<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><center style="font-family: Tahoma, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-size: large; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><div class="text" align="center" style="font-family: Tahoma, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-top: 6px; text-align: justify; "><center><h1 style="color: rgb(64, 128, 255); font: normal normal bold x-large/normal Tahoma, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; font-size: large; "><b><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; "><span lang="FR"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">• Submission deadline extended : </span><span style="color: rgb(233, 0, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">April 30</span></span></span></p><div><br></div></b></span></h1><h1 style="color: rgb(64, 128, 255); font: normal normal bold x-large/normal Tahoma, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; ">Nicosia, Cyprus 2011</h1><h2 style="color: rgb(64, 128, 255); font: normal normal bold large/normal Tahoma, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; ">5-8 October 2011</h2><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large; color: rgb(64, 128, 255); ">Call for papers</span></div></center><div><br></div></div><div class="text" style="font-family: Tahoma, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-top: 6px; text-align: justify; ">The 30th International <b>Conference on Lexis and Grammar</b> will be organized by the Department of French Studies and Modern Languages in the University of Cyprus, in Nicosia (Cyprus), from October 5 to October 8, 2011.</div><div class="text" style="font-family: Tahoma, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-top: 6px; text-align: justify; ">The conference welcomes innovative papers on the formal description of languages, as well as on the construction, management and use of language resources, including manually constructed lexicons and grammars. In addition, it aims at bringing together linguists and computer scientists.</div><div class="text" style="padding-bottom: 6px; padding-top: 6px; text-align: justify; "><b>The conference will combine a general session and a thematic session.</b></div><div class="text" style="padding-bottom: 6px; padding-top: 6px; text-align: justify; "><b></b><b><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; display: inline !important; "><span lang="FR"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">The <b>thematic session</b> of the 30th International Conference on Lexis and Grammaris dedicated to <b>Light/Support Verb Constructions</b>, including, but not limited to:</span></span></p></b></div></span></center><center style="font-family: Tahoma, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-size: large; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 36pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt; "><span lang="FR">•<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "> </span></font></span></span><span lang="FR">V N, Adj, ... light verb constructions<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 36pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt; "><span lang="FR">•<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "> </span></font></span></span><span lang="FR">Applications (text mining, information retrieval, and so on) for Natural Language Processing of Light/Support verb constructions<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 36pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt; "><span lang="FR">•<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "> </span></font></span></span><span lang="FR">Type of meaning light verbs contribute (e.g. aspect, inception, intensification, register)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 36pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt; "><span lang="FR">•<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "> </span></font></span></span><span lang="FR">Rise of metaphor<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 36pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt; "><span lang="FR">•<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "> </span></font></span></span><span lang="FR">Determiner constraints for the predicative noun (e.g. zero article)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 36pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt; "><span lang="FR">•<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "> </span></font></span></span><span lang="FR">Defining characteristics, formal characters and formalization of Light verb constructions<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 36pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt; "><span lang="FR">•<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "> </span></font></span></span><span lang="FR">Light verbs and argument structure<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 36pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt; "><span lang="FR">•<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "> </span></font></span></span><span lang="FR">Collocations<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 36pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt; "><span lang="FR">•<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "> </span></font></span></span><span lang="FR">Diachronic vs. synchronic perspective</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 36pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt; "><span lang="FR">•<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "> </span></font></span></span><span lang="FR">Terminological aspects and implications of the labels Light verb, Support verb, Funktionsverb etc.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 36pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36pt; "><span lang="FR"><br></span></div></span></center><center style="font-family: Tahoma, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-size: large; "><div class="text" style="font-family: Tahoma, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-top: 6px; text-align: justify; ">Submissions for the <b>general session</b> may address any of the usual topics of the conference:</div><div class="text" style="font-family: Tahoma, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-top: 6px; text-align: justify; "><li>predicate-argument structures</li><li>the interface between lexis and grammar</li><li>exploitation of language resources (including manually constructed lexicons and grammars) for language processing (including information retrieval, information extraction, parsing)</li><li>language resources concerning lexis or grammar.</li></div><div class="text" style="font-family: Tahoma, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-top: 6px; text-align: justify; ">The conference languages are English and French.</div><div style="font-weight: normal; "><br></div><div class="text" style="font-family: Tahoma, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-top: 6px; text-align: justify; "><b>Important dates</b></div><div class="text" style="font-family: Tahoma, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-top: 6px; text-align: justify; "><b><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; "><span lang="FR"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">• Submission deadline: </span><span style="color: rgb(233, 0, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">April 30, 2011</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; "><span lang="FR"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">• Final version : June 15, 2011<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; "><span lang="FR"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">• Conference: October 5-8, 2011</span></span></p><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><a href="http://infolingu.univ-mlv.fr/Colloques/lgc/index.php?year=2011&lang=en&page=0">http://infolingu.univ-mlv.fr/Colloques/lgc/index.php?year=2011&lang=en&page=0</a></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">French version : </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><a href="http://infolingu.univ-mlv.fr/Colloques/lgc/index.php?year=2011&lang=fr&page=0">http://infolingu.univ-mlv.fr/Colloques/lgc/index.php?year=2011&lang=fr&page=0</a></span></div><div><br></div></b></div></center></body></html>