The Ghent University Research Group on Linguistic Meaning & Structure (GLIMS) is pleased to announce the 9th international conference on Grammar and Corpora (GaC), which will be held at Ghent University, Belgium, from Thursday, 30 June 2022, to Saturday, 2 July 2022.

The conference seeks to provide a forum for fruitful exchange of ideas between researchers over topics and issues such as the creation and relative merits of different types of corpora, new annotation and parsing techniques, the use of advanced statistical methods and models, the triangulation of corpus data with methods from psycholinguistics and other neighbouring disciplines, the discourse-grammar interface, and more generally the impact of corpus linguistics on linguistic theory.

We welcome submissions that enhance our knowledge and understanding of individual languages through the use of corpus methods in the description and theoretical analysis of the grammar of natural languages, and/or the implications of corpus-linguistic work for our discipline at large. Focal areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

• the use of corpora in the description of grammatical patterns (including the discourse-grammar interface, grammatical aspects of code-switching etc.) from language-particular or contrastive/crosslinguistic perspectives
• tools, methods and techniques in the assembly, annotation and grammar-related analysis of corpora
• the characteristics and relative merits of (combinations of) different types of corpora in the study of grammatical patterns
• the use of statistical and quantitative methods and the triangulation of corpus-linguistic results with data from other (e.g. experimental) approaches
• the interaction of corpus linguistics with neighbouring disciplines such as computational linguistics, psycholinguistics, translation studies, etc.
• the identification and modelling of (different types of) grammatical variation using corpus methods and the link between synchronic variation and change-in-progress
• the use of advanced corpus-linguistic and statistical methods in historical linguistics
• the impact of corpus linguistics on our understanding of grammar, language change and the foundational concepts of linguistics at large

Presentation format

We invite submissions for 20-minute oral presentations (plus 10 minutes for discussion). The conference language is English.

Submission guidelines

Abstracts should be fully anonymous and clearly state the research question(s), approach, method, data, and (expected) results. They should not exceed 500 words, excluding data, figures, and references. They must be submitted as a PDF file through EasyChair.

Multiple papers

Each author may submit up to two abstracts: one as sole or first author, one as second author.

Review

All submissions will be reviewed anonymously by at least two members of the programme committee.

Notifications of acceptance

Notification of acceptance/rejection will be given by 15 March 2022.

Contact

Any questions about submissions should be e-mailed to gac2022@ugent.be. For updates and further information regarding GaC 2022, please visit our website (www.gac2022.ugent.be) or follow us on Twitter (twitter.com/gac2022).