LINGUIST List 14.2934

Mon Oct 27 2003

Calls: Typology/Russia; Lang Description/Germany

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  • gippert, A World of Many Voices: Interfaces in Language Documentation

    Message 1: Typology of Argument Structure and Grammatical Relation

     Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 15:57:56 +0000
    From: solovyev <solovyevmi.ru>
    Subject: Typology of Argument Structure and Grammatical Relation


    Typology of Argument Structure and Grammatical Relations in Languages Spoken in Europe and North and Central Asia Short Title: LENCA-2

    Date: 11-May-2004 - 14-May-2004 Location: Kazan, Russia Contact: Pirkko Suihkonen Contact Email: kazaneva.mpg.de Meeting URL: http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/uhlcs/LENCA/LENCA-2/lenca-2.html

    Linguistic Sub-field: Typology Subject Language Family: Altaic, Uralic, Unclassified Indo-European, Indo-European Call Deadline: 30-Nov-2003

    Meeting Description:

    INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON THE TYPOLOGY OF ARGUMENT STRUCTURE AND GRAMMATICAL RELATIONS IN LANGUAGES SPOKEN IN EUROPE AND NORTH AND CENTRAL ASIA (LENCA-2) at Kazan State University, Tatarstan Republic, Russia May 11-14, 2004

    The second international symposium on the languages spoken in Europe and North and Central Asia (LENCA) will take place at Kazan State University, Tatarstan, Russia, on May 11-14, 2004. Kazan is the capital of the Tatarstan Republic in Russia. The topic of the symposium is argument structure and grammatical relations in the languages spoken in this area. The first symposium on the languages belonging to the LENCA-group was at the Udmurt State University, Izhevsk, Udmurtia, Russia, 2001. The languages spoken in Europe and North and Central Asia belong to several major language families. The Indo-European, Uralic and Turkic languages are the largest language families in Europe and North and Central Asia. In addition, Tungusic and Palaeo-Siberian languages belong to the indigenous languages of the area. In Central Asia, the area overlaps with the area of the Mongolic languages, and in the Southeast, the Sinitic languages. In the South, the area also borders on the languages spoken in the Caucasus, and the western part of the main area of the Semitic languages is located on the border of the languages spoken in Southern Europe. During the course of history, this area has been a meeting place of numerous cultural and linguistic strands. In most cases, this large area is multi-cultural and multilingual, and many people living in the area know, in addition to their native language, some other languages spoken in the area. Among these languages, the Indo-European languages are best known, but most of the languages spoken in the eastern part of this large area are poorly known even among linguists. New research would also provide material for research on the contacts among these languages, and on the study of the universals of language. For that reason, papers on the languages bordering on the area are also welcome in the symposium. When collecting new information about these languages, it is also possible to gather new information for cross-linguistic studies. The symposium will last for four days, and if needed, parallel sections can be arranged. Particularly thinking of work in progress, also a separate poster section will be arranged. The abstracts to be submitted to the Programme Committee should not exceed four pages. The abstracts will be published for the symposium, and also an internet version of the abstracts will be available. Authors are encouraged to write their papers so that most of the papers to be presented in the symposium could be published later.

    Plenary Speakers

    Bernard Comrie, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig John Hawkins, University of Southern California, Los Angeles Lars Johanson, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz Alexandr E. Kibrik, Moscow State University, Moscow Masayoshi Shibatani, Rice University, Houston Anna Siewierska, University of Lancaster, Lancaster Marianne Mithun, University of California, Santa Barbara Vladimir Nedjalkov, Institute for linguistic researches, Sankt-Peterburg

    Important dates

    Deadline for submitting abstracts: November 30, 2003 Notification of acceptance: January 15, 2004 Dates of the symposium: May 11-14, 2004

    The abstract can be submitted in electronic form or as a paper copy. The electronic versions should be in plain text or in HTML or LaTeX, and should be sent to kazaneva.mpg.de. The paper copies should be sent to University of Helsinki, Department of General Linguistics (International Symposium on Argument Structure) (Attn. Dr. Pirkko Suihkonen), University of Helsinki, Department of General Linguistics, P.O. Box 9 (Siltavuorenpenger 20), 00014 UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI, Finland, or to Kazan State University, Department of Computer Science (International Symposium on Argument Structure), (Attn. Prof. Valery Solovyev), ul. Kremlevskaya 18, 420008 KAZAN, Russia. E-mail address for the symposium: kazaneva.mpg.de

    Official languages of the symposium: English, Russian, French, German, and Tatar

    Co-Chairs of the Programme Committee

    Prof. Dr. Bernard Comrie Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Deutscher Platz 6 D-04103 LEIPZIG, Germany Phone: +49-(0)-341 99 52 301 Fax: +49-(0)-341 99 52 119

