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其母语或“语法”的知识。考虑到说话者的语法知识是无意识的，该学科面临的挑战是开发可靠的方法来发现正确的数据并增强可复制性。“已解析语料库”项目是一种新兴方法论的重要组成部分，用于揭示说话者使用语言的语法模式。这些文本，有书面的也有口头的，都附有详细的语法信息注释，然后用作测试关于句法模式统计趋势的假设的工具。虽然该学科中日耳曼语分析语料库的数量迅速增长，但在罗曼语分析语料库方面也有同样重要的发展。在美国国家科学基金会的支持下，第43届罗曼语语言学研讨会（LSRL43）将于2013年4月17日至19日在纽约城市大学研究生中心举行“罗曼语语料库解析专题会议”。作为研究罗曼语的语言学家最大的年度聚会，LSRL提供了一个绝佳的机会，让罗曼语语言学社区了解到基于这些创新工具的一些最令人兴奋的语法最新进展。目标是提供一个集中的讨论，讨论这些已解析的语料库如何被该学科中的任何人用作工具，并因此促进科学活动。会议将包括三个一小时的关于罗曼语历史和共时分析语料库的演讲：(1)“建模变化：法语的路径”语料库，由Anthony Kroch和Beatrice Santorini（宾夕法尼亚大学）介绍；(2)“面向语法的葡萄牙语方言语料库”，由Ana Maria Martins（里斯本大学）介绍；(3)“第谷布拉赫分析历史葡萄牙语语料库”，由Charlotte Galves（坎皮纳斯大学）介绍。

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).