LINGUIST List 20.115

Tue Jan 13 2009

Calls: Historical Ling,Text/Corpus Ling/Austria; Syntax,Typology/USA

Editor for this issue: Kate Wu <katelinguistlist.org>

        1.    Manfred Markus, Middle and Modern English Corpus Linguistics
         2.    Robert Van Valin Jr, 2009 Conference on Role and Reference Grammar
Message 1: Middle and Modern English Corpus Linguistics
Date: 13-Jan-2009
From: Manfred Markus <manfred.markusuibk.ac.at>
Subject: Middle and Modern English Corpus Linguistics
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Full Title: Middle and Modern English Corpus Linguistics Short Title: MMECL

Date: 05-Jul-2009 - 09-Jul-2009 Location: Innsbruck, Austria Contact Person: Christine Kreinig Meeting Email: christine.kreiniguibk.ac.at Web Site: http://www.uibk.ac.at/anglistik/news/conf2009.html

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Lexicography; Text/Corpus Linguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng) Middle English (enm)

Call Deadline: 15-Feb-2009

Meeting Description:

You are cordially invited to participate and to offer a presentation on historical English corpus linguistics from Middle English to Late Modern English. Given the relatively long period at issue, from 1150 to 2000, we would like to encourage topics with a decidedly methodological or innovative focus, both in corpus compilation and exploitation.

Call for Papers

Innsbruck is a suitable place for a conference on historical English corpus linguistics, not only due to its location and its being a beauty spot, but also in view of the local corpus linguistic activities of the English Department in the past. Within the Innsbruck Computer Archive of Machine-Readable English Texts (ICAMET), two corpora have been compiled: the Innsbruck Middle English Prose Corpus and the Innsbruck Letter Corpus. Moreover, a government-funded project Spoken English in Early Dialects (SPEED) was started in 2006 and is still running. It is concerned with the digitisation and exploitation of Joseph Wright's English Dialect Dictionary. EDD Online is already available as of 1 August 2008 in a beta version.

Plenary Speakers:
Prof. Joan Beal, University of Sheffield
Prof. Merja Kyto, University of Uppsala
Prof. Christian Mair, University of Freiburg

While we would wish to encourage studies based on any of the Innsbruck corpora, there is no restriction on the corpus linguistic basis of your paper. Please submit your proposal for a paper (20 minutes and 10 minutes discussion) in the form of a 200- to 300-word abstract to

manfred.markusuibk.ac.at

by 15 February 2009. Decisions on the acceptance of proposals can be expected six weeks later.

For the Organising committee: Yoko Iyeiri, Kyoto University /Japan Manfred Markus, University of Innsbruck/Austria Conference homepage
Message 2: 2009 Conference on Role and Reference Grammar
Date: 13-Jan-2009
From: Robert Van Valin Jr <vanvalinbuffalo.edu>
Subject: 2009 Conference on Role and Reference Grammar
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Full Title: 2009 Conference on Role and Reference Grammar Short Title: RRGCONF09

Date: 07-Aug-2009 - 09-Aug-2009 Location: Berkeley, California, USA Contact Person: Robert Van Valin Jr Meeting Email: rrgconf09phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de. Abstracts should be no longer than two pages, including data and references, and must be submitted as PDF documents. The abstracts should be anonymous. The email message must include the following information: author's name(s), affiliation, email address, and title of abstract. The selection of papers for presentation will be announced by April 15, 2009. The talks will last twenty minutes, followed by another ten minutes for discussion.

Further information about keynote speakers, registration fee and accommodation will be posted on the Conference website at a later date.

Organizing Committee: Delia Bentley (University of Manchester), Daniel Everett (Illinois State University), Lilián Guerrero (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México), Rolf Kailuweit (Universität Freiburg), Ricardo Mairal (UNED, Madrid), Toshio Ohori (University of Tokyo), Robert D. Van Valin, Jr. (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, University at Buffalo).