25.5205, Calls: Text/Corpus Linguistics/Poland

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Subject: 25.5205, Calls: Text/Corpus Linguistics/Poland

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Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 17:07:29
From: Iwona Kokorniak [kokorniak at wa.amu.edu.pl]
Subject: Corpus Approaches to Lexical and Grammatical Concepts

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Full Title: Corpus Approaches to Lexical and Grammatical Concepts 
Short Title: CALGC 

Date: 17-Sep-2015 - 19-Sep-2015
Location: Poznan, Poland 
Contact Person: Iwona Kokorniak
Meeting Email: kokorniak at wa.amu.edu.pl

Linguistic Field(s): Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 01-Mar-2015 

Meeting Description:

45th Poznań Linguistic Meeting's Theme Session: Corpus Approaches to Lexical and Grammatical Concepts.

This theme session focuses on the application of corpus methodology to the study of lexical and grammatical concepts. The possible objects of study include: polysemy, antonymy, synonymy, homonymy, multi-word constructions, the grammatical concepts of case, voice, aspect, etc.

In the last few decades, lexicon and grammar have no longer been seen as two distinct and separable categories, but rather as a meaningful continuum (e.g. Langacker 1987). More generally, language structure has come to be seen as usage-based (Bybee 1985; Langacker 1987, 1988; Geeraerts et al. 1994; Croft 2000; Tomasello 2000). One of the methodological consequences of such theoretical assumptions is that, on its own, an introspective conceptual analysis is no longer adequate. Accordingly, in Cognitive and Functional Linguistics, both of which adhere to a usage-based model of language, the employment of empirical methods is viewed as indispensable in studies into meaning structure. Corpus methods for conceptual studies have been used and propagated by Geeraerts et al.
(1994, 1999), Gries (2003), Gries & Stefanowitsch (2006), Hilpert (2008, 2013), Glynn & Fischer (2010), Divjak (2010), Dziwirek & Lewandowska (2010), Glynn & Robinson (2014), to mention but a few.

The aim of such a research trend is to reveal the conceptual motivation behind lexicon and grammar. The methodology applied to pursue his objective is twofold (Geeraerts 2011, Glynn 2014). The first method is formal and concentrates on the investigation of collocational or collostructional phenomena. The second method is semantic and involves detailed manual annotation of large samples of data for semantic-pragmatic and formal characteristics of usage. This theme session seeks to bring together researchers applying corpus-based methods of either type to questions concerning lexical or grammatical semantics.

Keywords:

Corpus-based analysis, Conversation and discourse analysis, Manual annotation, collocational analysis, collostructional analysis, multivariate modeling, Lexicon, grammar, polysemy, synonymy, antonymy, constructions

For further information contact the session convenors:

Iwona Kokorniak (kokorniak at wa.amu.edu.pl)
Karolina Krawczak (karolina at wa.amu.edu.pl)

Call for Papers:

Abstract Submission:

Abstracts must be submitted twice. First, a short abstract (300 words) will be submitted to the theme session convenors:

E-mail address: lexigramplm at gmail.com
Date: 4 January 2015

A longer abstract (between 300 and 500 words (excluding the title, linguistic examples, and references) will be submitted to the conference itself.

More information at:

http://wa.amu.edu.pl/plm/2015/PLM2013_Abstract_submission
Date: 01 March 2015

It is essential that the abstracts follow strict guidelines for structure.

1. Introduce briefly the problem and question / hypothesis.
2. Summarise briefly the method and data employed to answer question /
test hypothesis.
3. Summarise briefly the results or expected results.

Please submit abstracts in a modifiable file format such as .rft, .doc, .docx or .odt.

Important Dates:

Short Abstract for theme session: 4 January 2015 (at lexigramplm at gmail.com)
Longer abstract for the conference: 1 March 2015 (via the conference site)

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