LFG97

[Tracy Holloway King]

	       ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS: LFG97

			 June 19 -- 21, 1997

		  University of California-San Diego
			San Diego, California
	    Conference chair: Prof. Farrell Ackerman, UCSD

LFG97 will take place in June 1997 at the University of California-San
Diego. 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), poster presentations, and workshops with invited
participants (see below).  The talks and poster presentations may
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.

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, e-mail address, and whether the author(s) are
  students.
- If possible, please send a postscript or ascii file of the abstract
  via email IN ADDITION TO the five hard copies.

Abstracts should be sent to the following address and should indicate
whether the submission is for a talk or a poster:

	    Dr. Tracy Holloway King
	    Information Sciences and Technologies Laboratory
	    Xerox PARC
	    3333 Coyote Hill Road
	    Palo Alto, CA 94304 USA

Important dates: 

  ABSTRACT RECEIPT DEADLINE: January 31, 1997
  NOTIFICATION DATE: March 15, 1997

We plan to organize workshops on the following topics, with special
emphasis on how results in these areas are best accommodated within
lexicalist frameworks:

	Grammaticalization and Linguistic Theory
	Morphology and Linguistic Theory 
	Discourse and Phrase Structure 

We hope to be able to offer some financial assistance to student
presenters attending the conference.  Further information about
student subsidies will be available in late March.

A copy of this announcement is available by anonymous FTP from:
	 parcftp.xerox.com/pub/nl/lfgconference-announcement

Inquiries about abstract submissions should be sent to Dr. Tracy King,
thking at parc.xerox.com, and Dr. Miriam Butt, mutt at ims.uni-stuttgart.de. 
Additional inquiries about the conference should be sent to
Prof. Farrell Ackerman, ackerman at ling.ucsd.edu.