The fifth edition of the Experimental and Corpus-based Approaches to Ellipsis (ECBAE) will be held in a hybrid format on 09 July 2023 at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, in conjunction with the LSA Linguistic Institute 2023 and following the 30th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar on 07-08 July 2023.

Website: https://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~fabiolah/hpsg23/workshop.html

Invited speaker: Dan Parker (The Ohio State University)

The purpose of this conference is to bring together researchers who have been working on elliptical phenomena with special emphasis on methodologies aiming to improve the empirical foundations of the discussion, specifically psycholinguistic experimentation (acceptability and eye-tracking experiments, in particular) and corpus investigations. Contributions will be welcome concerning (i) the specific experimental methodologies being used in psycholinguistics, and how they can be improved to give more reliable and interpretable results; (ii) the way corpus data can be brought to bear on theoretical questions; and (iii) how corpus data can be used to improve the results of psycholinguistic experiments, specifically by increasing the naturalness of the materials by providing new hypotheses. We are proposing this conference as a continuation of a conference series held successfully during the LSA 2017 and 2019 Linguistic Institutes, online in 2020, and during the SLE 2022 conference.

Important Dates

Abstract submission deadline: 03-Mar-2023 (anywhere on earth)

Notifications of acceptance: 17-Apr-2023

Submission Guidelines

We invite anonymous submissions to the ECBAE workshop:

• Abstracts should be max. 2 pages long (with one page for figures & references).
• They should be submitted in PDF format.
• The submissions should not include the authors’ names, and authors are asked to avoid self-references.
• Please specify whether you intend to present your paper in person, online, or haven’t decided yet.

All abstracts should be submitted in via Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecbae2023.

All abstracts will be reviewed anonymously by at least two reviewers.

Accepted papers are expected to give a 30-minute presentation.

The workshop proceedings will be published online in a collective volume. A call for contributions to the proceedings will be issued after the conference. 

Committees

Program Committee

• Anne Abeillé
• Katy Carlson
• Rui Chaves
• Berthold Crysmann
• Jonathan Ginzburg
• Andrew Kehler
• Jong-Bok Kim
• Jean-Pierre Koenig
• Yusuke Kubota
• Robin Lemke
• Philip Miller
• François Mouret
• Dan Parker
• Jeffrey Runner
• Shuichi Yatabe

Organizing committee

• Gabriela Bîlbîie (U. of Bucharest)
• Joanna Nykiel (Stockholm U.)

Contact

Please direct any questions to the local organizing committee chairs: Gabriela Bîlbîie and Joanna Nykiel (ecbae2023@gmail.com).