so far. General studies of nominalization have produced classifications of the synchronic structural and semantic properties of different nominalization types, in terms, for example, of argument structure, presence vs. absence of dedicated morphology, or the entity type denoted by the construction (Koptjevskaja-Tamm 1993, Malchukov 2004, Comrie and Thompson 2007). Comparatively little attention has, however, been devoted to the diachronic origins of nominalization, that is, what source constructions give rise to nominalizations in the first place, to what extent these constructions motivate the properties of the resulting nominalizations, and why the latter are initially used in certain contexts as opposed to others.

Some cross-linguistic evidence is now available about a number of possible sources for nominalizers, including for example demonstratives and nouns meaning ‘person’, ‘thing’, ‘matter’, ‘place’ and the like (DeLancey 1986, Carlson 1994, Noonan 1997, LaPolla 2003, Yap and Wang
2011, Yap and Wrona 2011). This evidence is in principle relevant to various general issues pertaining to nominalization, for example the idea the properties of individual nominalizations reflect non-prototypical uses of the relevant lexical roots (Cristofaro 2012), or the relationship between nominalization and a number of word order correlations (Givón 2012). The relevant data are, however, scanty, and they are usually not discussed in relation to the properties of the resulting nominalizations, or theories of nominalization in general. The workshop aims to bring together scholars working on nominalization in a diachronic perspective, with the general goal to expand our knowledge of the processes that can give rise to nominalizations cross-linguistically, and investigate possible relationships between these processes and the properties of the resulting constructions, for example in terms of argument structure, presence vs. absence of nominalizers, nominal vs. verbal properties, or distribution across different contexts, e.g. different types of complement, adverbial, or relative clauses. Contributions on the history of particular nominalization types in individual languages and ones investigating the relevant processes in a broader cross-linguistic perspective are equally welcome.

Call for Papers:

Organizers: Sonia Cristofaro (university of Pavia), Eitan Grossman (University of Jerusalem)

The workshop will be held adjacent to the conference `Syntax of the
World's Languages VII (SWL7)', UNAM, Mexico City, 17-19 August 2016

Abstracts:
Please send your abstracts to the organizers

sonia.cristofaro@unipv.it
eitan.grossman@mail.huji.ac.il

by April 15, 2016. Notification of acceptance is by April 30, 2016.
Abstracts should be in English, in pdf format, no longer than two pages (including examples
and references) and anonymous. The language of the workshop is English.


References:

Carlson, R. (1994). A Grammar of Supyire. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
Comrie, B. and S. A. Thompson (2007). Lexical nominalization. In T. Shopen (Ed.), Language
Typology and Syntactic Description. 2nd Edition, Volume 3: Grammatical Categories and
the Lexicon, pp. 334–81. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Cristofaro, S. (2012). Cognitive explanations, distributional evidence, and diachrony. Studies in
Language 36, 645–70.
Cristofaro, S. (To appear). Routes to Insubordination: a Cross-Linguistic Perspective. In
N. Evans and Honoré Watanabe (Eds.), Dynamics of Insubordination. Amsterdam: John
Benjamins.
Croft, W. (1991). Syntactic Categories and Grammatical Relations. Chicago and London: The
University of Chicago Press.
Croft, W. (2001). Radical Construction Grammar. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
DeLancey, S. (1986). Relativization as nominalization in Tibetan and Newari’. Ms, University
of Oregon. Available online at http://tibeto-burman.net/nominalizationworkshop.html.
Evans, N. (2007). Insubordination and its uses. In I. Nikolaeva (Ed.), Finiteness: all over the
clause, pp. 366–431. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Gildea, S. (1998). On reconstructing grammar : Comparative Cariban morphosyntax. Oxford:
Oxford University Press.
Givón, T. (2012). Towards a diachronic typology of relative clause. In B. Comrie and Z. Estrada-
Fernández (Eds.), Relative clauses in the languages of the Americas, pp. 1–26. Amsterdam
and Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Hengeveld, K. (1992). Non-verbal predication. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
Koptjevskaja-Tamm, M. (1993). Nominalizations. London and New York: Routledge.
LaPolla, R. J. (2003). Qiang. In G. Thurgood and R. J. LaPolla (Eds.), The Sino-Tibetan Languages,
pp. 573–87. Routledge.
Malchukov, A. (2004). Nominalization/verbalization: Constraining a typology of transcategorial
operations. München and Newcastle: Lincom Europa.
Mithun, M. (2008). The extension of dependency beyond the sentence. Language 83, 69–119.
Noonan, M. (1997). Versatile Nominalizations. In Bybee, J. Haiman, J. and S. A. Thompson (Eds.),
Essays in language function and language type, pp. 373–94. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Yap, F. H. and J. Wang (2011). From light noun to nominalizer and more: The grammaticalization
of zhe and suo in old and middle chinese. In K. Grunow-Hasta , Foong Ha and J. Wrona (Eds.),
Nominalization in Asian Languages: Diachronic and typological perspectives, pp. 59–108.
Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Yap, Foong Ha, K. Grunow-Hasta and J. Wrona (2011). Introduction. Nominalization strategies in Asian
languages. In K. Grunow-Hasta Yap, Foong Ha and J. Wrona (Eds.), Nominalization in Asian Languages:
Diachronic and typological perspectives, pp. 1–57. Amsterdam and Philadelphia:
John Benjamins.



