http://linguistlist.org Latest Confs 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.slav.uzh.ch/de/forschunguebersicht/tagungen/complementation.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-995.html Barbara Sonnenhauser <barbara.sonnenhauser@uzh.ch> Thu, 25 Feb 2016 14:24:34 EST Variation in Space and Time: Clausal Complementation in South Slavic

Date: 17-Mar-2016 - 19-Mar-2016
Location: Zurich, Switzerland
Contact: Barbara Sonnenhauser
Contact Email: email link
Meeting URL: http://www.slav.uzh.ch/de/forschunguebersicht/tagungen/complementation.html

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Syntax; Typology

Language Family(ies): Slavic Subgroup

Meeting Description:

The South Slavic languages - Slovene, Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian, Bulgarian, and Macedonian - constitute a quite heterogeneous group of languages. On the one hand, they form a dialect continuum, while on the other hand, they are part of different areal convergence zones. The intersection of dialectal and areal affiliation is further complicated by the individual standardisation histories, which may have led to differentiations on the level of the standard languages that are not necessarily observed for the spoken varieties and dialects. This makes the investigation of non-standard and historical data an urgent requirement.

One case in point illustrating this complex situation is clausal complementation (CC). The linguistic complexity of South Slavic has been impeding studies covering the unity and diversity of the CC strategies encountered for these languages in their entirety. Moreover, CC itself is still an under-defined notion. Crucially, discussing CC in South Slavic from various points of view, applying different theoretical approaches and methods of investigation, as shall be done by the contributions to this conference, necessitates a clear elaboration of the key notions used in the individual analyses.

Against this background, the conference aims at gaining a detailed picture of the diverse patterns of CC in South Slavic by bringing together researchers which focus on different aspects of this topic. Striving to arrive at a clearer concept of CC, the conference also contributes to linguistic concept formation, which will enhance further collaborative investigations. In addition, the workshop intends to explore the possibilities of creating a unified platform of corpora and similar kinds of data necessary for empirical research in this domain.

Program:

Thursday, March 17 2016

14.00-14.40
Barbara Sonnenhauser (Zurich) & Björn Wiemer (Mainz):
Introduction: the many facets of clausal complementation

Approaching the nature of complementation

14.45-15.15
Bojan Belić (Seattle):
Finite infinity: controllers and choice of clausal complements (in Serbian)

15.20-15.50
Björn Hansen (Regensburg) & Zrinka Kolaković (Regensburg):
Clitic climbing in complement taking predicates in Serbian and Croatian: a study on semantic clause integration

15.50-16.20 Coffee break

16.20-16.50
Liljana Mitkovska (Skopje) & Eleni Bužarovska (Skopje):
Clausal complementation of visual perception verbs in Balkan Slavic: inherited and contact-induced features

16.55-17.25
Ivana Vrdoljak (Mainz):
Factivity status of complements in Croatian/Serbian

17.25-17.45
Discussion

Friday, March 18 2016

Resources

09.45-10.15
Taras Zakharko (Zurich):
Annotating semantics of complementisers in corpora: the case of interpretative backgrounds

10.20-10.50
Tanja Samardžić (Zurich):
The 'Regional data initiative': resources of Croatian and Serbian

10.50-11.20 Coffee break

11.20-11.50
Teodora Vuković (Belgrade):
Towards the Torlak vernacular corpus

11.55-12.25
Hanne Eckhoff (Tromsö):
The history of Slavic complementation: data and pitfalls

12.25-12.45
Discussion

12.45-14.15 Lunch

Complementation in space

14.15-14.45
Pino Marco Pizzo (Mainz):
On the variability of syntactic structures from the Freising manuscripts to the East-Southslavic classical literary canon. Sources and data.

14.50-15.20
Marc L. Greenberg (Kansas):
Antemurale innovationis: the Mura river area as both a center and a periphery

15.20-15.50 Coffee break

15.50-16.20
Maxim Makartsev (Moscow):
Contact phenomena in clausal complementation in several Slavic varieties in Albania

16.25-16.55
Walter Breu (Konstanz):
Complementizers in language contact (South Slavic and Albanian in Italy)

17.00-17.30
Discussion


Saturday, March 19 2016

Complementation in time

09.30-10.00
Yannis Kakridis (Bern):
Mark 2,10-11: Periphrastic imperative and ὅτι recitativum?

10.05-10.35
Veronika Kampf (Cologne):
Emerging complementizer contrasts in pre-standardized Bulgarian

10.40-11.10
Jasmina Grković-Major (Novi Sad):
The development of emotion predicate complements in Serbian

11.10-11.30 Coffee break

11.30-12.00
Discussion; Summary of results and prospects for further collaboration



[Linguist List announcement 27.995]]]> http://www.fatfa.net http://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-994.html Colette Mrowa-Hopkins <colette.mrowa-hopkins@flinders.edu.au> Thu, 25 Feb 2016 14:23:41 EST Short Title: FATFA Conference


Date: 29-Sep-2016 - 02-Oct-2016
Location: Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Contact: Kerry Ludwig
Contact Email: email link
Meeting URL: http://www.fatfa.net

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): French

Meeting Description:

The conference of the Federation of Associations of Teachers of French in Australia brings together teachers and researchers to reflects on aspects of French studies in Australia with a focus on history, culture, pedagogy and technology.




