Speakers

Carlota de Benito Moreno is Assistant Professor of Language and Space in Ibero-Romance at the University of Zurich. Her main interest is on language variation and change and her research focusses on morphosyntactic variation and change in Spanish and other Ibero-Romance languages, mostly dealing with two very different sources of data, namely, rural speech and digital texts from social networks such as Twitter. Because of this focus on empirical research, she is also very interested in methodology of linguistic research, including corpora, fieldwork and data collection methods and statistics.

Stefan Dollinger is Associate Professor of English at UBC Vancouver, specializing in historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, dialectology, and lexicography. His most recent monographs include The Written Questionnaire in Social Dialectology (Benjamins, 2016), Creating Canadian English (Cambridge UP, 2019), The Pluricentricity Debate (Routledge, 2019) and Austrian German or German in Austria: Identities in the 21^st Century (new academic press, 2021, in German). He is editor-in-chief of the second edition of A Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles (UBC, 2017; http://www.dchp.ca/dchp2).

Daniel Everett has held appointments at UNICAMP (Brazil), University of Pittsburgh (USA), University of Manchester (UK), Illinois State University (USA), the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (German), and Bentley University (USA). He has published on every major area of linguistic theory, in anthropology, in the cognitive sciences, and published more than a dozen books for the general public and professional audiences, as well as a long list of articles in major journals. He is a permanent resident of Brazil and a citizen of the USA. He completed his graduate work in linguistics at UNICAMP, Brazil, where he later served as assistant professor of linguistics. 

 

Alice Gaby is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Monash University, Australia. Her research interests lie in three intersecting domains: semantic and structural typology; the relationship between language, culture and cognition; grammatical description and language reclamation. Underlying this research program is the belief that linguistic analysis can be enriched by viewing grammatical structures as part of a larger communicative system, encompassing multiple languages, registers and modalities. Alice Gaby has collaborated with speakers of various Paman languages (Cape York Peninsula, Australia) since 2002. She is Vice-President of the Australian Linguistics Society and Deputy Chair of Living Languages (formerly, RNLD).

Monica Gonzalez-Marquez is an independent researcher and a visiting scholar at RWTH - Aachen University. Her work focuses on improving scientific practice within an Open Science framework. In this context she has run the Empirical Methods in Cognitive Linguistics workshops for many years, as well as editing the seminal volume Methods in Cognitive Linguistics. Her more recent work includes evidence-based pedagogy to teach to read scientific research articles. She heads the Meta-Data Inventory Infrastructure project, developed to improve documentation of the scientific process, and improve the free dissemination of scientific information.

Geoffrey Haig received his PhD in general linguistics from the University of Kiel in 1998. Since then he has worked as a researcher and lecturer at a number of institutions, including the University of Bielefeld, the Australian National University, and the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Studies. Since 2010 he has held the chair in General Linguistics at the Dept. of Oriental Studies at Bamberg University. His research centres on corpus-based approaches to typology, areal linguistics and historical syntax, with a special focus on the languages of the extended Middle East; see in particular the Multi-CAST website for recent exemplification.

Susan C. Herring is Professor of Information Science and Linguistics and Director of the Center for Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) at Indiana University, Bloomington. Trained in linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, she was among the first scholars to apply linguistic methods of analysis to CMC, initially with a focus on gender issues. Subsequently, she consolidated those methods into the Computer-Mediated Discourse Analysis approach, which has been used to analyze structural, pragmatic, interactional, and social phenomena in digital communication. Her recent interests include multilingual and graphical CMC. She previously edited the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication and currently edits Language@Internet. 

Malvina Nissim holds a Chair in Computational Linguistics and Society at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. She has experience in sentiment analysis and author identification and profiling, and is interested in Natural Language Generation, with a focus on style-controlled text. A crucial aspect of her work is the reflection over ethical issues in NLP, and she's currently co-chairing the ACL Ethics Committee. She is the author of 100+ publications in international venues, is member of the main associations in the field, annually reviews for the major conferences and journals, and organises and/or (co-)chairs large-scale scientific events. She graduated in Linguistics from the University of Pisa, and obtained her PhD in Linguistics from the University of Pavia. Before joining the University of Groningen, she was a tenured researcher at the University of Bologna (2006-2014), and a post-doc at the Institute for Cognitive Science and Technology in Rome (2006) and at the University of Edinburgh (2001-2005). In 2017, she was elected as the 2016 University of Groningen Lecturer of the Year.

Elena Pierazzo is Professor of Digital Humanities at Centre d’Études Supérieures de la Renaissance, University of Tours, where she directs the masters in Digital Humanities. She has a PhD in Italian Philology: her specialisms are Italian Renaissance texts, digital edition of early modern and modern draft manuscripts, digital editing, and text encoding. Her most recent publication is Che cos’è l’edizione scientifica digitale (2020). She has been the Chair of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) and involved in the TEI user community, with a special interest in modern and medieval manuscripts. Co-chair of the Programme Committee of the DH2019 conference, she was the co-chair of the working group on digital editions of the European Network NeDiMAH and was one of the scientists-in-chief for the ITN DiXiT. 

Frank Seifart studied linguistics in Berlin and Bogotá before obtaining a PhD in Nijmegen (Netherlands) in 2005. He's held various academic positions since, including one at the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology. Currently, he's on leave from being a CNRS researcher in Lyon to work at ZAS, Berlin. His research interests cover morphosyntactic, semantic, and prosodic typology, language contact and history, and language documentation and corpora, with first-hand fieldwork experience and data on the Amazonian languages Bora and Resígaro. His current main project is building the DoReCo database and analyzing it to study local speech rate variation cross-linguistically.