LFG Bulletin, December 2008

Louise Mycock louise.mycock at LING-PHIL.OX.AC.UK
Tue Dec 16 10:23:31 UTC 2008 

LFG BULLETIN
DECEMBER 2008

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Next issue: March 2009

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LFG website:
http://www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/LFG/

International Lexical Functional Grammar Association:
http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg/ilfga/

More about LFG (old boilerplate section):
http://www.carleton.ca/~asudeh/LFG/more.txt

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CONTENTS

1. LFG 2009: First Call for Papers
2. Drafts for comments
3. Recent LFG work
4. Boilerplate

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1. LFG 2009

First Call for Papers

FOURTEENTH INTERNATIONAL LEXICAL FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR CONFERENCE

July 13-16, 2009

Trinity College, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Conference website: http://www.lfg09.net

Conference e-mail (NOT for abstract submission): Anna Kibort <ak243  
"at" cam.ac.uk>

Abstract submission receipt deadline: 15 February 2009, 11:59 pm GMT
Abstracts should be submitted using the online submission system at  
http://www.easychair.org/LFG09/


The 14th International Lexical Functional Grammar Conference will be  
held at Trinity College, Cambridge, from July 13th to 16th, 2009.

LFG 2009 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.

Further information about LFG as a syntactic theory is available at  
the following sites:
    - http://www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/LFG/
    - http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg/


SUBMISSIONS: TALKS AND POSTERS

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.


DISSERTATION SESSION
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.

Students should note that the main sessions are certainly also open  
to student submissions.


TIMETABLE

Deadline for abstracts: 15 February 2009
Acceptances sent out:   31 March 2009
Conference:             July 13-16 2009


SUBMISSION SPECIFICATIONS
Abstracts for talks, posters/demonstrations and the dissertation  
session must be received by February 15, 2009. 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 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.

Each individual may be the single author on only one submission and the
first author on at most two submissions; however, s/he may be a
co-author on any number of submissions.

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.


ORGANISERS AND THEIR CONTACT ADDRESSES

If you have queries about abstract submission or have problems using  
the EasyChair submission system, please contact the Program Committee.

Program Committee - Email: lfg09 "at" easychair.org

   - Martin Forst, Palo Alto Research Center, United States of America
   - Louisa Sadler, University of Essex, United Kingdom


Local conference organiser - Email: ak243 "at" cam.ac.uk
   - Anna Kibort, University of Surrey and Cambridge University,  
United Kingdom

INFORMATION about the venue and the conference, as well as  
accommodation and registration details will appear on the conference  
web site:
http://www.lfg09.net

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2. DRAFTS FOR COMMENTS

'Drafts for comments' offers bulletin readers the opportunity to  
submit information about drafts or projects on which they would like  
to receive comments from the community. This brings work in progress  
to the attention of the community and plays some of the role that  
previous incarnations of the archive played.

Please submit basic article/project information and a) a URL if the  
item is available online or else b) your contact email.

PLEASE DO NOT SUBMIT THE DRAFT ITSELF TO THE BULLETIN MAINTAINER

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3. RECENT LFG WORK

3.1 Conference Proceedings

LFG conference papers are available electronically at:
http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/site/ONLN.html


3.2 PhD

Lam, Olivia. 2008. Object functions and double object constructions  
in Lexical Functional Grammar. D. Phil thesis. University of Oxford.


3.3 Publications

Helge Lødrup (2008). 'The diversity and unity of the accusative with  
infinitive construction: A Norwegian perspective'. Linguistics 46.5:  
891–916.

K. Owczarzak, J. Van Genabith and A. Way (2008). 'Evaluating Machine  
Translation with LFG Dependencies'. Machine Translation, vol. 21,  
Netherlands: Springer. 95-119.

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4. BOILERPLATE

The boilerplate (standard text) which previously appeared at the end  
of every bulletin can be accessed at:

http://www.carleton.ca/~asudeh/LFG/more.txt

The LFG website also serves much of the same function as the  
boilerplate section.

http://www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/LFG/

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