[Linguist List announcement 27.951]]]> http://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-950.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-950.html Birgul Yilmaz <b_yilmaz@soas.ac.uk> Tue, 23 Feb 2016 14:23:16 EST Full Title: Language and Conflict: Politics of Language and Identity across Contexts

Date: 20-May-2016 - 20-May-2016
Location: SOAS, University of London, United Kingdom
Contact Person: Birgul Yilmaz
Meeting Email: email link

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Language Documentation; Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics

Call Deadline: 30-Mar-2016

Meeting Description:

This one day workshop brings together scholars and graduate students working on the role of language in on-going and post-conflict contexts. Examples could include (but are not limited to) the Middle East, Africa, the Balkans, and Western Europe, including diaspora and migration contexts.

The workshop aims at exploring the intersection of language and conflict on several levels, stressing the role of language and identity:

– Firstly, a micro level with a particular focus on the interactional construction or discourse of conflict (and resolution)
– Secondly, we focus on the macro structures of conflict, drawing on processes of language policies and revitalization in such contexts
– Thirdly, we focus on the potential role of languages in inter-community, intra-community or social cohesion.


Call for Papers:

Language and Conflict: Politics of Language and Identity across Contexts
School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London
20 May 2016

Organising Committee: Birgul Yilmaz and Dr. Julia Sallabank

We welcome papers from fields such as:
- Sociolinguistics
- Linguistic Anthropology
- Critical/ Discourse Analysis
- Political Science
- Conflict, Peace, Violence and Development Studies
Interdisciplinary studies are especially welcome.

This event is a one-day workshop with an opening keynote presentation by Prof. Hilary Footitt, University of Reading, followed by presentations by selected speakers (max. 20), in parallel sessions. Each of the presenters would have 20 minutes for the talk, plus 10 minutes for questions.

We invite 20-mintute-long papers contributing to the debate on the relationship between language and conflict contested on interactional and policy-based dimensions.

Submissions of 300-word abstracts should be sent to: js72@soas.ac.uk & b_yilmaz@soas.ac.uk

The deadline for submissions is: 30 March 2016.
Accepted speakers will be notified on: 20 April 2016.

*Attendance to this workshop is free. We have a small traveling bursary for the accepted speakers who are students/ unwaged traveling within the UK.
* Abstracts will go blind review, please make sure that your abstract is blinded as a word document or pdf.



[Linguist List announcement 27.950]]]> http://dcourse.lc.itb.ac.id/ http://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-949.html Lusia Nurani <lnurani@asu.edu> Tue, 23 Feb 2016 14:22:56 EST Full Title: 11th Bandung International Conference on Language & Education
Short Title: BICOLE 11

Date: 18-Jul-2016 - 20-Jul-2016
Location: Bandung, West Java, Indonesia
Contact Person: Alina Ayuningsih
Meeting Email: email link
Web Site: http://dcourse.lc.itb.ac.id/

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics

Call Deadline: 22-Apr-2016

Meeting Description:

The Bandung International Conferences on Language & Education - jointly organised every two years by Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB), the British Council in Indonesia, and the University of Leeds (UK) - explore issues of topical concern to language specialists and language educators in the world.

BICOLE 11 or the Eleventh Bandung International Conference on Language & Education - focuses on Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in Language Studies. It does this through five sub-themes:

1. E-learning and teaching (What are the benefits and drawbacks of using ICT to learn and teach languages?)
2. Social media in learning and teaching (Does social media really have a role to play in language studies?)
3. Corpus analysis and the language curriculum (How can corpus-based analysis give us a better understanding of the language which we are studying or teaching?)
4. E-teacher development (Can teachers' competences be developed through ICT? How?)
5. Online language testing (We are already familiar with online IELTS and TOEFL. What are the limitations and strengths of online language testing?)

What makes the Eleventh Bandung International Conferences on Language & Education special?

- Relevance: BICOLE always focuses on a topic which is of current importance in Indonesia.
- Focus: The theme of each conference is reflected in every presentation. Papers not related to the conference theme are not accepted.
- Quality: All proposals are considered by an international selection committee. Only the highest quality proposals are accepted for presentation.

Call for Papers:

The conference organisers invite abstracts of papers (45 minutes) or workshops (90 minutes) or posters from:
- language teachers in schools and universities
- teacher educators
- curriculum designers
- language testing specialists
- education administrators and managers
- policy makers
- researchers
- and anybody else who is concerned with issues relating to Information and Communication Technology.

