Apologies for multiple postings.<br>
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FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS<br>
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HPSG 2006<br>
The 13th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar<br>
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Varna, Bulgaria<br>
July 24 - 27, 2006<br>
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Conference website: <a href="http://www.bultreebank.org/HPSG06/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.bultreebank.org/HPSG06/</a><br>
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The 13th International Conference on HPSG will take place in Varna on<br>
July 24 -27, 2006, hosted by the Linguistic Modelling Laboratory, IPP,<br>
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.<br>
The conference will include a tutorial (July 24)<br>
and a workshop on "Regularity and Irregularity in Grammar and Language" <br>
(July 25).<br>
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MAIN CONFERENCE<br>
July 26 - 27<br>
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Abstracts are solicited for 20 minute presentations (followed by 10<br>
minutes of discussion) which address linguistic, foundational, or<br>
computational issues relating to the framework of Head-Driven Phrase<br>
Structure Grammar.<br>
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INVITED SPEAKERS<br>
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To be announced<br>
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WORKSHOP<br>
"Regularity and Irregularity in Grammar and Language"<br>
(announcement)<br>
July 25<br>
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The workshops associated with HPSG conferences typically address topics<br>
that are relevant to any grammatical framework. Contributions to the<br>
workshop from other frameworks are as welcome as abstract submissions<br>
from the HPSG community!<br>
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The relationship between regularity and irregularity in language has<br>
always been a central research theme in linguistic theorizing.<br>
Contemporary grammatical frameworks in the generative tradition are no<br>
exception in this regard, with research dating back at least as far as<br>
George Lakoff's 1967 dissertation.<br>
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Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar is particularly well-suited to<br>
address such issues, due to its lexicalist orientation and to its<br>
extensive use of types and inheritance hierarchies. Consequently,<br>
HPSG researchers have made significant contributions to the study of
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regularity and irregularity in the areas of morphology, syntax and<br>
semantics. To name only a few examples:<br>
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Morphology and morphology-syntax interface: Flickinger's dissertation<br>
on lexical rules and the structure of the lexicon (Flickinger 1987);<br>
Nerbonne and Krieger's work on the organization of the lexicon and on<br>
inflectional morphology (Nerbonne and Krieger 1993); Riehemann's<br>
corpus-based study of derivational morphology (Riehemann 1998);<br>
Malouf's constructional approach to English gerunds.<br>
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Syntax and syntax-semantics interface: Przepiorkowski's account of<br>
case assigmnment in Polish (Przepiorkowski 1999); Sag's papers on<br>
assignment rules and exceptions in the English auxiliary system (Sag 2001);<br>
Ginzburg and Sag's constructional approach to the syntax and semantics<br>
of questions (Ginzburg and Sag 2001).<br>
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Semantics: research on licensing of special elements, including idioms<br>
(Riehemann 2001, Soehn 2006), n-words and negative polarity items<br>
(Przepiorkowski and Kupsc 1999; Sailer/Richter 1999; De Swart and Sag<br>
2002).<br>
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We invite contributions that address issues related to the above<br>
research topics, that discuss theoretical issues in the treatment of<br>
regularity and irregularity in language, or that present empirical<br>
studies that pose interesting challenges to existing accounts.<br>
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The format of submission and the deadlines for the workshop will be<br>
identical to that of the main conference.<br>
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SUBMISSION DETAILS<br>
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For both the main conference and the workshop, we invite online<br>
submissions of abstracts for presentations which should consist of two<br>
parts:<br>
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1. a separate information page in plain text format, containing<br>
- author name(s)<br>
- affiliation(s)<br>
- e-mail and postal address(es)<br>
- title of paper<br>
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2. an extended abstract of not more than 5 (five) pages, including all<br>
figures and references. Abstracts should be in PDF format.
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We use an online subscription system. All abstracts should be <br>
submitted via <a href="http://www.easychair.org/HPSG2006" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.easychair.org/HPSG2006</a><br>
(If you have any questions: <a href="mailto:jp.soehn@uni-tuebingen.de" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">jp.soehn@uni-tuebingen.de</a>).<br>
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Abstracts for the main conference should mention 'HPSG-06' and<br>
abstracts for the workshop should mention 'Workshop-06' in the<br>
subject line. All abstracts will be reviewed anonymously by at least<br>
two reviewers. Authors are asked to avoid self-references in the<br>
abstracts.<br>
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IMPORTANT DATES<br>
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Abstract submission deadline: March 15, 2006<br>
Notification of acceptance: May 15, 2005<br>
Tutorial, Workshop, and Conference: July 24 - 27, 2006<br>
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PUBLICATION<br>
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The proceedings of the conference will be published on-line by CSLI<br>
publications. A call for papers for contributions will be issued after<br>
the conference. On-line proceedings of previous conferences are<br>
available at <a href="<a href="http://csli-publications.stanford.edu/HPSG/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://csli-publications.stanford.edu/HPSG/</a>"><a href="http://csli-publications.stanford.edu/HPSG/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://csli-publications.stanford.edu/HPSG/
</a></a><br>
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PROGRAM COMMITTEE for the CONFERENCE<br>
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To be announced<br>
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Program chairs:<br>
Erhard Hinrichs (Tuebingen)<br>
Jan-Philipp Soehn (Tuebingen)<br>
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LOCAL ORGANIZATION<br>
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Chair: Kiril Simov (Sofia)<br>
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FURTHER INFORMATION<br>
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local organization: Kiril Simov and Petya Osenova<br>
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programm and submissions: Jan-Philipp Soehn<br>
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conference web site: <a href="http://www.bultreebank.org/HPSG06/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.bultreebank.org/HPSG06/</a><br>
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submission web site: <a href="http://www.easychair.org/HPSG2006/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.easychair.org/HPSG2006/</a>