34.3361, Calls: WS proposal for ALT 15: Dependency Grammar for Typology

[The LINGUIST List]

LINGUIST List: Vol-34-3361. Thu Nov 09 2023. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 34.3361, Calls: WS proposal for ALT 15: Dependency Grammar for Typology

Moderators: Malgorzata E. Cavar, Francis Tyers (linguist at linguistlist.org)
Managing Editor: Justin Fuller
Team: Helen Aristar-Dry, Steven Franks, Everett Green, Daniel Swanson, Maria Lucero Guillen Puon, Zackary Leech, Lynzie Coburn, Natasha Singh, Erin Steitz
Jobs: jobs at linguistlist.org | Conferences: callconf at linguistlist.org | Pubs: pubs at linguistlist.org

Homepage: http://linguistlist.org

Please support the LL editors and operation with a donation at:
           https://funddrive.linguistlist.org/donate/

Editor for this issue: Zackary Leech <zleech at linguistlist.org>
================================================================


Date: 09-Nov-2023
From: Annemarie Verkerk [annemarie.verkerk at uni-saarland.de]
Subject: WS proposal for ALT 15: Dependency Grammar for Typology


Full Title: WS proposal for ALT 15: Dependency Grammar for Typology

Date: 09-Nov-2024 - 09-Nov-2024
Location: Zhuhai, China
Contact Person: Annemarie Verkerk
Meeting Email: annemarie.verkerk at uni-saarland.de

Linguistic Field(s): Typology

Call Deadline: 15-Nov-2023

Meeting Description:

We are aiming to submit a workshop proposal for the ALT 15 conference
from 8 -10 November, 2024 in Zhuhai, China. The title of our workshop
will be Dependency Grammar for Typology, focusing on the use of
dependency treebanks and parsing in quantitative typology.

Call for Papers:

Large-scale multilingual corpora such as Universal Dependencies have
enabled advances in quantitative methods in morphosyntactic typology,
allowing a transition from binary or multivariate classifications of
linguistic features to more nuanced, continuous representations.

We aim to bring together typologists working using
dependency-annotated corpora for quantitative typological research at
the ALT 15 conference from 8 -10 November, 2024 in Zhuhai, China. The
title of our workshop will be Dependency Grammar for Typology,
focusing on the use of dependency treebanks and parsing in
quantitative typology.

As part of the workshop proposal process, we are gathering a list of
potential attendees who would be interested to present abstracts and
talks/posters at the workshop. If you would be interested in doing so,
and would be happy for your name and affiliation to be listed among
the confirmed or tentative attendees in the proposal, please complete
this form by the end of 15 November 2024:
https://forms.office.com/e/1KGCpGWRJw

 Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

    • Synchronic comparative studies on variation that can only be
accessed using corpora, such as word order (Levshina 2019, Talamo &
Verkerk 2022);
    • Comparative studies that employ such resources to uncover
universal principles of grammar, including dependency length
optimization (Futrell, Mahowald & Gibson 2015; Liu 2021, Jing et al.
2022), word order universals (Choi et al. 2021, Gerdes et al. 2021),
memory-surprisal trade-off (Hahn, Degen & Futrell 2021);
    • Diachronic studies of language change, such as the evolution
rate of word order in main and subordinate clauses (Jing et al. 2023)
or word order change (Hahn & Xu 2022);
    • Theoretical challenges in annotation, such as the universality
of syntactic labels, as well as of parts of speech, morpho-syntactic
features, and tokenization (Croft et al. 2017, Osborne & Gerdes 2019,
Sinnemäki and Haakana 2020, Hohn 2021);
    • Development of new resources, in particular with respect to
low-resource languages, starting from different type of texts
(corpora, fieldwork notes, existing treebanks, Wikipedia, grammars,
etc.) (Zariquiey et al. 2022, Kahane et al. 2023);
    • Projects that employ such resources to go beyond sentence-level
syntactic dependencies by developing additional layers of annotation
for studying discourse and information structure, among other levels;
    • Robustness and statistical validity of typological quantitative
measures on the basis of different theoretical approaches and
annotation schema (Buljan 2023, Osborne & Gerdes 2019).



------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Please consider donating to the Linguist List https://give.myiu.org/iu-bloomington/I320011968.html


LINGUIST List is supported by the following publishers:

American Dialect Society/Duke University Press http://dukeupress.edu

Bloomsbury Publishing (formerly The Continuum International Publishing Group) http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/

Brill http://www.brill.com

Cambridge Scholars Publishing http://www.cambridgescholars.com/

Cambridge University Press http://www.cambridge.org/linguistics

Cascadilla Press http://www.cascadilla.com/

De Gruyter Mouton https://cloud.newsletter.degruyter.com/mouton

Dictionary Society of North America http://dictionarysociety.com/

Edinburgh University Press www.edinburghuniversitypress.com

Elsevier Ltd http://www.elsevier.com/linguistics

Equinox Publishing Ltd http://www.equinoxpub.com/

European Language Resources Association (ELRA) http://www.elra.info

Georgetown University Press http://www.press.georgetown.edu

John Benjamins http://www.benjamins.com/

Lincom GmbH https://lincom-shop.eu/

Linguistic Association of Finland http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/sky/

MIT Press http://mitpress.mit.edu/

Multilingual Matters http://www.multilingual-matters.com/

Narr Francke Attempto Verlag GmbH + Co. KG http://www.narr.de/

Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT) http://www.lotpublications.nl/

Oxford University Press http://www.oup.com/us

SIL International Publications http://www.sil.org/resources/publications

Springer Nature http://www.springer.com

Wiley http://www.wiley.com


----------------------------------------------------------
LINGUIST List: Vol-34-3361
----------------------------------------------------------