Important Dates:

22 April 2016: Deadline for abstract submission
23 May 2016: Announcement of accepted proposals

For more information about the conference and abstract submission, please visit the conference website: http://dcourse.lc.itb.ac.id/home/index.html

Contact Information:

Mailing address:
UPT Pusat Bahasa-ITB, Gedung CADL 1st floor, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Jl. Ganesha No. 10, Bandung, West Java 40132, Indonesia

Phone: +62 22 250 5674

Contact Person:
Alina Ayuningsih: alinaayuningsih@gmail.com, alinaayuningsih@lc.itb.ac.id



[Linguist List announcement 27.949]]]> http://dcl.bas.bg/clib/ http://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-948.html Tsvetana Dimitrova <cvetana@dcl.bas.bg> Tue, 23 Feb 2016 14:22:36 EST Full Title: Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria
Short Title: CLiB-2016

Date: 09-Sep-2016 - 09-Sep-2016
Location: Sofia, Bulgaria
Contact Person: Svetlozara Leseva
Meeting Email: email link
Web Site: http://dcl.bas.bg/clib/

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics

Subject Language(s): Bulgarian

Call Deadline: 31-May-2016

Meeting Description:

CLIB is an international conference that aims to foster the NLP community in Bulgaria and further the cooperation with Bulgarian researchers working in NLP around the world through establishing a forum for sharing high-quality scientific work in all areas of computational linguistics and NLP.

The Second Conference on Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria (CLIB-2016) will be held in Sofia, Bulgaria, on September 9, 2016. It is organised by the team of the Department of Computational Linguistics at the Institute for Bulgarian Language.

Call for Papers:

CLIB covers a broad spectrum of areas related to natural language processing, with a special focus on Bulgarian.

Topics of Interest

CLIB 2016 invites contributions on original research, including, but not limited to the following topics:

- Semantics, syntax, grammar and the lexicon
- Cognitive, mathematical and computational models of language processing
- Lexical semantics and ontologies
- Linguistic annotation - POS tagging, syntactic and semantic parsing, etc.
- Word sense disambiguation
- MWE recognition
- Information extraction
- Text analysis and summarisation
- NLP methods and applications
- Corpus linguistics
- Multilingual processing and applications, machine translation and translation aids

Papers describing research in theoretical computational linguistics are also solicited. At the same time, we encourage all authors to include analysis of the impact of theories on technologies, and/or contributions of technologies to the advancement of theory, where appropriate. In-depth analysis and discussion of errors made in the experiments described and the influence of linguistically-motivated features on the performance of the methods and/or models applied will receive additional credit toward the overall evaluation score.

There will be two categories of research papers: oral and poster presentations. The maximum submission length is 8 pages (A4) of content, plus two extra pages for references. All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings.

Papers shall be submitted in English.

Reviewing will be double blind. Each submission will be reviewed by at least two anonymous reviewers.

Additional information and CLIB-2016 style guidelines are available at the conference site: http://dcl.bas.bg/clib/

Paper submission deadline is 31 May 2016.



[Linguist List announcement 27.948]]]> https://www.slm.uni-hamburg.de/forschung/tagungen/hexenverhoerprotokolle.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-947.html Melitta Gillmann <melitta.gillmann@uni-hamburg.de> Tue, 23 Feb 2016 14:14:47 EST Full Title: Hexenverhörprotokolle als sprachhistorisches Korpus

Date: 08-Dec-2016 - 10-Dec-2016
Location: Hamburg, Germany
Contact Person: Melitta Gillmann
Meeting Email: email link
Web Site: https://www.slm.uni-hamburg.de/forschung/tagungen/hexenverhoerprotokolle.html

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Ling & Literature; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics

Subject Language(s): German

Call Deadline: 30-Apr-2016

Meeting Description:

Im Zentrum der Tagung sollen Hexenverhörprotokolle stehen, also spezifische handschriftliche Erzeugnisse der Kanzleisprache aus der Zeit der intensivierten Hexenverfolgung im 16./17. Jh. Gerade diese Textsorte wird vielerorts als sprachhistorische Datengrundlage in ganz unterschiedlichen Forschungskontexten verwendet.

Die Tagung ist als Austauschplattform für all diejenigen angedacht, die sich aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven mit den Korpora aus Hexenverhörprotokollen beschäftigen, u.a. mit variations-, text-, system-, sozio- und kognitionslinguistischen Fragestellungen sowie vor dem Hintergrund aktueller korpuslinguistischer Methoden oder in Bezug auf Editions- und Transkriptionsverfahren.

Willkommen sind daher Beiträge aus dem Bereich der Sprachwandelforschung, Sprachtypologie, Areallinguistik, Dialektologie, der historischen Soziolinguistik, Textsortenforschung, Vertextungsforschung, Handschriftlichkeit und der historischen Korpuslinguistik. Ebenfalls willkommen sind interdisziplinäre, darunter kulturhistorische, kulturwissenschaftliche und computerlinguistische Beiträge.

Die Tagung soll durch die Einbindung unterschiedlicher methodisch-empirischer wie auch theoretischer Zugriffe zur sprach- und kulturhistorischen Verortung der Hexenverhörprotokolle beitragen und so das Forschungsfeld der historischen Korpuslinguistik auf breiterer Basis definieren.