[Linguist List announcement 27.994]]]> https://sites.google.com/site/nonfinitesubjects/ http://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-966.html Maia Duguine <maia.duguine@ehu.eus> Wed, 24 Feb 2016 10:16:41 EST Short Title: NFS


Date: 01-Apr-2016 - 02-Apr-2016
Location: Nantes, France
Contact: Maia Duguine
Contact Email: email link
Meeting URL: https://sites.google.com/site/nonfinitesubjects/

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Psycholinguistics; Semantics; Syntax

Meeting Description:

The Laboratoire de Linguistique de Nantes (LLING) organizes the NonFinite Subjects Conference, to be held at the University of Nantes, Nantes (France) on April 1-2, 2016

The conference aims at providing a forum for discussion of recent, high quality research on the subject position of non-finite structures.

Invited Speakers:

Misha Becker, University of North Carolina
Hazel Pearson, ZAS Berlin
Michelle Sheehan, Anglia Ruskin University
Sandhya Sundaresan, University of Leipzig

This workshop focuses on recent findings that shake the standard assumptions on the syntax and semantics of the subject position of non-finite structures. By scrutinizing data that does not quite fit standard approaches to non-finite subjects, we seek to question the premises and basic tenets underlying standard approaches in order to develop more explanatory analyses of the distribution and interpretation of non-finite subjects. Please check the conference website for a detailed meeting description.

Program:

April 1

8:00- 8:30
Inscription

8:30- 8:40
Opening words

8:40- 9:40
INVITED SPEAKER: Michelle Sheehan (Anglia Ruskin University)
On the typology of Control

9:40-10:20
Pilar Barbosa (Universidade do Minho)
Overt subjects of non-inflected infinitives in the consistent null subject languages: the status of Agr and the mode of composition of subjects

10:20-11:20 Coffee break and posters

11:20-12:00
Ian Roberts (University of Cambridge)
“Arbitrary PRO” is a radical null subject

12:00-12:40
Thomas McFadden (Zentrum für allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft) and Sandhya Sundaresan (University of Leipzig)
Subject alternations in non-finite clauses and OC PRO vs. pro

12:40-14:30 Lunch

14:30-15:10
Elena Soare (UMR 7023 - Université de Paris 8)
Subjects in Romanian supine constructions

15:10-15:50
Thomas Grano (Indiana University)
Two sources of grammatical deviance in non-controlled nonfinite subjects

15:50-16:10 Coffee break

16:10-16:50 Asako Matsuda (Ochanomizu University)
First Person, Second Person and PRO

16:50-17:50
INVITED SPEAKER: Hazel Pearson (ZAS Berlin)
Against a de se-as-de re approach to obligatory control

20:00 Conference dinner


Posters:

Elina Di Santo (Roma Tre University)
Non-finite subjects and mixed projections in Finnish

Julianne Doner (University of Toronto)
Does the EPP hold in non-finite clauses?: Cross-linguistic evidence

Sean Gleason (Yale University)
The case syntax of non-finite subjects: Considerations from Latin

Kim Groothuis (University of Cambridge)
Controlled subjects in Sardinian inflected infinitives

Celina Agostinho (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), Ana Lúcia Santos (Universidade de Lisboa) and Inês Duarte (Universidade de Lisboa) Comprehension of control in obligatory control contexts: Choice of controller by children aged 3 to 5 years


April 2

9:00-10:00
INVITED SPEAKER: Misha Becker (University of North Carolina)
Subject selection in Raising and Control: Psycholinguistic evidence

10:00-11:00 Coffee break and posters

11:00-11:40
Filomena Gamas (Universidade de Lisboa), Inês Duarte (Universidade de Lisboa) and Ana Lúcia Santos (Universidade de Lisboa)
First steps in obviation and Control.

11:40-12:20 Marcel Pitteroff (University of Stuttgart), Artemis Alexiadou (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) and Silke Fischer (University of Stuttgart)
An experimental investigation of Partial Control in German.

12:20-14:00 Lunch

14:00-15:00 Krisztina Szecsenyi (Eötvös Loránd University Budapest; Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
Dative and nominative subjects in Hungarian infinitival clauses: an LF-based account

15:00-15:40 Jan Casalicchio (Università di Trento)
Rethinking the role of Agreement and Tense in non-finite clauses with overt subjects. Evidence from Romance gerunds and infinitives

15:40-16:00 Coffee break

16:00-16:40
Jamie Douglas (University of Cambridge)
Control into infinitival relatives: 'Optional' Obligatory Control?

16:40-17:40
INVITED SPEAKER: Sandhya Sundaresan (University of Leipzig)
Proxy control: A new species of obligatory control under modality.


Posters:

Teresa Parodi (University of Cambridge)
The object is too far to understand: subjects and objects in non-finite degree clauses in child Spanish

Mathias Schenner (Freie Universität Berlin) and Jakob Mache (Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife)
On the interpretation of subjects in directive root infinitives in German

Katsumasa Ito (University of Tokyo) and Yoshiki Mori (University of Tokyo)
Genitive subjects as non-finiteness indicator in Japanese

Eszter Ótott-Kovács (University of Szeged)
Truncation and overt subjects: Two types of non-finite clauses in Kazakh

Xiaoshi Hu (Université Paris 7)
Diagnosing the internal structure of French causative constructions

Erik Zyman (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Finite raising to object and the mechanics of Agree



[Linguist List announcement 27.966]]]> http://pape2017.uni-koeln.de/ http://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-965.html Anna Bruggeman <abruggem@uni-koeln.de> Wed, 24 Feb 2016 10:16:13 EST Short Title: PaPE


Date: 12-Jun-2017 - 14-Jun-2017
Location: Cologne, Germany
Contact: Anna Bruggeman
Contact Email: email link
Meeting URL: http://pape2017.uni-koeln.de/

Linguistic Field(s): Phonetics; Phonology

Meeting Description:

This is the second PaPE conference, continuing from the PaPE 2015 and PaPI (Phonetics and Phonology in Iberia) conferences, held every two years since 2003.

