[Corpora-List] Call for papers : Conference on Lexis and Grammar

[Anne Dister]

Nicosia, Cyprus 2011

5-8 October 2011

Call for papers

The 30th International Conference on Lexis and Grammar will be organized by the Department of French Studies and Modern Languages in the University of Cyprus, in Nicosia (Cyprus), from October 5 to October 8, 2011.
The conference welcomes innovative papers on the formal description of languages, as well as on the construction, management and use of language resources, including manually constructed lexicons and grammars. In addition, it aims at bringing together linguists and computer scientists.
The conference will combine a general session and a thematic session.
The thematic session of the 30th International Conference on Lexis and Grammaris dedicated to Light/Support Verb Constructions, including, but not limited to:
•   V N, Adj, ... light verb constructions
•   Applications (text mining, information retrieval, and so on) for Natural Language Processing of Light/Support verb constructions
•   Type of meaning light verbs contribute (e.g. aspect, inception, intensification, register)
•   Rise of metaphor
•   Determiner constraints for the predicative noun (e.g. zero article)
•   Defining characteristics, formal characters and formalization of Light verb constructions
•   Light verbs and argument structure
•   Collocations
•   Diachronic vs. synchronic perspective
•   Terminological aspects and implications of the labels Light verb, Support verb, Funktionsverb etc.

Submissions for the general session may address any of the usual topics of the conference:
predicate-argument structures
the interface between lexis and grammar
exploitation of language resources (including manually constructed lexicons and grammars) for language processing (including information retrieval, information extraction, parsing)
language resources concerning lexis or grammar.
The conference languages are English and French.

Important dates
• Submission deadline: March 31, 2011
• Notification of acceptance: May 16, 2011
• Final version : June 15, 2011
• Conference: October 5-8, 2011


French version : 
http://infolingu.univ-mlv.fr/Colloques/lgc/index.php?year=2011&lang=fr&page=0
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