Call for Papers:

Beitragsvorschläge sind in Form einer pdf-Datei als Abstracts von maximal 500 Wörter (ausgenommen Literaturangaben) bis zum 30.04.2016 per Email an annika.vieregge@uni-hamburg.de einzureichen.

Die Begutachtung erfolgt bis zum 31.05.2016.

Weitere Informationen, insbesondere zum ''Call for paper'' können der Tagungshomepage entnommen werden: https://www.slm.uni-hamburg.de/forschung/tagungen/hexenverhoerprotokolle.html



[Linguist List announcement 27.947]]]> http://www.fas.nus.edu.sg/cls/CLaSIC/clasic2016/index.htm http://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-946.html Mihi Park <clspm@nus.edu.sg> Tue, 23 Feb 2016 11:27:18 EST Full Title: CLaSIC 2016

Date: 01-Dec-2016 - 03-Dec-2016
Location: Singapore, Singapore
Contact Person: Lee Peng Cheong
Meeting Email: email link
Web Site: http://www.fas.nus.edu.sg/cls/CLaSIC/clasic2016/index.htm

Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition

Subject Language(s): English

Meeting Description:

The Centre for Language Studies (CLS) of the National University of Singapore (NUS) organises a biennial international conference on foreign language teaching and learning.

The conference aims at bringing together academics, researchers and professionals from Asia and beyond for a productive and rewarding exchange of insights, experiences, views and perspectives on current and future developments in foreign language teaching and learning. The last six CLaSICs have met with resounding success, attracting participants from all over the world.

In the current educational landscape, learning has become a multifaceted experience that transcends spatial, temporal and cultural barriers. At many centers of foreign language learning, educators have similarly been seeking to push the boundaries of teaching and learning space to beyond the traditional confines of the school and the classroom. Learning activities and interactions are today often a combination of synchronous and asynchronous experiences, including various forms of onsite and offsite curricular activities, and virtual interactions in the digital world. Furthermore, learning is no longer restricted to print materials, as ubiquitous computing has enabled easy and immediate access to seemingly limitless electronic resources for foreign language teaching and learning.

Acknowledging such trends in foreign language education, our conference theme invokes the term ‘ubiquity’ to refer to a seamless continuum of learning experiences across formal and informal learning situations, as well as technology and non-technology based learning interactions in and beyond the classroom. CLaSIC 2016 provides a platform for researchers, scholars and practitioners in foreign language education for an invigorating discourse on theoretical conceptions and approaches, research insights, and practical experiences from the various sub-fields and sub-themes listed below, as they pertain to teaching and learning in the ubiquitous age.

Call for Papers:

CLaSIC 2016 Organising Committee invites submissions for Paper and Poster Presentations on one of the following fourteen sub-themes:

- Learning theories and ubiquitous learning (sociocultural theories of learning, Connectivism, Constructivism, etc.)
- Formal and informal learning
- Situated and project-based learning
- Technology and ubiquitous learning (mobile technologies, Web 2.0, CMC, MOOCs, etc.)
- Blended learning
- Instructional approaches and methods
- Curriculum and materials development
- Assessment and evaluation
- Study abroad and in-country language immersion
- Teacher education and development
- Autonomy, self-direction and motivation
- Individualisation and differentiation of learning
- Learning strategies and learning management
- Other topics

Presentation proposals can be submitted online at the following URL, latest by 31 May 2016: http://www.fas.nus.edu.sg/cls/CLaSIC/clasic2016/submission.htm

If you would like your full conference paper to be included in the electronic proceedings, please send it to clasic2016@nus.edu.sg by 21 October 2016.

Presenters are requested to adhere to the formatting instructions in the style sheet. Your cooperation will be very much appreciated.

Please follow this link to download our style sheet and an example for the formatting of your paper : http://www.fas.nus.edu.sg/cls/CLaSIC/clasic2016/stylesheet.htm



[Linguist List announcement 27.946]]]> https://baal2016aru.wordpress.com/ http://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-945.html Alex Ho-Cheong Leung <alex.ho-cheong.leung@northumbria.ac.uk> Tue, 23 Feb 2016 11:26:01 EST Full Title: 49th Annual Meeting of the British Association for Applied Linguistics
Short Title: BAAL 2016

Date: 01-Sep-2016 - 03-Sep-2016
Location: Cambridge, UK, United Kingdom
Contact Person: Alex Ho-Cheong Leung
Meeting Email: email link
Web Site: https://baal2016aru.wordpress.com/

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; General Linguistics

Call Deadline: 01-Mar-2016

Meeting Description:

The 49th Annual Meeting of the British Association for Applied Linguistics will be hosted by Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge on 1–3 September 2016.

Conference theme: Taking stock of Applied Linguistics – Where are we now?

At the time of the Annual Meeting of BAAL in 2016 we will be one and a half decades into the new millennium. The new millennium brought many trends and changes in applied linguistics, for example the increasing use of interdisciplinary approaches in the field, interest in corpus-based studies, the use of new media as data sources and as new environments of communication – which in turn developed new ways of communicating and influenced language. At the same time, processes that have started in the old millennium are continuing to develop and influence the field, such as globalisation, migration and its implications on how languages are used. Looking at the past and present, and understanding the developments of the field, will enable us to move confidently into the future, and to continue to make valuable contributions to society.