PaPE 2017 (held 12-14 June 2017 in Cologne, Germany) aims to bring together researchers from Europe (and beyond) working on all aspects of phonetics and phonology.

2-3 satellite workshops will be held on Sunday 11 and/or Wednesday 14 June. Calls for workshops and conference papers will be issued in due course.




[Linguist List announcement 27.965]]]> http://www.nominals2016.com/ http://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-955.html Marcelo Sibaldo <sibaldo@gmail.com> Tue, 23 Feb 2016 14:26:20 EST
Date: 17-Mar-2016 - 18-Mar-2016
Location: Recife-PE, Brazil
Contact: Marcelo Sibaldo
Contact Email: email link
Meeting URL: http://www.nominals2016.com/

Linguistic Field(s): Syntax

Meeting Description:

Nominals is the second international thematic workshop of GETEGRA (Grupo de Estudos em Teoria da Gramática) and aims at bringing together studies on the morphology, syntax and semantics of noun phrases on the generative grammar perspective.

GETEGRA International Workshops are biannual. The first one, named Agreement, was devoted to the discussion of agreement in natural languages and it was held in Recife – Brazil, on February 6-7, 2014. This second edition, devoted to the study of nominals, will be held on March, 17 – 18, 2016, in Recife – Brazil.

Invited Speakers:

Marcel den Dikken (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
Giuseppe Longobardi (University of York)
Artemis Alexiadou (University of Stuttgart)

Program

Thursday, 17 March

8:00 – 8:50
Registration

8:50 – 9:00
Welcome

9:00 – 10:00
Invited Talk:
Clitics in the nominal and verbal systems of Hungarian: An integrated analysis
Marcel den Dikken (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)

10:00 – 10:40
Talk 1
Grammaticalization in Catalan and Spanish nominals
Judy B. Bernstein (William Paterson University)
Francisco Ordóñez (Stony Brook University)
Francesc Roca (Universitat de Girona)

10:40 – 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 – 11:40
Talk 2
Genitive case drop in Korean
Shin-Sook Kim (University of York)
Nina Radkevich (University of York)

11:40 – 12:20
Talk 3
Todo, (bare) nominals and the syntax of degree modification
Helena Guerra Vicente (Universidade de Brasília)
Ana Paula Quadros Gomes (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)
Marcus Lunguinho (Universidade de Brasília)

12:20 – 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 – 14:40
Talk 4
Bare nominals in Brazilian and European Portuguese: a historical perspective
Cristina Schmitt (Michigan State University)
Charlotte Marie Chambelland Galves (Unicamp)

14:40 – 15:20
Talk 5
Classifiers and plurality: evidence from a deictic classifier language
Filomena Sandalo (Unicamp)
Dimitris Michelioudakis (University of York)

15:20 – 16:00
Talk 6
Articles and the features in D
Paola Crisma (Università degli Studi di Trieste & University of York)

16:00 – 16:20 Coffee Break

16:20 – 17:00
Talk 7
‘Nominal’ numerals: the case of Slavic and Finno-Ugric
Éva Dékány (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)

17:00 – 18:00
Poster Session

1.Semantic reflexes in the syntax of third person
Danniel Carvalho (Universidade Federal da Bahia)
Fernanda Cerqueira (Universidade Federal da Bahia)

2.Person as a case of indexicalization in Brazilian Portuguese
Danniel Carvalho (Universidade Federal da Bahia)

3. The semantics of fact that p
Ana Clara Polakof (PUC-Rio/CNPq)

4. On the count/mass distinction: aspects of the quantifier system of Wapishana
Marcelo Giovannetti (Universidade Federal de Roraima)
Helena Guerra Vicente (Universidade de Brasília)

5. Bare singular nouns in Middle Norwegian
Kari Kinn (University of Oslo)

6. Determiners and modifiers in old and modern Georgian
Mariam Kamarauli (Goethe University Frankfurt am Main)

7. The distribution of adnominal adjectives. A view from semantics
Ana Paula Quadros Gomes (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)

8. Inalienable possession structures: similarities and differences between its acquisition path in Brazilian Portuguese and American English
Fernanda Mendes (Unicamp)


Friday, 18 March

9:00 – 10:00
Invited Talk:
Title to be announced
Artemis Alexiadou (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

10:00 – 10:40
Talk 8
Extraction from dative and accusative DPs in psych verbs: a multifactorial approach
Ángel L. Jimenez-Fernández (University of Seville)

10:40 – 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 – 11:40
Talk 9
Deverbal nominalizations in Lak and Case licensing
Nina Radkevich (Univeristy of York)

