26.2435, Calls: Afrikaans, Lexicography, Morphology, Socioling, Syntax, Text/Corpus Ling/Belgium

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Subject: 26.2435, Calls: Afrikaans, Lexicography, Morphology, Socioling, Syntax, Text/Corpus Ling/Belgium

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Date: Mon, 11 May 2015 14:57:05
From: Timothy Colleman [timothy.colleman at UGent.be]
Subject: Ghent Symposium on Afrikaans

Full Title: Ghent Symposium on Afrikaans 

Date: 22-Oct-2015 - 24-Oct-2015
Location: Gent, Belgium 
Contact Person: Timothy Colleman
Meeting Email: timothy.colleman at UGent.be
Web Site: http://www.afrikaans.ugent.be/colloquium-2015/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Lexicography; Morphology; Sociolinguistics; Syntax; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Subject Language(s): Afrikaans (afr)

Call Deadline: 01-Jun-2015 

Meeting Description:

The Ghent Centre for Afrikaans and the Study of South Africa is organizing an international symposium on Afrikaans on 23 and 24 October 2015. On Friday 23, there will be parallel sessions on Afrikaans literature and Afrikaans linguistics. The topic of the Linguistics session is ‘Corpora and the study of Afrikaans’. In recent years, several new corpora of Afrikaans have become available (including the “Taalkommissiekorpus”) and new professional tools for the creation, exploration and annotation of linguistic corpora have been developed. These present interesting new opportunities for the linguistic study of Afrikaans. At the symposium, we welcome papers on the creation of new corpus tools and materials as well as papers which shed new light on the linguistic properties and/or sociolinguistic status and distribution of Afrikaans on the basis of corpus data. In this way, we want to give an overview of the corpus infrastructure for Afrikaans and provide a vivid glimpse of the var
 ious ways in which corpus data can inform the lexical, morphosyntactic, phonological, sociolinguistic, etc. study of (present-day or older) Afrikaans. Keynote speaker is Gerhard B. Van Huyssteen (North-West University). On Saturday 24, there will be a roundtable on the social, cultural and political significance of Afrikaans in present-day South Africa.

Organising Committee:

Jacques van Keymeulen (Ghent University)
Yves T’Sjoen (Ghent University)
Timothy Colleman (Ghent University)
Gilles-Maurice de Schryver  (Ghent University)
Luc Renders (Hasselt University)
Annelies Verdoolaege (Ghent University)

Call for Papers:

We invite abstracts for regular 30 minute presentations (including 5 to 10 minutes of discussion time), which will be reviewed anonymously. Please send your abstract to afrikaans at ugent.be, preferably as a pdf attachment, with author name(s) and affiliation(s) included in the body of your email. Abstracts must not exceed 300 words, not counting references, tables, examples, etc. The conference languages are Afrikaans and Dutch. 

Deadline for submission: 1 June 2015
Notification of acceptance: 10 July 2015

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