LINGUIST List 21.3695 Sun Sep 19 2010 Calls: Historical Ling, Text/Corpus Ling/United Kingdom 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.    Richard Whitt, New Methods in Historical Corpora Message 1: New Methods in Historical Corpora Date: 16-Sep-2010 From: Richard Whitt <Richard.Whittmanchester.ac.uk> Subject: New Methods in Historical Corpora E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: New Methods in Historical Corpora Date: 29-Apr-2011 - 30-Apr-2011 Location: Manchester, United Kingdom Contact Person: Richard J. Whitt Meeting Email: Richard.Whittmanchester.ac.uk Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics Call Deadline: 01-Dec-2010 Meeting Description: Preliminary Notice The world of corpus linguistics has expanded to include diachronic as well as synchronic corpora, with ARCHER (A Representative Corpus of Historical English Registers) serving as a model for a number of other historical corpora, in terms of annotations and representativeness. Now is an opportune time to bring specialists together to discuss the construction, annotation and analysis of diachronic corpora in a variety of languages. This conference is organised by the GerManC Project, which aims to compile a representative historical corpus of written German for the years 1650-1800, and is supported by the ESRC and AHRC. The following have agreed to give plenary papers: David Denison (Manchester) Anke Lüdeling (Berlin) Terttu Nevalainen (Helsinki) Klaus-Peter Wegera (Bochum) Organisational Committee: Martin Durrell Paul Bennett Silke Scheible Richard J. Whitt Call For Papers Abstracts for papers (20 minutes duration, with 10 minutes discussion) dealing with any aspects of historical corpora in any language are now invited. Abstracts should be a maximum of 500 words, and be sent by 1 December 2010 to Richard Jason Whitt (richard.whittmanchester.ac.uk). Abstracts will be reviewed by a committee consisting of David Denison, Núria Yáñez-Bouza and the conference organisers. Notification of acceptance will be sent by 15 December. Depending on the number of abstracts received, some submissions may be accepted for presentation as posters. It is intended that accepted papers will be published in some form. The conference will take place at the University of Manchester's Chancellors Hotel and Conference Centre (http://www.chancellorshotel.co.uk/) which is an ideal environment for formal and informal meetings. There will be no conference fee, and accommodation and meals will be provided at cost. The language of the conference is English. GerManC project: http://tinyurl.com/GerManC/ Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 19-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.