30.3129, Calls: Discourse Analysis, Language Documentation, Typology/Germany

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Subject: 30.3129, Calls: Discourse Analysis, Language Documentation, Typology/Germany

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Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 00:56:48
From: Geoffrey Haig [geoffrey.haig at uni-bamberg.de]
Subject: Corpus-based Typology: Spoken Language from a Cross-linguistic Perspective

Full Title: Corpus-based Typology: Spoken Language from a Cross-linguistic Perspective 

Date: 04-Mar-2020 - 06-Mar-2020
Location: Hamburg, Germany 
Contact Person: Geoffrey Haig
Meeting Email: geoffrey.haig at uni-bamberg.de
Web Site: http://www.zfs.uni-hamburg.de/dgfs2020/programm/callforpapers.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Language Documentation; Typology 

Call Deadline: 03-Sep-2019 

Meeting Description:

Workshop (''Kurz-AG 10'') is organized as part of the 42nd Annual Meeting of
the German Linguistic Society (DGfS) to be held at the University of Hamburg,
Germany, March 4-6, 2020. The workshop itself takes place 4-5 March, 2020.

Call for Papers:

Background:

Linguistic typology has traditionally taken the ''language'' as a unit of
comparison, and compared these units on the basis of features extracted from
grammatical descriptions. A complementary approach involves harnessing recent
developments in corpus linguistics and variationist sociolinguistics to the
analysis of cross-linguistic data. This approach, loosely termed corpus-based
typology, deals with probabilistic generalizations drawn from observed
language use recorded in corpora, and its object of study is a population of
utterances, rather than languages as holistic artefacts (cf. Wälchli 2009 for
justification). While research drawing on written corpus data has become
increasingly influential in linguistic typology (Haspelmath et al 2014, see
esp. the cross-linguistic Universal Treebank initiative,
http://universaldependencies.org/, critical discussion in Osborne & Gerdes
2019), in this workshop we are interested in specific properties of spoken
language as the ontologically primary type of linguistic performance,
including prosodic structuring and partitioning, speech rate, interactivity
and intersubjectivity, requirements of online processing, and the process of
first-language acquisition, among others. A particular challenge to date
consists in rendering this kind of data amenable to systematic investigation
across corpora from diverse languages.

Invited Speakers:

Nicholas Evans (Australian National University & Centre of Excellence for the
Dynamics of Language)
Frank Seifart (Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS), Berlin) 

A limited number of slots is available for oral presentations (20mins talk +
10 discussion), with either an empirical or theoretical focus on spoken
language research with a clearly cross-linguistic perspective. Abstracts must
not exceed one page, including examples, figures and references. Please submit
your abstract in PDF format, with 1 inch margins on all sides and 12 point
font size. 
Please note that the regulations of the German Linguistics Society (DGfS) do
not allow that workshop participants present two or more papers in the same or
different workshops. It is possible to be a co-author on more than one
abstract.

Abstracts should be submitted as email attachments to
geoffrey.haig at uni-bamberg.de, with ''DGFS2020 WORKSHOP ABSTRACT'' in the
subject line.

Important Dates:

Deadline for submission: September 3, 2019 
Notification of acceptance: 10th September, 2019 
Workshop: March 4-5, 2020 
For any questions, please contact the organizers geoffrey.haig at uni-bamberg.de
or stefan.schnell at uni-bamberg.de

References:

Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. 2014. Asymmetries in the prosodic phrasing of function
words: Another look at the suffixing preference. Language 90(4). 927-960.
(DOI: 10.1353/lan.2014.0105/)
Haspelmath, Martin & Calude, Andreea & Spagnol, Michael & Narrog, Heiko &
Bamyacı, Elif. 2014. Coding causal-noncausal verb alternations: A
form-frequency correspondence explanation. Journal of Linguistics 50(3).
587-625. (DOI: 10.1017/S0022226714000255)
Levinson, Stephen C. 2013. Recursion in pragmatics. Language, 89, 149-162.
doi:10.1353/lan.2013.0005
Osborne, T., & Gerdes, K. 2019. The status of function words in dependency
grammar: A critique of Universal Dependencies (UD). Glossa: A Journal of
General Linguistics, 4(1), 17. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.537 
Wälchli, Bernhard. 2009. Data reduction typology and the bimodal distribution
bias. Linguistic Typology 13: 77-94.

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