The Constructicon Alignment Workshop 2022 (CAW 2022) will welcome representatives of projects, labs and research centers building constructicons – computationally implemented construction grammars – for Brazilian Portuguese, English, German, Japanese, Swedish and Russian. The purpose of the workshop is to foster discussion on the use of cross-linguistically applicable representations for connecting constructions across languages. The workshop will address how cross-linguistic alignment of constructions may be handled in practical analysis. Discussions will be oriented by a recently proposed linking model based on Comparative Concepts and Frames. A key feature will be a focused discussion of how such a model may be applied to a particular group of related constructions.
CAW 2022 will comprise invited talks, group discussions and hands-on analytical sessions. Although there is no open call for papers, the workshop is open to the public and registration is free.
The Constructicon Alignment Workshop 2022 will be hosted at Gothenburg University, Campus Lorensberg, located at Renströmsgatan 6 in Gothenburg, on December 8th and 9th, according to the following schedule. This is mainly an in-person workshop, but some of the sessions will be made available for online participation. Information on how to access the web conference system will be provided to registered participants before the workshop.
Program
December 7th, Evening Welcome, 18:00 (CET)
18:00 on - Welcome to Gothenburg (Tullen Johanneberg)
December 8th, Morning Session, 09:00 - 12:15 (CET)
09:00-09:30 - Welcome and Coffee
09:30-10:30 - Keynote Talk (Room C350 Hörsal | Remote participation available)
Introducing Comparative Concepts
William Croft
10:30-11:00 - Q&A Session (Room C350 Hörsal | Remote participation available)
11:00-11:15 - Coffee Break
11:15-12:15 - Introduction to the Workshop Topic (Room E208 Studio | Remote participation available)
Comparative Concepts for Multilingual Constructicography
Benjamin Lyngfelt - Gothenburg University
Tiago Timponi Torrent - Federal University of Juiz de Fora
12:15-13:30 - Lunch Break (Näckrosen Restaurant)
December 8th, Afternoon Session, 13:30 - 17:00 (CET)
13:30-15:15 - Reports from Constructicon Building Initiatives (Room E208 Studio | Remote participation available)
FrameNet Brasil
Arthur Lorenzi - Federal University of Juiz de Fora
Swedish Constructicon
Linnéa Bäckström and Peter Ljunglöf - Högskolan i Halmstad / Gothenburg University
German FrameNet and Constructicon
Alexander Ziem - Heinrich-Heine Universität Düsseldorf
Japanese FrameNet
Kyoko Ohara - Keio University
English Constructicon
Thomas Herbst & Elodie Winckel - Friederich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Russian Constructicon
Valentina Zhukova
15:15-15:30 - Coffee Break
15:30-17:00 - Discussion Session (Room E208 Studio | Remote participation available)
December 8th, Dinner, 19:00 (CET)
19:00 - Dinner at Familjen Restaurant (Menu)
December 9th, Morning Session, 09:00 - 12:30 (CET)
09:00-09:30 - Welcome and Coffee
09:30-11:00 - Task discussion: hands-on session 1 (Room J309 Filmsal)
Comparative Concepts for Reflexive Constructions
11:00-11:15 - Coffee Break
11:15-12:30 - Task discussion: hands-on session 2 (Room J309 Filmsal)
Comparative Concepts for Reflexive Constructions
12:30-13:45 - Lunch Break (Näckrosen Restaurant)
December 9th, Afternoon Session, 13:30 - 17:00 (CET)
13:30-15:15 - Policies and guidelines for constructicon alignment: discussion session 1 (Room J309 Filmsal)
Linguistically oriented issues
15:15-15:30 - Coffee Break
15:30-17:00 - Policies and guidelines for constructicon alignment: discussion session 2 (Room J309 Filmsal)
Computationally oriented issues
17:00 - Farewell
December 9th, Dinner, 18:30 (CET)
18:30 - Dinner at Sjöbaren Lorensberg (Menu)
Workshop Venue
Organizing Committee
Benjamin Lyngfelt
Swedish Constructicon
Gothenburg University
Tiago Timponi Torrent
FrameNet Brasil
Federal University of Juiz de Fora
Alexander Ziem
German FrameNet and Constructicon
Heinrich-Heine Universität Düsseldorf
Linnéa Bäckström
Swedish Constructicon
Högskolan i Halmstad
Funding
CAW 2022 is funded through the Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education (STINT) for a research collaboration between Gothenburg University and the Federal University of Juiz de Fora entitled Constructions in contrast: Multilingual Constructicography in the Swedish and Brazilian Constructicons (contract no. BR2014-5860).