Coglingdag: extended deadline May 15

May 9, 2010

Call for abstracts

Cogling days 4, Antwerp, 17th and 18th December 2010

Biannual meeting of the Belgian Netherlands Cognitive Linguistics Association (BeNeCLA)

EXTENDED DEADLINE – 15th May 2010

After three fruitful meetings in Utrecht (2004), Leuven (2006) and Leiden (2008), Antwerp is hosting the fourth biannual conference of the Belgian Netherlands Cognitive Linguistics Association (BeNeCLA, http://benecla.com/ ). The event is jointly organized by the University of Antwerp and Lessius University College Antwerp on Friday 17th and Saturday 18th December 2010. The two-day conference offers a venue for researchers from the Low Countries to present and discuss their research results in the various strands of cognitive linguistics. It explicitly aims at offering junior researchers, including doctoral students and postdocs, the opportunity to present their (ongoing) work. All interested scholars working in the field of cognitive linguistics or related areas are invited to submit an abstract for the conference.

Plenary speakers

Ronny Boogaart (University of Leiden)

Kristin Davidse (University of Leuven)

Irene Mittelberg (RWTH University Aachen)

Ted Sanders (University of Utrecht)

Abstracts

We invite abstracts for poster presentations and regular conference papers (20 min. talk plus 10 min. discussion), the length of which should not exceed 600 words, including references and data. Paper proposals are expected to clearly formulate the main research question(s), methodology, dataset and (expected) results.

They will be reviewed anonymously and cannot therefore include any reference to the identity of the author. In the body of your email, please include the following information: author’s name and affiliation and title of the submission. Please also indicate whether you would like your abstract to be considered for a regular or a poster presentation.

Abstracts in Dutch or English have to be submitted electronically, as attachment files in PDF format, to the following address:

coglingdagen2010@lessius.eu

Deadline for submission: extended deadline 15th May 2010

Notification of acceptance: 20th June 2010

Scientific committee

Ronny Boogaart (Universiteit Leiden), Tine Breban (FWO- KU Leuven), Bert Cappelle (Hogeschool Gent), Alan Cienki (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), Timothy Colleman (UGent), Bert Cornillie (FWO- KU Leuven), Liesbeth Degand (UCLouvain), Walter De Mulder (Universiteit Antwerpen), Jan Nuyts (Universiteit Antwerpen), Esther Pascual (RU Groningen), Elena Tribushinina (Universiteit Antwerpen), Lieven Vandelanotte (FUNDP Namur), Marjolein Verspoor (RUGroningen),

Organizing committee

Frank Brisard (Universiteit Antwerpen), Geert Brône (Lessius Antwerp – KU Leuven), Astrid De Wit (Universiteit Antwerpen), Liesbet Heyvaert (FWO- KU Leuven), Tanja Mortelmans (Universiteit Antwerpen), Paul Sambre (Lessius Antwerp – KU Leuven)

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Call: Toegepaste Taalwetenschap Cognitief Benaderd

January 13, 2010

Toegepaste Taalwetenschap Cognitief Benaderd
Cognitive approaches to Applied Linguistics
Approches cognitives en linguistique appliquée

Vrijdag/Friday/Vendredi
23 april/23 avril 2010, Universiteit Utrecht

Op 23 april 2010 organiseert Anéla, in samenwerking met ABLA en BeNeCLA, haar jaarlijkse Voorjaarsstudiedag. Het thema voor deze dag is “Toegepaste Taalwetenschap Cognitief Benaderd”, waarbij we geïnteresseerd zijn in raakvlakken tussen cognitieve, functionele en usage-based benaderingen van taal enerzijds en de Toegepaste Taalwetenschap anderzijds. Mogelijke thema’s zijn eerste of tweede taalontwikkeling, -verwerking, -onderwijs, discourse analyse, sociolinguïstiek, lexicografie en vertaalwetenschap.

In cooperation with ABLA and BeNeCLA, Anéla organizes the Anéla Spring Conference 2010. The theme is “Cognitive approaches to Applied Linguistics”, focusing on the interface between cognitive linguistic, functional or other usage-based approaches to the field of Applied Linguistics. Possible themes are language (L1 or L2) acquisition, processing, teaching, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, lexicography and translation studies.

En collaboration avec l’ABLA et BeNeCLA, l’Anéla organise sa « Journée d’études de printemps 2010 » sur le thème de l’application des approches cognitives, fonctionnelles et ‘basées sur l’usage’ en linguistique appliquée. Thèmes possibles sont acquisition du langage (L1 et L2), traitement du langage, développement langagier, enseignement des langues, analyse textuelle, analyse du discours, sociolinguistique, lexicographie et traductologie

Abstracts (200 words/woorden/môts)
voor/before/avant 31 januari/January/Janvier 2010
Indienen via: http://linguistlist.org/confcustom/anela2010

