<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif;font-size:small">Hi,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif;font-size:small">Could you please send the message below to the list?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif;font-size:small">Thank you very much,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif;font-size:small">Erica (Biagetti, University of Pavia)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif;font-size:small">************************************************</div><div class="gmail_default"><p class="gmail-MsoTitle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 3pt;line-height:39.866668701171875px;break-after:avoid;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN" style="line-height:30.666664123535156px"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>Dependency Grammar for Typology</b></font></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoSubtitle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 16pt;line-height:23px;break-after:avoid;color:rgb(102,102,102)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><a name="_75x45fu87m6x"></a><span lang="EN" style="line-height:21.466665267944336px">Workshop @ ALT 15 in<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:21.466665267944336px">Singapore; December 4-6, 2024</span></font></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><u>New venue</u>: Nanyang Technological University - Singapore</font></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><u>New dates</u>: December 4-6, 2024</font></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><u>New abstract submission deadline</u>: April 15, 2014</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif">This workshop aims to bring together typologists working using dependency-annotated resources for quantitative typological research. We aim to include both new studies that pursue dependency-annotated corpora to answer typological questions, as well as more critical authors who point to the limitations of ‘dependency grammar for typology’. This also includes proposals on how quantitative typology can be conducted using heterogeneous data sources and the development of new resources, as long as a focus on comparative research is maintained.</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">➔</span><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Synchronic comparative studies on variation that can only be accessed using corpora, such as word order (Levshina 2019, Talamo & Verkerk 2022);</font></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">➔</span><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Comparative studies that employ such resources to uncover universal principles of grammar, including dependency length optimization (Futrell, Mahowald & Gibson 2015; Liu 2021, Yingqi, Blasi & Bickel 2022), word order universals (Choi et al. 2021, Gerdes et al. 2021, Yan & Liu 2023), the memory-surprisal trade-off (Hahn, Degen & Futrell 2021);</font></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">➔</span><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Diachronic studies of language change, such as the evolution rate of word order in main and subordinate clauses (Jing et al. 2023) or word order change (Hahn & Xu 2022);</font></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">➔</span><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Theoretical challenges in annotation, such as the universality of syntactic labels, as well as of parts of speech, morpho-syntactic features, and tokenization (Croft et al. 2017, Osborne & Gerdes 2019, Sinnemäki and Haakana 2020, Hohn 2021);</font></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">➔</span><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Development of new resources, in particular with respect to low-resource languages, starting from different type of texts (corpora, fieldwork notes, existing treebanks, Wikipedia, grammars, etc.) (Zariquiey et al. 2022, Kahane et al. 2023);</font></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">➔</span><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Projects that employ such resources to go beyond sentence-level syntactic dependencies by developing additional layers of annotation for studying discourse and information structure, among other levels;</font></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">➔</span><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Robustness and statistical validity of typological quantitative measures on the basis of different theoretical approaches and annotation schema (Gerdes et al. 2018, Osborne & Gerdes 2019, Yan & Liu 2019).<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">➔</span><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Limits of dependency grammar for typology: issues such as unbalanced sampling, limitations of annotation in terms of availability, quality, as well as ‘missing’ annotation, and heterogeneousness of the annotation across treebanks, both in terms of application and quality.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif">We envision a worthwhile exchange between more traditional typologists and typologists who have already worked with these resources. If you want to join us, please submit your abstract to ALT15, explicitly indicating that it is intended for the workshop "Dependency Grammar for Typology". Instructions on how to submit abstracts can be found on the ALT2024 page:<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><a href="https://www.ntu.edu.sg/soh/news-events/events/alt-2024/call-for-papers">https://www.ntu.edu.sg/soh/news-events/events/alt-2024/call-for-papers</a> <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>---- <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>Abstracts are due April 15th!</font></p></div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1rem;color:rgb(25,25,26);font-family:"Titillium Web",Geneva,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:18px"><br></p><div style="color:rgb(25,25,26);font-family:"Titillium Web",Geneva,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:18px;margin-top:16px!important;margin-right:48px!important;margin-left:48px!important"><div style="width:651.328125px;border:1px solid rgb(255,255,255)"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse:collapse;font-size:initial;font-family:Roboto;border:1px solid transparent"><tbody><tr><td width="100px" valign="top"><img src="https://firmamail.unipv.it/images/firma/logo_unipv_firma.png" alt="LOGO-UNIPV" style="vertical-align:middle;border-style:none;display:inline;width:80px;margin-left:5px"></td><td valign="top" style="border-width:1px;border-style:solid;border-color:rgb(255,255,255) rgb(255,255,255) rgb(255,255,255) rgb(135,135,135);padding-left:15px"><div style="font-size:0.9em;color:rgb(178,40,75)">Erica Biagetti</div><div style="font-size:0.8em;color:rgb(200,100,125)">Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici</div><div style="font-size:0.7em;color:rgb(200,100,125)"></div><div style="font-size:0.7em;margin-top:5px;color:rgb(135,135,135)">Assegnista di ricerca / Postdoc researcher</div><div style="font-size:0.7em;margin-top:10px"><a href="http://maps.google.com/?q=Corso+Strada+Nuova+65+27100+Pavia+%28Italia%29" style="color:rgb(135,135,135)!important;text-decoration:none!important" target="_blank">Corso Strada Nuova 65 - 27100 Pavia (Italia)</a></div><div style="font-size:0.7em;padding-top:3px"></div><div style="font-size:0.7em;margin-top:3px;color:rgb(135,135,135)"><a href="https://unipv.unifind.cineca.it/resource/person/890699" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(135,135,135)!important" target="_blank">Pagina personale</a></div><div style="font-size:0.7em;margin-top:3px;color:rgb(135,135,135)"></div><div style="font-size:0.7em;margin-top:5px;color:rgb(135,135,135)"></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="line-height:5px"> </div><div style="line-height:5px"> </div></div></div></div></div></div>