<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="ltr" class="" style="font-family: CharisSILCompact; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" class="">Dear colleagues,</font></div><div class="" style="font-family: CharisSILCompact; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" class=""> </font></div><div class="" style="font-family: CharisSILCompact; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">This is the last call for the second installment of the conference </span><b class="">Descriptive Grammars and Typology: <span class="" 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 class=""> December 1-3, 2021 </u>in Paris (FIAP Paris). <span class="" 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.</font></div><div class="" style="font-family: CharisSILCompact; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div class="" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" class=""><font face="Helvetica" size="3" class="">Please check the conference website for all details: </font></span><a href="https://grammar2021.sciencesconf.org/" class="" style="-apple-color-filter: none; font-family: Helvetica; color: var(--accent-color) !important; text-decoration-color: var(--accent-color) !important;">https://grammar2021.sciencesconf.org/</a></div></div><div class="" style="font-family: CharisSILCompact; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: CharisSILCompact; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div class=""><font face="Helvetica" size="3" class=""><b class="">Keynote speakers:</b></font></div><div class=""><font face="Helvetica" size="3" class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></font></div><div class=""><ul class="" style="margin: 0px; padding-left: 2em;"><li class=""><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;" class="">Felix Ameka (Leiden University)</span></li><li class=""><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;" class="">Nicholas Evans (Australian National University)</span></li><li class=""><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;" class="">Birgit Hellwig (University of Cologne)</span></li><li class=""><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;" class="">Aimée Lahaussois (HTL – UMR 7597, CNRS / Université de Paris / Sorbonne Nouvelle University)</span></li><li class=""><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;" class="">Nicolas Quint (LLACAN – UMR 8135, CNRS / INaLCO / EPHE)</span></li></ul></div></div><div class="" style="font-family: CharisSILCompact; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: CharisSILCompact; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" class=""><b class="">Call for papers:</b></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: CharisSILCompact; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div class=""><p class="" style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" class="">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" class="" style="-apple-color-filter: none; color: var(--accent-color) !important;">https://www.helsinki.fi/en/conferences/descriptive-grammars-and-typology</a>)<span class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;">, aims to contribute to the </span><span class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;">development of grammaticography</span><span class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;"> by bringing together authors and users of </span><span class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;">grammars of underdescribed and/or endangered languages</span><span class="" 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 class=""><font face="Helvetica" size="3" class=""><span class="" 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 class=""></font></div><div class=""><p class=""><font face="Helvetica" size="3" class="">Topics relevant to the conference may include (but are not restricted to) the following issues:</font></p><ul class="" style="margin: 0px; padding-left: 2em;"><li class="" style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" class="">The challenges of describing a language in its own terms and, at the same time, making it comparable to other languages</font></li><li class=""><font face="Helvetica" size="3" class="">The roles of form and function in conceptualizing and organizing language descriptions</font></li><li class=""><font face="Helvetica" size="3" class="">Challenges of and approaches to describing rare structures</font></li><li class=""><font face="Helvetica" size="3" class="">The role of semantics in grammar writing</font></li><li class=""><font face="Helvetica" size="3" class="">The role of corpora in grammar writing</font></li><li class=""><font face="Helvetica" size="3" class="">Approaches to variation in language description</font></li><li class=""><font face="Helvetica" size="3" class="">The relation of language and linguistic structure to language ecologies</font></li><li class=""><font face="Helvetica" size="3" class="">Challenges and solutions for meeting the diverse needs of typologists, language learners and native speakers when writing a descriptive grammar</font></li></ul></div></div><div class="" style="font-family: CharisSILCompact; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: CharisSILCompact; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" class=""><b class="">Abstract Submission Guidelines:</b></font></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><p class="" style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" class="" style="font-family: CharisSILCompact;"><span lang="EN-US" class="">Please submit a one-page </span></font><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;" class="">anonymous</span><font face="CharisSILCompact" class=""> </font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" class="" style="font-family: CharisSILCompact;"><span lang="EN-US" class="">abstract (with references and/or examples/graphics allowed on a separate page) <u class="">no later than July 01, 2021</u>, through the conference website: </span><span lang="EN-US" class=""><a href="https://grammar2021.sciencesconf.org/" class="" style="-apple-color-filter: none; color: var(--accent-color) !important; text-decoration-color: var(--accent-color) !important;">https://grammar2021.sciencesconf.org</a> (see </span></font><span class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;">further guidelines on the website).