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语言能力，这是人类所独有的。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提供了与更大的语言家族进行比较的洞察力，这反过来又提供了对人类语言的进一步了解。罗曼语言研讨会是最大的国际语言学会议，专注于罗曼语言。国家科学基金会的资金将为第49届年会（LSRL 49）提供部分支持，该年会将于2019年5月在格鲁吉亚大学举行。LSRL一直处于语言学研究的前沿，为这一特定语言家族的研究引入创新方法，并基于对这些语言的研究丰富了我们对语言和语言学的更广泛理解。LSRL 49旨在将从多种理论视角，方法论和语言学子领域研究罗曼语言各个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的演讲者。使用多种语言在讲少数民族语言的人中很常见。研究越来越多地集中在语言处理和表征在多语言的头脑。LSRL49的主题是“拓展浪漫语言学的视野”，代表了用于分析自然语言现象的日益多样化的理论和方法。语言学的研究人员和许多其他学科的研究人员一样，对解决新老问题的大数据方法感兴趣，LSRL 49将举办为期一天的关于语料库和大数据分析的研讨会，该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为是值得通过评估支持，使用基金会的学术价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。

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.