Keynote Speakers:

Ingrid Piller (Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia)
Devyani Sharma (Queen Mary University of London, UK)
Jean-Marc Dewaele (Birkbeck, University of London, UK)

S. Pit Corder Lecture
Jan Hulstijn (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands)

Final Call for Papers:

Submission Guidelines:

Abstracts are welcome in any area of Applied Linguistics and should present original research. Abstracts which address the conference theme will be particularly welcome.

Deadline for receipt of abstracts: 1 March 2016

To submit your abstract:

Please go to the BAAL2016 submission page on Easy Abstracts to submit your abstract: http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/BAAL2016 . On the abstract submission page, log in to the submission system and start the submission process. An e-mail confirmation of receipt of abstract will be sent to you immediately. Your contact details will be included in the book of abstracts unless you opt out during the submission process.

Format:

Text 300 words maximum (including references, if any). Do not use any special fonts, such as bold print or caps. Do NOT add tables, photos, or diagrams to your abstract. Do NOT indent your paragraphs, leave one space between paragraphs instead. If you intend to submit to a SIG track, please indicate the respective SIG you want to be considered for in your abstract.

Type of presentation:

Individual
Special interest group (SIG) track
Poster
Colloquium

For full details about the call for papers and submission guidelines please visit the Conference Website: https://baal2016aru.wordpress.com/

In case you encountered any difficulty or have any question, please do not hesitate to contact the Meetings Secretary, Alex Ho-Cheong Leung at: alex.ho-cheong.leung@northumbria.ac.uk



[Linguist List announcement 27.945]]]> http://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-942.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-942.html Karim Sadeghi <ksadeghi03@gmail.com> Tue, 23 Feb 2016 11:01:41 EST Full Title: Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research


Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Language Acquisition

Call Deadline: 01-Mar-2017

Call for Papers Special Issue

Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research (IJLTR) is planning to publish one Special Issue each year beginning with 2016 (in addition to two regular issues which appear on the 1st of January and July every year). Special Issues are theme-based and guest-edited by leading figures in the field.

Following the announcement o​f​ 2016 Special Issue on Teacher Education (to be edited by Prof. Jack C Richards, University of Sydney), We are pleased to announce that the guest-editors and themes for 2017, 2018 and 2019 Special Issues are now ​finalized. Call for papers is now open for all Special Issues (details below).

2017 Special Issue:

Guest editor: John​ I.​ Liontas, PhD (University of South Florida)

Theme: Idiomaticity ​and​ Language Teaching Research

Sub-theme​​s:
- Attainment of native-like idiomatic competence in ​ESL/EFL
- Applications of new media and multimedia technologies for idiomatic learning
linguistic, pragmatic, or techno-pedagogical concerns ​in developing idiomatic competence
- Teacher training and professional development, materials and curriculum development, assessment ​​issues as related to developing idiomaticity

Deadline for paper submission: 1 March 2017
​
2018 Special Issue:

Guest editor: Dan Douglas, PhD (Iowa State University)

Theme: Assessment for Teaching

Sub-themes:
- Asses​s​ment for Learning (AfL)
- Learning Oriented Language Assessment (LOLA)
- Alternatives in Assessment (AA)
- Language Assessment Literacy (LAT)
- Testers' Professional Development (TPD)
- And any practical aspect of language assessment

Deadline for paper submission: 1 March 2018

2019 Special Issue:

Guest editor: Sandra Lee McKay, PhD (San Fran​c​isco State University)

Theme: Teaching English as an International Language

Sub-themes:
- Assessing proficiency in EIL
- Standards in EIL
- Intercultural competence and EIL
- The use of digital media in EIL teaching/learning
- Lexical innovation in EIL
- Teaching the four skills in EIL
- Monolingual and bilingual EIL teachers
- Differentiating WE, ELF and EIL
- Pragmatics and EIL
- The historical development of EIL

Deadline for paper submission: 1 March 2019

20​20​ Special Issue:

Guest editor​s​: ​Zia Tajeddin, PhD​ ​ (​Allameh Tabataba'i University)​ & Minoo Alemi, PhD (Sharif University of Technology)​

Theme: Discourse in Second Language Classroom Context

Sub-themes:
- Politeness and Impoliteness in ​T​eacher and Learner Talk
- Teachers' and Learners' Discoursal Identity
- Teachers' Discoursal Strategies for Learner Participation and Engagement
- Discourse of Resistance in Teacher and Learner Talk
- Discourse of Power and Agency in Teacher Talk
- Gendered Discourse in the Classroom Context
- Teachers' and Learners' Use of Speech Acts
- Discourse of ​ ​Humor in Classroom Context
- Discourse of​ ​ Turn Construction in Classroom Context
- Deadline for paper submission: 1 March 20​20​
​
Potential contributors are invited to send their manuscripts to IJLTR editor (ijltreditor@gmail.com) following guidelines for submission available at the journal website​.​

​F​o​r further information on journal's other regular and special issues, visit the journal website: http://www.urmia.ac.ir/ijltr.


