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Creating Infrastructure For Canonical Typology<BR>
January 9 - 10, 2009<BR>
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Conference hosted by the Surrey Morphology Group <BR>
and Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK<BR>
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There is a growing movement within <FONT COLOR="#FF0000">l</FONT>inguistics to promote the use of ontologies for linguistic description. However, differences in terminology and underlying logic are major stumbling blocks. One way of addressing these problems is to adopt the canonical approach to typology by taking defining properties and placing them in a multidimensional space. In this way we can treat, for example, issues of whether particular constructions fit under the rubric 'agreement' or 'case' as a matter of greater or lesser proximity to a canonical ideal. A two-day international seminar is being held at Surrey in January 2009, addressing the issues relevant for the creation of an ontology for Canonical Typology in the form of a Community of Practice Extension (COPE) within the General Ontology for Linguistic Description (GOLD). It brings together computational linguists, fieldworkers and typologists, as well as researchers working specifically on ontologies.<BR>
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Registration for the conference is now open online at: <U><a href="http://www.ias.surrey.ac.uk/workshops/typology/index.php">http://www.ias.surrey.ac.uk/workshops/typology/index.php</a><BR>
</U>Everyone who wishes to attend the meeting must register, using the online form, <B>no later than 10 December 2008</B>.<BR>
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A small number of bursaries is available to subsidise travel within the UK for postgraduate student participants. Anyone wishing to be considered for a student bursary should send a one-page letter of application to Mrs Mirela Dumic <<U>m.dumic@surrey.ac.uk</U>> by the end of 7 December 2008.<BR>
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Programme<BR>
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January 9, 2009<BR>
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</SPAN><FONT SIZE="5"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:16.0px'>9.00-10.00</SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'> </SPAN><FONT SIZE="5"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:16.0px'><B>Meeting of the LTRC Group</B></SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'> <BR>
</SPAN><FONT SIZE="5"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:16.0px'>10:00-10:30</SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'> </SPAN><FONT SIZE="5"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:16.0px'><B>Refreshments and arrival</B></SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'> <BR>
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</SPAN><FONT SIZE="5"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:16.0px'>Session A</SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'> <BR>
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</SPAN><FONT SIZE="5"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:16.0px'>10:30-10:45</SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'> </SPAN><FONT SIZE="5"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:16.0px'><B>Introduction </B></SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'> </SPAN><FONT SIZE="5"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:16.0px'>Dunstan Brown (Surrey)</SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'> <BR>
</SPAN><FONT SIZE="5"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:16.0px'>10:45-11:30</SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'> </SPAN><FONT SIZE="5"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:16.0px'><B>Canonical morphosyntactic features</B></SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'> </SPAN><FONT SIZE="5"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:16.0px'>Greville Corbett (Surrey)</SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'> <BR>
</SPAN><FONT SIZE="5"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:16.0px'>11:30-12:30</SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'> </SPAN><FONT SIZE="5"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:16.0px'><B>Towards a multidimensional typology of nominal classification</B></SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'> </SPAN><FONT SIZE="5"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:16.0px'>Frank Seifart (Regensburg)</SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'> <BR>
</SPAN><FONT SIZE="5"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:16.0px'>12:30-1:15</SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'> </SPAN><FONT SIZE="5"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:16.0px'>Lunch</SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'> <BR>
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</SPAN><FONT SIZE="5"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:16.0px'>Session B</SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'> <BR>
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</SPAN><FONT SIZE="5"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:16.0px'>1:15-2:00</SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'> </SPAN><FONT SIZE="5"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:16.0px'><B>Refining the canonical characterization of the passive</B></SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'> </SPAN><FONT SIZE="5"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:16.0px'>Anna Siewierska (Lancaster)</SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'> <BR>
</SPAN><FONT SIZE="5"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:16.0px'>2:00-3:00</SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'> </SPAN><FONT SIZE="5"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:16.0px'><B>Rare but useful: the canons 'direct' and 'indirect' in reported speech typology</B></SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'> </SPAN><FONT SIZE="5"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:16.0px'>Nicholas Evans (ANU)</SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'> <BR>
</SPAN><FONT SIZE="5"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:16.0px'>3:00-3:30</SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'> </SPAN><FONT SIZE="5"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:16.0px'>Coffee break</SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'> <BR>
