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Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2016 15:57:33
From: Sara Jonkers [sara.jonkers at uclouvain.be]
Subject: PLIN Day 2017: Construction Grammar: New Advances in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics

 
Full Title: PLIN Day 2017: Construction Grammar: New Advances in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics 

Date: 12-May-2017 - 12-May-2017
Location: Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium 
Contact Person: Sara Jonkers
Meeting Email: plindayucl at uclouvain.be

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Linguistic Theories 

Call Deadline: 01-Feb-2017 

Meeting Description:

The PLIN Day is an annual one-day thematic conference hosted by the
Linguistics Research Unit of Université catholique de Louvain. The central
topic of the PLIN Day 2017 will be “Construction Grammar: new advances in
theoretical and applied linguistics”.

The aims of the conference are the following: (a) to present the most recent
developments of ongoing research within the framework of Construction Grammar
by covering a wide spectrum of fields, topics and research problems, and (b)
to highlight the benefits of a Construction Grammar approach for both
theoretical and applied linguistics. 

Convenors: 

- Sara Jonkers
- Nikos Koutsoukos
- Kristel Van Goethem

The conference will include 5 plenary talks and 2 poster sessions. We are
happy to announce that the following keynote speakers have accepted our
invitation:

- Dany Amiot, Université de Lille: “La Grammaire de Construction et
l’interface morphologie-syntaxe : Préposition, préfixe, préfixoïde, des objets
de même nature?”
- Holger Diessel, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena: “Construction Grammar
and First Language Acquisition”
- Steffen Höder, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel: “A constructional
approach to language in contact: Background and basic concepts of
Diasystematic Construction Grammar”
- Muriel Norde, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin: “Diachronic Construction
Grammar”
- Remi van Trijp, Sony Computer Science Laboratory, Paris: “Computational
Construction Grammar and its potential impact on linguistics and language
technologies”


Call for Papers:

We invite abstracts for posters dealing with Construction Grammar in any
linguistic domain. Abstracts can be written in English or French and should be
max. 300 words (excluding bibliography). Please submit your abstract in pdf
format to: plindayucl at uclouvain.be

Important Dates:

- Deadline for abstracts: 1 February 2017
- Notification of acceptance for a poster presentation: 28 February 2017




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