11:40 – 12:20
Talk 10
Mapping a dependence relation between diminutive and nominal structure
Paula Roberta Gabbai Armelin (Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora)

12:20 – 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 – 14:40
Talk 11
The history and diversity of impersonal man in English
Paola Crisma (Università degli Studi di Trieste & University of York)
Susan Pintzuk (University of York)

14:40 – 15:20
Talk 12
Small nominals and the DP hypothesis
Maria José Foltran (Universidade Federal do Paraná)
Patrícia Rodrigues (Universidade Federal do Paraná)
Luana de Conto (Universidade Federal do Paraná)

15:20 – 16:00
Talk 13
Toward the analysis of Serbo-Croatian nominal expressions: possessives, adnominal genitives and deverbal nouns
Anja Saric (University of Frankfurt)

16:00 – 16:20 Coffee Break

16:20 – 17:00
Talk 14
Syntactic positions for DOM: the case of Brazilian Portuguese and Romanian
Monica Alexandrina Irimia (University of York)
Sonia Cyrino (Unicamp)

17:00 – 18:00
Invited Talk
Title to be announced
Giuseppe Longobardi (University of York)



[Linguist List announcement 27.955]]]> http://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/lsrl/ http://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-934.html Francisco Ordonez <francisco.ordonez@stonybrook.edu> Mon, 22 Feb 2016 11:53:51 EST Short Title: LSRL 46


Date: 31-Mar-2016 - 03-Apr-2016
Location: Stony Brook, NY, USA
Contact: Lori Repetti
Contact Email: email link
Meeting URL: http://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/lsrl/

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

Language Family(ies): Romance

Meeting Description:

The 46th annual Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages will be held at Stony Brook University on March 31-April 3, 2016. Invited speakers for the LSRL46 are:

- Judy Bernstein, William Paterson University
- Barbara Bullock, University of Texas, Austin
- Ioana Chitoran, Université Paris Diderot – Paris 7 (France)
- Roberta D’Alessandro, Universiteit Leiden (The Netherlands)
- Richard Kayne, New York University

We are pleased to announce that the LSRL 46 will be held concurrently with the 30th Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics (ASAL 30). In addition, on Sunday, April 3, 2016, there will be a joint Workshop on Arabic and Romance Linguistics (WARL). Registrants for the LSRL may also attend talks at ASAL and WARL. Invited Speakers for joint Workshop on Arabic and Romance Linguistics are:

- Robert Hoberman, Stony Brook University
- Laura Minervini, University of Naples, Federico II (Italy)
- Lotfi Sayahi, SUNY Albany

Program:

Visit the following URL for the final program:

http://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/lsrl/program.html



[Linguist List announcement 27.934]]]> http://gscl-ak-korpuslinguistik-devel.hucompute.org/cfp-cedifor-workshop/ http://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-933.html Armin Hoenen <hoenen@em.uni-frankfurt.de> Mon, 22 Feb 2016 11:53:05 EST Short Title: CRiLL-HL


Date: 29-Feb-2016 - 29-Feb-2016
Location: Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Contact: Armin Hoenen
Contact Email: email link
Meeting URL: http://gscl-ak-korpuslinguistik-devel.hucompute.org/cfp-cedifor-workshop/

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

Meeting Description:

1st GSCL/CEDIFOR-Workshop on Corpora and Resources for Low Resource Languages with a Special Focus on Historical Languages
Short title: CRiLL-HL
Location: Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
Web Site: http://gscl-ak-korpuslinguistik-devel.hucompute.org/cfp-cedifor-workshop/

Organizing commitee: Alexander Mehler, Jost Gippert, Armin Hoenen
Program commitee: tba

Keynote Speakers: Prof. Dr. Anke Lüdeling

CRiLL-HL aims at researchers working with Low Resource Languages - a special focus is on historical languages.

In recent years, the interest in language resources and computational models for the study of low resource languages (LRLs) has been constantly growing. This concerns especially historical LRLs for which authentic digitized material is hardly available. Since for most historical languages data is sparse one may consider Wikipedia and related projects (on Old English, Gothic, Old Church Slavonic, Latin etc.) to overcome data sparseness. This approach investigates to what extent such data can be useful for modeling historical languages. The LRL workshop addresses scholars working on these and related topics using LRL corpora for NLP of low-resourced languages.

Program Commitee:

Prof. Dr. Tara Andrews
Prof. Dr. Chris Biemann
Dr. Cristopher Brown
Dr. Marco Büchler
Prof. Dr. Christian Chiarcos
Prof. Dr. Stefanie Dipper
Dr. Steffen Eger
Prof. Dr. Christiane Fellbaum
Prof. Dr. Kurt Gärtner
Prof. Dr. Jolanta Gelumbeckaitė
Prof. Dr. Dafydd Gibbon
Prof. Dr. Jost Gippert
Dr. Erla Hallsteinsdóttir
Prof. Dr. Gerhard Heyer
Armin Hoenen, M.A.
Prof. Dr. Brian Joseph
Prof. Dr. Caroline Macé
Prof. Dr. Alexander Mehler
Prof. Dr. Marco Passarotti
Prof. Dr. Andrea Rapp
Prof. Dr. Joachim Scharloth
Prof. Dr. Bernhard Schröder
Prof. Dr. Anders Søgaard

Keynote Speakers:

Prof. Dr. Anke Lüdeling

Program:

