[Corpora-List] Call for papers: Romance corpus linguistics

[Claus Pusch]

2nd FREIBURG WORKSHOP ON ROMANCE CORPUS LINGUISTICS

Corpora and Historical Linguistics: Investigating Language Change
through Corpora and Databases

organized by the Department of Romance Languages of Albert-Ludwig
University

Freiburg im Breisgau (Germany), September 11th-13th, 2003

SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

The 2nd Freiburg Workshop on Romance Corpus Linguistics will be
dedicated to the questions how the methods and techniques of modern
corpus linguistics can be put to use in order to investigate diachronic
developments and language change, and which innovative insights may
result from the application of corpus linguistic methods in the field of
historical linguistics.

Language change shall be considered, in this context, on different
levels: as long-term change that modifies profoundly the language(s)
involved, even altering its (their) typologic structure, processes the
study of which require historical corpora of considerable extension; and
as medium- and short-term change, that emerges already from the
comparison of very few text or speaker generations and for which corpora
with reduced diachronic depth are sufficient.

The workshop will include the following two panels:

* Panel A "Corpus projects, language data management and tools for
analysis": This panel will be open for the presentation of currently
on-going or completed corpus and database projects; the main focus will
be on projects with a historical perspective on long-, medium- or
short-term language change.

* Panel B "Corpus-based diachronic studies on Romance languagues": For
this panel, contributions on diachronically oriented research on
specific issues in Romance linguistics, empirically based on corpora and
databases, are invited.

Keynote speakers:
* Marisol López Martínez (Instituto da Lingua Galega, Santiago de
Compostela / Spain)
* Christiane Marchello-Nizia (ENS LSH + CNRS, Paris / France)
* Ana Maria Martins (Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa /
Portugal)
* Dieter Wanner (Ohio State University, Columbus / USA)

A half-day para-workshop, directed by Sophie Prévost (ENS Ulm + CNRS,
Paris / France) and Serge Heiden (ENS LSH, Lyon / France) will be
organized within the conference, where the machine-readable treatment
and mark-up of historical texts and diachronic language data will be
exemplified, illustrated and discussed.

Paper submissions: Please submit paper proposals for either of the two
panels by sending an abstract (approx. 250 words) including your name,
academic affiliation, mail and e-mail address. Abstracts in electronic
form (ASCII, MS-WORD or PDF files), sent as e-mail attachments to
info at corpora-romanica.net, are strongly encouraged. The deadline for
submission of papers is March 15th, 2003. Papers may be read in German,
any Romance language, and English. Confirmation of acceptance of your
paper will be sent out before March 30th, 2003. If there are more
proposals than panel slots, a part of the contributions will be
presented during a poster session.

For detailed information on the conference venue, the conference
program, on the registration procedure and attendance fees, social
program, travel and accomodation, please have a look at the conference
web page at http://www.corpora-romanica.net (where a downloadable
registration form is available), or contact the workshop's convenor:

Claus D. Pusch
Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet, Romanisches Seminar
Werthmannplatz 3, D-79085 Freiburg im Breisgau
Fax +49 / 7 61 / 2 03 31 95
E-mail <info at corpora-romanica.net>.