</span><font face="Helvetica" size="3" class="" style="font-family: CharisSILCompact;"><span lang="EN-US" class=""> Abstracts </span></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" class="" style="font-family: CharisSILCompact;">will be subject to blind review. Notificati</font><span class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;">on of acceptance will be given on September 01, 2021.</span></p></div><div class="" style="font-family: CharisSILCompact; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" class=""><b class="">Organizers: </b></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: CharisSILCompact; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: CharisSILCompact; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><li class=""><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;" class="">Thera Crane (University of Helsinki)</span></li><li class=""><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;" class="">Sebastian Fedden (Sorbonne Nouvelle University; LACITO – UMR 7107, CNRS)</span></li><li class=""><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;" class="">Ekaterina Gruzdeva (University of Helsinki)</span></li><li class=""><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;" class="">Arja Hamari (University of Helsinki)</span></li><li class=""><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;" class="">Matti Miestamo (University of Helsinki)</span></li><li class=""><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;" class="">Yann Le Moullec (National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations; LACITO – UMR 7107, CNRS)</span></li><li class=""><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;" class="">Neige Rochant (Sorbonne Nouvelle University; LACITO – UMR 7107, CNRS; LLACAN – UMR 8105, CNRS)</span></li><li class=""><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;" class="">Guillaume Segerer (LLACAN – UMR 8135, CNRS / INaLCO / EPHE)</span></li><li class=""><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;" class="">Jeanne Zerner (LLACAN – UMR 8135, CNRS / INaLCO / EPHE)</span></li><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class="" style="font-family: CharisSILCompact; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: CharisSILCompact; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" class="">In partnership with Labex EFL.</font></div><div class="" style="font-family: CharisSILCompact; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: CharisSILCompact; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" class=""><b class="">Program committee:</b></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: CharisSILCompact; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: CharisSILCompact; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><li class=""><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;" class="">Claire Bowern (Yale University)</span></li><li dir="ltr" class=""><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;" class="">Denis Creissels (Université Lumière Lyon 2; DDL – UMR 5596, CNRS)</span></li><li dir="ltr" class=""><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;" class="">Don Daniels (University of Oregon)</span></li><li dir="ltr" class=""><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;" class="">Patience Epps (University of Texas at Austin)</span></li><li dir="ltr" class=""><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;" class="">James Essegbey (University of Florida)</span></li><li dir="ltr" class=""><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;" class="">Diana Forker (Friedrich Schiller University Jena)</span></li><li dir="ltr" class=""><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;" class="">Andrew Garrett (University of California, Berkeley)</span></li><li dir="ltr" class=""><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;" class="">Carol Genetti (New York University Abu Dhabi)</span></li><li dir="ltr" class=""><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;" class="">Nadine Grimm (University of Rochester)</span></li><li dir="ltr" class=""><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;" class="">Antoine Guillaume (DDL – UMR 5596, CNRS / Université Lumière Lyon 2)</span></li><li dir="ltr" class=""><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;" class="">Harald Hammarström (Uppsala University)</span></li><li dir="ltr" class=""><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;" class="">Martin Haspelmath (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology)</span></li><li dir="ltr" class=""><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;" class="">Jeffrey Heath (University of Michigan)</span></li><li dir="ltr" class=""><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;" class="">Marian Klamer (Leiden University)</span></li><li dir="ltr" class=""><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;" class="">Linda Konnerth (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)</span></li><li dir="ltr" class=""><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;" class="">Maarten Mous (Leiden University)</span></li><li dir="ltr" class=""><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;" class="">Bastian Persohn (Friedrich Schiller University Jena)</span></li><li dir="ltr" class=""><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;" class="">Mark Post (University of Sydney)</span></li><li dir="ltr" class=""><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;" class="">Antoinette Schapper (CNRS /Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)</span></li><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class="" style="font-family: CharisSILCompact; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; text-align: justify;" class="">Best wishes,</span></div><div class=""><span style="text-align: justify;" class=""><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica" size="3" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">On behalf of the Organizing Committee,</span></font></span></div><div class="">
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