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

说所有语言的人都有语言能力，这是人类所独有的。理解这种能力的各个方面是所有语言学研究的核心。研究人员对一种语言的了解提供了与更大的语系进行比较的见解，而这反过来又提供了对人类语言的进一步了解。罗曼语语言学研讨会是罗曼语语言学领域规模最大的国际会议。美国国家科学基金会将为将于2019年5月在乔治亚大学举行的第49届年会（LSRL 49）提供部分支持。LSRL一直走在语言学研究的前沿，为这一特定语系的研究引入了创新的方法，并在研究这些语言的基础上丰富了我们对语言和语言学的更广泛理解。LSRL 49旨在汇集语言学家从多种理论角度、方法和语言学子领域研究罗曼语的不同方面，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通过邀请一位研究濒危罗马尼亚语的演讲者，强调了记录不太为人所知的语言和方言的重要性。使用多种语言在少数民族语言使用者中很普遍。研究越来越关注语言处理和表征在多语言思维中的作用。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越来越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，已经对用大数据方法解决新旧问题产生了兴趣，lsrl49将举办为期一天的关于语料库和罗曼语大数据分析的研讨会，重点关注罗曼语语言在语言分析计算技术背景下的表现。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识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.