LFG 2008 - First call for papers (revised)

[Yehuda N. Falk]

Dear LFG'ers,

I support the limitations on the number of papers that one person can 
submit to the LFG conference.

Josef, in arguing against the limitation, made the point that:

> I don't, however, see LFG conferences as any other "Linguistics 
> Conference",

I agree with this. More than being just another linguistics conference, the 
LFG Conference is the one time of the year that we, the small and 
geographically far-flung LFG community, get together to share ideas, and 
thus help LFG grow. But I think that this is an argument in favor of the 
limitation, because in addition to diversity of subdisciplines that we want 
represented at the conference, I think we also want a diversity of 
*presenters* themselves. Having one person give more than one talk limits 
the diversity of perspectives that are presented at the LFG Conference, 
and, to my mind, makes the LFG Conference a less effective way of sharing 
ideas.


-- 
                            Yehuda N. Falk
              Associate Professor, Department of English
   The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem, Israel
                        msyfalk at mscc.huji.ac.il
      Personal Web Site    http://pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il/~msyfalk/
     Departmental Web Site    http://atar.mscc.huji.ac.il/~english/

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