    Prof. Dr. Valery Solovyev Kazan State University Department of Computer science Chair of the Cognitive science laboratory Kremlevskaya Str. 18 420008 KAZAN, Russia Phone: +7 8432 616914 Fax: +7 8432 387525

    Dr. Pirkko Suihkonen University of Helsinki Department of General Linguistics P.O. Box 9 (Siltavuorenpenger 20 A) F-00014 UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI, Finland Phone: +358-(0)9-191 21723 Fax: +358-(0)9-191 29307

    Programme Committee: Prof. Dr. Anders Ahlqvist, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland Prof. Dr. Michael Fortescue, University of Copenhagen, Institute for General and Applied Linguistics, Copenhagen Prof. Dr. L�szl� Honti, Universit� degli Studi di Udine, Instituto di Glottologia e Filologia Classica, Udine Prof. Dr. Juha Janhunen, University of Helsinki, Institute for Asian and African Studies, Helsinki Prof. Dr. Lars Johanson, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Department of Oriental Studies / Johannes Gutenbert-Universit�t Mainz, Seminar f�r Orientkunde, Mainz Prof. Dr. Natalia I. Pushina, Udmurt State University, Institute of Foreign Languages an Literature, Department of English Grammar and History, Izhevsk Prof. Dr. Pekka Sammallahti, University of Oulu, Department of Finnish, Saami and Logopedics, Oulu Prof. Dr. Hans-J�rgen Sasse, Universit�t zu K�ln, Institut f�r Sprachwissenschaft, Cologne Prof. Dr. Alan Timberlake, University of California at Berkeley, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Berkeley

    Message 2: A World of Many Voices: Interfaces in Language Documentation

     Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 11:50:35 +0000
    From: gippert <gippertem.uni-frankfurt.de>
    Subject: A World of Many Voices: Interfaces in Language Documentation


    A World of Many Voices: Interfaces in Language Documentation Short Title: DOBES-Conference

    Date: 04-Sep-2004 - 05-Sep-2004 Location: Frankfurt / Main, Germany Contact: Jost Gippert Contact Email: gippertem.uni-frankfurt.de Meeting URL: http://titus.fkidg1.uni-frankfurt.de/curric/dobes/conf1cir.htm

    Linguistic Sub-field: Typology, Language Description, General Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Anthropological Linguistics Call Deadline: 01-Feb-2004

    Meeting Description:

    International conference on language documentation as an interdisciplinary research area (Linguistics, Anthropology, Speech Communities, and Technology), organised within the DOBES (Documentation of Endangered Languages) Programme of the Volkswagen Foundation.

    A WORLD OF MANY VOICES

    Interfaces in Language Documentation: Linguistics, Anthropology, Speech Communities, and Technology

    University of Frankfurt / Main 4th - 5th of September, 2004

    First Circular

    The DOBES (Documentation of Endangered Languages) Programme will organise a conference on language documentation as an interdisciplinary research area, pending funding from the Volkswagen Foundation. The conference will take place in conjunction with a summer school on the documentation of endangered languages at the same venue (Frankfurt, Sep. 1-11th 2004).

    The organising team consists of Arienne Dwyer, Jost Gippert, Raquel Guirardello, David Harrison, Ulrike Mosel, Peter Wittenburg (DOBES members), and Marcel Erdal, Bernd Nothofer, and Rainer Vo�en (local committee).

    CALL FOR PAPERS

    The conference will bring together experts in the field of language documentation and also representatives of endangered speech communities, and focuses on two themes: - the impact of language documentation techniques and technologies on linguistic methodologies and theories, such as new insights from research on (a) text corpora, (b) spontaneous spoken language, (c) non-verbal communication, and (d) the joint research of linguists and anthropologists; - the impact of active cooperation between speech communities and outside researchers on methods and goals and on power relationships between participants: (a) conflicts and compromises between the goals of the linguists and the speech community; (b) innovative cooperative methodology; (c) the linguists' contribution to language maintenance and revitalisation.

    Researchers who are members of endangered-language communities are particularly encouraged to submit abstracts.

    Accepted papers will be allocated 20 minutes for presentation plus 10 minutes for discussion. To allow for in-depth discussion, conference sessions will be plenary, and the conference will conclude with a roundtable discussion. The organisers intend to publish the conference papers in printed form.

    The DEADLINE for abstracts is the 1st of February, 2004.

    Please send your one-page abstract (in any format) to Jost Gippert (gippertem.uni-frankfurt.de)