8:45-9:00
Welcoming reception

9:00-09:20
Speaker: Stefanie Dipper
Authors: Florian Petran, Thomas Klein, Stefanie Dipper and Marcel Bollmann
Title: REM: A reference corpus of Middle High German — corpus compilation, annotation, visualization and searching

09:20-09:40
Speaker: Roland Mittmann
Author: Roland Mittmann
Title: Automatisierter Abgleich des Lautstandes althochdeutscher Wörter

09:40-10:00
Speaker:
Author: Lars Döhling, Manuel Burghardt and Christian Wolff
Title: Introducing PaLaFra – A Project on the Creation and Analysis of an Electronic Corpus of Historical Texts of Old French and Late Latin

10:00-10:30 Coffee Break

10:30-10:50
Speaker: Marija Lazar
Author: Marija Lazar
Title: Crossing “Bridges”: Modelling Inter-Slavic Language Continua in the Corpora of Medieval Legal Texts

10:50-11:10
Speaker: Oleg Borisenko
Author: Julia Normanskaja and Oleg Borisenko
Title: «The analysis of new archival and field data on the Samoyed languages»

11:10-11:30
Speaker: Patrick Brendon Pearson
Authors: Patrick Brendon Pearson, Kristian Heal and Deryle W. Lonsdale
Title: Corpus support for variable second-position clitics in Syriac

11:30-11:50
Speaker: Ergin Öpengin
Author: Ergin Öpengin
Title: Corpus of pre-1800 texts in Kurdish: Inferences on early-modern Kurmanji

12:00-13:30 Lunch Break

13:30-13:50
Speaker: Maria Molina
Author: Maria Molina
Title: SYNTACTICAL ANNOTATION OF HITTITE AND DEVELOPING OF A CORPUS: PROBLEMS AND PRINCIPLES

13:50-14:10
Speaker: Wahed Hemati, Tolga Uslu
Author: Wahed Hemati, Tolga Uslu and Alexander Mehler
Title: TextImager: a UIMA-based System for Processing Documents

14:10-14:30
Speaker: Armin Hoenen
Author: Armin Hoenen
Title: Reconstructing small epigraphic gaps assessing the use of recently created text in historical languages to overcome data sparsity

14:30-15:30
Working Groups I

15:30-16:00 Coffee break

16:00-16:30
Working Groups II

16:30-17:00
Presentation of Results and Plenar Discussion

17:00-18:00
Keynote Talk
Prof. Dr. Anke Lüdeling
A Resource for the Study of Register Development: The RIDGES Corpus of Herbal Texts

18:00-18:15
Closing remarks and farewell



[Linguist List announcement 27.933]]]> http://www.statmt.org/wmt16/ape-task.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-928.html Rajen Chatterjee <chatterjee@fbk.eu> Mon, 22 Feb 2016 11:50:41 EST Shared Task: Automatic Post-Editing
Short Title: APE


Date: 11-Aug-2016 - 12-Aug-2016
Location: Berlin, Germany
Contact: Matteo Negri
Contact Email: email link
Meeting URL: http://www.statmt.org/wmt16/ape-task.html

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Translation

Meeting Description:

The second round of the APE shared task follows the first pilot round organised in 2015. The aim is to examine automatic methods for correcting errors produced by an unknown machine translation (MT) system. This has to be done by exploiting knowledge acquired from human post-edits, which are provided as training material.

This year the task focuses on the Information Technology (IT) domain, in which English source sentences have been translated into German by an unknown MT system and then manually post-edited by professional translators. At training stage, the collected human post-edits have to be used to learn correction rules for the APE systems. At test stage they will be used for system evaluation with automatic metrics (TER and BLEU).




[Linguist List announcement 27.928]]]> http://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-888.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-888.html Robert Hoberman <robert.hoberman@stonybrook.edu> Thu, 18 Feb 2016 13:24:19 EST Short Title: 30th ASAL


Date: 31-Mar-2016 - 03-Apr-2016
Location: Stony Brook, New York, USA
Contact: Mushira Eid
Contact Email: email link

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Meeting Description:

REMINDER: Friday, February 19, is the last day for Early Registration

30th Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics
Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York
March 31-April 3, 2016

The Arabic Linguistics Society and the Stony Brook University’s Department of Linguistics are pleased to announce the 30th Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics (ASAL) to be held at Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York March 31-April 3, 2016. ASAL will be held concurrently with the 46th Annual Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL) and with a joint Workshop on Arabic and Romance Linguistics (Sunday, April 3, 2016).

Keynote Speakers, ASAL:
Atiqa Hachimi, University of Toronto
Ghada Khattab, Newcastle University
John McCarthy, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Usama Soltan, Middlebury College

Keynote Speakers, WARL:
Robert Hoberman, Stony Brook University
Laura Minervini, University of Naples
Lotfi Sayahi, SUNY Albany

The program is available as a pdf at: http://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/asal/docs/ASAL30program.pdf






[Linguist List announcement 27.888]]]> http://tssp.eaamp.org/ http://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-868.html Tinna Thomas <ed@eaamp.org> Wed, 17 Feb 2016 10:19:21 EST Short Title: TSSH-2016


Date: 04-Jun-2016 - 05-Jun-2016
Location: Istanbul, Turkey
Contact: Tinna Thomas
Contact Email: email link
Meeting URL: http://tssp.eaamp.org/

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Meeting Description:

The aim objective of International Conference on Trends in Social Sciences and Humanities (TSSH 2016) is to provide a platform for researchers, professionals, academicians as well as industrial professionals from all over the world to present their research results and development activities in Humanities, Social Sciences and Education. The conference will be held in Istanbul (Turkey) during 4-5 June, 2016. This conference provides opportunities for the delegates to exchange new ideas and application experiences face to face, to establish business or research relations and to find global partners for future collaboration. The conference is sponsored by Emirates Research Publishing (ERPUB) and Emirates Association of Arts and Management Professionals.

