LFG Conference

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     ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS: LFG COLLOQUIUM AND WORKSHOPS
 
 			 August 25--27, 1996
 			   Grenoble, France
  

An LFG colloquium and workshops will take place in August 1996 in
Grenoble, France.  Papers are invited both within the formal architecture
of lexical-functional grammar and in the `spirit of LFG', as a lexicalist
approach to language within a parallel, constraint-based framework.

There will be a series of 20-minute talks (with 10 minutes for
discussion), as well as workshops (see below).  The talks may present
results from completed as well as ongoing research, with an emphasis
on novel approaches, methods, ideas, and perspectives, whether
descriptive, theoretical, formal or computational.
 
 Abstract submissions should include:
  
 - Five copies of a one-page abstract of the paper with a title. OMIT
 name and affiliation.  A second page may be used for data, c-/f- and
 related structures, and references, but not for text. 
  
 - A 3" by 5" card with the title of the paper and the name(s) of the
 author(s), address and e-mail address.

 - If possible, please send a postscript or ascii file of the abstract
 via email IN ADDITION TO the five hard copies.

 Papers may be placed into appropriate workshops in consultation with
 author(s).
  
 Abstracts should be sent to Tracy Holloway King by FEBRUARY 1, 1996
 at the following address:

     Tracy Holloway King (LFG workshop)
     Linguistics Department
     Stanford University
     Stanford, CA 94305-2150
     USA

     thking at csli.stanford.edu

 Important dates:
   February 1, 1996: deadline for receipt of abstracts
   April 1, 1996: deadline for notification of acceptance (we will
                  send notification earlier if possible)
 
 We are also interested in organizing a number of workshops on topics
 such as: 
 
     Semantic representations and reasoning for LFG
     Relating projections (mappings between syntax, semantics, prosody, ...)
     Constraint competition (in, e.g., binding theory, weak crossover)
     Lexicality/complex predicates, and mapping theory
     Phrase structure typology (flat vs. extended X-bar structures)
     Formal architecture, formal langage results, complexity
     Implementing LFG: algorithms, data structures and efficiency.
     Workshop on grammar writing projects
  
 Proposals for workshops are also welcome; please contact
 Chris Manning at the following address by February 1, 1996 to
 propose a workshop or to volunteer to help organize a workshop.

	Christopher Manning                     
	Philosophy Dept
	Carnegie Mellon University
	Pittsburgh PA 15213-3890
	USA

        chris.manning at cmu.edu
 
 A copy of this announcement is available by anonymous FTP from
 parcftp.xerox.com as /pub/nl/lfgconference-announcement.