GC 2025: Grammar and Corpora 2025 Riga, Latvia, June 26-28, 2025 |
| Conference website | https://gcc.lu.lv/en/ |
| Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gc2025 |
| Submission deadline | January 20, 2025 |
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 of the Faculty of Humanities of the 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 Thursday, 26 June 2025, to Saturday, 28 June 2025.
The conference continues the series of “Grammar and Corpora” 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 “Grammar and Corpora” conference in Riga, at the University of Latvia, seeks to provide a forum for exchange of novel and creative ideas between researchers interested in studying various aspects of grammar and its interfaces, in the broadest sense, 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.
Submission Guidelines
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 https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gc2025 (you may have to register first). 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 https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gc2025.
Each submission will be reviewed anonymously by at least two reviewers from the scientific committee.
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference.
List of Topics
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
Committees
Program Committee
Ilze Auziņa (University of Latvia, Rīga)
Daiki Horiguchi (University of Kyoto)
Andra Kalnača (University of Latvia, Rīga, conference director)
Andres Karjus (Tallinn University)
Torsten Leuschner (Ghent University)
Ilze Lokmane (University of Latvia, Rīga)
Helle Metslang (University of Tartu)
Nicole Nau (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań)
Miina Norvik (University of Tartu)
Jurgis Pakerys (Vilnius University)
Hélène de Penanros (Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales, Paris)
Erika Rimkutė (Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas)
Inguna Skadiņa (University of Latvia, Rīga)
Michal Škrabal (Charles Universuty, Prague)
Beata Trawiński (Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache, Mannheim)
Jurgita Vaičenonienė (Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas)
Piotr Wyrošlak (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań)
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)