49th Annual Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL) at the University of Georgia; May 1-4, 2019; Athens, GA

所有语言的使用者都具有人类独有的语言能力。理解这种能力的各个方面是所有语言研究的核心。研究人员对一种语言的了解可以在与更大的语系进行比较时提供见解，进而提供对人类语言的进一步见解。罗曼语言语言学研讨会是关注罗曼语言的最大的国际语言学会议。美国国家科学基金会的资金将为 2019 年 5 月在佐治亚大学举行的第 49 届年会（LSRL 49）提供部分支持。LSRL 一直走在语言研究的前沿，为这一特定语系的研究引入创新方法，并在对这些语言的研究的基础上丰富我们对语言和语言学的更广泛的理解。 LSRL 49 旨在将来自多个理论视角、方法论和语言子领域的罗曼语言不同方面的语言学家聚集在一起，从而促进研究不同语言的研究人员之间的互动和合作潜力。 LSRL 49 强调了记录鲜为人知的语言和方言的重要性，邀请了一位研究濒危罗马尼亚语变体的演讲者。使用多种语言在少数民族语言使用者中很常见。研究越来越关注多语言思维中的语言处理和表征。 LSRL49 的主题“拓展浪漫语言学的视野”代表了用于分析自然语言现象的理论和方法日益多样化。与许多其他学科一样，语言学研究人员对解决新旧问题的大数据方法很感兴趣，LSRL 49 将举办为期一天的关于浪漫语料库和大数据分析的研讨会，重点关注语言分析中计算技术背景下的浪漫语言的表示。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Speakers of all languages share the capacity for language, which is unique to humans. Understanding the various aspects of this capacity lies at the core of all linguistic research. What researchers learn about one language provides insight upon comparison with the larger language family and this, in turn, provides further insight on human language. The Linguistic Symposium on the Romance Languages is the largest international meeting of linguistics focused on Romance languages. National Science Foundation funding will provide partial support for the 49th annual meeting (LSRL 49), to be held at the University of Georgia in May, 2019. LSRL has consistently been at the forefront of linguistic research, introducing innovative methods to the study of this particular language family, and enriching our broader understanding of language and linguistics based on studies of these languages. LSRL 49 seeks to bring together linguists working on diverse aspects of Romance languages from a multiplicity of theoretical perspectives, methodologies, and linguistic subfields, thus fostering interaction and the potential for collaboration among researchers investigating different languages. LSRL 49 highlights the importance of documenting lesser-known languages and dialects by including an invited speaker who studies endangered varieties of Romanian. Multilingualism is common among speakers of minority languages. Research is increasingly focusing on how language processing and representation in the multilingual mind. The theme of LSRL49, 'Expanding Horizons in Romance Linguistics', represents the increasingly diverse range of theories and methods used to analyze natural language phenomena. Researchers in linguistics, as in many other disciplines, have taken an interest in Big Data approaches to new and old problems, and LSRL 49 will host a day-long workshop on Corpora and Big Data Analysis for Romance, focusing on the representation of Romance Languages in the context of computational techniques in linguistic analysis.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.