[Linguist List announcement 27.942]]]> https://sss7lyon.wordpress.com http://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-932.html Michael Gauthier <michael.gauthier.uni@gmail.com> Mon, 22 Feb 2016 11:52:29 EST Full Title: Sociolinguistics Summer School 7
Short Title: SSS7

Date: 21-Jun-2016 - 24-Jun-2016
Location: Lyon, France
Contact Person: Michael Gauthier
Meeting Email: email link
Web Site: https://sss7lyon.wordpress.com

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics

Call Deadline: 25-Mar-2016

Meeting Description:

The Sociolinguistics Summer School is the perfect opportunity for graduate, postgraduate students and young researchers from all around the world to network, present their work, and attend workshops and lectures by leading experts in the field in an informal, yet polished atmosphere.

This year's edition is the seventh of the kind, and will take place in Lyon between June 21 - 24.

Last Call for Papers:

The 7th Sociolinguistics Summer School is the perfect opportunity for postgraduate students to network, showcase some of their original work, as well as attend workshops and lectures by leading experts in the field. Each day of the summer school will follow a specific theme or topic of current relevance to sociolinguistic research, this theme will reflect the specialty of the plenary speakers. We welcome students from any institution who wish to present in English on these topics, and meet the corresponding invited speakers:

Endangered Languages: Bénédicte Pivot, Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3
Linguistic Landscapes: Jeffrey Kallen, Trinity College Dublin
Linguistic Policies: Jim Walker, Université Lumière Lyon 2
New Speakers: Bernadette O’Rourke, Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh

However, we also encourage students to present on other topics related to sociolinguistics. The Summer School will include a poster session, and oral presentations which will be 20 minutes followed by 10 minutes of discussion.

Abstract Guidelines:

The language of the conference will be English
Abstracts should not exceed 500 words (excluding references).
Font: Times New Roman, size 12.
Title: should clearly indicate your topic of research.
Topic: When submitting your abstract, please include up to five keywords at the end of the abstract (For instance: multilingualism, language and gender, social semiotics).
Images/figures/tables in abstract submissions are not permitted.
One copy of your abstract should include your name, email address, affiliation (if any), project title, and whether your submission is intended for poster or oral presentation. The second copy should be anonymous and include your project title and whether it is intended for poster or oral presentation.

Contact Information and Abstract Deadlines:

Please submit your abstract to sss7.lyon@gmail.com by March 25th, 2016.
If you have any questions regarding abstract guidelines, contact us at this email address.

Further Information:

Keep up to date with the latest news on https://sss7lyon.wordpress.com/
Follow us on Facebook and Twitter.

More information regarding registration will be posted on our website and on social media during the following months.

We are very grateful to the labex ASLAN, E-Cost and the New Speaker Network, the CRTT laboratory and the Université de Lyon for their financial assistance.



[Linguist List announcement 27.932]]]> http://www.essex.ac.uk/langling/conferences/langue/default.aspx. http://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-931.html Sharaf Yassin <syiyas@essex.ac.uk> Mon, 22 Feb 2016 11:52:03 EST Full Title: 11th Language at the University of Essex Postgraduate Conference
Short Title: LangUE

Date: 16-Jun-2016 - 16-Jun-2016
Location: University of Essex, Colchester, Wivenhoe Park, CO4 3SQ, United Kingdom
Contact Person: Sharaf Yassin
Meeting Email: email link
Web Site: http://www.essex.ac.uk/langling/conferences/langue/default.aspx.

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Call Deadline: 01-Mar-2016

Meeting Description:

The Department of Language and Linguistics at the University of Essex invites you to its eleventh postgraduate conference which will be held at the University of Essex on Thursday 16 June 2016, 9.00 am to 5.00 pm In the Teaching Centre (2.12, 2.13, 2.8 and 2.9).

The conference aims at bringing together postgraduate students to present and discuss current research, results and problems from any field of linguistics.

We are pleased to announce Prof. Paul Meara (University of Swansea), Prof. Bob Borsley (University of Essex) and Prof Ianthi Tsimpli (University of Cambridge) as this year’s plenary speakers.

2nd Call for Papers:

We Would like to remind you of the deadline for receiving abstracts for papers to participate in LangUE at the University of Essex. Abstracts of no more than 400 words are invited on any topic in linguistics. They should include name and institution. The deadline for receiving abstracts for oral presentations or poster presentations and workshops is Tuesday 1 of March 2016

Please send your abstract to https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=langue2016

Note that no late submissions will be accepted. All submissions will be peer-reviewed.



