32.551, Confs: Comp Ling, Gen Ling, Morphology, Socioling, Syntax/Online

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Subject: 32.551, Confs: Comp Ling, Gen Ling, Morphology, Socioling, Syntax/Online

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Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2021 17:05:12
From: David Willis [david.willis at ling-phil.ox.ac.uk]
Subject: Morphosyntactic Variation and Change in the Twenty-First Century

 
Morphosyntactic Variation and Change in the Twenty-First Century 
Short Title: MVC21 

Date: 17-Mar-2021 - 18-Mar-2021 
Location: Online, United Kingdom 
Contact: David Willis 
Contact Email: david.willis at ling-phil.ox.ac.uk 
Meeting URL: http://tweetolectology.com/mvc21/index.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Morphology; Sociolinguistics; Syntax 

Meeting Description: 

The conference is part of the project ‘Tweetolectology: Investigating the
diffusion of morphosyntactic innovations using social media’ (Economic and
Social Research Council), a collaboration between the Universities of Oxford
(David Willis), Cambridge (Tamsin Blaxter, Deepthi Gopal) and Bern (Adrian
Leemann). The study of morphosyntactic variation and change is currently
entering an exciting stage in its evolution where sociolinguistic, formal and
big-data approaches are able to inform each other in insightful ways. For
instance, big data allows more robust testing of hypotheses developed using
the other approaches than traditional small-scale studies. An understanding of
social and geographic context allows formal approaches to tease apart
phenomena which might otherwise be opaque. Formal approaches make links across
phenomena that might otherwise be catalogued separately. The aim of this
conference is to bring together researchers working on ongoing variation and
change using one or more of these approaches. We aim to further the dialogue
between them in order to help reach a full understanding of the processes
which guide morphosyntactic variation and change.
 

Program Information: 

Invited speakers: Suzanne Evans Wagner (Michigan State University), Øystein
Vangsnes (UiT The Arctic University of Norway), Jim Wood (Yale).

The full programme is at http://tweetolectology.com/mvc21/programme.html.

All participants must register via the link above the programme by 12 March
2021. The conference will be held using the Gathertown platform
(https://gather.town/). A link will be sent to all registered participants in
the week of the conference.





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