25.4777, Calls: General Linguistics/Iceland

Thu Nov 27 07:33:26 UTC 2014

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Subject: 25.4777, Calls: General Linguistics/Iceland

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Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 02:33:10
From: Einar Sigurdsson [einarsig at babel.ling.upenn.edu]
Subject: 2nd Workshop on Formal Ways of Analyzing Variation

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Full Title: 2nd Workshop on Formal Ways of Analyzing Variation 
Short Title: FWAV2 

Date: 28-May-2015 - 28-May-2015
Location: Reykjavik, Iceland 
Contact Person: Anton Ingason
Meeting Email: ingason at ling.upenn.edu
Web Site: http://conference.hi.is/digs17/workshops/ 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 01-Dec-2014 

Meeting Description:

The second workshop on Formal Ways of Analyzing Variation, FWAV2, will be held at the University of Iceland on May 28, 2015, and will be co-located with the 17th Diachronic Generative Syntax Conference (DiGS 17) which will be held 29-31 May 2015. The meeting aims to follow up on the success of FWAV1 which was held in Reykjavík in 2012.

The FWAV workshop is a venue for research that relates linguistic variation and formal analysis. FWAV is not restricted to specific domains such as syntax or phonology. The general theme of the meeting is described below. This year, FWAV will be co-located with DiGS 17 and on this occasion we hope some of the presentations at FWAV will make use of the various historical treebanks that are familiar to many researchers in diachronic syntax.

Labov’s pioneering study on contraction and deletion of the copula in African American Vernacular English (1969) and subsequent work on linguistic variation and change has drawn substantial attention to the relationship between formal analysis and quantitative usage patterns. Recently available evidence shows that discrete acceptability judgments in syntax, drawn from a large sample of speakers, also manifest regular quantitative patterns (see e.g. Thráinsson et al. 2013 and references cited there).

2nd Call for Papers:

Submission procedure for FWAV2: Submit an abstract through the DiGS 17 EasyChair system (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=digs17) and indicate on the top of the abstract that you are submitting to FWAV2. If you run into any problems with the system, email your abstract to ingason at ling.upenn.edu.

For more information, visit our website: http://conference.hi.is/digs17/workshops/

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