[Linguist List announcement 27.931]]]> http://wa.amu.edu.pl/plm/2016/Nominal_Classification_Asia http://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-930.html Marc Tang <tangsaiid@gmail.com> Mon, 22 Feb 2016 11:51:38 EST Full Title: Nominal Classification in South-East Asia

Date: 15-Sep-2016 - 17-Sep-2016
Location: Poznan, Poland
Contact Person: Marc Tang
Meeting Email: email link
Web Site: http://wa.amu.edu.pl/plm/2016/Nominal_Classification_Asia

Linguistic Field(s): Morphology; Pragmatics; Semantics; Syntax; Typology

Call Deadline: 31-Mar-2016

Meeting Description:

Linguists are interested in systems of nominal classification due to their diverse lexical and pragmatic functions as well as cognitive and cultural correlates. In particular, ongoing research has focused on semantic, functional and morphosyntactic properties of complex nominal classification systems, such as co-occurring gender and numeral classifiers as well as gender and verbal classifiers (see, e.g. Fedden&Corbett, 2016). The main regions discussed within such approaches include north-western South America and Papua New Guinea.

This workshop proposes to focus on another region possessing languages which display complex nominal classification systems, i.e., Asia. In particular, numeral classifiers are the hallmark of the languages of East and South-East Asia. Moreover, the northern region of India is also the meeting point between Indo-European and Sino-Tibetan languages, which possess prototypical examples of gender and numeral classifier systems, respectively. This condition makes the language of this zone unique in the sense that they show a co-occurrence of numeral classifiers and grammatical genders, while most of the languages attested in the literature involve either two classifier systems, e.g. Minangkabau (Austronesian) rely on both noun classifiers and numeral classifiers (Marnita, 1996) or two-gender systems, e.g. Paumari(Arawan) with a masculine/feminine gender system plus human/non-human gender system (Fedden & Corbett, 2016). Studies have been done on co-existing classifier and gender systems in South American languages, e.g. Palikur (Aikhenvald, 2000), nevertheless this phenomenon has not been treated in the languages of Asia, where language contact between Indo-European and Sino-Tibetan languages is expected to create different results than in South American languages.

As to the motivation of studying such languages, first of all, such complex systems are relatively uncommon statistically (Sinnemäki, 2015; Tang, 2015).Generally genders occur in inflectional languages while classifiers tend to occur in languages with less complex inflectional morphology. The co-existence of the two systems in the same language creates a conflict between these opposing tendencies, as shown by the complex morphosyntactic properties of such systems (Fedden et al, 2015). Second, the way genders and classifiers categorize nouns is drastically different: gender languages such as French categorize all nouns into either masculine and feminine, while classifier languages such as Mandarin Chinese class nouns according to the inherent properties of their referents, such as animacy and shape. The ways in these systems operate on nouns in the same language create a unique patchwork of semantic and morphosyntactic properties. Following the motif of PLM 46 “Linguistics and data: A fresh look”, we will therefore focus on the following issues related to nominal classification systems in Asia, focusing but not limited to South-East Asia:

- case studies of specific languages displaying complex nominal classification systems and the formal and semantic interaction among them;
- the realization of particular semantic and discourse functions, e.g. individuation and reference tracking;
- the interaction of nominal classification and other nominal categories such as number and definiteness;
- areal studies of nominal classification;
- the role of language contact in the origin and loss of nominal classification systems.

Call for Papers:

For abstract submission, please refer to the website of PLM46:

http://wa.amu.edu.pl/plm/2016/PLM2016_Abstract_submission



[Linguist List announcement 27.930]]]> http://sites.utoronto.ca/slavic/SLS2016/index.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-929.html Joseph Schallert <joseph.schallert@utoronto.ca> Mon, 22 Feb 2016 11:51:03 EST Full Title: Slavic Linguistics Society
Short Title: SLS 11 2016

Date: 23-Sep-2016 - 25-Sep-2016
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Contact Person: Joseph Schallert
Meeting Email: email link
Web Site: http://sites.utoronto.ca/slavic/SLS2016/index.html

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Language Family(ies): Slavic Subgroup

Call Deadline: 15-Mar-2016

Meeting Description:

The 11th annual meeting of the Slavic Linguistics Society (SLS) will be held at the University of Toronto (Canada), 23-25 September 2016. The conference will be hosted by the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatues and the Department of Linguistics.

2nd Call for Papers:

Abstracts (limit 3000 characters) should be written in English or Russian. In case of acceptance, oral presentations are possible in other Slavic languages as long as a summary in English or Russian is provided.

Abstracts and other proposals should be submitted online at sls2016@utoronto.ca. They should be anonymous, i.e. should not contain name(s) or affiliations(s) of the author(s) or any other self-identifying information. Submissions are limited to one single-authored or one joint abstract. The paper title, author name(s), affiliation(s), status (if graduate student) and contact information should be given in the body of the email. There will be a small number of competitive travel scholarships awarded to graduate students whose abstracts are accepted.

Revised Deadline for Abstract Submission: March 15, 2016
Send to: sls2016@utoronto.ca



[Linguist List announcement 27.929]]]> http://www.bu.edu/bucld/ http://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-927.html Charles Chang <cc@bu.edu> Mon, 22 Feb 2016 11:50:13 EST Full Title: 41st Boston University Conference on Language Development
Short Title: BUCLD 41

Date: 04-Nov-2016 - 06-Nov-2016
Location: Boston, MA, USA
Contact Person: Charles Chang
Meeting Email: email link
Web Site: http://www.bu.edu/bucld/

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; General Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Psycholinguistics

Call Deadline: 15-Apr-2016

Meeting Description:

The 41st Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 41) will be held on November 4-6, 2016 at Boston University. At this time we are soliciting proposals for 90-minute symposia (on any topic likely to be of broad interest to the conference attendees).

