Grammar and Corpora 2025
Short Title: G&C
Date: 26-Jun-2025 – 28-Jun-2025
Location: Riga, Latvia
Contact Person: Andra Kalnača
Meeting Email: lvling.conf@lu.lv
Web Site: https://gcc.lu.lv/en/
Call Deadline: 30-Dec-2024
Meeting Description:
In recent years, the field of linguistics has seen an increasing demand for corpus-based analysis of natural language data amidst a general revival of interest in the empirical foundations of linguistic theory. Contemporary digital corpora offer as yet unprecedented opportunities for all kinds of linguistic research, where traditional linguistic analysis in its various theoretical and methodological paradigms originating in part in different philological and linguistic traditions of the past co-exists with and is reinforced by advanced statistical and corpus-linguistic methods made possible by modern data processing and annotation techniques. Since corpora can be used in both synchronic and diachronic analyses of language material, they provide an ideal basis not only for effectively utilizing traditional and already established methods, but also for developing new theoretical and empirical approaches to studying the grammatical system of natural languages and language varieties.
The Department of Latvian and Baltic Studies, University of Latvia, is pleased to announce the 10th international conference on Grammar and Corpora (G&C), which will be held on-site at the University of Latvia from 26 June to 28 June 2025. The conference continues the series of G&C conferences, which began in Prague, at Charles University, in 2005. Subsequently, G&C conferences have been held at various locations and universities: in Liblice (2007), Prague (2012), Warszaw (2014), Mannheim (2009, 2016), Paris (2018), Kraków (2020) and Ghent (2022). The 2025 G&C conference in Riga seeks to provide a forum for exchange of novel and creative ideas between researchers interested in studying various aspects of grammar and its interfaces, using different types of corpora and corpus-linguistic approaches, methods and techniques. We welcome submissions that contribute to our theoretical and practical understanding and knowledge of the structure, patterns and regularities of the grammatical system of natural languages using corpora and corpus-linguistic methods in the description and theoretical analysis of individual languages, language varieties and language contacts. Although our special focus is on the Baltic languages (Latvian and Lithuanian), submissions are equally welcome for Germanic languages, including English, Romance, Finno-Ugric, Slavic and other languages.
Relevant topics and areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
1) the use of corpora in the analysis of grammatical patterns (incl. inflectional and derivational morphology, syntax and phonetics) in individual languages and language varieties, as well as from contrastive, typological and cognitive perspectives
2) exploring the relationship between discourse and grammar through the use of different types of corpora
3) grammar–semantics interface in corpus analysis
4) derivational morphology, creativity and corpora
5) application and development of tools, methods and techniques for grammar-related analysis of corpus data
6) the relative characteristics (and combinations) of different types of corpora in the study of various aspects of grammar
7) statistical and quantitative methods in studying synchronic and diachronic phenomena in grammar
8) the use of corpus-linguistic methods in historical linguistics
9) language change, its representation and analysis in different types of corpora
INVITED SPEAKERS
Pietro Umberto Dini (University of Pisa)
Andres Karjus (Tallinn University)
Torsten Leuschner (Ghent University)
Nicole Nau (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań)
Hélène de Penanros (Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales, Paris)
Beata Trawiński (Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache, Mannheim)
2nd Call for Papers:
SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS
We invite submissions for 20-minute presentations (plus 10 minutes for questions and discussion). The conference is held on-site, and the conference language is English.
The deadline for submissions is 30 December 2024. Abstracts should be submitted through EasyChair. Each participant may submit up to two abstracts – one as the only or the first author and another as a co-author. Notification of acceptance will be given by 27 March 2025.
Abstracts should be anonymous and clearly state the research questions, methodology, data types and sources and (expected) results. Abstracts should be 500 words or less, excluding references and figures, typed in Times New Roman 12 pt and submitted as Word or PDF files through EasyChair. Each submission will be reviewed anonymously by at least two reviewers from the scientific committee.