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<font size="6"><b>Call for Papers</b></font></div>
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<font size="4"><b>FIFTEENTH INTERNATIONAL LEXICAL FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR CONFERENCE<br>
18-20 June 2010<br>
Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada</b></font></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-family: Tahoma;"><font size="2">Conference website: <a href="http://www.carleton.ca/lfg2010/">http://www.carleton.ca/lfg2010/</a></font><font style="font-family: Tahoma;" size="2"><span style="font-size: 120%;"></span></font><font size="2"><br>
Conference e-mail (NOT for abstract submission): lfg2010 'at' carleton.ca</font><font style="font-family: Tahoma;" size="2"><span style="font-size: 120%;"></span></font>
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<div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-family: Tahoma;"><font size="2">Abstract submission receipt deadline: <b>15 February 2010, 11:59 pm GMT</b><br>
Abstracts should be submitted using the online submission system at:<a href="https://mail.microsoft.com/OWA/redir.aspx?C=499214aad40f4479adda2238a5444be2&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.easychair.org%2fconferences%2f%3fconf%3dlfg09" target="_blank"> http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lfg10</a></font></div>
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LFG 2010 welcomes work within the formal architecture of
Lexical-Functional Grammar as well as typological, formal, and
computational work within the 'spirit of LFG' as a lexicalist approach
to language employing a parallel, constraint-based framework. The
conference aims to promote interaction and collaboration among
researchers interested in non-derivational approaches to grammar, where
grammar is seen as the interaction of (perhaps violable) constraints
from multiple levels of structuring, including those of syntactic
categories, grammatical relations, semantics and discourse.
<div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Further information about LFG as a syntactic theory is available at the following sites:
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<li><a href="https://mail.microsoft.com/OWA/redir.aspx?C=499214aad40f4479adda2238a5444be2&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.essex.ac.uk%2flinguistics%2fLFG%2f" target="_blank">http://www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/LFG/</a></li><li><a href="https://mail.microsoft.com/OWA/redir.aspx?C=499214aad40f4479adda2238a5444be2&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww-lfg.stanford.edu%2flfg%2f" target="_blank">http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg/</a></li></ul>
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<div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><b>SUBMISSIONS: TALKS AND POSTERS</b></div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">The main conference
sessions will involve 45-minute talks (30 min. + 15 min. discussion),
and poster/system presentations. Contributions can focus on results
from completed as well as ongoing research, with an emphasis on novel
approaches, methods, ideas, and perspectives, whether descriptive,
theoretical, formal or computational. Presentations should describe
original, unpublished work.</div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><b>DISSERTATION SESSION</b></div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">As in previous years,
we are hoping to hold a special session that will give students the
chance to present recent PhD dissertations (or other student research
dissertations). The dissertations must be completed by the time of the
conference, and they should be made publicly accessible (e.g., on the
World Wide Web). The talks in this session should provide an overview
of the main original points of the dissertation; the talks will be 20
minutes, followed by a 10-minute discussion period. The International
LFG Association (ILFGA) will pay the conference fees for the students
presenting at the student session.</div>
<div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Students should note that the main sessions are certainly also open to student submissions.</div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><b>TIMETABLE</b></div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Deadline for abstracts: 15 February 2010<br>
Acceptances sent out: 31 March 2010<br>
Conference: 18-20 June 2010</div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><b>SUBMISSION SPECIFICATIONS</b></div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Abstracts for talks,
posters/demonstrations and the dissertation session must be received by
February 15, 2010. All abstracts should be submitted using the online
submission system. Submissions should be in the form of abstracts only.
Abstracts can be up to two A4 or US Letter pages in 10pt or larger type
and should include a title. Omit name and affiliation, and obvious
self-reference. Note: we no longer ask for a separate page for data and
figures (c-/f- and related structures). They can be included in the
text of the abstract, obeying the overall two-page limit. Please submit
your abstract in .pdf or .doc format. If you have any trouble
converting your file into any of these formats, please contact the
Program Committee at the address below.</div>
<div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">While the number of
submissions is not restricted, at most one single-authored submission
or two first-authored submissions per person will be accepted for oral
presentation. Authors may want to keep this in mind when stating their
preferences concerning the mode of presentation of their submissions.</div>
<div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">All abstracts will be
reviewed by at least three people. Papers will appear in the
proceedings, which will be published online by CSLI Publications.
Selected papers may also appear in a printed volume published by CSLI
Publications.</div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><b>ORGANISERS AND THEIR CONTACT ADDRESSES</b></div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">If you have queries
about abstract submission or have problems using the EasyChair
submission system, please contact the Program Committee.</div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Program Committee - Email: lfg10 'at' easychair.org
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<li>Martin Forst, Powerset/Microsoft, United States of America</li><li>Louisa Sadler, University of Essex, United Kingdom</li></ul>
<div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Local conference organisers - Email: lfg2010 'at' carleton.ca
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<li>Ash Asudeh, Carleton University, Canada</li><li>Ida Toivonen, Carleton University, Canada<br>
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<div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">INFORMATION about the
venue and the conference, as well as accommodation and registration
details will be posted on the conference website.</div></span></font></body></html>