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<b class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Descriptive grammars and typology: the challenges of writing grammars of underdescribed and endangered languages</span></b><o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">University of Helsinki, 27–29 March, 2019</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Over the last few decades, there has been a tremendous increase in the production of descriptive grammars for languages that had previously been poorly described or
lacked description altogether. In most cases, these are minority languages, and many of them are endangered. The surge in descriptive projects has been accompanied by demand for advances in the art of grammaticography (see e.g. Ameka, Dench & Evans 2006).
In this conference, we want to contribute to the development of grammaticography by bringing together linguists who are engaged in writing grammars of underdescribed and/or endangered languages and who are especially interested in utilizing concepts of linguistic
typology in their descriptions. We encourage presentations concentrating on the description of specific grammatical structures, as well as wider discussion of the role of typology in grammar-writing. The presentations may take either a language-specific or
a cross-linguistic perspective.</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Topics relevant to the conference may include (but are not restricted to) the following issues:</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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challenges of describing a language in its own terms and, at the same time, making it comparable to other languages</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">–</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">The
roles of form and function in conceptualizing and organizing language descriptions</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">–</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Challenges
of and approaches to describing rare structures</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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position of semantics in grammar writing</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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to variation in language description</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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possibilities and challenges of multilectal grammars</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">–</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Methods
for understanding and describing the influence of another language on the language under description</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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relation of language and linguistic structure to language ecologies</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">–</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">The
role of corpora in grammar writing</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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and solutions for meeting the diverse needs of typologists, specialists with areal interests and specialists with specific theoretical interests when writing a descriptive grammar</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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and solutions for meeting the diverse needs of linguists, language learners and native speakers when writing a descriptive grammar</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Reference:</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Ameka, F. K., Dench, A., Evans, N. (eds) 2006:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">Catching Language. The Standing Challenge of Grammar Writing</i>.
Trends in Linguistics 167. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter.</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="" class="">Pius Akumbu (University of Buea, Cameroon)</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="" class="">Diana Forker (University of Bamberg, Germany)</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="" class="">Juha Janhunen (University of Helsinki, Finland)</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Joshua Wilbur (University of Freiburg, Germany)</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">EasyAbs:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/grammar2019" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/grammar2019</span></a><o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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<a href="mailto:grammarwriting2019@helsinki.fi" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">grammarwriting2019@helsinki.fi</span></a><o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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<a href="https://www.helsinki.fi/en/conferences/descriptive-grammars-and-typology" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">https://www.helsinki.fi/en/conferences/descriptive-grammars-and-typology</span></a><o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">University of Helsinki / Finno-Ugrian Language Studies</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">University of Helsinki / African Languages</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">University of Helsinki / General Linguistics</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Rigina Ajanki</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Thera Crane Ringhofer</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Ekaterina Gruzdeva</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Arja Hamari</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Matti Miestamo</span></div>
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