Full Title: Experimental and Corpus-Based Approaches to Ellipsis (6th edition)
Short Title: ECBAE 2024

Date: 12-Sep-2024 - 13-Sep-2024
Location: Poznań, Poland
Contact Person: Gabriela Bilbiie
Meeting Email: [email protected]

Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories
Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 08-Jan-2024

Meeting Description:

The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers who work on elliptical phenomena with special emphasis on quantitative methodologies. It aims to improve the empirical foundations of the discussion, specifically by providing evidence from psycholinguistic experimentation (acceptability and eye-tracking experiments, in particular) and corpus investigations. We welcome case studies and contributions on methodological issues. Specifically, we ask (i) how experimental methods can be applied and improved to give more reliable and interpretable results; (ii) in what way corpus data can be brought to bear on theoretical questions; and (iii) how corpus data can be used to improve the results of psycholinguistic experiments, specifically by forming the basis of constructing more natural materials and by providing new hypotheses to be investigated experimentally. This workshop represents the sixth iteration of Experimental and Corpus-Based Approaches to Ellipsis (ECBAE) conference series that held successfully during the LSA 2017, 2019, 2023 Linguistic Institutes, online in 2020, and during the SLE 2022 conference.
ECBAE 6 is designed to offer a wide variety of perspectives on these methodological research questions. The proposed workshop covers a broad spectrum of ellipsis types (fragments, sluicing, gapping, pseudogapping, verb phrase ellipsis, etc.) and a range of methodologies (corpus-driven, acceptability judgment, production experiments, self-paced reading, eye-tracking, etc.). In addition, the contributions are expected to cover various languages and distinct theoretical frameworks, thus presenting an occasion for reflection on high-level conceptual issues.

2nd Call for Papers:

We invite abstract submissions for oral presentations (20 minutes talk + 10 minutes discussion). Abstracts should clearly state the research question(s), approach, method, data, and (expected) results. Submissions outlining experiments that are planned but not yet completed are welcome, but the eventual presentations should contain the results of those experiments. Abstracts should not display the names of the presenters, nor their affiliations or addresses, or any other information that could reveal their authorship. They should contain the title, five keywords, and a text between 300 and 400 words (including examples, excluding references). Please submit your abstract as a PDF.
Abstracts will be submitted via Easychair. The deadline for abstract submission is 8 January 2024 (12.00 PM CET).
Submission link for ICL abstracts: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icl2024poznan
You should select the "WS8 Ellipsis (Bilbiie & Bonke)". The workshop will feature oral presentations only, so please choose the "Presentation" option.
Each abstract will be reviewed anonymously by two reviewers (workshop convenor + external reviewer). Notification of acceptance will be 15 April 2024.