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有共同的语言能力，这是人类独有的。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有助于与更大的语言家族进行比较，这反过来又提供了对人类语言的进一步洞察。罗曼蒂克语言研讨会是以罗曼蒂克语言为主题的最大的国际语言学会议。国家科学基金会的资金将为将于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一直站在语言研究的前沿，将创新的方法引入到这一特定语系的研究中，并在对这些语言的研究基础上丰富了我们对语言和语言学的更广泛的理解。LSRL49试图从不同的理论视角、方法论和语言学分支领域将致力于罗曼斯语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强调了记录不太知名的语言和方言的重要性，包括一名研究濒危罗马尼亚语变体的特邀演讲者。在说少数民族语言的人中，使用多种语言的现象很普遍。研究越来越多地关注语言如何在多语种大脑中进行加工和表征。LSRL49的主题是《罗曼蒂克语言学的拓展视野》，它代表了用于分析自然语言现象的理论和方法的日益多样化。与许多其他学科一样，语言学的研究人员对大数据方法解决新老问题感兴趣，LSRL 49将主办为期一天的罗曼蒂克语料库和大数据分析研讨会，重点是罗曼蒂克语言在语言分析中计算技术背景下的表现。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势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.