Conference on Grammaticography, Leipzig, Germany

[Peter Austin]

Sebastian

It is really unfortunate but your conference overlaps with the
"International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation" (
http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/ICLDC/2011/) already announced for Hawaii for
11-13th February 2010.

Is there any chance you could reschedule to avoid a conflict as I would
expect many people would be interested in attending both these events?

Best wishes,
Peter

On 29 April 2010 04:14, Sebastian Nordhoff <sebastian_nordhoff at eva.mpg.de>wrote:

> *apologies for cross-postings*
>
>
> Full Title: Electronic Grammaticography
>
> Date: 11-Feb-2011 - 12-Feb-2011
> Location: Leipzig, Germany
> Contact Person: Sebastian Nordhoff
> Meeting Email: sebastian_nordhoff at eva.mpg.de
> Web Site: http://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/conference/11-grammaticography2011
>
> == Meeting Description ==
>
> This meeting wants to bring together field linguists, computer
> scientists,and
> publishers with the aim of exploring production and dissemination of
> grammatical descriptions in electronic/hypertextual format
>
> == Call for Papers ==
>
> For long a step-child of lexicography, the domain of grammaticography has
> received growing interest in the recent past, especially in what concerns
> lesser
> studied languages. At least three volumes contain parts dealing with this
> question (Ameka et al. 2006, Gippert et al. 2006, Payne & Weber 2007).
>
> At the same time, advances in information technology mean that a number of
> techniques become available which can present linguistic information in
> novel
> ways. This holds true for multimedial content on the one hand (see e.g.
> Barwick
> & Thieberger 2007), but also so called content-management-systems (CMS)
> provide
> new possibilities to develop, structure and maintain linguistic
> information,
> which were unknown when the idea of an electronic grammar was first put to
> print
> in Zaefferer (1998).
>
> Recent publications in grammaticography often allude to the possibilities
> of
> hypertext grammars (Weber 2006, Evans & Dench 2006), but these
> possibilities are
> only starting to get explored theoretically (Good 2004, Nordhoff 2008) and
> in
> practice (Nordhoff 2007).
>
> This conference will bring together experts on grammar writing and
> information
> technology to discuss the theoretical and practical advantages hypertext
> grammars can offer. We invite papers dealing with the arts and crafts of
> grammar
> writing in a wide sense, preferably with an eye on electronic publishing.
> Topics
> of interest are:
>
> -general formal properties of all grammatical descriptions (GDs) in
> general, and
> hypertext GDs in particular
>
> -functional requirements for GDs and the responses of the traditional and
> the
> hypertext approach (cf. Nordhoff 2008)
>
> -discussion or presentation of implementations dealing with the media
> transition from book to electronic publication
>
> -opportunities and risks of hypertext grammars
>
> -integration with fieldwork or typological work
>
> -treatment of a particular linguistic subfield (phonology, syntax, ...)
> within
> a hypertext description
>
> Presentations will be 30 minutes + 15 minutes discussion.
>
> == Invited Speakers ==
> Nick Evans (Australian National University)
> Christian Lehmann (Universität Erfurt)
> Jeff Good (University of Buffalo)
>
> == Submission of Abstracts ==
> (a) Length: up to one page of text plus up to one page containing possible
> tables and references
> (b) Format: The abstract should include the title of the paper and the text
> of
> the abstract but not the author's name or affiliation. The e-mail message
> to
> which it is attached should list the title, the author's name, and the
> author's
> affiliation. Please send the message to the following address:
> sebastian_nordhoffeva.mpg.de
> (c) Deadline:
> The abstracts should reach us by FRIDAY, October 01.
> Submitters will be notified by MONDAY, November 01.
>
> == References ==
> Ameka, F. K., A. Dench & N. Evans (eds.) (2006). Catching language -- The
> Standing Challenge of Grammar Writing. Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
>
> Barwick, L. & N. Thieberger (eds.) (2006). Sustainable data from digital
> fieldwork. Sydney: University of Sydney.
>
> Gippert, J., N. Himmelmann & U. Mosel (eds.) (2006). Essentials of language
> documentation. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
>
> Good, J. (2004). "The descriptive grammar as a (meta)database". Paper
> presented at the EMELD Language Digitization Project Conference 2004.
> [paper]
>
> Nordhoff, S. (2007). "Grammar writing in the Electronic Age". Paper
> presented at
> the ALT VII conference in Paris.
>
> Nordhoff, S. (2008). "Electronic reference grammars for typology --
> challenges
> and solutions". Journal for Language Documentation and Conservation,
> 2(2):296-324.
>
> Payne, T. E. & D. Weber (eds.) (2007). Perspectives on grammar writing.
> Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
>
> Zaefferer, D. (ed.) (1998). Deskriptive Grammatik und allgemeiner
> Sprachvergleich. Tübingen: Niemeyer.
>
>
>


-- 
Prof Peter K. Austin
Marit Rausing Chair in Field Linguistics
Department of Linguistics, SOAS
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square
London WC1H 0XG
United Kingdom

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