31.3855, Calls: French; Hist Ling, Lexicography, Semantics, Syntax, Typology/France

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Subject: 31.3855, Calls: French; Hist Ling, Lexicography, Semantics, Syntax, Typology/France

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Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2020 21:30:19
From: Dejan Stosic [dejan.stosic at univ-tlse2.fr]
Subject: Complex prepositions in French: Theories, descriptions, applications

Full Title: Complex prepositions in French: Theories, descriptions, applications 
Short Title: PrepComp 2021 

Date: 29-Sep-2021 - 02-Oct-2021
Location: Toulouse, France 
Contact Person: Dejan Stosic
Meeting Email: colloque.prepcomp2021 at univ-tlse2.fr
Web Site: https://blogs.univ-tlse2.fr/prepcomp2021/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Lexicography; Semantics; Syntax; Typology 

Subject Language(s): French (fra)

Call Deadline: 28-Feb-2021 

Meeting Description:

The international conference of French and contrastive linguistics ''Complex
prepositions in French: Theories, descriptions, applications'' will explore
multi-word expressions that are half-way between the lexicon and grammar such
as ''à travers'' ‘through’, ''au bord de'' ‘on the edge of’, ''en dépit de''
‘in spite of’, ''par rapport à'' ‘with respect to’, ''à l’instar de'' ‘like’,
''en ce qui concerne'' ‘concerning’, etc. This conference will be the first to
be exclusively dedicated to complex prepositions in French, while strongly
encouraging insights from cross-linguistic studies.

Originating in an international research project on the more general category
of complex adpositions in European Languages (cf. Fagard, Pinto de Lima &
Stosic (Eds) 2019, Fagard, Pinto de Lima, Stosic & Smirnova (Eds) 2020), the
conference is intended both to provide an update on the topic and to open up
new perspectives in the analysis of complex prepositions in French, and more
broadly, on the theoretical level, in the description of this recalcitrant
word sub-class.

Important dates:
Abstract submission deadline: February 28, 2021
Notification of acceptance: May 10–15, 2021
Registration: May 24–June 25, 2021
Conference: September 29–October 2, 2021

Invited speakers:
Ludo Melis (KU Leuven, Belgium)
Walter De Mulder (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
Benjamin Fagard (LATTICE, Paris, France)

Organizers:
Dejan Stosic (Toulouse, France)
Myriam Bras (Toulouse, France)
Chiara Minoccheri (Toulouse, France)
Océane Abrard (Toulouse, France)
Sasa Marjanovic (Belgrade, Serbia)
Veran Stanojevic (Belgrade, Serbia)

Call for Papers: 

General scope of the conference:
The purpose of the conference is twofold: Firstly, it aims to promote recent
advances and to stimulate new research in the area of complex prepositions,
whatever the approach, by enabling rich interactions between experts.
Secondly, the conference aims to arouse interest and to create a relevant
dynamics within several applicative domains (Lexicography, Natural Language
Processing, Human and automatic translation, Teaching French as a first,
second or foreign language). 

Main topics:
Given the general scope of the conference as sketched above, communications
can cover, but are not limited to, the following topics, with possible
cross-linguistic perspectives comparing the system of complex prepositions in
French with systems of complex adpositions in other languages:
1) Definitional issues about which multi-word expressions do and do not belong
to the sub-class of complex prepositions. Renewal of methods and approaches,
with the ultimate objective of answering the question where the boundaries of
the complex adposition category should be drawn. In this respect, all
theoretical and methodological approaches are welcome for establishing a
reliable set of criteria to build the inventory of complex prepositions in
French (cf. Gaatone 1976, Borillo 1997, 2000, Adler 2001, 2008, Melis 2003,
Leeman 2007, Lauwers 2014, Stosic & Fagard 2019).
2) Syntax and morphology of complex prepositions in French, with a special
focus on the alleged distributional equivalence between simple and complex
prepositions.
3) Range of meanings expressed by complex prepositions in French (cf. Gross
2006), or in comparison with other languages (European, non-European,
regional, Creoles, etc.); Polysemy of complex prepositions and modeling of
their senses; 
4) Emergence, formation and evolution of complex prepositions in French (cf.
Fagard 2010, 2012, Blumenthal & Vigier (Eds) 2017, Fagard et al. 2020);
Grammaticalization, lexicalization, constructionalization (cf. Hoffmann 2005,
Fagard & De Mulder 2007, Lehmann 2019, Fagard et al.  (Eds) 2020).
5) Complex prepositions / adpositions across languages: What similarities or
differences, or what complex adpositions of other languages, in contact with
French or not, can tell us about complex prepositions in French, either in
synchrony or in diachrony?
6) Complex prepositions as a very specific kind of multi-word expressions. Are
the criteria and methods of identification of verbal or nominal multi-word
expressions, either traditional or recent ones, suitable for and transposable
to complex prepositions (cf. Lamiroy 2008, Lamiroy & Klein 2005, Ramisch 2012,
2015, Constant et al. 2017, Ramisch et al. 2018, Savary 2019, Savary et al.
2019)?
7) Neuro-psychological issues. Acquisition of complex prepositions in general,
and compared to the acquisition of simple prepositions, by normal subjects, or
by subjects with developmental pathologies; Primacy of certain conceptual
domains during the acquisition of complex prepositions; Longitudinal studies
dealing with various monolingual or bilingual populations.
8) NLP issues. Complex prepositions, one of the Achilles heels of NLP? How can
big language data corpora and new NLP approaches contribute to improving and
consolidating inventories of complex prepositions? What are the most suitable
NLP tools and methods for indexing them? (cf. Litkowski 2017a, b); Complex
prepositions as a challenge for automatic translation.
9) Lexicographical description of complex prepositions in monolingual and
bilingual dictionaries (cf. Heinz 1993, Ucherek 2019); Benefits of
corpus-based lexicography for the elaboration of dictionary entries for
complex prepositions (cf. Roberts & Montgomery 1996, Teubert 2002, Lindemann
2013, Zavaglia & Galafacci 2014, Litkowski 2017a, Marjanovic et al. 2018).
10) From theory to application. Complex prepositions in teaching French as a
first, second or foreign language; CP translation, and translation studies.

Submission details:
The official languages of the conference are French and English. 
Two forms of communication are possible: oral presentation or poster.
For both oral presentations (20 min + 10 min for questions) and posters, we
invite submissions of extended abstracts of 6,000–9,000 characters (including
spaces; Times New Roman 12; excluding references). Proposals, in French or
English, should be anonymous, and submitted in one of the following formats: 
Microsoft Word (.docx), Open Office (.odt), or PDF. 
All abstracts will be reviewed anonymously by (at least) two reviewers. 
Abstracts should be sent to the following address:
colloque.prepcomp2021 at univ-tlse2.fr
In the subject line of the message, please write: ‘Abstract’. 
In the body of the email, please include: 
- title of the abstract, 
- intended format of communication (oral presentation or poster), 
- author name(s), 
- academic affiliation(s), 
- contact information (e-mail and postal address(es)), 
- academic status (professor, researcher, PhD student…)
PhD students and young scholars are strongly encouraged to submit proposals
for the conference. A selection of papers will be published in a collective
volume.

Communications can consist of case studies, deal with a sub-group of complex
prepositions, or have a more general descriptive or theoretical scope. Studies
can explore written or spoken data, coming either from general language use,
or from specialized languages, or be based on any other kind of specific data
providing new and original insights into the functioning of complex
prepositions in French.

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