[Corpora-List] Call for papers: ICAME 33

Thu Nov 24 17:49:22 UTC 2011

ICAME 33: Call for papers (general session and pre-conference workshops)

The University of Leuven, in collaboration with 
The University of Namur, is organizing the 33rd 
ICAME conference in Leuven from 30 May to 3 June 2012.

The theme of the conference is “Corpora at the 
Centre and Crossroads of English Linguistics”.

Academic Programme

The programme will consist of full papers, 
work-in-progress reports, poster sessions, 
software demonstrations, as well as 
pre-conference workshops. The following speakers 
have agreed to give plenary lectures:
    * Ewa Dabrowska (Northumbria University)
    * Brian MacWhinney (Carnegie Mellon University)
    * Terttu Nevalainen (University of Helsinki)
    * Anne O'Keeffe (University of Limerick)
    * John Rickford (Stanford University)

Call for Papers - General session (deadline: 15 
December 2011; online submission via website)

The purpose of the conference is to bring 
together people doing research in the various 
fields to which English corpus linguistics is central.

In accordance with the conference theme, 
submissions are encouraged that show how corpus 
linguistics is crucial to the core business of 
English linguistics, viz. synchronic and 
diachronic language description based on sound 
methodology and argumentation, and concomitant 
theory-formation. We also particularly welcome 
abstracts that explore various crossroads with 
such areas as sociolinguistics, contrastive 
linguistics, literary stylistics, educational 
linguistics, language acquisition, the study of 
variation, the combination of corpus and 
experimental evidence, and other 
crossfertilizations involving English corpus data.

Full papers will be allowed 30 minutes, including 
10 minutes for discussion; work-in-progress 
reports will be 15 minutes long, including 5 
minutes for discussion; and software 
demonstrations will be allowed 30 minutes, 
including 10 minutes for discussion. Posters 
(max. size A0, portrait format) will be presented 
in a special session and remain on display during the conference.

Abstracts should be between 400 and 500 words 
(exclusive of references) and should state 
research questions, approach, method, data and 
(expected) results. Authors may submit a maximum 
of two abstracts if at least one of these is 
co-authored. The deadline for submissions to the 
general session (via 
http://wwwling.arts.kuleuven.be/icame33) is 15 
December 2011. Abstracts will be reviewed 
anonymously. Notifications of acceptance will be 
sent out by the end of January 2012. Registration will open in March 2012.

Continuing the ICAME tradition, early career 
ICAMErs are warmly invited to send in abstracts. 
They should note that they may apply to be 
considered for the John Sinclair Bursary for 
delivering the best paper. Similarly, there will 
be a Stig Johansson Bursary for the best poster 
presentation. More information on how to enter 
will appear in the second circular.

Call for Papers - Pre-conference workshops 
(deadline: 30 January 2012; e-mail submission to organizers)

Four pre-conference workshops will be organized 
on Wednesday 30 May on the following topics:

WS1: Comparing spoken and written interlanguage 
(Gaëtanelle Gilquin; gaetanelle.gilquin at uclouvain.be)
The recent advent of a number of spoken learner 
corpora to complement earlier, written-only 
learner corpora has opened the way for a 
comparison between spoken and written 
interlanguage. This workshop aims at bringing 
together researchers who use corpora to compare 
spoken and written data produced by non-native 
speakers of English. The comparison can focus on 
any type of phenomenon, ranging from lexis and 
phraseology to syntax, through discourse or 
pragmatics. Studies that investigate the presence 
of spoken features in written interlanguage or 
written features in spoken interlanguage are also 
welcome, as are papers that deal with 
methodological issues involved in the comparison 
of spoken and written interlanguage.

WS2: Corpus-based contrastive analysis (Karin 
Aijmer and Bengt Altenberg; 
karin.aijmer at eng.gu.se and bengt.altenberg at englund.lu.se)
In the last decades, significant progress has 
been made in all the main areas central to the 
field of corpus-based contrastive analysis: 
development of multilingual comparable and/or 
translation corpora; development of software for 
handling, analyzing and searching multilingual 
corpora; comparison of a range of languages at 
all levels of description, from lexis to 
discourse; using the contrastive data to enrich 
the description and theory of the compared 
languages; practical applications in areas such 
as language teaching, lexicography and 
computer-aided translation. We invite full papers 
and work-in-progress reports touching on all 
these areas, but with special focus on any of the 
last three. The workshop will conclude with a 
panel discussion reviewing software useful for multilingual corpus analysis.

WS3: Disappearances and failures in language 
change (Hendrik De Smet and Peter Petré; 
hendrik.desmet at arts.kuleuven.be and peter.petre at arts.kuleuven.be)
Historical linguistics in the past few decades 
has for the most part focused on success stories. 
The booming subfield of grammaticalization 
research testifies to this, with its special 
interest in constructions that become ever more 
frequent and ever more entrenched. The natural 
next step is to address the question of how 
constructions sometimes fail to develop as 
expected, or even simply disappear. While there 
have been various case studies devoted to 
failures and disappearances, a systematic account 
has been lacking. Such an account will need to 
look at many factors that may be potentially 
involved (including at least competition and 
system-dependency) as well as their relative weight.

WS4: Systems of pragmatic annotation in the 
spoken component of ICE-Ireland (John Kirk and Jeff Kallen)
SPICE-Ireland is an annotated version of the 
spoken component of ICE-Ireland, one of the 
national components comprising the International 
Corpus of English (cf. Greenbaum 1996). SPICE 
stands for ‘Systems of Pragmatic Annotation in 
the Spoken Component of ICE-Ireland’. Workshop 
participants be introduced to the annotation sets 
used in the corpus and to some initial corpus 
findings, and will be able to use the corpus with 
the help of some specifically-designed tasks and 
topics. They will receive a CD-ROM with 
SPICE-Ireland version 1.2.2, as well as a copy of the User's Guide.

Submissions for the first three of these are 
invited by 30 January 2012 via e-mail to the 
workshop convenors. For more information, see 
http://wwwling.arts.kuleuven.be/icame33/workshops.htm.

Conference Venue

The conference will be held at the Groot 
Begijnhof of Leuven, a UNESCO World Heritage 
Site. Further information about the venue, travel 
arrangements and accommodation is available from our website.

Social Programme

On Thursday night there will be a guided visit 
through Leuven, including a visit to the recently 
opened Museum M. On Friday there will be half-day 
excursions, starting from the town of Namur in 
the hilly French-speaking part of Belgium, 
including boat trips on the river Meuse.

We hope to see you in Leuven!

The ICAME 33 team

For more information, see the ICAME 33 website at 
http://wwwling.arts.kuleuven.be/icame33/.
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