LINGUIST List 22.2501 Thu Jun 16 2011 Calls: Sociolinguistics, Syntax/Germany Editor for this issue: Alison Zaharee <alisonlinguistlist.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.     Kristian Berg , DGfS 2012 Workshop: Syntactic Variation Message 1: DGfS 2012 Workshop: Syntactic Variation Date: 15-Jun-2011 From: Kristian Berg <kristian.berguni-oldenburg.de> Subject: DGfS 2012 Workshop: Syntactic Variation E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: DGfS 2012 Workshop: Syntactic Variation Date: 07-Mar-2012 - 09-Mar-2012 Location: Frankfurt, Germany Contact Person: Oliver Schallert Meeting Email: < click here to access email > Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics; Syntax Call Deadline: 16-Aug-2011 Meeting Description: Workshop organized as part of the Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS) to be held in Frankfurt/M., Germany, March 7th - 9th, 2011. Variation is rightly seen as a key feature of grammatical systems: it adds considerably to their complexity. On account of this, the description, modelling, and explanation of variation can be regarded as the touchstone for any grammatical theory. We would like to approach the subject from a syntactic angle and focus on three dimensions of variation (as well as the varieties associated with them): 1. The horizontal/diatopic dimension (dialects) 2. The vertical dimension between ‘standard’ and ‘substandard’ (regiolects) 3. The idiolectal dimension, i.e. variation within one speaker's utterances Only recently have these dimensions attracted attention of typological and generative approaches; they have, however, turned out to be valuable empirical supplements in many cases. This potentially requires a reconsideration of the theoretical and methodological basic assumptions. Call for Papers: We invite you to submit an abstract for a talk that deals with the dimensions of variation mentioned above. We especially welcome papers that relate to the following questions on an empirical basis: 1. In what sense can syntactic variation be used as a correction for modelling and theory construction? 2. What are appropriate methods for gaining, analyzing, and interpreting data in syntactically oriented variational linguistics? Submission Guidelines: All submitted abstracts should be written in English or German and limited to one single-spaced A4 page (plus one optional page for illustrations and tables). Feel free to send your abstract in MS Word, OpenOffice, or (La)TeX format, but make sure to include a PDF copy as well. Please send your abstract to schalleostaff.uni-marburg.de. Important Dates: Deadline for abstract submission: August 16th, 2011 Notification of acceptance: September 12th, 2011 Workshop: March 7th - 9th, 2012 Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 16-Jun-2011       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.