29.4702, Calls: Text/Corpus Linguistics/Switzerland

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Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2018 03:53:00
From: Thomas Egan [Thomas.Egan at inn.no]
Subject: Languages in Time, Time in Languages: Phraseological Perspectives

 
Full Title: Languages in Time, Time in Languages: Phraseological pe 

Date: 01-Jun-2019 - 01-Jun-2019
Location: Neuchâtel, Switzerland 
Contact Person: Sylvi Rørvik
Meeting Email: sylvi.rorvik at inn.no

Linguistic Field(s): Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 15-Dec-2018 

Meeting Description:

(Session of 40th ICAME Conference)

A contrastive pre-conference workshop at ICAME 40.

Workshop convenors: Anna Čermáková, Thomas Egan, Hilde Hasselgård & Sylvi
Rørvik

We are happy to invite you to a contrastive pre-conference workshop at ICAME
40. Contrastive corpus-based studies have now become a significant research
strand within the larger field of corpus-linguistic research. Contrastive
corpus-based linguistics is closely tied to the history of ICAME and as such
has traditionally presented a distinctive perspective at ICAME conferences,
frequently in the form of dedicated pre-conference workshops. These workshops
have become an important forum for the exploration of both theoretical and
practical issues in corpus-based contrastive linguistics.

To reflect the overall conference theme (Language in Time, Time in Language),
as well as  current topics in corpus-based contrastive research, the 2019
workshop – Languages in Time, Time in Languages – will be dedicated to ‘time’
in its broadest sense; time, together with place, being one of the fundamental
dimensions by which we define our ‘space’ linguistically, historically,
socially, etc. Arguably, ‘time’ is primarily encoded lexico-grammatically
through verbs – however, tense and aspect systems vary enormously across
languages; see e.g. Ebeling & Hasselgård (2015). But also other word classes
express time: lexically, the word time itself is one of the most frequent
nouns in English, and its sheer frequency means it is part of numerous
patterns, constructions and meanings. As a concept, ‘time’ is particularly
fascinating from a contrastive perspective as it also significantly penetrates
the field of phraseology, see e.g. now classic studies by Stig Johansson
(2007) in which he contrastively compares times of the day or how we spend
time in different languages.

The workshop will address topics dealing with expression of time in languages
from a contrastive and phraseological perspective including the diachronic
comparison of languages. Papers should compare English with at least one other
language on the basis of parallel (translation) or comparable corpora. We
particularly invite submissions focusing on methods for the comparison of
phraseology, which is emerging as a popular, but difficult, topic in
cross-linguistic research (see e.g. Ebeling & Ebeling 2013; Čermáková &
Chlumská 2017 and various papers in Janebová et al. 2017).


Call for Papers:

The workshop programme will consist of full papers (20+10 mins) and
work-in-progress reports (10+5 mins). Depending on interest, the workshop may
also include a round-table discussion of methodological issues relating
particularly to the cross-linguistic comparison of n-grams.

We invite abstracts of max. 500 words (incl. references) to be submitted via
the ICAME 40 submission system (http://www.icame40.ch/login). The deadline is
December 15, 2018, and notification of acceptance will be sent by mid-January
2019.

If you have any questions, please send an e-mail to the workshop contact
person, Sylvi Rørvik (sylvi.rorvik at inn.no).

References:

Čermáková, A. & L. Chlumská. 2017. Expressing place in children’s literature:
Testing the limits of the n-gram method in contrastive linguistics. In T. Egan
& H. Dirdal (eds), Cross-linguistic Correspondences: From Lexis to Genre.
Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins,75-86.
Ebeling, J. & Ebeling, S.O. 2013. Patterns in Contrast.
Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins.
Ebeling S.O. & H. Hasselgård (eds). 2015. Cross-linguistic Perspectives on
Verb Constructions. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Janebová, M., E. Lapshinova-Koltunski & M. Martinková (eds). 2017. Contrasting
English and other Languages through Corpora. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars
Publishing.
Johansson, S. 2007. Seeing through Multilingual Corpora: On the use of corpora
in contrastive studies. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins.




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