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Subject: 32.3424, Confs: Applied Ling, Comp Ling, Disc Analysis, Historical Ling, Text/Corpus Ling/Germany

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Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2021 04:32:09
From: Julia Lukassek [julia.lukassek at hu-berlin.de]
Subject: Complexity and Register

 
Complexity and Register 
Short Title: CAR21 

Date: 19-Nov-2021 - 19-Nov-2021 
Location: Berlin, Germany 
Contact: Julia Lukassek 
Contact Email: car21-sfb1412 at lists.hu-berlin.de 
Meeting URL: https://sfb1412.hu-berlin.de/complexity-and-register/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Computational Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Historical Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Meeting Description: 

The term “linguistic complexity” is often thrown around lightly, but what
exactly is meant by it remains fuzzy and elusive. Its various flavours and
facets are influenced by a diverse combination of linguistic and
extralinguistic factors, for instance discourse status (Arnold et al. 2000),
medium (Biber & Gray 2010), situational setting (Verhoeven & Lehmann 2018),
and language development (Weiss & Meurers 2019), to name just a few. And
despite the hundreds of measurements of phenomena that contribute to
complexity (cf. Lu 2011; Weiss 2017), many open questions about the
theoretical models, cognitive processes, and influencing factors behind
complexity have yet to be explored.

This is where our workshop comes in. We are interested in contributions that
aim at a better understanding of the relationship between complexity and
register.

Being intangibly related to aspects of processing (cf. Gibson 1998, 2001),
complexity pertains to all areas of language analysis, from phonological
weight and morphological structure to the manifold levels of syntactic
embedding and information packaging (see Weiss & Meurers 2019 for an
aggregation of complexity features). Recent research has shown that these
linguistic areas involve different types of complexity (e.g. for clause vs.
phrase level, see Biber & Gray 2010, and for center vs. peripheral embedding,
see Karlsson 2007 and Verhoeven & Lehmann 2018). Thus, we must first
understand what type of complexity is involved and be able to operationalize
it properly (Szmrecsányi 2004) before we can begin to investigate the
underlying reasons for different levels of complexity.

Variation in situational and functional settings (register variation) has been
shown to be one factor that affects the level of various types of linguistic
complexity (cf. Halliday 1979; Biber & Gray 2010; Biber 2012; Maas 2006; 2010;
Miller & Weinert 1998; for recursivity in particular Sakel & Stapert 2010;
Kornai 2014), yet it is not always clear what the exact theoretical
relationship is between register and the individual facets of complexity. How
do the situation’s communicative needs and intentions affect our choice of one
complexity measure over another? How do surface complexity and processing
relate to one another, and what difference does the type of complexity make to
this relationship?

We are delighted to announce Benedikt Szmrecsanyi with Alexandra Engel (KU
Leuven) and Zarah Weiß (Universität Tübingen) as invited speakers.
 

Program:

We would like to invite you to our workshop ''Complexity and Register''
(CAR21) to take place November 19, 2021 at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
(hybrid event).

Register:
Please register for the workshop by November 12, 2021 (free of charge) here:
https://umfrage.hu-berlin.de/index.php/115337?lang=en 

There will be a warm-up social event on Thursday, November 18, 2021 (self-paid
dinner). If you plan to attend this, please make sure to register as soon as
possible.

Program: 
Please find the program attached as well as on our website:
https://sfb1412.hu-berlin.de/complexity-and-register/

Location: 
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Main building (UL6): Lichthof Ost
Unter den Linden 6
10099 Berlin 

Details:
All further details and information about the workshop will be kept up to date
on our website at: 
https://sfb1412.hu-berlin.de/complexity-and-register/





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