27.1395, Confs: Comp Ling, Psycholing, Socioling, Syntax, Text/Corpus Ling/Belgium

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Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2016 12:33:50
From: Clara Vanderschueren [Clara.Vanderschueren at Ugent.be]
Subject: New Ways of Analyzing Syntactic Variation 2

 
New Ways of Analyzing Syntactic Variation 2 
Short Title: NWASV2 

Date: 19-May-2016 - 20-May-2016 
Location: Ghent, Belgium 
Contact: Timothy Colleman 
Contact Email: nwasv2 at ugent.be 
Meeting URL: http://www.eqtis.ugent.be/nwasv2/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Psycholinguistics; Sociolinguistics; Syntax; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Meeting Description: 

The GLIMS and EQTIS research units at Ghent University will host a two-day
international symposium on new advances in research on syntactic variation on
19-20 May 2016. The event is a follow-up to the first 'New Ways of Analyzing
Syntactic Variation' symposium that took place at the Radboud University
Nijmegen in November 2012. Its overall purpose is to stimulate discussion and
interaction between researchers bringing new theoretical and/or methodological
expertise to the linguistic study of syntactic variation, broadly construed.

Syntactic variation is a multidimensional concept: it can refer to the
existence (in a single language variety) of several syntactic patterns or
constructions ''competing'' for the same functional space (i.e, to grammatical
alternations), or to any kind of sociolinguistic or ''lectal'' variation in
the formal and/or functional properties of syntactic patterns, along regional,
social, diachronic, stylistic, ethnic, gender, etc. dimensions (i.e., to
syntactic patterns or constructions as sociolinguistic variables), or to a
combination of both.

Syntactic variation is a major area of research in different schools of
linguistics - including, but not limited to, construction grammar and related
usage-based approaches, generative grammar, variationist sociolinguistics (cf.
the advent of socio-syntax), psycholinguistics, language acquisition research,
and computational linguistics/NLP  - and has accordingly been approached from
quite divergent theoretical and methodological perspectives. A common trend in
all of these approaches is the increasing use of advanced methods and tools
for the compilation and analysis of empirical data. In addition, there is a
growing consensus that linguistic argumentation demands converging evidence
based on an interdisciplinary approach and a growing body of work hence
combines multiple empirical approaches to tackle one and the same linguistic
phenomenon (e.g. combining advanced corpus analyses with survey and
psycholinguistic experimental designs). 

NWASV2 offers a forum for original work on syntactic variation, in any
language or (present or historical) language variety - or varieties, for that
matter - and from any theoretical perspective, in which an awareness of recent
theoretical insights and advances is paired with a concern for appropriate
empirical validation, methodological innovation and interdisciplinarity. 

Keynote Speakers:

Artemis Alexiadou (Humboldt University Berlin)
Hendrik De Smet (University of Leuven)
Stefan Th. Gries (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Stefan Grondelaers (Radboud University, Nijmegen)
Robert Hartsuiker (Ghent University)

Organising Committee: 

Bert Cappelle (University of Lille 3), Timothy Colleman (Ghent University,
GLIMS), Ludovic De Cuypere (Ghent University, GLIMS), Gert De Sutter (Ghent
University, EQTIS), Emmeline Gyselinck (Ghent University, GLIMS), Natalia
Levshina (FRS-FNRS, Université Catholique de Louvain), Clara Vanderschueren
(Ghent University, GLIMS), Freek Van de Velde (University of Leuven), Annelore
Willems (Ghent University, EQTIS)
 

Programme:

Please follow the link to our programme:

http://www.eqtis.ugent.be/nwasv2/programme.htm

19 and 20 May 2016: registration is now open for the international conference
on New Ways of Analyzing Syntactic Variation at Ghent University, with 5
plenary lectures (by Stefan Gries, Hendrik De Smet, Artemis Alexiadou, Robert
Hartsuiker and Stefan Grondelaers), and about 30 regular talks. 

Please register before 15 April via the following link:
http://www.eqtis.ugent.be/nwasv2/registration.htm . The conference fee is €
120, and includes conference materials, coffee/tea, refreshments and two cold
lunches. 

For more information on registration, accommodation, etc., see our conference
website http://www.eqtis.ugent.be/nwasv2/





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