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The relative frequencies of nouns, pronouns, and verbs in
discourse
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An international workshop
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Leipzig, August 12-13, 2013
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The ratio of noun, pronoun, and verb tokens in discourse varies
both within and across languages. This variation may be related to
a host of factors. For instance, cross-linguistic differences may
be due to typological factors such as the syntax and morphology of
grammatical relations, or differences in cultural traditions.
Variation within languages may be related to, e.g., patterns in
content choice, narrative strategies, genre, or stages in language
acquisition.
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The aim of this workshop is to bring together scholars interested
in any aspect of the frequencies of nouns, pronouns, and verbs
from disciplines such as corpus linguistics, typology, language
acquisition, cognitive linguistics, genre studies, stylistics, and
others. We invite abstracts for cross-linguistic papers as well as
studies on individual languages, and papers that focus on
methodology.
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Invited speakers:
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Wallace Chafe (UC Santa Barbara)
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Stefan Evert (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)
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The workshop will include a special session to discuss among the
participants future directions of cross-disciplinary corpus-based
research on relative frequencies of parts of speech.
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The workshop is organized by the project "The relative frequencies
of nouns, pronouns, and verbs cross-linguistically" (<a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/research/relative-frequencies.php">http://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/research/relative-frequencies.php</a>),
which is funded by the Volkswagen Foundation's DoBeS Program (<a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.volkswagenstiftung.de/en/funding/completed-initiatives/documentation-of-endangered-languages.html">http://www.volkswagenstiftung.de/en/funding/completed-initiatives/documentation-of-endangered-languages.html</a>).
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The workshop will be held adjacent to the Association for
Linguistic Typology's 10th Biennial Conference (ALT 10), also in
Leipzig (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/conference/2013_ALT10">http://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/conference/2013_ALT10</a>).
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Abstract submission:
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Abstracts for 30-minutes talks (plus 10 minutes discussion time)
should have a maximum length of 500 words or one single-spaced
page and be submitted as anonymized pdf files sent as Email
attachments to <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:frank_seifart@eva.mpg.de">frank_seifart@eva.mpg.de</a>.
Please specify in the Email body the authors' name(s), contact
information (Email, phone, fax), and the abstract title.
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Deadline for abstract submission: January 15, 2013
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Notification of acceptance: March 15, 2013
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Frank Seifart
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Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
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Department of Linguistics
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Deutscher Platz 6, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
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Phone: +49 (0) 341 35 50 325
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Homepage: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/staff/seifart/home.php">http://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/staff/seifart/home.php</a>
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Corpora: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.mpi.nl/DOBES/projects/center">http://www.mpi.nl/DOBES/projects/center</a>
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