43rd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages: Special Session on Romance Parsed Corpora-New York City - April, 2013

语言学核心领域的主要研究对象是个体说话者对他/她的母语或“语法”的知识。“鉴于说话者的语法知识是无意识的，这门学科面临的一个挑战是开发可靠的方法，发现正确的数据，提高可复制性。“分析语料库”项目是一个重要组成部分，在一个新兴的方法被用来揭示潜在的说话者的语言使用的句法模式。这些文本，包括书面语和口语，都有详细的语法信息注释，然后用作测试句法模式统计趋势假设的工具。随着日耳曼语语料库的迅速发展，罗曼语语料库也有了同样重要的发展。在美国国家科学基金会的支持下，第43届罗曼语语言研讨会（LSRL 43）将于2013年4月17日至19日举行，届时将举办“罗曼语语料库解析特别会议”。在纽约城市大学研究生中心。作为从事罗曼语言研究的语言学家的最大年度聚会，LSRL提供了一个完美的机会，让罗曼语言学社区了解基于这些创新工具的语法方面最令人兴奋的最新进展。我们的目标是提供一个集中的讨论，这些解析语料库可以被任何人在学科中作为工具，从而促进科学活动。会议将包括三个一小时的讲座，内容涉及罗曼语的历史和共时分析语料库：（1）“建模变化：法国之路”语料库，由安东尼·克罗克和比阿特丽斯·圣托里尼提出（宾夕法尼亚大学），（2）“面向语法的葡萄牙方言语料库”，由安娜玛丽亚马丁斯提出（里斯本大学），和（3）“第谷布拉赫解析语料库的历史葡萄牙语，”提出的夏洛特加尔维斯（坎皮纳斯大学）。

The principal object of study for a core area of Linguistics is the individual speaker's knowledge of his/her native language, or "grammar." Given that a speaker's knowledge of grammar is unconscious, a challenge for the discipline is to develop reliable methodologies that uncover the right data and enhance replicability. "Parsed corpora" projects are an important component in an emerging methodology being used to uncover the syntactic patterns underlying speakers' use of language. These are texts, both written and spoken, which are annotated with detailed grammatical information, and then used as tools to test hypotheses about statistical tendencies in syntactic patterning. While there is a rapidly growing body of Germanic parsed corpora in the discipline, there have been equally important developments in parsed corpora in Romance.With support from the National Science Foundation, a "Special Session on Parsed Corpora of Romance languages" will be held at the 43rd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL43), April 17-19, 2013, at The Graduate Center of The City University of New York. As the largest annual gathering of linguists working on Romance languages, the LSRL affords the perfect occasion to make the Romance linguistics community aware of some of the most exciting recent advances in syntax, which are based on these innovative tools. The objective is to provide a focused discussion of how these parsed corpora can be used as tools by anyone in the discipline, and to thereby foster scientific activity. The Session will include three one-hour talks on both historical and synchronic parsed corpora in Romance languages: (1) the "Modelling Change: The Paths of French" corpus, presented by Anthony Kroch and Beatrice Santorini (University of Pennsylvania), (2) the "Syntax-oriented corpus of Portuguese dialects," presented by Ana Maria Martins (University of Lisbon), and (3) the "Tycho Brahe Parsed Corpus of Historical Portuguese," presented by Charlotte Galves (University of Campinas).