27.3113, Calls: Cog Sci, Comp Ling, Historical Ling, Text/Corpus Ling, Typology/Estonia

[The LINGUIST List via LINGUIST]

LINGUIST List: Vol-27-3113. Fri Jul 29 2016. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 27.3113, Calls: Cog Sci, Comp Ling, Historical Ling, Text/Corpus Ling, Typology/Estonia

Moderators: linguist at linguistlist.org (Damir Cavar, Malgorzata E. Cavar)
Reviews: reviews at linguistlist.org (Anthony Aristar, Helen Aristar-Dry,
                                   Robert Coté, Michael Czerniakowski)
Homepage: http://linguistlist.org

*****************    LINGUIST List Support    *****************
                       Fund Drive 2016
                   25 years of LINGUIST List!
Please support the LL editors and operation with a donation at:
           http://funddrive.linguistlist.org/donate/

Editor for this issue: Kenneth Steimel <ken at linguistlist.org>
================================================================


Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2016 12:00:45
From: Natalia Levshina [natalevs at gmail.com]
Subject: Variation and Diversity at Mid-level of Abstraction

 
Full Title: Variation and Diversity at Mid-level of Abstraction 

Date: 10-Jul-2017 - 14-Jul-2017
Location: Tartu, Estonia 
Contact Person: Natalia Levshina
Meeting Email: natalia.levshina at uni-leipzig.de

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics; Typology 

Call Deadline: 01-Sep-2016 

Meeting Description:

Usage-based linguistics has placed strong emphasis on explaining schematic
patterns as results of abstracting from repetitive and similar individual
usage events. In between these layers, at the mid-levels of linguistic
abstraction, speakers are assumed to have stored many mixed patterns
consisting of schematic and lexical material. Material of this kind has been
shown to play an important part in the organization of a speaker’s knowledge
of his/her own language. Its effects could be traced in studies of language
representation (e.g. Stefanowitsch & Gries 2003 and later works), acquisition
(e.g. Tomasello 2005; Lieven & Ambridge 2011), processing (e.g. Gries et al.
2005) and change (e.g. Hilpert 2012). The phenomena in question, which have
been made measurable by various types of association measures, come to the
fore in the study of usage as patterns emerging through repetition; they are
reminiscent of the Sinclairian differentiation between the open-choice and
idiom principles (Sinclair 1991: 109–115). The claim derived from such
patterns is that usage relies on lexico-grammatical patterns much more
intensely than the traditional distinction between lexicon and grammar, or
words and schemata, etc., implies (e.g. Boas 2003; Hampe & Schönefeld 2006). 

At the same time, contemporary Cognitive Linguistics places great emphasis on
the variational aspects of language  (e.g. Kristiansen & Dirven 2008; Croft
2009; Schmid 2015). Moreover, there is a growing awareness of the importance
of linguistic diversity in Cognitive-Linguistic research, which has also been
chosen as the special theme of the 14th International Cognitive Linguistics
Conference. However, the overwhelming majority of cross-linguistic/lectal
studies focus on linguistic patterns at very high levels of generalization,
whereas most lexico-grammatical studies are based on one language (variety).
Although there have been a few variational collostructional studies (e.g.
dialectal variation by Wulff et al. 2007 and register variation by Schönefeld
2013), as well as cross-linguistic collostructional analyses (e.g. Gilquin
2015), such studies are the exception rather than the rule. 

The aim of our theme session is to fill this gap and to create a forum for a
discussion of variational and cross-linguistic studies that focus on different
types of distributional co-occurrence phenomena (collostructions,
colligations, collocations, lexical bundles, etc.) at the mid-level of
abstraction. 

Organizers: 

Natalia Levshina (Leipzig University) natalia.levshina at uni-leipzig.de 
Doris Schönefeld (Leipzig University) schoenefeld at uni-leipzig.de


Call for Papers:

We invite contributions expanding our understanding of speakers’ linguistic
knowledge and enhancing the methods for deciphering it:

A. Variational, diachronic and cross-linguistic studies based on data that
involve both words and schemata, for example:

- Cross-lectal and diachronic distinctive collexeme analyses
- Contrastive collostructional analyses
- Dialectal, diachronic and cross-linguistic studies embracing distributional
approaches to semantics, such as Semantic Vector Spaces (e.g. Perek 2016)
- Collostructional approaches to learner corpus research
- (Re-)examination of cross-linguistic and dialectal grammatical differences
by taking into account lower-level patterns (e.g. Levshina et al. 2013)

B. Methodological contributions on the following and related topics:

- Statistical properties and linguistic interpretation of association measures
used for the estimation of collostructional attraction and repulsion 
- Integration of semantic similarity between collexemes in collostructional
studies (cf. Bybee & Eddington 2006)
- Corpus frequency vs. measures of corpus dispersion and contextual
variability as the basis for collostructional attraction
- Tertia comparationis (e.g. semantic classes or fields) in contrastive
collostructional analyses
- Visualization of collostructional data

Abstracts should be submitted before September 1 2016 electronically to
natalia.levshina at uni-leipzig.de and should not exceed one page (including
references). See http://iclc14.ut.ee/general-and-poster-session for further
guidelines.




------------------------------------------------------------------------------

*****************    LINGUIST List Support    *****************
                       Fund Drive 2016
Please support the LL editors and operation with a donation at:
            http://funddrive.linguistlist.org/donate/

        Thank you very much for your support of LINGUIST!
 


----------------------------------------------------------
LINGUIST List: Vol-27-3113	
----------------------------------------------------------
Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated
from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships:
          http://multitree.org/