For more detail see: http://www.anela.nl

Notification of acceptance: 23 februari 2010

Organiserend comité : Marjolijn Verspoor, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen ; Elena Tribushinina, Universiteit Utrecht ; Esther Pascual, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen ; Jacqueline Evers-Vermeul, Universiteit Utrecht ; Laurent Rasier, Université Catholique de Louvain

Anéla (Nederlandse Vereniging voor Toegepaste Taalwetenschap): http://www.anela.nl/
ABLA (Association Belge de Linguistique appliquée): http://www.abla.be/
BeNeCla (Belgian Netherlands Cognitive Lingusitics Association): http://benecla.com/

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11-13 nov 2010: Grammaticalization and (Inter)Subjectification

December 21, 2009

Full Title: Grammaticalization and (Inter)Subjectification
Short Title: GRAMIS2010

Date: 11-Nov-2010 – 13-Nov-2010
Location: Brussels, Belgium
Contact Person: Jan Nuyts
Meeting Email: gramis2010@ua.ac.be
Web Site: http://webh01.ua.ac.be/gramis/conference/conference.html

Call Deadline: 15-Feb-2010

Call for Papers

We invite papers dealing with any aspect of the processes of grammaticalization and (inter)subjectification, both empirical and conceptual, from any theoretical angle, but we are especially interested in papers dealing with
- the interaction between the processes of grammaticalization and (inter)subjectification;
- the relation of grammaticalization and (inter)subjectification to other mechanisms of language change, including, most notably, analogy; and
- processes of degrammaticalization and de-(inter)subjectification: how (in)frequent are they, what kinds of factors trigger them, and what mechanisms are at work in them?

Presentations are 20 minutes, followed by 5 minutes discussion.

Abstracts of max. 4000 characters (i.e. app. 500 words; including references) should be submitted via the conference website.

Deadline for submission of abstracts: February 15, 2010
Notification of acceptance: late March, 2010

Information regarding registration, accommodation and other practical matters will be provided in the second circular, to be distributed early 2010, and will be posted on the conference website as soon as they are available.

Plenary speakers:
Kasper Boye/Peter Harder
Hilary Chappell
Bernd Heine
Heiko Narrog
Muriel Norde

Organizers: Johan van der Auwera & Jan Nuyts (Antwerp)

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Symposium Frequency and Function Groningen

November 4, 2009

The Role of Frequency and Function in Language Development
Symposium, November 25, 2009
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
13.30 – 17.30
Senaatszaal, Academie Building, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

Frequency of occurrence is central to the process of learning: the frequency with which a person experiences an event or executes an action plays an significant role in building a mental representation of that event or action. This is an important reason why usage-based approaches to language in particular have considered the frequency
with which linguistic structures are used to be a central factor in the development of language. By now, many frequency-related effects such as the interplay between frequency and grammaticality judgements have been revealed. Therefore, frequency
increasingly finds its way as an explanatory factor also in other linguistic approaches.

At the same time, it seems clear that the communicative or semantic function of a linguistic structure plays a major part in language development as well, and that it is related to frequency. For example, some individual speakers might not use a linguistic structure in spite of a high overall frequency of occurrence in the speech community because the structure does not meet these speakers’ communicative
purposes. This in turn can feed back to these speakers’ representation of the structure and lower the overall frequency of that structure. Another example is the number of linguistic forms used in a language to carve up a given functional domain (e.g., colors or spatial relations). This ratio between linguistic form and semantic function affects
the amount of variation in a language in that domain. Again, this influences the frequency of occurrence, and possibly also the opacity of form-function-mappings and the ease with which linguistic forms may therefore be learnt. The symposium seeks to look at the two factors of frequency and function and illuminate their role.

Six invited speakers will present their work: Heike Behrens, Jack
Hoeksema, Angeliek van Hout, Elena Lieven, Rasmus Steinkrauss and Rosie van Veen. Dan Slobin will moderate the final discussion.
The symposium is supported by the School of Behavioral and Neurosciences Groningen (BCN).

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Conferenties op komst

October 22, 2009

Wat: 4th Conference on Language, Culture, and Mind (LCM)
Wanneer: 21-23 June 2010
Waar: Turku, Finland
Website: http://web.abo.fi/fak/hf/fin/LCM4/about.html
Deadline abstracts: 15 Dec. 2009

Wat: 8th biennial conference of the Researching and Applying Metaphor (RaAM) International Association
Wanneer: 30 June – 3 July 2010
Waar: Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, NL
Website: http://www.raam.org.uk/Amsterdam_2010.html
Deadline abstracts: 31 Dec. 2009

Wat: 3rd Biennial Conference of the UK Cognitive Linguistics
Association: Language, mind and social reality
Website: http://uk-clc3.org/
Wanneer: July 6th-8th inclusive 2010
Waar: University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield England (www.herts.ac.uk)
Deadline abstracts: 15 december 2009

Wat: Sixth International Conference on Construction Grammar (ICCG6)
Wanneer: 03-Sep-2010 – 05-Sep-2010
Waar: Prague, Czech Republic
Web Site: http://constructiongrammar.org/iccg6
Deadline abstracts: 1 maart 2010

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