27.894, Calls: General Ling, Historical Ling, Typology/Poland

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Subject: 27.894, Calls: General Ling, Historical Ling, Typology/Poland

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Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 13:34:18
From: Cormac Anderson [cormacanderson at gmail.com]
Subject: A New Era for Cross-Linguistic Databases

Full Title: A New Era for Cross-Linguistic Databases 

Date: 15-Sep-2016 - 17-Sep-2016
Location: Poznan, Poland 
Contact Person: Cormac Anderson
Meeting Email: anderson at shh.mpg.de

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Typology 

Call Deadline: 31-Mar-2016 

Meeting Description:

The diversity of the world’s c. 6,500 languages represeGeneral Linguistics,
Historical Linguistics, Typologynts an abundant and irreplaceable resource for
understanding the unique communication system of our species. Rather than
studying just one language, such as English, by comparing many languages we
are better equipped to trace the (pre)history of the populations that speak
them, and to understand the processing machinery of our brains (Evans and
Levinson, 2009).
Participants
This workshop focuses on the curation, dissemination and applications of
massively cross-linguistic databases. Existing databases, e.g. PHOIBLE (Moran
et al., 2015), ASJP (Wichmann et al., 2013), WALS (Dryer and Haspelmath,
2013), ABVD (Greenhill et al., 2008) are not without their limitations,
prompting the active development of larger databases under the names GramBank
and LexiBank at the MPI for SHH in Jena. The present workhsop aims to cover
topics such as: 

- Data curation procedures and protocols (e.g. Forkel 2014) 
- Models and algorithms for inferring historical (areal or genealogical)
relationships between languages (e.g. Muysken et al. 2015, Michael et al.
2014, Dunn 2014, Longobardi et al. 2013, Heggarty 2012, List 2014, Gray et al.
2013) 
- Models and algorithms for inferring non-historical (functional, universal)
principles from linguistic data (e.g. Symonds and Blomberg 2014, Dediu and
Cysouw 2013, Hammarström and O’Connor 2013, Dunn et al. 2011) 
- Visualization techniques for cross-linguistic data (e.g. McElvenny 2015,
Moran and McNew 2015) 
- Linguistic data of any kind (sociolinguistic, lexical, phonological,
grammatical) is desirable so long as there is a significant cross-linguistic
coverage.

The following speakers have already expressed an interest in participating:

Russell Gray (MPI-SHH, Jena)
Paul Heggarty (MPI-SHH, Jena)
Harald Hammarström (MPI for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen)
Johann-Mattis List (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris)
Steven Moran (University of Zürich)
Simon Greenhill (Australian National University)

Call for Papers: 

We invite submission of abstracts for a one-day workshop session on
cross-linguistic databases to be held at the 46th Poznan Linguistic Meeting.
Each paper should be of 20 minutes duration, with 10 minutes additional
minutes for discussion.

Abstracts should be between 200 and 500 words and should be submitted via the
Easychair system by 31 March. Participants will be notified of acceptance by 1
May.

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