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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:14pt"><span style="font-family:Times" lang="EN-US">We
invite submission of abstracts for a one-day workshop session on
cross-linguistic databases to be held at the 46th Poznań Linguistic Meeting, Poznań, Poland, to be held on 15-17 September 2016.
Each paper should be of 20 minutes duration, with 10 minutes additional minutes
for discussion. Details on abstract submission are available on the conference website <a href="http://wa.amu.edu.pl/plm/2016/">http://wa.amu.edu.pl/plm/2016/</a>.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"" lang="EN-US">The
diversity of the world’s c. 6,500 languages represents an abundant and
irreplaceable resource for understanding the unique communication system of our
species. Rather than studying just one language, such as English, by comparing
many languages we are better equipped to trace the (pre)history of the
populations that speak them, and to understand the processing machinery of our
brains (Evans and Levinson, 2009).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:18pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"" lang="EN-US">This workshop focuses on the curation, dissemination and
applications of massively cross-linguistic databases. Existing databases,
e.g. PHOIBLE (Moran et al., 2015), ASJP (Wichmann et al., 2013),
WALS (Dryer and Haspelmath, 2013), ABVD (Greenhill et al., 2008) are not
without their limitations, prompting the active development of larger databases
under the names GramBank and LexiBank at the MPI for SHH in Jena. The present
workhsop aims to cover topics such as: </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 2.5pt -17.55pt 6pt 30pt; text-indent: -15pt;"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"" lang="EN-US">•<span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Data curation procedures and protocols
(e.g. Forkel 2014) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 2.5pt -17.55pt 6pt 30pt; text-indent: -15pt;"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"" lang="EN-US">•<span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Models and algorithms for inferring
historical (areal or genealogical) relationships between languages
(e.g. Muysken et al. 2015, Michael et al. 2014, Dunn 2014,
Longobardi et al. 2013, Heggarty 2012, List 2014, Gray et al. 2013) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 2.5pt -17.55pt 6pt 30pt; text-indent: -15pt;"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"" lang="EN-US">•<span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Models and algorithms for inferring
non-historical (functional, universal) principles from linguistic data (e.g. Symonds
and Blomberg 2014, Dediu and Cysouw 2013, Hammarström and O’Connor 2013, Dunn
et al. 2011) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 2.5pt -17.55pt 6pt 30pt; text-indent: -15pt;"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"" lang="EN-US">•<span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Visualization techniques for
cross-linguistic data (e.g. McElvenny 2015, Moran and McNew 2015) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"" lang="EN-US">Linguistic
data of any kind (sociolinguistic, lexical, phonological, grammatical) is
desirable so long as there is a significant cross-linguistic coverage.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"" lang="EN-US">The
following speakers have already expressed an interest in participating:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"" lang="EN-US">Russell
Gray (MPI-SHH, Jena)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"" lang="EN-US">Paul
Heggarty (MPI-SHH, Jena)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"" lang="EN-US">Harald
Hammarström (MPI for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"" lang="EN-US">Johann-Mattis
List (</span><span style="font-family:Times" lang="EN-US">Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris)</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"" lang="EN-US">Steven
Moran (University of Zürich)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"" lang="EN-US">Simon
Greenhill (Australian National University)</span></p>
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