Invited speakers:
Keynote Speaker: Maria Polinsky (University of Maryland)
Plenary Speaker: Angela Friederici (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences)

Call for Symposium Proposals:

We are soliciting proposals for 90-minute symposia for the Boston University Conference on Language Development on any topic likely to be of broad interest to the conference attendees. The symposium format is open, but has frequently included 2-3 speakers presenting research from differing angles on a common theme.

Proposals should include a list of the participants, specific topics, and a specification of the format, and should name at least one organizer who will be able to work with the BUCLD organizing committee in setting up the symposium. Submissions can be sent by email to langconf@bu.edu with ''Symposium proposal'' indicated in the subject line. Please limit symposium proposals to 1000 words or fewer.

Deadline: April 15, 2016

Decisions on symposia will be made by June.

NOTE: Submissions of abstracts for 20-minute talks and poster presentations are not being solicited at this time. The deadline for those will be 8:00 PM EST, May 15, 2016.

Further Information:
General conference information is available at:
http://www.bu.edu/bucld

Questions should be sent to langconf@bu.edu

Boston University Conference on Language Development
96 Cummington Street, Room 244
Boston, MA 02215
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[Linguist List announcement 27.927]]]> http://clef2016.clef-initiative.eu/ http://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-926.html Birger Larsen <birger@hum.aau.dk> Mon, 22 Feb 2016 11:48:58 EST Full Title: CLEF 2016: Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum
Short Title: CLEF2016

Date: 05-Sep-2016 - 08-Sep-2016
Location: Évore, Portugal
Contact Person: Paulo Quaresma
Meeting Email: email link
Web Site: http://clef2016.clef-initiative.eu/

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics

Call Deadline: 08-Apr-2016

Meeting Description:

CLEF 2016: Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum
Information Access Evaluation meets Multilinguality, Multimodality and Interaction
5-8 September 2016, Évora - Portugal
http://clef2016.clef-initiative.eu/

CLEF 2016 consists of an independent peer-reviewed conference on a broad range of issues in the fields of multilingual and multimodal information access evaluation, and a set of labs and workshops designed to test different aspects of mono and cross-language Information Retrieval systems.

Together, the conference and the lab series will maintain and expand upon the CLEF tradition of community-based evaluation and discussion on evaluation issues.

2nd Call for Papers:

The CLEF Conference addresses all aspects of Information Access in any modality and language. The CLEF conference has a clear focus on experimental IR as done at the evaluation forums (CLEF Labs, TREC, NTCIR, FIRE, MediaEval, RomIP, SemEval, TAC, ...) with special attention to the challenges of multimodality, multilinguality, and interactive search. We invite submissions on significant new insights demonstrated on the resulting IR test collections, on analysis of IR test collections and evaluation measures, as well as on
concrete proposals to push the boundaries of the Cranfield/TREC/CLEF paradigm.

CLEF welcomes papers that describe rigorous hypothesis testing regardless of whether the results are positive or negative. Methods are expected to be written so that they are reproducible by others, and the logic of the research design is clearly described in the paper. The conference proceedings will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS).

Topics:

Relevant topics for the CLEF 2016 Conference include but are not limited to:

- Information Access in any language or modality: Information retrieval, image retrieval, question answering, search interfaces and design, infrastructures, etc.
- Analytics for Information Retrieval: theoretical and practical results in the analytics field that are specifically targeted for information access data analysis
- Evaluation Initiatives: Conclusions, lessons learned, impact and projection of any evaluation initiative after completing their cycle
- Evaluation: methodologies, metrics, statistical and analytical tools, component based, user groups and use cases, ground-truth creation, impact of multilingual/multicultural/multimodal differences, etc.
- Technology Transfer: Economic impact/sustainability of information access approaches, deployment and exploitation of systems, use cases, etc.
- Interactive Information Retrieval Evaluation: the interactive evaluation of IR systems using user-centered methods, evaluation of novel search interfaces, novel interactive evaluation methods, simulation of interaction, etc.
- Specific Application Domains: Information access and its evaluation in application domains such as cultural heritage, digital libraries, social media, expert search, health information, legal documents, patents, news, books, plants, etc.

Format:

Two types of papers are solicited:
- Long papers: 12 pages max. Aimed to report complete research works
- Short papers: 6 pages max. Position papers, new evaluation proposals, developments and applications, etc.

Papers will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 members of the program committee. Selection will be based on originality, clarity, and technical quality. Papers should be submitted in PDF format to the following address: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=clef2016

Dates:

- Submission of Long Papers: April 8, 2016
- Submission of Short Papers: April 15, 2016
- Notification of Acceptance: May 15, 2016
- Camera Ready Copy due: June 17, 2016
- Conference: September 5-8, 2016



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