Call for Papers:

Deadline of New Full Paper/Poster/Abstract Submissions: March 15, 2016

Submission methods:

- Electronic Submission System ( .doc/.docx/.pdf formats) : http://eaamp.org/paper_submission.php

- Email: ed@eaamp.org

The template can be downloaded from our website: http://tssp.eaamp.org/

Prospective authors are kindly invited to submit full text papers including results, tables, figures and references. Full text papers (.docx, .doc, .pdf) will be accepted by Electronic Submission System. Any question, please contact: ed@eaamp.org. All submitted articles should report original, previously unpublished research results, experimental or theoretical. Articles submitted to the Conference should meet these criteria and must not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. Manuscripts should follow the style of the Conference and are subject to both review and editing.

All the submitted conference papers will be peer reviewed by the program/technical committees of the Conference.

The Proceedings of the Conference will be published by Emirates Research Publishing (ERPUB) and will be will be archived in ERPUB's Digital Library. Each Paper will be assigned Digital Object Identifier (DOI) from CROSSREF. The papers will be published in the hardcopy of Proceedings as well as conference CD with ISBN number and the same will be provided at the time of the conference. Later, the Proceedings of the conferences will be submitted to ISI Thomson/SCOPUS for review and possible indexing. In addition the proceedings will be indexed at Google and Google Scholar google.com and all major search engines.

Top Selected papers will be Published in the following Canadian Journal:
Journal of Global Management Research ISSN 1488-4569
Link: http://gmrjournal.uqam.ca/
Country of Publisher: Canada

One Excellent Paper will be selected from each oral session. The Certificate for Excellent Papers will be awarded after each session of the conference.

Please visit our website for additional information: http://tssp.eaamp.org/

Contact us:

Ms. Tinna THOMAS
Email: ed@eaamp.org



[Linguist List announcement 27.868]]]> https://sites.google.com/site/carletonmolt2016/ http://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-859.html Lev Blumenfeld <lev.blumenfeld@carleton.ca> Tue, 16 Feb 2016 14:42:19 EST Short Title: MOLT


Date: 18-Mar-2016 - 20-Mar-2016
Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Contact: Lev Blumenfeld
Contact Email: email link
Meeting URL: https://sites.google.com/site/carletonmolt2016/

Linguistic Field(s): Phonology

Meeting Description:

MOLT is an annual informal workshop on phonology, phonetics, and related topics, primarily intended as a venue for students from the Montreal-Ottawa-Toronto region to present ongoing work.

Program:

The program and information on MOLT 2016 (the Montreal-Ottawa-Laval-Toronto Phonology workshop) is now available here.

https://sites.google.com/site/carletonmolt2016/

Le programme et renseignements sur MOLT 2016 (atelier de phonologie Montréal-Ottawa-Laval-Toronto) est disponible ici:

https://sites.google.com/site/carletonmolt2016/



[Linguist List announcement 27.859]]]> https://www.uni-giessen.de/talc http://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-858.html Bridgit Fastrich <bridgit.c.fastrich@anglistik.uni-giessen.de> Tue, 16 Feb 2016 14:41:30 EST Short Title: TaLC 12


Date: 20-Jul-2016 - 23-Jul-2016
Location: Giessen, Germany
Contact: Sandra Götz
Contact Email: email link
Meeting URL: https://www.uni-giessen.de/talc

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics; Translation

Meeting Description:

Dear Colleagues,

We are happy to announce that TaLC 12 is taking shape and we are now able to provide you with more information about the conference. The second circular, which includes more information about registration, the conference program and travel/accommodations, can be found on our homepage: www.uni-giessen.de/talc/circulars.

We look forward to seeing you in Giessen in July!

Best wishes,
Sandra Götz & Joybrato Mukherjee12th Teaching and Language Corpora Conference




[Linguist List announcement 27.858]]]> https://www.facebook.com/CorpusLinguisticsInTheSouth/ http://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-838.html Charlotte Taylor <charlotte.taylor@sussex.ac.uk> Mon, 15 Feb 2016 11:17:07 EST Short Title: #cls11


Date: 27-Feb-2016 - 27-Feb-2016
Location: University of Sussex, United Kingdom
Contact: Charlotte Taylor
Contact Email: email link
Meeting URL: https://www.facebook.com/CorpusLinguisticsInTheSouth/

Linguistic Field(s): Text/Corpus Linguistics

Meeting Description:

In the Corpus Linguistics in the South tradition, this will be a free event but places are limited and allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. Please contact charlotte.taylor@sussex.co.uk if you would like to attend.

Doing corpus linguistics with large and small corpora: keeping both the corpus and the linguistics components meaningful
University of Sussex, 27 February 2016

Following the Corpus Linguistics in the South tradition, this will be a free event but places are limited and allocated on a first-come first-served basis. Please contact charlotte.taylor@sussex.ac.uk if you are interested in attending.