</SPAN><FONT SIZE="5"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:16.0px'>3:30-4:15</SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'> </SPAN><FONT SIZE="5"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:16.0px'><B>Canonical typology: the case of reflexivization</B></SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'> </SPAN><FONT SIZE="5"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:16.0px'>Martin Everaert (Utrecht)</SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'> <BR>
</SPAN><FONT SIZE="5"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:16.0px'>4:15-5:00</SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'> </SPAN><FONT SIZE="5"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:16.0px'><B>Towards a typology of finiteness: a canonical approach </B></SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'> </SPAN><FONT SIZE="5"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:16.0px'>Irina Nikolaeva (SOAS)</SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'> <BR>
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January 10, 2009<BR>
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</SPAN><FONT SIZE="5"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:16.0px'>Session A</SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'> <BR>
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</SPAN><FONT SIZE="5"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:16.0px'>9:00-9:45</SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'> </SPAN><FONT SIZE="5"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:16.0px'><B>On clitics and canons</B></SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'> </SPAN><FONT SIZE="5"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:16.0px'>Andrew Spencer (Essex) and Ana Luis (Coimbra)</SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'> <BR>
</SPAN><FONT SIZE="5"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:16.0px'>9:45-10:30</SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'> </SPAN><FONT SIZE="5"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:16.0px'><B>Canonical typology of person agreement: Evidence from signed languages</B></SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'> </SPAN><FONT SIZE="5"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:16.0px'>Kearsy Cormier (UCL)</SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'> <BR>
</SPAN><FONT SIZE="5"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:16.0px'>10:30-11:00</SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'> </SPAN><FONT SIZE="5"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:16.0px'>Coffee break</SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'> <BR>
</SPAN><FONT SIZE="5"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:16.0px'>11:00-11:45</SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'> </SPAN><FONT SIZE="5"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:16.0px'><B>Canons and the Possession-Modification Scale</B></SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'> </SPAN><FONT SIZE="5"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:16.0px'>Irina Nikolaeva (SOAS) & Andrew Spencer (Essex)</SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'> <BR>
</SPAN><FONT SIZE="5"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:16.0px'>11:45-12:30</SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'> </SPAN><FONT SIZE="5"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:16.0px'><B>Infrastructure requires a foundation: a base for the canons of negation</B></SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'> </SPAN><FONT SIZE="5"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:16.0px'>Oliver Bond (SOAS)</SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'> <BR>
</SPAN><FONT SIZE="5"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:16.0px'>12:30-1:30</SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'> </SPAN><FONT SIZE="5"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:16.0px'>Lunch</SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'> <BR>
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</SPAN><FONT SIZE="5"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:16.0px'>1:30-2:15</SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'> </SPAN><FONT SIZE="5"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:16.0px'><B>From interlinearized glossing to standard annotation</B></SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'> </SPAN><FONT SIZE="5"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:16.0px'>Dorothee Beermann Hellan (Trondheim)</SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'> <BR>
</SPAN><FONT SIZE="5"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:16.0px'>2:15-3:00</SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'> </SPAN><FONT SIZE="5"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:16.0px'><B>Corpus informed approach to Canonical Typology</B></SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'> </SPAN><FONT SIZE="5"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:16.0px'>Jiajin XU (Lancaster)</SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'> <BR>
</SPAN><FONT SIZE="5"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:16.0px'>3:00-3:15</SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'> </SPAN><FONT SIZE="5"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:16.0px'>Coffee break</SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'> <BR>
</SPAN><FONT SIZE="5"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:16.0px'>3:15-4:00</SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'> </SPAN><FONT SIZE="5"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:16.0px'><B>An extensible design for linguistic survey databases</B></SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'> </SPAN><FONT SIZE="5"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:16.0px'>Alexis Dimitriadis (Utrecht)</SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'> <BR>
</SPAN><FONT SIZE="5"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:16.0px'>4:00-5:00</SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'> </SPAN><FONT SIZE="5"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:16.0px'><B>Using canonical typology to achieve e-Linguistics </B></SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'> </SPAN><FONT SIZE="5"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:16.0px'>Scott Farrar (Washington)<BR>
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Organised by: Dunstan Brown, Marina Chumakina & Anna Kibort (d.brown at surrey.ac.uk, m.tchoumakina at surrey.ac.uk, a.kibort at surrey.ac.uk)<BR>
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