<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><b><span style="font-family:Arial">Announcement: Melbourne Linguistics in the Pub <u>Tuesday</u> 19th April 2016</span></b></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><i><span style="font-family:Arial">Professor Ulrike Mosel </span></i>(Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel) <span style="font-family:Arial">will be leading the discussion</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:16px"><b>Writing a corpus-based grammar of a previously undescribed language</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:16px">Grammar writers nowadays are in many ways in a better situation than their colleagues some two decades or so ago: for one thing, they can draw on rich repositories of recorded spoken and written texts in digital format; for another thing, they have modern field linguistic and corpus linguistic tools at their disposal to explore these unprecedentedly rich text data in systematic and reproducible ways. Drawing on experience from the ongoing description of the previously undescribed language Teop (Mosel 2014), we will be discussing corpus linguistic and documentary aspects of modern grammar writing. We will focus here particularly on how corpus linguistic methods allow for capturing language variation in descriptive grammars, and how corpora consisting of diverse text varieties are better equipped to capture more exhaustively the possible grammatical structures of a language.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:16px"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:16px"><b>Reading</b>: <br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:16px">Mosel, Ulrike. 2014. Corpus linguistic and documentary approaches in writing a grammar of a previously undescribed language. In <i>The art and practice of grammar writing</i>. Language Documentation and Conservation Special Publication No. 8 edited by Toshihide Nakayama and Karen Rice, 135-157. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. <a href="https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/10125/4589/1/9_Mosel.pdf">https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/10125/4589/1/9_Mosel.pdf</a></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">Date:      Tuesday 19th April</span></p>

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Venue:     Function room (upstairs)</span></p>

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Lygon St, Carlton VIC 3053</span></p>

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9347 7299</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"></span></p>

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LIP is an occasional gathering of language activists
and linguists in Melbourne and is coordinated by the MLIP committee:
Ruth Singer, Stefan Schnell (Melbourne Uni) and Harriet Sheppard, Jonathan
Schlossberg, Alan Ray, Giordana Santosuosso, Jonathon Lum (Monash Uni)</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">Contact Ruth Singer (University of Melbourne) with
any questions: </span><u><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="mailto:rsinger@unimelb.edu.au" target="_blank">rsinger@unimelb.edu.au</a></span></u><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"><br>
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