32.430, Calls: Lang Doc, Typology/France

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Subject: 32.430, Calls: Lang Doc, Typology/France

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Date: Thu, 04 Feb 2021 13:56:29
From: Neige Rochant [neige.rochant at sorbonne-nouvelle.fr]
Subject: Descriptive Grammars and Typology II: The challenges of writing grammars of underdescribed and endangered languages

 
Full Title: Descriptive Grammars and Typology II: The challenges of writing grammars of underdescribed and endangered languages 
Short Title: Grammar2021 

Date: 01-Dec-2021 - 03-Dec-2021
Location: Paris, France 
Contact Person: Neige Rochant
Meeting Email: grammar2021 at sciencesconf.org
Web Site: https://grammar2021.sciencesconf.org/?forward-action=index&forward-controller=index&lang=en 

Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation; Typology 

Call Deadline: 01-Jul-2021 

Meeting Description:

The second installment of the conference Descriptive Grammars and Typology:
The challenges of writing grammars of underdescribed and endangered languages
will take place on December 1-3, 2021 in Paris (FIAP Paris). We are counting
on an on-site event complying to all sanitary restrictions that may apply (if
needed, the hosting conditions will be adapted).
The conference website provides all details:
https://grammar2021.sciencesconf.org/. 

The global endangerement of little-known languages has raised awareness of the
urgent need to document and describe them and brought about new advances in
the art of grammaticography (see e.g. Ameka, Dench & Evans 2006). The
conference series 'Descriptive Grammars and Typology’, whose first installment
took place in March 2019 in Helsinki
(https://www.helsinki.fi/en/conferences/descriptive-grammars-and-typology),
aims to contribute to the development of grammaticography by bringing together
authors and users of grammars of underdescribed and/or endangered languages
who share an interest in drawing on concepts of linguistic typology in
grammatical descriptions.

We are proud to have the following keynote speakers:
- Felix Ameka (Leiden University)
- Nicholas Evans (Australian National University)
- Birgit Hellwig (University of Cologne)
- Aimée Lahaussois (HTL, CNRS)
- Nicolas Quint (LLACAN, CNRS)


Call for Papers: 

We welcome submissions concentrating on the issues and challenges that face
the authors of descriptive grammars, the expectations of grammar users, 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. This second edition of the conference will be more specifically
focused on the theory and practice of grammar writing and will exclude papers
concerned with the description of grammatical structures.

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 role of semantics in grammar writing
- The role of corpora in grammar writing
- Approaches to variation in language description
- The relation of language and linguistic structure to language ecologies
- Challenges and solutions for meeting the diverse needs of typologists,
language learners and native speakers when writing a descriptive grammar

Abstract Submission Guidelines:
Please submit a one-page abstract (with references and/or examples/graphics
allowed on a separate page) no later than July 01, 2021, through the
conference website: https://grammar2021.sciencesconf.org (see further
guidelines on the website). Abstracts will be subject to blind review.
Notification of acceptance will be given on September 01, 2021.

Organizers: 
- Thera Crane (University of Helsinki)
- Sebastian Fedden (Sorbonne Nouvelle University, CNRS – Lacito)
- Ekaterina Gruzdeva (University of Helsinki)
- Arja Hamari (University of Helsinki)
- Matti Miestamo (University of Helsinki)
- Yann Le Moullec (Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations, CNRS –
Lacito)
- Neige Rochant (Sorbonne Nouvelle University, CNRS – Lacito & LLACAN)
- Guillaume Segerer (CNRS – LLACAN)
- Jeanne Zerner (CNRS – LLACAN)

In partnership with Labex EFL.

Program committee:
Claire Bowern
Denis Creissels
Don Daniels
Patience Epps
James Essegbey
Diana Forker
Andrew Garrett
Carol Genetti
Nadine Grimm
Antoine Guillaume
Harald Hammarström
Martin Haspelmath
Jeffrey Heath
Marian Klamer
Linda Konnerth
Maarten Mous
Bastian Persohn
Mark Post




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