LINGUIST List 21.3604 Sun Sep 12 2010 Calls: Text/Corpus Ling, Historical Ling, English, Middle English/Japan Editor for this issue: Di Wdzenczny <dilinguistlist.org> LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.    Akinobu Tani, Middle and Modern English Corpus Linguistics 2011 Message 1: Middle and Modern English Corpus Linguistics 2011 Date: 10-Sep-2010 From: Akinobu Tani <contactmmecl2011.org> Subject: Middle and Modern English Corpus Linguistics 2011 E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Middle and Modern English Corpus Linguistics 2011 Short Title: MMECL 2011 Date: 26-Aug-2011 - 29-Aug-2011 Location: Osaka, Japan Contact Person: Akinobu Tani Meeting Email: contactmmecl2011.org Web Site: http://www.mmecl2011.org Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics Subject Language(s): English (eng) Middle English (enm) Call Deadline: 18-Feb-2011 Meeting Description: Middle and Modern English Corpus Linguistics 2011 will be held in Osaka, Japan 26-29 August 2011. The conference will focus on corpus-based synchronic and diachronic studies of Middle and Modern English. We would particularly welcome papers which employ or respond to new diachronic corpora (such as the Time Corpus and the Corpus of Historical American English by Mark Davies), or which take a variationist approach to Present-day English (e.g. Twentieth-Century English: History, Variation and Standardization by Christian Mair). The first MMECL, held in Innsbruck, Austria in 2009, was successful with more than 60 participants from all over the world. Its proceedings are now being edited for publication by Manfred Markus, Yoko Iyeiri, Reinhard Heuberger and Emil Chamson. Call For Papers We cordially invite you to participate and to offer a presentation on historical English corpus linguistics from Middle English to Modern English. Given the relatively long period at issue, from 1100 to 2010, we would like to encourage broad topics, both in corpus compilation and exploitation. Please submit your proposal for a paper (20 minutes plus 10 minutes discussion) in the form of 300-word abstract to the conference contact email address by 18 February 2011. Decisions on the acceptance of proposals can be expected six weeks later. The language of the conference is English. All abstracts should be in English. Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 12-Sep-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.