LINGUIST List 25.2894
Thu
Jul 10 2014
Calls: Spanish,
Portuguese, Niger-Congo, Typology, Historical
Ling, Computational Ling/Denmark
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Date: 10-Jul-2014
From: Eeva Sippola
<linesippola
dac.au.dk>
Subject: Contact, Variation
and Change: Afro-Latin Language Varieties
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Full Title: Contact, Variation and Change:
Afro-Latin Language Varieties
Date: 04-Dec-2014 - 05-Dec-2014
Location: Aarhus, Denmark
Contact Person: Eeva Sippola
Meeting Email:
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Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics;
Historical Linguistics; Typology
Subject Language(s): Portuguese; Spanish
Language Family(ies): Niger-Congo
Call Deadline: 15-Aug-2014
Meeting Description:
Contact, Variation and Change: Afro-Latin
Language Varieties, Aarhus University, Denmark,
December 4-5, 2014.
The focus of this workshop is on linguistic
analysis of the Afro-Spanish and
Afro-Portuguese varieties, and computational
models related to the study of contact
varieties. The workshop aims to enhance
cross-linguistic research about varieties of
Spanish and Portuguese in contact with African
Languages, the materials and corpora available
for the study of Afro-Latin varieties, and the
computational models and programs for analyzing
varieties involving contact, variation and
change.
Invited Speakers:
Laura Álvarez (Stockholm University)
Angela Bartens (University of Turku)
Alan Baxter (Universidade Federal da Bahia)
Anna Jon-And (Stockholm University)
Sandro Sessarego (University of Texas at
Austin)
The workshop is organized by Eeva Sippola and
Ana Paulla Braga Mattos, members of the
Cognitive Creolistics project at Aarhus
University. A previous version of the workshop
focusing on corpora development was organized
at Stockholm University in April 2014.
Call for Papers:
The research topics of interest in this
workshop include the following areas:
a) Comparative analysis of varieties of Spanish
and Portuguese in contact with African
languages
b) Studies of diachronic and synchronic
phenomena in contact languages, providing
replicable research using up-to-date
statistical methods
c) Methodological issues: How can computational
linguistics contribute to the field? How can we
use the available tools for typological and
lexical analysis? How can we make materials of
less described varieties available to
researchers in related fields?
The workshop is organized by Eeva Sippola and
Ana Paulla Braga Mattos, members of the
Cognitive Creolistics project at Aarhus
University. A previous version of the workshop
focusing on corpora development was organized
at Stockholm University in April 2014.
You are welcome to send abstracts to Eeva
Sippola (linesippola
dac.au.dk) no later than August 15,
2014. Abstracts should be no more than 300
words and sent as a PDF file. Notification of
acceptance can be expected by September 1,
2014.
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