2nd announcement ICFG13 and IPCFG4

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Second Announcement


 


ICFG13


 

13th International Conference on Functional Grammar

 University of Westminster, London, Great Britain, 3-6 September 2008

 

preceded by

 


IPCFG4


 

4th International Postgraduate Course on Functional Grammar

 University of Westminster, London, Great Britain, 1-3 September 2008

 

 

 

The venue

ICFG13 will be hosted by the Harrow School of Computer Science, University of Westminster, at its Harrow Campus (Watford Road, Nothwick Park, Harrow HA1 3TP London, Great Britain).  Information about travelling to Harrow Campus  will be provided on our website soon www.functionalgrammar.com <http://www.functionalgrammar.com/> 


 


The Conference 


Although the conference programme will host all possible topics related to the further elaboration of F(D)G, the conference will start on Wednesday afternoon 4 September with a special workshop on Computational Applications of Functional Grammar. The length of the papers will be 30 minutes followed by another 10 minutes of discussion. The language of the conference will be English. Apart from the workshop and general sessions, there will be ample room for poster presentations. 

 

Abstracts

Given the role the quality of the abstract plays in the selection procedure, each abstract should contain at least the following items: a clearly defined and well-motivated research question; the crucial examples illustrating the relevance of the research question; and the main conclusions the paper arrives at. Abstracts should have a length of approximately 1000 words, i.e. roughly 3 pages, and should not contain the name of the author. References to the literature cited should be given. References containing the name of the author may also be given but will be suppressed before the abstract is sent to the programme committee. Please indicate in the accompanying message whether you want to present a paper or a poster. The deadline for the submission of abstracts of papers and posters is 29 February 2008.  Abstracts should be submitted electronically to the international secretary of the FGF at fg-fgw at uva.nl

 

Programme committee

The board of the Functional Grammar Foundation (FGF) has appointed the following programme committee for ICFG13: Marize Dall'Aglio-Hattner (president), Maria Chondrogianni and Kees Hengeveld. The programme committee will evaluate the anonymous abstracts and decide on their inclusion in the conference programme. In case a member of the programme committee submits an abstract, he/she will not evaluate his/her own abstract, but a member of the board of FGF will step in to evaluate the abstract of the committee member involved.


 


The local organizing committee consists of Maria Chondrogianni (Chair, Harrow School of Computer Science), Dr Simon Courtenage (School of Informatics), Dr Vassiliki Bouki (Harrow School of Computer Science), Dr Louise Sylvester (School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Languages).

 

Pre-Conference Course

In view of the success of the previous  pre-conference courses, an intensive course will be organized in the days preceding the conference to enable linguists unfamiliar with the theory to prepare for the conference. The course will be organized with participants at PhD level in mind. The Fourth International Postgraduate Course on Functional Grammar will focus on the Functional Discourse Grammar model and will also prepare the students for the special conference theme. Please inform your PhD students and colleagues unfamiliar with Functional (Discourse) Grammar of this possibility of getting acquainted with the theory and its applications. The conference and course website offers online information as well as a registration form.

 


Travel and accommodation


Quality cheap on campus accommodation will be offered to all delegates and their guests. Single en-suite rooms are available for £ 25.00 - £ 30.00 per person per night.

 


Course and conference Fee


 

Early bird payment before July 1st, 2008  (in United Kingdom Pounds)

 


 

Normal

Students


Course  (including free Conference)

£ 200.00 

£ 150.00


Conference

£ 150.00

£ 100.00


 

 

 

 

Payment after July 1st, 2008


 

Normal

Students


Course  (including free Conference)

£ 225.00

£ 175.00


Conference

£ 175.00

£ 125.00

 


Registration


The Functional Grammar website offers an online registration form, which we urge you to send in at your earliest convenience.  www.functionalgrammar.com/

 

Website

All information concerning ICFG13  and IPCFG4 will be made available at www.functionalgrammar.com/.

 

How you can reach us 

The email address for all matters related to the conference programme is: 

 <mailto:fg-fgw at uva.nl> fg-fgw at uva.nl 

 

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 Functional Grammar Foundation 
   International Secretary 
   Universiteit van Amsterdam 
   Department of Theoretical Linguistics 
   Spuistraat 210 
   1012 VT  Amsterdam 
   The Netherlands 
   e-mail: fg-fgw at uva.nl 
                
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