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Dear Slavists and Linguists,
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I would like to draw your attention to the following conference to
be held at the Institute for the German Language (IDS) in Mannheim
(Germany) in November 2016: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://gac2016.ids-mannheim.de">http://gac2016.ids-mannheim.de</a><br>
The deadline for receipt of abstracts is May 31, 2016.
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Best regards,
<br>
Beata Trawiński
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(on behalf of the Organizing Committee)<br>
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</b><font color="#cc0000"><b>FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS for </b></font><b><br>
</b><font color="#990000"><b>THE 6th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
GRAMMAR AND CORPORA (GaC 2016) </b></font><b><br>
</b><font color="#660000"><b>Mannheim, Germany 9-11 November 2016 </b></font><b><br>
</b><b><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://gac2016.ids-mannheim.de">http://gac2016.ids-mannheim.de</a></b><b><br>
</b><font color="#666600"><b>Deadline for abstract submission:
31.05.2016
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The organising committee of GaC 2016 is pleased to invite
contributions to the sixth international conference <i>Grammar and
Corpora</i>, to be held at the <a
href="http://www1.ids-mannheim.de/">Institute for the German
Language</a> in Mannheim on 9-11 November 2016.
<p>In recent years, the availability of large annotated and
searchable corpora, together with a new interest in the empirical
foundation and validation of linguistic theory and description has
sparked a surge of novel and interesting work using corpus methods
to study the grammar of natural languages. However, a look at
relevant current research on the grammar of German, English, or
the Romance and Slavic languages reveals a variety of different
theoretical approaches and empirical foci which can be traced back
to different philological and linguistic traditions. Still, this
state of affairs should not be seen as an obstacle but arguably
provides an ideal basis for a fruitful exchange of ideas between
different research paradigms. </p>
<p> In addition to deepening our knowledge and understanding of
individual languages, corpus-oriented work on grammar has wider
implications that concern methodological as well as theoretical
aspects. Relevant topics and research questions concern e.g.
annotation schemata for (larger) syntactic units and syntactic
relations, the increased use of (advanced) statistical methods and
models in linguistics, the relation and boundary between grammar
and discourse, and more generally the interface between corpus
linguistics and linguistic theory. </p>
<p>We welcome submissions that explore the use of corpus methods in
the description and theoretical analysis of the grammar of natural
languages. Focal areas of interest include, but are not limited
to: </p>
<p> </p>
<ol>
<li>Corpus-based studies on the grammar of Germanic, Romance and
Slavic languages: <br>
<br>
<ul>
<li>The use of (large) corpora in the description of patterns
of grammar from both a language-specific and a
contrastive/cross-linguistic perspective</li>
<li>The identification and formal modelling of (different
types of) synchronic linguistic variation using corpus
methods</li>
<li>New insights into the connection between linguistic
variation and change made available by inspecting “language
change in progress” in large corpora</li>
<li>The use of advanced corpus-linguistic and statistical
methods in historical linguistics as a means to compensate
for the relative scarcity of data <br>
</li>
<br>
</ul>
</li>
<li> Theoretical and methodological issues pertaining to
corpus-oriented research on grammar: <br>
<br>
<ul>
<li>Tools, methods and techniques in corpus assembly,
annotation and analysis </li>
<li>The interaction between corpus linguistics and
computational linguistics</li>
<li>The interaction between corpus linguistics and linguistic
theory</li>
<li>The use of statistical and quantitative methods in
detecting patterns of grammar</li>
<li>The impact of corpus-based vs. corpus-driven approaches on
our view/understanding of grammar</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ol>
<p>A subset of these issues will be the focus of several invited
keynotes, a number of tutorials on applied corpus linguistic,
statistical and computational tools and techniques, and of a
poster session. Conference languages are English and German. </p>
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<b>News and Events</b><br>
<h4>Important Dates</h4>
<p> </p>
<ul>
<li><b>31.05.2016:</b> Deadline for abstract submission</li>
<li><b>15.07.2016:</b> Notification of acceptance</li>
<li><b>09.-11.11.2016:</b> Conference <br>
</li>
</ul>
<h4>Confirmed Keynote Speakers</h4>
<p> </p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.llf.cnrs.fr/fr/Gens/Abeille">Anne Abeillé</a>
<br>
(Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7, France) </li>
<li><a href="http://web.pdx.edu/%7Econrads">Susan Conrad</a> <br>
(Portland State University, USA) </li>
<li><a href="https://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/67028.html">Anke
Holler</a> <br>
(University of Göttingen, Germany)</li>
<li><a href="http://utkl.ff.cuni.cz/%7Erosen/">Alexandr Rosen</a>
<br>
(Charles University Prague, Czech Republic)<br>
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</li>
</ul>
<p><a href="http://gac2016.ids-mannheim.de/submissions.shtml"><b>SUBMISSIONS</b></a></p>
<p><a href="http://gac2016.ids-mannheim.de/registration.shtml"><b>REGISTRATION</b></a><b><br>
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<a href="http://gac2016.ids-mannheim.de/committees.shtml">COMMITTEES</a></b><b><br>
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<a href="http://gac2016.ids-mannheim.de/cfp.shtml">PRACTICAL
INFO</a></b><b><br>
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<a href="http://gac2016.ids-mannheim.de/contact.shtml">CONTACT</a></b><br>
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