Program:

Doing corpus linguistics with large and small corpora: keeping both the corpus and the linguistics components meaningful
University of Sussex, 27 February 2016


10.00 Welcome & coffee

Discourse
10.15
Size in CDA: exploring the representation of immigrants across the discourse practices of the UK Administration
Pascual Pérez-Paredes (Cambridge)

10.45
The GENTEXT Project: Doing corpus- assisted discourse analysis research on gender and social inequalities in written media
Sergio Maruenda Bataller (València)

11.15
Some challenges when analysing a Census Corpus
Lee Oakley (Birmingham)

11.45 Coffee break

Words & Forms
12.15
Investigating changes in structures and collocations, from a treebank to a megacorpus
Jill Bowie & Sean Wallis (UCL)

12.45
Taming the beast: getting to grips with a mega corpus
Chris Turner (Coventry)

13.15
Lunch & Poster Session

New Directions
14.15
How to use a nanocorpus. Enriching corpora of interpreting
Camille Collard & Bart Defrancq (Ghent)

14.45
Capturing the Zoo: a system for downloading, preparing, and managing corpus data from online forums
Claudia Viggiano & John Williams (Portsmouth)

15.15
How small corpora paradoxically uncovered the next quark in corpus studies
Bill Louw (Coventry & Zimbabwe)

15.45
Panel discussion: keeping both corpus & linguistics meaningful

16.00
Close



[Linguist List announcement 27.838]]]> http://nottinghamcorpusconference2016.weebly.com/ http://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-821.html Richard J. Whitt <richard.whitt@nottingham.ac.uk> Mon, 15 Feb 2016 09:35:32 EST
Date: 08-Apr-2016 - 09-Apr-2016
Location: Nottingham, United Kingdom
Contact: Richard J. Whitt
Contact Email: email link
Meeting URL: http://nottinghamcorpusconference2016.weebly.com/

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

Meeting Description:

Registration is now available for the ''Diachronic Corpora, Genre and Language Change'' conference, to be held at The University of Nottingham on April 8-9, 2016 (with a conference excursion planned for April 10). Registration is now open via the web-site (http://nottinghamcorpusconference2016.weebly.com/), and a provisional programme is available on the site as well. The registration deadline is February 29.

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The emergence of diachronic corpus linguistics in the last two decades has allowed us unprecedented access to data in the study of past stages of language and language change. Major areas of interest that have emerged in this field include the study of genre (broadly conceived) as a major factor affecting language variation and change, as well as the notion of genre as a locus of change. In addition, there has been great interest in how specific genres have (or have not) changed over time.

This international conference will bring together scholars examining the role of genre in language change, and the use of diachronic corpora to study such developments in any language.

The following have kindly agreed to give plenary lectures:

Eric Atwell (The University of Leeds)
Thomas Gloning (The University of Gießen)
Bethany Gray (Iowa State University)
Irma Taavitsainen (The University of Helsinki)

Scientific Committee:

Dawn Archer (The University of Central Lancashire)
David Denison (The University of Manchester)
Martin Durrell (The University of Manchester)
Susan Fitzmaurice (The University of Sheffield)
William Kretzschmar (The University of Georgia / The University of Glasgow)
Mark Lauersdorf (The University of Kentucky)
Anke Lüdeling (Humboldt University, Berlin)
Tony McEnery (The University of Lancaster)
Terttu Nevalainen (The University of Helsinki)




[Linguist List announcement 27.821]]]> http://emlar.wp.hum.uu.nl http://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-807.html Suzanne Dekker <emlar2016@uu.nl> Fri, 12 Feb 2016 10:46:30 EST
Date: 19-Apr-2016 - 21-Apr-2016
Location: Utrecht, Netherlands
Contact: Suzanne Dekker
Contact Email: email link
Meeting URL: http://emlar.wp.hum.uu.nl

Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition

Meeting Description:

Experimental Methods in Language Acquisition Research (EMLAR) XII
Lectures and hands-on sessions on methodological aspects of language acquisition research

We are happy to announce the twelfth edition of EMLAR, taking place in Utrecht, the Netherlands, from April 19 to April 21, 2016 (Tuesday to Thursday).

The workshop aims at training advanced MA and PhD students working on first and second language acquisition in experimental research. Experts in various domains of language acquisition research are giving various lectures and practices.

The full program of EMLAR XII and details about registration are available at: http://emlar.wp.hum.uu.nl/

Registration deadline: March 15, 2016

For further questions, contact us at: emlar2016@uu.nl

Keynote Speaker:

Laura Bosch (Univerity of Barcelona)

Invited Speakers:

Ellen Gerrits (Utrecht University)
Marie Christine Franken (Erasmus MC)
Manuela Pinto & Shalom Zuckerman (Utrecht University)
Jaenette Schaeffer (University of Amsterdam)
Emmanuel Keuleers (Ghent University)
Flavia Adani & Tom Fritzsche (University of Potsdam)
Cécile de Cat (University of Leeds)

Tutorials:

