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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Call for Papers:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Descriptive grammars and typology: the challenges of writing grammars of underdescribed and endangered languages<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">University of Helsinki, 27–29 March, 2019<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Over the last few decades, there has been a tremendous increase in the production of descriptive grammars for languages that had
previously been poorly described or lacked description altogether. In most cases, these are minority languages, and many of them are endangered. The surge in descriptive projects has been accompanied by demand for advances in the art of grammaticography (see
e.g. Ameka, Dench & Evans 2006). In this conference, we want to contribute to the development of grammaticography by bringing together linguists who are engaged in writing grammars of underdescribed and/or endangered languages and who are especially interested
in utilizing concepts of linguistic typology in their descriptions. We encourage presentations concentrating on the description of specific grammatical structures, 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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Topics relevant to the conference may include (but are not restricted to) the following issues:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The challenges of describing a language in its own terms and, at the same time, making it comparable to other languages<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The roles of form and function in conceptualizing and organizing language descriptions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Challenges of and approaches to describing rare structures<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The position of semantics in grammar writing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Approaches to variation in language description<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The possibilities and challenges of multilectal grammars<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Methods for understanding and describing the influence of another language on the language under description<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The relation of language and linguistic structure to language ecologies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The role of corpora in grammar writing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">–<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Challenges and solutions for meeting the diverse needs of typologists, specialists with areal interests and specialists with specific theoretical
interests when writing a descriptive grammar<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Challenges and solutions for meeting the diverse needs of linguists, language learners and native speakers when writing a descriptive grammar<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Reference:
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Ameka, F. K., Dench, A., Evans, N. (eds) 2006:
<i>Catching Language. The Standing Challenge of Grammar Writing</i>. Trends in Linguistics 167. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Keynote speakers:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Pius Akumbu (University of Buea, Cameroon)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Diana Forker (University of Bamberg, Germany)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Juha Janhunen (University of Helsinki, Finland)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Joshua Wilbur (University of Freiburg, Germany)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">On-line abstract submission:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">EasyAbs:
</span><a href="http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/grammar2019"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/grammar2019</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Conference contact email:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:grammarwriting2019@helsinki.fi"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">grammarwriting2019@helsinki.fi</span></a><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Conference web page:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.helsinki.fi/en/conferences/descriptive-grammars-and-typology"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">https://www.helsinki.fi/en/conferences/descriptive-grammars-and-typology</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Responsible organizer:
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">University of Helsinki / Finno-Ugrian Language Studies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Partners:
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">University of Helsinki / African Languages<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">University of Helsinki / General Linguistics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Organizing Committee:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Rigina Ajanki<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Thera Crane Ringhofer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Ekaterina Gruzdeva<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Arja Hamari<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Matti Miestamo<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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