<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-style: normal;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3">Dear colleagues,</font></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;"> </span></font></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">We are pleased to announce the second installment of the conference </span><b>Descriptive Grammars and Typology: <span style="text-align: justify; line-height: 1.22em;">The challenges of writing grammars of underdescribed and endangered languages</span></b>, which will take place on<u> December 1-3 </u>in Paris (FIAP Paris). <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">We are counting on an on-site event complying to all sanitary restrictions that may apply (if needed, the hosting conditions will be adapted). </span>The conference will consist of one unique general session. Talks will be 30-minute long plus 10 minutes for discussion.</span></font></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-style: normal;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3">Please check the conference website for all details: </font></span><a href="https://grammar2021.sciencesconf.org/" style="font-family: Helvetica; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; text-decoration-color: var(--accent-color) !important;">https://grammar2021.sciencesconf.org/</a></p></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;"><br></span></font></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><div><font face="Helvetica" size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>Keynote speakers:</b></span></font></div><div><font face="Helvetica" size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b><br></b></span></font></div><div><ul style="margin: 0px; padding-left: 2em;"><li><font face="Helvetica" size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;">Felix Ameka (Leiden University)</span></font></li><li><font face="Helvetica" size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;">Nicholas Evans (Australian National University)</span></font></li><li><font face="Helvetica" size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;">Birgit Hellwig (University of Cologne)</span></font></li><li><font face="Helvetica" size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;">Aimée Lahaussois (HTL, CNRS)</span></font></li><li><font face="Helvetica" size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;">Nicolas Quint (LLACAN, CNRS)</span></font></li></ul></div></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;"><br></span></font></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>Call for papers:</b></span></font></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><div><p style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3">The global endangerement of little-known languages has raised awareness of the urgent need to document and describe them and brought about new advances in the art of grammaticography (see e.g. Ameka, Dench & Evans 2006). The conference series 'Descriptive Grammars and Typology’, whose first installment took place in March 2019 in Helsinki (</font><a href="https://www.helsinki.fi/en/conferences/descriptive-grammars-and-typology">https://www.helsinki.fi/en/conferences/descriptive-grammars-and-typology</a>)<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;">, aims to contribute to the </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;">development of grammaticography</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;"> by bringing together authors and users of </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;">grammars of underdescribed and/or endangered languages</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;"> who share an interest in drawing on concepts of linguistic typology in grammatical descriptions.</span></p></div><div><font face="Helvetica" size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-align: justify;">We welcome submissions concentrating on the issues and challenges that face the authors of descriptive grammars, the expectations of grammar users, 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. This second edition of the conference will be more specifically focused on the theory and practice of grammar writing and will exclude papers concerned with the description of grammatical structures.</span><br></span></font></div><div><p><font face="Helvetica" size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;">Topics relevant to the conference may include (but are not restricted to) the following issues:</span></font></p><ul style="margin: 0px; padding-left: 2em;"><li style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;">The challenges of describing a language in its own terms and, at the same time, making it comparable to other languages</span></font></li><li><font face="Helvetica" size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;">The roles of form and function in conceptualizing and organizing language descriptions</span></font></li><li><font face="Helvetica" size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;">Challenges of and approaches to describing rare structures</span></font></li><li><font face="Helvetica" size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;">The role of semantics in grammar writing</span></font></li><li><font face="Helvetica" size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;">The role of corpora in grammar writing</span></font></li><li><font face="Helvetica" size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;">Approaches to variation in language description</span></font></li><li><font face="Helvetica" size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;">The relation of language and linguistic structure to language ecologies</span></font></li><li><font face="Helvetica" size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;">Challenges and solutions for meeting the diverse needs of typologists, language learners and native speakers when writing a descriptive grammar</span></font></li></ul></div></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;"><br></span></font></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>Abstract Submission Guidelines:</b></span></font></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><p style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Please submit a one-page abstract (with references and/or examples/graphics allowed on a separate page) <u>no later than July 01, 2021</u>, through the conference website: </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://grammar2021.sciencesconf.org/" style="text-decoration-color: var(--accent-color) !important;">https://grammar2021.sciencesconf.org</a> (see </span></span></font><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;">further guidelines on the website).</span><font face="Helvetica" size="3"><span lang="EN-US"> Abstracts </span></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3">will be subject to blind review. Notificati</font><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;">on of acceptance will be given on September 01, 2021.</span></p></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>Organizers: </b></span></font></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;"><br></span></font></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><li><font face="Helvetica" size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;">Thera Crane (<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">University of Helsinki)</span></span></font></li><li><font face="Helvetica" size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;">Sebastian Fedden (Sorbonne Nouvelle University, CNRS – Lacito)</span></font></li><li><font face="Helvetica" size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;">Ekaterina Gruzdeva (<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">University of Helsinki)</span></span></font></li><li><font face="Helvetica" size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;">Arja Hamari (<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">University of Helsinki)</span></span></font></li><li><font face="Helvetica" size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;">Matti Miestamo (<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">University of Helsinki)</span></span></font></li><li><font face="Helvetica" size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;">Yann Le Moullec (Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations, CNRS – Lacito)</span></font></li><li><font face="Helvetica" size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;">Neige Rochant (Sorbonne Nouvelle University, CNRS – Lacito & LLACAN)</span></font></li><li><font face="Helvetica" size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;">Guillaume Segerer (CNRS – LLACAN)</span></font></li><li><font face="Helvetica" size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;">Jeanne Zerner (CNRS – LLACAN)</span></font></li></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;"><br></span></font></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;">In partnership with Labex EFL.</span></font></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>Program committee:</b></span></font></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;"><br></span></font></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><li dir="ltr"><font face="Helvetica" size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;">Claire Bowern</span></font></li><li dir="ltr"><font face="Helvetica" size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;">Denis Creissels</span></font></li><li dir="ltr"><font face="Helvetica" size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;">Don Daniels</span></font></li><li dir="ltr"><font face="Helvetica" size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;">Patience Epps</span></font></li><li dir="ltr"><font face="Helvetica" size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;">James Essegbey</span></font></li><li dir="ltr"><font face="Helvetica" size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;">Diana Forker</span></font></li><li dir="ltr"><font face="Helvetica" size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;">Andrew Garrett</span></font></li><li dir="ltr"><font face="Helvetica" size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;">Carol Genetti</span></font></li><li dir="ltr"><font face="Helvetica" size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;">Nadine Grimm</span></font></li><li dir="ltr"><font face="Helvetica" size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;">Antoine Guillaume</span></font></li><li dir="ltr"><font face="Helvetica" size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;">Harald Hammarström</span></font></li><li dir="ltr"><font face="Helvetica" size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;">Martin Haspelmath</span></font></li><li dir="ltr"><font face="Helvetica" size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;">Jeffrey Heath</span></font></li><li dir="ltr"><font face="Helvetica" size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;">Marian Klamer</span></font></li><li dir="ltr"><font face="Helvetica" size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;">Linda Konnerth</span></font></li><li dir="ltr"><font face="Helvetica" size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;">Maarten Mous</span></font></li><li dir="ltr"><font face="Helvetica" size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;">Bastian Persohn</span></font></li><li dir="ltr"><font face="Helvetica" size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;">Mark Post</span></font></li></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;"><br></span></font></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><p style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;">Best wishes,<br></span></font></p></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;">––––––</span></font></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;">Neige Rochant</span></font></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;">PhD student</span></font></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;">Sorbonne Nouvelle University</span></font></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3"><span style="font-style: normal;">CNRS – Lacito / LLACAN</span></font></div></body></html>