[Corpora-List] CfP Workshop on frequencies of nouns, pronouns, and verbs; Leipzig, Germany, Aug. 12-13, 2013

[Christian Chiarcos]

Call for papers: The relative frequencies of nouns, pronouns, and verbs in  
discourse
An international workshop
Leipzig, Germany, August 12-13, 2013

The ratio of noun, pronoun, and verb tokens in discourse varies both  
within and across languages. This variation may be related to a host of  
factors. For instance, cross-linguistic differences may be due to  
typological factors such as the syntax and morphology of grammatical  
relations, or differences in cultural traditions. Variation within  
languages may be related to, e.g., patterns in content choice, narrative  
strategies, genre, or stages in language acquisition.

The aim of this workshop is to bring together scholars interested in any  
aspect of the frequencies of nouns, pronouns, and verbs from disciplines  
such as corpus linguistics, typology, language acquisition, cognitive  
linguistics, genre studies, stylistics, and others. We invite abstracts  
for cross-linguistic papers as well as studies on individual languages,  
and papers that focus on methodology.

Invited speakers:
Wallace Chafe (UC Santa Barbara)
Stefan Evert (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)

The workshop will include a special session to discuss among the  
participants future directions of cross-disciplinary corpus-based research  
on relative frequencies of parts of speech.

The workshop is organized by the project "The relative frequencies of  
nouns, pronouns, and verbs cross-linguistically"  
(http://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/research/relative-frequencies.php), which is  
funded by the Volkswagen Foundation's DoBeS Program  
(http://www.volkswagenstiftung.de/en/funding/completed-initiatives/documentation-of-endangered-languages.html).

The workshop will be held adjacent to the Association for Linguistic  
Typology's 10th Biennial Conference (ALT 10), also in Leipzig  
(http://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/conference/2013_ALT10).

Abstract submission:

Abstracts for 30-minutes talks (plus 10 minutes discussion time) should  
have a maximum length of 500 words or one single-spaced page and be  
submitted as anonymized pdf files sent as Email attachments to  
frank_seifart at eva.mpg.de. Please specify in the Email body the authors'  
name(s), contact information (Email, phone, fax), and the abstract title.

Deadline for abstract submission: January 15, 2013
Notification of acceptance: March 15, 2013
-- 
Christian Chiarcos
Information Sciences Institute
University of Southern California
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Marina del Rey, CA 90292
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fax: +1-310-448-8599
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chiarcos at isi.edu

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