Full Title: Empirical data in linguistic research and where it leads: a variety of approaches from fieldwork to R
Short Title: Salos 2024

Date: 26-Jul-2024 - 26-Jul-2024
Location: Salos, Lithuania
Contact Person: Danguole Kotryna Kapkan
Meeting Email: [email protected]
Web Site: https://www.academiasalensis.org/en/conference-and-summer-school/2024-conference/

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Language Documentation; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics; Typology
Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 30-Apr-2024

Meeting Description:

Academia Grammaticorum Salensis Vigesima Prima conference
July 26th, 2024 – Salos, Lithuania

The 21st International Salos Linguistics Summer School and Conference takes a turn towards methodological topics. This year, with an eye on the synergistic link to the preceding summer school, the Salos Linguistics Conference aspires to encourage discussions on how data selection, treatment, and analysis shape linguistic research outcomes. The use of empirical data in today’s linguistics varies greatly; thus, we invite scholars from all frameworks of linguistic research to give talks on a variety of methodological questions. Moreover, in line with the traditional openness of the Salos community, we also welcome presentations that showcase results from all frameworks of linguistic research, ideally presented in light of the empirical data chosen for the study or with a reflection on how the results may have been shaped by the choice and treatment of the data.

The topics for abstracts include, but are not limited to, the following themes:
- methodological issues of linguistic fieldwork
- issues related to data annotation
- empirical database development projects and their reusability
- issues of application of statistical methods for linguistic analysis
- studies on little/poorly-documented languages and language varieties, such as dialects and other non standard varieties, along with research methodologies

The conference will feature a poster session for participants of the Salos summer school and a keynote by Eitan Grossman (Hebrew University of Jerusalem).

Applicants for the conference are also invited to attend the Salos Summer School. More information and the application form can be found here: https://www.academiasalensis.org/en/conference-and-summer-school/2024-summer-school/ If you are participating in the summer school, there is no additional fee for the participation in the conference.

Call for Papers:

Please apply by submitting your abstract until April 30th via the following link: https://forms.gle/zJSCU4QPPMLAyKoA9

Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by May 15th.