LINGUIST List 21.4617 Wed Nov 17 2010 Confs: Historical Ling, Text/Corpus Ling, English/Finland 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.     Jukka Tyrkkö , Helsinki Corpus Festival Message 1: Helsinki Corpus Festival Date: 15-Nov-2010 From: Jukka Tyrkkö <jukka.tyrkkohelsinki.fi> Subject: Helsinki Corpus Festival E-mail this message to a friend Helsinki Corpus Festival Short Title: HCF Date: 28-Sep-2011 - 02-Oct-2011 Location: Helsinki, Finland Contact: Jukka Tyrkkö Contact Email: helsinki-corpushelsinki.fi Meeting URL: http://www.helsinki.fi/varieng/festival/index.html Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics Subject Language(s): English (eng) Meeting Description: To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Helsinki Corpus, the first comprehensive historical corpus of the English language, the Research Unit for Variation, Contacts, and Change in English (VARIENG) is organising an academic conference with a difference. VARIENG is pleased to invite colleagues involved in the development and use of English historical corpora for five days of workshops, thematic sessions, and open discussions, on a variety of topics concerning historical corpus linguistics. Emphasis will be placed on looking ahead at where the discipline is headed in terms of both new developments in digital humanities and the interface between corpus compiling and linguistic methodologies. Please see conference website for further information and the Call for Papers. Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 17-Nov-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.