29.1714, Calls: Applied Ling, Morphology, Syntax, Text/Corpus Ling, Typology/Russia

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Subject: 29.1714, Calls: Applied Ling, Morphology, Syntax, Text/Corpus Ling, Typology/Russia

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Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2018 13:33:37
From: Maria Morozova [morozovamaria86 at gmail.com]
Subject: Balkan Languages and Dialects: Corpus-Based and Quantitative Studies

 
Full Title: Balkan Languages and Dialects: Corpus-Based and Quantitative Studies 

Date: 18-Oct-2018 - 20-Oct-2018
Location: Saint Petersburg, Russia 
Contact Person: Maria Morozova
Meeting Email: balkancorpspb at gmail.com

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Morphology; Syntax; Text/Corpus Linguistics; Typology 

Call Deadline: 03-May-2018 

Meeting Description:

The conference “Balkan Languages and Dialects: Corpus-based and Quantitative
Studies” (Saint Petersburg 2018) carries on and extends the discussion of
topics raised at the international conference on corpus-based approaches to
the Balkan languages and dialects that took place in 2016 at the Institute for
Linguistic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences
(https://iling.spb.ru/confs/balkan2016/index.html).

Keynote Speakers:

Johanna Nichols (University of California, Berkeley)
Maria Kholodilova (Institute for Linguistic Studies of the Russian Academy of
Sciences, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Saint
Petersburg)

Location: Institute for Linguistic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences
(Saint Petersburg, Russia)
Organizers: Alexander Yu. Rusakov, Maria S. Morozova, Maxim L. Kisilier


2nd Call for Papers:

Important Dates

Submission of Abstracts: May 3, 2018
Notification to the Authors: May 15, 2018

Since the time of classical works devoted to the common features of the Balkan
languages, in the world linguistics there has been a continuing interest in
studying the Balkan area, which still remains an example of a linguistic area
par excellence. However, corpus-anchored works on the Balkan languages and
especially dialects, as well as studies using modern methods of areal
linguistics and typology in application to the Balkans as an area and to
individual micro-areas within the Balkans, are not numerous.

The rare examples of studies that analyze the Balkan languages and dialects
from this point of view include the recent monograph by Evangelia Adamou,
which proposes and uses an integrated method that can serve for the
quantitative exploitation of free-speech multilingual corpora (Adamou 2016);
dialectometric projects aimed at solving classical problems of the traditional
dialectology, for example, the problem of determination of dialect borders,
involving various quantitative approaches and computational methods
(Houtzagers, Nerbonne, and Prokić 2010); works that analyze the Balkan area as
part of macro-areas, such as Europe and Eurasia (Kortmann 1997; Nichols 2017);
studies that use such macro-variables as linguistic complexity (Nichols 2009)
for the investigation of dialect continua, and the identification of
micro-areas of intensive contact, isolation, etc. (Rusakov and Morozova 2017);
a range of corpus-based studies of grammar of the Balkan languages, first of
all Albanian and Balkan Slavic.

We invite scholars who study phonology, grammar and lexicons of the Balkan
languages and dialects to submit papers for the conference “Balkan Languages
and Dialects: Corpus-Based and Quantitative Studies”. The conference focuses
on the presentation and discussion of synchronic and diachronic studies of any
one or several of the Balkan languages and dialects, as well as of the Balkan
area as a whole, applying:

- Corpus methods
- Dialectometrical methods
- Quantitative methods of areal linguistics and typology.

We especially encourage studies performed on the basis of the already existing
linguistic atlases, linguistic corpora and databases for the Balkan languages
and dialects, as well as contributions based on authors’ first-hand field
data.

The languages of the conference are English, French, German, and Russian.
Speaking time is 20 minutes, plus 10 minutes for discussion.

There is no participation fee.
The organizers will not be able to cover participants’ travel and
accommodation expenses.

Submission of abstracts:

Anonymous abstracts of 400–500 words (excluding references) in
.doc/.docx/.rtf./.pdf format should be submitted to balkancorpspb at gmail.com by
May 3, 2018, with “Abstract” stated as the email subject.

The following information should be provided in the body of the email: (1) the
exact title of your paper (if your abstract is in Russian, please, provide the
English translation as well); (2) the first and last names of every author (if
your write in Cyrillic, please, provide the English transliteration), and
affiliation(s) of every author; (3) the email address of every author.

Abstracts will be evaluated and selected by the Programme Committee. We will
notify you of the Committee’s decision by May 15, 2018.




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