Articulography (Hayo Terband)
Behavioral Methods in Infant Research (Maartje de Klerk)
CHILDES (Jacqueline van Kampen)
Computational Models (Christina Bergmann & Ingeborg Roete)
ERP (Titia van Zuijen & Karin Wanrooij)
Ethical Decisions in Psycholinguistics (Maartje de Klerk)
Eye Tracking: Reading (Iris Mulders)
Eye Tracking: Visual World Paradigm (Tom Fritzsche & Flavia Adani)
LENA & Analysis of Spontaneous Speech (Heleen van den Berg)
Lexical Databases (Emmanuel Keuleers)
LimeSurvey (Martijn van der Klis)
Multilevel Analysis (Huub van den Bergh)
PRAAT (Willemijn Heeren)
SPSS (Roeland van Hout)
Statistics with R (Hugo Quené & Hans Rutger Bosker)
New Statistics (Christina Bergmann)




[Linguist List announcement 27.807]]]> https://sites.google.com/site/pfilnu/home http://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-798.html Filomena Sandalo <pfilnu@gmail.com> Thu, 11 Feb 2016 14:59:33 EST Short Title: PFILNU2016


Date: 21-Mar-2016 - 06-Apr-2016
Location: University of Campinas/Campinas, Brazil
Contact: Filomena Sandalo
Contact Email: email link
Meeting URL: https://sites.google.com/site/pfilnu/home

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Computational Linguistics; Genetic Classification; Language Documentation; Text/Corpus Linguistics

Meeting Description:

Putting Fieldwork on Indigenous Languages to New Uses is a São Paulo School on Advanced Sciences, supported by the São Paulo State Research Foundation (FAPESP), and will be held from March 21 to April 6, at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil.

Flight tickets will be provided to the selected students.

The purpose of this school is twofold: (i) to introduce early career researchers to the latest developments in data collection and linguistic research on native languages, and (ii) to pave the way for new uses of linguistic fieldwork, with mutual benefits for both linguists and the indigenous populations. Drawing on the vast experience of the researchers of the several partner institutions in documentation, corpus linguistics and formal linguistic theory, we will present/discuss possibilities not previously pursued: extensive comparison across native languages to build taxonomies and phylogenetic models of transmission, oral corpora and a new objective and unbiased grammatical terminology, reflecting the speakers' original intuitions and potentially revealing truly universal building blocks of language and cognition. All these new tools should feed into literacy projects for the local communities, raising their own meta-linguistic and cultural awareness (in a non-intrusive way).

We expect students form several universities of Brazil, Argentina, Great-Britain, Australia and United States to attend, resulting in about 100 students.

Courses:
Languages and cultures of Brazil
Introduction to phylogetic methods in Linguistics
How to work on digital oral corpora syntactic annotation Corpus Ling/Brazil
Experimental and computational methods in Phonology and Morphology
Music, Language, and Documentation in Australia
Experimenting semantics, number and language

Visit the website for details.

Note that Myfany Turpin's class has been cancelled.




[Linguist List announcement 27.798]]]> http://www.umons.ac.be/conferenceSPI http://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-797.html Anne Delizée <anne.delizee@umons.ac.be> Thu, 11 Feb 2016 14:58:33 EST Public Service Interpreting: The Interpreter's discourse and its influence on the interper

Date: 20-May-2016 - 21-May-2016
Location: Mons, Belgium
Contact: Anne Delizée
Contact Email: email link
Meeting URL: http://www.umons.ac.be/conferenceSPI

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Translation

Meeting Description:

We would like to bring together researchers working in the field of dialogue interpreting, as well specialists in discourse analysis and argumentation interested in this particular type of triadic exchanges. Our aim is to dive into the heart of the interpersonal dimension of the triadic exchange by favouring a descriptive approach of authentic interactions through the analysis of the discourse and the argumentation.

Speakers will dive into the heart of the interpersonal dimension of the triadic exchange through the analysis of the discourse, the argumentation and the interpreter’s relational activity. Please find enclosed the conference programme.

Detailed objectives of the conference, abstracts and further information for registration are available at: http://www.umons.ac.be/conferenceSPI

Keynote speakers:

Dr. Hanneke Bot, Pro Persona et Bot – Bilingual Communication & Training
Prof. Yvan Leanza, Université Laval
Prof. Rafaella Merlini, Università di Macerata
Dr. Anne Reynders, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Pascal Rillof, President of ENPSIT




[Linguist List announcement 27.797]]]> http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/events/PINS.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-796.html Arndt Riester <arndt.riester@ims.uni-stuttgart.de> Thu, 11 Feb 2016 14:56:24 EST Short Title: PINS


Date: 22-Mar-2016 - 23-Mar-2016
Location: Stuttgart, Germany
Contact: Arndt Riester
Contact Email: email link
Meeting URL: http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/events/PINS.html

Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition; Phonetics; Phonology; Pragmatics; Semantics

Meeting Description:

Starting out from the (not entirely uncontroversial) assumption that information-structural categories are universal and definable in abstract interpretive terms, this workshop aims at bringing together researchers interested in the prosodic manifestation of information-structural categories within different languages and across languages, including both cross-linguistic comparisons as well as language contact situations of various kinds (L2, FL, Heritage languages).

Invited Speakers:

- Sasha Calhoun (Victoria University of Wellington)
- Elisabeth Delais-Roussarie (LLF CNRS, Université Paris Diderot)
- Caroline Féry (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)
- Sophie Repp (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)Language Acquisition, Phonetics, Phonology, Pragmatics, Semantics

Program:

http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/events/PINS/PINS-program.pdf



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