[Corpora-List] Call for Papers: DGfS 2009 Workshop on Corpus, Colligation, Register Variation

[Sabine Bartsch]

CALL FOR PAPERS

Workshop on

<<  Corpus, Colligation, Register Variation  >>

31. Annual Meeting of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft 
(DGfS)
Topic: Form and Function
Date: 4 – 6 March 2009   ||   Venue: Universität Osnabrück, Germany

Register variation, i.e. functional linguistic variation according to 
situational context, has been the subject of numerous studies addressing 
a wide spectrum of features deemed to be characteristic of specific 
registers. Many register studies focus on single or relative small sets 
of texts instead of being based on studies of larger corpora. This 
limits the possibilities of systematically evaluating register features 
in larger and more diverse sets of registers and, thus, the wider 
applicability of the results. Furthermore, most registers are not 
reliably characterized by features that are exclusively found in a 
single register, but rather by sets of lexical and grammatical features 
that are principally found in any text, albeit to varying extent. It has 
been shown that methodologies based on qualitative as well as 
quantitative corpus studies are well suited to the study of registers 
from different perspectives (e.g. synchronic, diachronic, comparative, 
cross-linguistic etc.). Advances in corpus-based methodology in 
combination with the increasing availability of corpora and tools for 
their annotation and analysis at different levels of linguistic 
organization make more extensive and systematic register studies 
feasible. In particular, they enable the investigation of a more diverse 
set of types and combinations of register features that require 
qualitative and quantitative corpus analyses.

The main interest of this workshop is the exploration of the 
methodological possibilities and limitations of present-day corpus-based 
register studies with a focus on lexico-grammatical and grammatical 
register features. Central issues are lexical co-occurrence patterns 
such as collocations and other types of multi-word expressions and 
lexico-grammatical patterns such as colligations which are postulated to 
characteristically co-occur in individual registers.

For this workshop, we invite papers on synchronic and diachronic 
register studies with a focus on the following topic areas:
   - lexical, grammatical and semantic analyses of colligation and 
collocation,
   - methods in exploring register features,
   - corpus compilation and annotation for register studies.
The focus of this workshop is going to be on methodology in corpus-based 
register studies, yet contributions on theoretical issues are also welcome.
 
Dates and Data:
Submission format:    abstract of approximately 300 words length plus
                       references (plain text or pdf)
Deadline:             30 August 2008
Submit to:            bartsch at linglit.tu-darmstadt.de
 
URL: http://www.linglit.tu-darmstadt.de/index.php?id=linglit_colligation

For further enquiries, please do not hesitate to contact us.
 
Looking forward to receiving your submission

Sabine Bartsch  &  Monica Holtz


-- 
Dr. Sabine Bartsch
Technische Universität Darmstadt
Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies, English Linguistics
Hochschulstrasse 1        64289 Darmstadt
fon +49-6151-16 4570      fax +49-6151-16 3694
http://www.linglit.tu-darmstadt.de/bartsch/

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