Bibliographie
The 8th International Conference
GRAMMAR&CORPORA
25-27 November 2020
Kraków, Poland
Keynote speakers :
Dagmar Divjak
Jan Rybicki
Benedikt Szmrecsanyi
In the recent years, the availability of large annotated and searchable corpora, together with a new interest in the empirical foundation and validation of linguistic theory and description, has sparked a surge of novel and interesting work using corpus methods to study the grammar of natural languages. However, a look at the relevant research on the grammars of English, as well as other Germanic, Romance or Slavic languages which is currently available, reveals a variety of different theoretical approaches and empirical foci, which can be traced back to different philological and linguistic traditions. Still, this state of affairs should not be seen as an obstacle ; it arguably provides an ideal basis for a fruitful exchange of ideas between different research paradigms.
In addition to deepening our knowledge and understanding of individual languages, corpus-oriented work on grammar has wider implications, concerning methodological as well as theoretical aspects. Relevant topics and research questions include e.g. annotation schemata for (larger) syntactic units and syntactic relations, the increased use of (advanced) statistical methods and models in linguistics, the relation and boundary between grammar and discourse, and more generally the interface between corpus linguistics and linguistic theory.
Important Dates
New deadline for abstract submission : 4 May 2020
Notification of acceptance : 26 June 2020
Registration deadline : 15 August 2020
Conference : 25-27 November 2020
Submissions
We welcome submissions that explore the use of corpus methods in the description and theoretical analysis of the grammar of natural languages. Focal areas of interest include, but are not limited to :
Corpus-based studies on the grammar of natural languages, with the focus on Slavic, Germanic and Romance, however contributions pertaining other languages are welcome :
The use of (large) corpora in the description of patterns of grammar from both a language-specific and a contrastive/cross-linguistic perspective
The identification and formal modelling of (different types of) synchronic linguistic variation using corpus methods
New insights into the connection between linguistic variation and change made available by inspecting “language change in progress” in large corpora
The use of advanced corpus-linguistic and statistical methods in historical linguistics as a means to compensate for the relative scarcity of data
Theoretical and methodological issues pertaining to corpus-oriented research on grammar :
Tools, methods and techniques in corpus assembly, annotation and analysis
The interaction between corpus linguistics and computational linguistics
The interaction between corpus linguistics and linguistic theory
The use of statistical and quantitative methods in detecting patterns of grammar
The impact of corpus-based vs. corpus-driven approaches on our view/understanding of grammar
Register
We invite submissions for 20-minute oral presentations (plus 10 minutes for discussion). Abstracts should clearly present a specific thesis statement and include a description of the topic, approach, and conclusions. All submissions will be reviewed anonymously by at least two reviewers.
Submissions must comply with the following guidelines :
They must remain fully anonymous.
They should 250-500 words in length (excluding references).
They must be submitted as a PDF file.
All abstracts must be submitted through the EasyChair system.
Submission deadline : 4 May 2020