36.1019, Confs: LiME Conference on Language Variation (Netherlands)

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Subject: 36.1019, Confs: LiME Conference on Language Variation (Netherlands)

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Date: 24-Mar-2025
From: Jeroen van Craenenbroeck [jeroen.van.craenenbroeck at meertens.knaw.nl]
Subject: LiME Conference on Language Variation


LiME Conference on Language Variation
Short Title: LiCLA 1

Date: 17-Sep-2025 - 18-Sep-2025
Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Meeting URL: https://lime.meertens.knaw.nl/en/events/licla-1/

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics; Syntax

Submission Deadline: 30-May-2025

LiME, the Linguistics & Language Variation group at the Meertens
Institute in Amsterdam invites abstracts for the first edition of the
LiME Conference on Language Variation (LiCLA 1). The conference will
take place in Amsterdam on 17–18 September 2025.
Variation and change are key properties of natural language. Not
surprisingly, then, these dynamic features have generated large bodies
of linguistic research, in different subdisciplines and in different
paradigms of linguistics. A recurring theme in that research tradition
is the desire for a genuine “socio‐syntax”, i.e. a fusion between
formal syntactic analysis on the one hand and sociolinguistics on the
other (see e.g. Cornips and Corrigan 2005). In spite of this
long‐standing research interest, however, there is to date only
limited collaboration across discipline boundaries. This is
regrettable, not only because language variation is hardly ever
unidimensional—it typically spans both the grammatical and the
social—but also because increased collaboration would be beneficial to
help the field make progress in a number of key domains:
- Syntax and social meaning. To what extent do social and cultural
features play a role in syntactic variation and change? How can we
extract and analyze (e.g. prestige or dynamism) associations of
syntactic variants from social media data?
- Aggregating over linguistic features. How can we aggregate over
grammatical features of language varieties to delimit their linguistic
essence? How do we encode (linguistic and extra‐linguistic) borders in
a formal grammatical system?
- Computational approaches. To what extent can computational
techniques be used to (semi‐)automatically detect hitherto
undiscovered syntactic variation patterns? Which statistical
techniques are available for large‐scale dialect syntax mapping?
LiCLA wants to contribute to a more intensive rapprochement between
(formal) syntax and (new) domains of sociolinguistics, and in this
light, it welcomes presentations that zoom in on questions such as
those raised above, or that address more general issues relevant to
the burgeoning field of socio‐syntax.



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