31.582, Calls: Gen Ling, Hist Ling/Netherlands

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Subject: 31.582, Calls: Gen Ling, Hist Ling/Netherlands

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Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2020 12:06:04
From: Marjo van Koppen [j.m.vankoppen at uu.nl]
Subject: Cross-disciplinary approaches to linguistic variation in Early Modern West Germanic

 
Full Title: Cross-disciplinary approaches to linguistic variation in Early Modern West Germanic. 

Date: 02-Jul-2020 - 03-Jul-2020
Location: Utrecht, Netherlands 
Contact Person: Marjo van Koppen
Meeting Email: j.m.vankoppen at uu.nl
Web Site: https://languagedynamics.wp.hum.uu.nl/workshop/ 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 01-Apr-2020 

Meeting Description:

On July 2-3, 2020, we organize a workshop Cross-disciplinary approaches to
linguistic variation in Early Modern West Germanic.

This workshop derives from the hypothesis that language variation is
determined by grammatical developments and restrictions, as well as
literary-communicative factors. The workshop particularly focuses on the three
major West-Germanic languages – i.e. English, German and Dutch – during the
Early Modern period (ca. 1500-1800). This period marks one of transition in
many domains including language: political, scientific, cultural and religious
changes led e.g. to the use of languages in new domains (scientific, religious
and literary), language standardization and mass migration of people. These
developments influenced the West-Germanic languages, resulting in a situation
in which massive intra- and inter-author variation was exhibited as well as
radical language change. During the workshop, we seek to gain a deeper insight
in morpho-syntactic variation (e.g. variation pertaining to case, negation,
verbs, etc.) in these Early Modern West Germanic languages, and will try to
understand how (the interplay of) grammatical/linguistic and
socio-cultural/literary factors impacted on this wealth of variation. To
answer these questions various research methodologies will be employed, among
which quantitative data analysis using computational linguistic techniques.
We welcome both interdisciplinary and monodisciplinary contributions
addressing (comparisons between) morpho-syntactic language variation and
change in Early-Modern West-Germanic languages from (a combination of) the
following disciplines: (historical) sociolinguistics; (historical) formal
linguistics; computational linguistic; pragmatics; (Early Modern) literary
studies.

Possible workshop topics include but are not limited to: 
How does the use of case relate to text genre and do we see the same effects
for the use of, for instance, adpositional phrases? How can we identify case
marking, text genre, and adpositional phrases automatically to quantify the
results?
What are the socio-cultural, rhetorical and grammatical influences on
variation in Early Modern Dutch author’s use in perfect tense and double
perfects?
How is language variation used as a rhetorical function in letters written by
higher- or lower-class people?
What are the socio-cultural, rhetorical, pragmatic, semantic and syntactic
aspects of the use of embracing negation and single negation in Early-Modern
authors? Do we see differences between highly literary genres and, for
instance, ego-documents?
In general, how do we automatically process historical text in order to
quantify linguistic and literary variation? Which tagging/parsing tools and
annotated corpora exist for these tasks, for which languages or language
variants? What kind of processing is needed to address research questions on
language variation? How reliable are the existing resources? How can they be
improved and extended?
How can computational linguistics, in turn, benefit from historical
(socio-)linguistics? What are the effects of small data, suboptimal quality,
and a large amount of language variation and change in a short time span, on
automatic processing?

Invited speakers:
Prof. dr. Anita Auer
Prof. dr. Anne Breitbarth
Prof. dr. Ulrike Demske
Prof. dr. Eva Pettersson

The conference will be held in Utrecht University (The Netherlands).


Call for Papers: 

We welcome both interdisciplinary and monodisciplinary contributions
addressing (comparisons between) morpho-syntactic language variation and
change in Early-Modern West-Germanic languages from (a combination of) the
following disciplines: (historical) sociolinguistics; (historical) formal
linguistics; computational linguistic; pragmatics; (Early Modern) literary
studies. 

Abstracts should not exceed two pages, including data, references and
diagrams. Abstracts should be typed in at least 12-point font, with one-inch
margins. Abstracts must be anonymous and submissions are limited to 2 per
author, at least one of which is co-authored. Only electronic submissions will
be accepted via https://easychair.org/cfp/LingVarEarlyModernWestGermanic01




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