[Histling-l] HiCoV call for papers

[n.puddu at unica.it]

  Dear colleagues,
the /Historical Corpora and Variation/ workshop will be hosted by the  
University of Cagliari, Italy, on 4th-5th April 2019. Please find  
below details of the meeting and the call for papers.

CONFERENCE WEBSITE
http://convegni.unica.it/hicov[1]

MEETING DESCRIPTION
The need for a quantitative approach in historical linguistics has  
recently been highlighted by Jenset and McGillivray (2017): in this  
view, the creation of annotated historical corpora is a fundamental  
aspect. As Lass (2004) has pointed out, a proper historical corpus  
should be characterized by maximal information preservation, no  
irreversible editorial intervention, and maximal flexibility. In order  
to accomplish Lass’s desiderata, the collection of metadata, which  
help situate the text in its context, and the preservation of  
philological annotation are of crucial importance for a correct  
interpretation of language data in historical texts (Curzan 2009,  
Vazquez and Marques Aguado 2012).
The aim of this workshop is to reflect on the creation and annotation  
of historical corpora with a particular focus on the preservation of  
“contextual” information.

References:
Curzan, Anne, 2009, Historical corpus linguistics and evidence of  
language change, in Ludeling A., Kyto M., /Corpus linguistics. An  
International Handbook/, Berlin, Mouton de Gruyter,  1091-1108.
Jenset, Gard B., McGillivray Barbara, 2017,/Quantitative Historical  
Linguistics/, Oxford, Oxford University Press.
Lass, Roger, 2004, Ut custodiant litteras: Editions, Corpora and  
Witnesshood, in Dossena M., Lass R. (eds.) /Methods and data in  
English historical dialectology/, Bern, Peter Lang, 21-48.
Vazquez, Nila, Marquez Aguado, Teresa, 2012, Editing the Medieval  
Manuscript in its Social Context, in Hernandez Campoy L.M.,  
Conde-Silvestre J.C. (eds) /The Handbook of Historical  
Sociolinguistics/, Oxford, Wiley-Blackwell, 123-139.

INVITED SPEAKERS
Maarten Janssen, University of Coimbra
Joanna Kopaczyk, University of Glasgow
Achim Stein, University of Stuttgart

CALL FOR PAPERS
Abstracts of no more than 500 words (excluding references) should be  
submitted through Easy Abstracts (EasyAbs)  
at http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/hicov2019
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Metadata for historical corpora
- Preserving philological information in historical corpora
- Linguistic annotation of historical corpora
- NLP tools for historical corpora
- Corpus-based or corpus-driven research with a particular focus on  
the study of variation

The deadline for abstract submission is 15 NOVEMBER, 2018.  
Notification of acceptance will be given no later than 31 DECEMBER,  
2018.


Link:
-----
[1] http://convegni.unica.it/hicov/&nbsp
-- 
Prof.ssa Nicoletta Puddu
Dipartimento di Filologia, letteratura e linguistica
Università degli studi di Cagliari
via san Giorgio 12
09124 Cagliari
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mailman.yale.edu/pipermail/histling-l/attachments/20181010/52640bf5/attachment.html>