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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=DE link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Dear colleagues,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Please find below the first Call for Papers for the 10<sup>th</sup> edition of the International Contrastive Linguistics Conference (ICLC) hosted by the Leibniz-Institut fuer Deutsche Sprache (Leibniz Institute for the German Language, IDS) from July 18 to 21, 2023 in Mannheim, Germany.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Best wishes from the organizers: Marc Kupietz, Kristel Proost, Beata Trawinski (Chair), Jörg Zinken<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><h1 style='margin-top:0cm'><span lang=EN-US>1<sup>st</sup> Call for Papers<o:p></o:p></span></h1><p><span lang=EN-US>The Leibniz Institute for the German Language in Mannheim is pleased to announce the 10th International Contrastive Linguistics Conference (ICLC-10). The conference will take place in Mannheim, Germany, from 18 to 21 July 2023.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>The aim of the ICLC conference series, running since 1998, is to encourage fine-grained cross-linguistic research comprising two or more languages from a broad range of theoretical and methodological perspectives. ICLC </span><span class=Betont><span lang=EN-US>brings together researchers from</span></span><span class=acopre><span lang=EN-US> different linguistic subfields (and neighboring disciplines) </span></span><span lang=EN-US>to continue the (interdisciplinary) dialog on comparing languages, to foster the development of an international community,  to discuss the state of the art, and to advance possible new areas of cross-linguistic research. Contrastive Linguistics as a linguistic subfield has had a checkered history, but comparative and contrastive work has always been and continues to be an important part of linguistic research. N</span><span lang=EN-US>ew impulses for comparative and contrastive work include the increasing availability of multilingual corpora or comparative work drawing on naturalistic interaction data.</span><span lang=EN-US> At this anniversary edition of ICLC, we want to provide a stage for the presentation of such new work, and reflect the past, current and future developments of contrastive research in linguistics.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>We invite contributions addressing (meta)theoretical, methodological or empirical issues, such as (but not limited to) the following:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><ul style='margin-top:0cm' type=disc><li class=MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst style='margin-left:0cm;mso-add-space:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span lang=EN-GB>Comparison of phenomena in two or more </span><span lang=EN-GB style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>languages </span><span lang=EN-GB>addressing</span><span lang=EN-GB style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'> topics from any area and level of linguistic analysis, includin</span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>g lexicon, phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax and  morphosyntax, semantics, pragmatics as well as </span><span lang=EN-GB style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>matters such as register and socio-cultural context </span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-left:0cm;mso-add-space:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span lang=EN-GB>The state of the art and recent advances in contrastive linguistic research<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-left:0cm;mso-add-space:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span lang=EN-GB>The aims, objectives and scope of contrastive linguistic research<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-left:0cm;mso-add-space:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span lang=EN-GB>The status of contrastive research within linguistic studies and its relationship with neighbouring or complementary </span><span lang=EN-GB style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>approaches such as historical, typological, micro-variationist, intercultural and contact linguistics</span><span lang=EN-GB> <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-left:0cm;mso-add-space:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span lang=EN-GB>The link between contrastive studies and fields of applied linguistics such as </span><span lang=EN-GB style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>foreign language teaching</span><span lang=EN-GB> and learning, translation studies and corpus linguistics<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-left:0cm;mso-add-space:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span lang=EN-GB>Potentials and limits of theoretical frameworks in relation to contrastive analysis (e.g., functional, cognitive, interactional, generative, constructional approaches)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-left:0cm;mso-add-space:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span lang=EN-GB>Theoretical and theoretical-methodological issues (</span><span lang=EN-GB style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>comparability, incommensu</span><span lang=EN-GB>rability, the socio-cultural context, tertia comparationis, language universals)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-left:0cm;mso-add-space:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span lang=EN-GB>Empirical and data-related methodological issues (parallel / translation corpora, comparable corpora, learner corpora, multimodal corpora, naturalistic data of face-to-face interaction, psycho- and neurolinguistic experiments, surveys)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-left:0cm;mso-add-space:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span lang=EN-GB style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>The significance of the contrastive perspective for language-specific description on the one hand</span><span lang=EN-GB> </span><span lang=EN-GB style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>and </span><span lang=EN-GB>for </span><span lang=EN-GB style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>cross-linguistic generalizations</span><span lang=EN-GB> and the development of linguistic theory on the other hand  <o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpLast><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN-US>Some of these issues will be addressed by five invited keynote speakers. Confirmed keynote speakers are:<o:p></o:p></span></p><ul type=disc><li style='mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><span lang=EN-US>Artemis Alexiadou (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Leibniz-Centre for General Linguistics, Germany)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style='mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><span lang=EN-US>Jenny Audring (Leiden University, The Netherlands)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style='mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><span lang=EN-US>Elwys De Stefani (University of Heidelberg, Germany, and KU Leuven, Belgium)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style='mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><span lang=EN-US>Martin Haspelmath (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Germany)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style='mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><span lang=EN-US>Hilde Hasselgård (University of Oslo, Norway)<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN-US>There will be a possibility to publish selected papers in a conference volume. <o:p></o:p></span></p><h1><span lang=EN-US>Submission of Abstracts<o:p></o:p></span></h1><p><span lang=EN-US>We invite submissions for 20-minute oral presentations (plus 10 minutes for discussion). Abstracts should formulate a clear research question and include a description of the methods, results and conclusions. All submissions will be reviewed anonymously by at least two reviewers.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US>All submissions must be in English, fully anonymous, and no longer than one page  (12 point Times New Roman), with up to one additional page for data, figures and references. Abstracts will be submitted via the EasyChair system. Further details on the submission procedure, registration and practical information will be announced in the 2<sup>nd</sup> call.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt'>Submission deadline</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt'>: <b>16.01.2023</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=p1><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=p1><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Organizing Committee: <br><br></span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=p1><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Beata Trawinski (Chair)<br>Marc Kupietz<br>Kristel Proost <br>Jörg Zinken <br><br></span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=p1><span class=apple-converted-space><span lang=EN-US> </span></span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#2F5496;mso-fareast-language:DE'><img width=340 height=126 style='width:3.5416in;height:1.3125in' id="Bild_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D85BB4.58424A90"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:gray;mso-fareast-language:DE'>Dr. Kristel Proost<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:gray;mso-fareast-language:DE'>Projekt „Syntagmatik im Lexikon / Argumentstrukturen“<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:gray;mso-fareast-language:DE'>Abeilung „Lexik“<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:gray;mso-fareast-language:DE'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:gray;mso-fareast-language:DE'>Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:gray;mso-fareast-language:DE'>R 5, 6-13<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:gray;mso-fareast-language:DE'>D-68161 Mannheim<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:gray;mso-fareast-language:DE'>Mail: <a href="mailto:proost@ids-mannheim.de"><span style='color:gray'>proost@ids-mannheim.de</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:gray;mso-fareast-language:DE'>Tel.: 0621/1581-226<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>