[PLing] Online workshop on the TerraLing database, September 18-19
Nina Haslinger
nina.haslinger at univie.ac.at
Sat Sep 5 20:40:33 CEST 2020
Dear linguists,
we would like to draw your attention to a free online workshop for
anyone interested in the TerraLing database (formerly SSWL,
https://terraling.com). TerraLing is a collaborative platform for
linguistic typology which permits you to directly pose data questions to
native-speaker linguists, but may also be used to publish
cross-linguistic data sets collected by other means.
The workshop will take place on September 18-19, 6-9pm CEST. Please find
the programme and registration details below.
Best,
Nina Haslinger, Hilda Koopman and Viola Schmitt
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EVENT DESCRIPTION
This workshop aims to get researchers interested in the Terraling
database, to familiarize them with the technology (so that they can
carry out their own projects), and to pave the road for future projects
making use of the database, thus also supporting further international
community building.
The Terraling database (http://terraling.com/) is a collaborative
research tool for theoretically guided cross-linguistic research: It is
an open-access, open-ended database where linguists can both pose data
questions to others and answer such questions for their native languages.
The workshop will involve introductions to different aspects of the
database, a `hands-on’ trial session for participants, short
presentations of projects that have been carried out via the database
and a discussion (including all participants) of potential future
research projects building on the database. (See below for the full
program.)
REGISTRATION
To register for the workshop, please fill out the following form:
https://forms.gle/p5mGFm6ik4NWK3yE8. We will send you the zoom link
right before the workshop starts.
As the workshop will involve all participants trying out the database,
we ask you to sign up to the database beforehand (in case you don’t have
an account yet). If you have registered in the past, but have not
accessed the site recently, please go online and reset your password.
Note that both https://terraling.com (the new address) and
https://test.terraling.com (the old address) reflect and update the same
data.
PROGRAMME (all times are given in Central European Summer Time)
September 18
6 pm-6.20 pm: Introduction to the database (Hilda Koopman, UCLA)
6.20 pm-6.40 pm: A guided tour through the database
6.40 pm-7.10 pm: Try-out session (all participants, using break-out rooms)
7.10 pm-7.30 pm: Discussion (all participants)
7.30 pm-7.40 pm: Break
7.40 pm-8.25 pm: TerraLing and fieldwork (Ryan Bochnak, UBC)
8.25 pm-9 pm: Networking discussion (all participants)
September 19
6 pm-6.30 pm: Project presentation: SSWL (Cristina Guardiano, Università
degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia & Hilda Koopman, UCLA)
6.30 pm-7 pm: Project presentation: Conjunction and disjunction (Nina
Haslinger, University of Göttingen & Viola Schmitt, University of Graz)
7 pm-7.30 pm: Project presentation: Universal 20 (Guglielmo Cinque, Ca’
Foscari University, Venice)
7.30 pm-7.40 pm: Break
7.40 pm-8.30 pm: Property development and property writing
(includes a session on syntax, a session on semantics and a Q & A
session, will involve all participants)
8.30 pm-9 pm: Networking discussion (all participants)
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