29.2433, Calls: Discipline of Ling, Gen Ling, Lang Doc, Typology/Finland

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Subject: 29.2433, Calls: Discipline of Ling, Gen Ling, Lang Doc, Typology/Finland

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Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2018 11:50:08
From: Arja Hamari [arja.hamari at helsinki.fi]
Subject: Descriptive Grammars and Typology: The Challenges of Writing Grammars of Underdescribed and Endangered Languages

 
Full Title: Descriptive Grammars and Typology: The Challenges of Writing Grammars of Underdescribed and Endangered Languages 

Date: 27-Mar-2019 - 29-Mar-2019
Location: Helsinki, Finland 
Contact Person: Arja Hamari
Meeting Email: grammarwriting2019 at helsinki.fi
Web Site: https://www.helsinki.fi/en/conferences/descriptive-grammars-and-typology 

Linguistic Field(s): Discipline of Linguistics; General Linguistics; Language Documentation; Typology 

Call Deadline: 30-Sep-2018 

Meeting Description:

Over the last few decades, there has been a tremendous increase in the
production of descriptive grammars for languages that had previously been
poorly described or lacked description altogether. In most cases, these are
minority languages, and many of them are endangered. The surge in descriptive
projects has been accompanied by demand for advances in the art of
grammaticography (see e.g. Ameka, Dench & Evans 2006). In this conference, we
want to contribute to the development of grammaticography by bringing together
linguists who are engaged in writing grammars of underdescribed and/or
endangered languages and who are especially interested in utilizing concepts
of linguistic typology in their descriptions.

Reference:

Ameka, F. K., Dench, A., Evans, N. (eds) 2006: Catching Language. The Standing
Challenge of Grammar Writing. Trends in Linguistics 167. Berlin/New York:
Mouton de Gruyter.

Keynote speakers:

Pius Akumbu (University of Buea, Cameroon)
Diana Forker (University of Bamberg, Germany)
Juha Janhunen (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Joshua Wilbur (University of Freiburg, Germany)

Responsible organizer: 

University of Helsinki / Finno-Ugrian Language Studies

Partners:

University of Helsinki / African Languages
University of Helsinki / General Linguistics

Organizing Committee:

Rigina Ajanki
Thera Crane Ringhofer
Ekaterina Gruzdeva
Arja Hamari
Matti Miestamo


Call for Papers:

We encourage presentations concentrating on the description of specific
grammatical structures, as well as wider discussion of the role of typology in
grammar-writing. The presentations may take either a language-specific or a
cross-linguistic perspective.

Topics relevant to the conference may include (but are not restricted to) the
following issues:

- The challenges of describing a language in its own terms and, at the same
time, making it comparable to other languages
- The roles of form and function in conceptualizing and organizing language
descriptions
- Challenges of and approaches to describing rare structures
- The position of semantics in grammar writing
- Approaches to variation in language description
- The possibilities and challenges of multilectal grammars
- Methods for understanding and describing the influence of another language
on the language under description
- The relation of language and linguistic structure to language ecologies
- The role of corpora in grammar writing
- Challenges and solutions for meeting the diverse needs of typologists,
specialists with areal interests and specialists with specific theoretical
interests when writing a descriptive grammar
- Challenges and solutions for meeting the diverse needs of linguists,
language learners and native speakers when writing a descriptive grammar

On-line abstract submission:

EasyAbs: http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/grammar2019




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