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<div align="center"><font color="#000000">First Call for Papers: LFG
2005</font></div>
<div align="center"><font color="#000000"><br></font></div>
<div align="center"><font color="#000000">TENTH INTERNATIONAL LEXICAL
FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR CONFERENCE</font></div>
<div align="center"><font color="#000000"><br></font></div>
<div align="center"><font color="#000000">DATES 18 - 20 July
2005</font></div>
<div align="center"><font color="#000000"><br></font></div>
<div align="center"><font color="#000000">Bergen, Norway</font></div>
<div align="center"><font color="#000000"><br></font></div>
<div align="center"><font color="#000000">Conference website:
http://ling.uib.no/lfg05/</font></div>
<div align="center"><font color="#000000"><br></font></div>
<div align="center"><font color="#000000">Abstract submission receipt
deadline:<b> 15 February 2005</b></font></div>
<div align="center"><font color="#000000">Submissions should be sent
to the LFG Program Committee</font></div>
<div align="center"><font color="#000000">(see addresses
below)</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><br>
The 10th International Lexical Functional Grammar Conference will be
hosted by the Section of Linguistic Studies at the University of
Bergen, Norway from 18 to 20 July 2005. A pre-conference
activity is planned for 17 July.</font><br>
<font color="#000000"></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">LFG 2005 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.<br>
<br>
Further information about LFG as a syntactic theory is available at
the following sites:<br>
<http://www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/LFG/><br>
<http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg/><br>
<br>
<br>
SUBMISSIONS: TALKS AND POSTERS<br>
<br>
The main conference sessions will involve 45-minute talks (30 min. +
15 min. discussion), and poster/system presentations. Contributions
should 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.<br>
<br>
<br>
DISSERTATION SESSION</font><br>
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<div><font color="#000000">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 contents 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.<br>
<br>
Students should note that the main sessions are certainly also open to
student submissions.<br>
<br>
<br>
WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS</font><br>
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<div><font color="#000000">We also invite proposals for workshops,
made up of a small group of talks (2-4) on a coherent topic that can
be expected to provide a general overview of the issues relevant to
the topic, and generate opposing views and discussion with the broader
audience. Panelists for workshops are usually determined by the
workshop organisers. Workshop papers should be distributed in advance
among panelists so they can cross-reference one another's
approaches.</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><br>
Proposals are also welcome for tutorials, which provide an
introduction for non-experts to a specific field of study.</font><br>
<font color="#000000"></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">At this point in time, we welcome
suggestions for workshops and tutorials from potential organisers or
people with specific interests. The suggestions should be sent to the
local organisers at: lfg05@uib.no</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><br>
<br>
TIMETABLE<br>
<br>
Deadline for abstracts:<x-tab>
</x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>15
February 2005<br>
Acceptances sent out:<x-tab>
</x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>31
March 2005<br>
<br>
Deadline for workshop submissions:<x-tab> </x-tab>15 January
2005</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">Workshop acceptances:<x-tab>
</x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>15
February 2005</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><br>
Conference: <span
></span
> <span
></span> 18-20 July
2005<br>
<br>
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SUBMISSION SPECIFICATIONS</font><br>
<font color="#000000"></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">Abstracts for talks, posters/demonstrations
and the dissertation session must be received by February 15, 2005.
All abstracts should be sent to the program committee at the addresses
given below. For workshops, further site information, or offers of
organisational help, contact</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">the local organisers at:
lfg05@uib.no</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><br>
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</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">structures). They can be included in
the text of the abstract, obeying the overall two-page limit.<br>
<br>
Abstracts may be submitted by email or by regular mail. Email
submission is preferred.<br>
<br>
The following information should be provided separately:<br>
<br>
PAPER TITLE: __________________________________________<br>
<br>
(for each author:)<br>
NAME: <span
></span>
_______________________________<br>
AFFILIATION: <span
></span> _______________________________<br>
E-MAIL ADDRESS:
_______________________________<br>
IS AUTHOR A STUDENT? (Y/N) ___<br>
<br>
(for dissertation session submissions:)<br>
UNIVERSITY: <span
></span> _______________________________<br>
ADVISOR(S): <span
></span> _______________________________<br>
(EXPECTED) DATE OF SUBMISSION: _______________________<br>
<br>
SESSION TYPE:
_________________________<br>
(Should submission be considered for:<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>(1) talk or
poster,<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>(2) talk only,<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>(3) poster/demonstration only,<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>(4) dissertation session.)<br>
</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">(Note: In the absence of session type
specification, submissions will be considered for both the talk and
the poster sessions, and the program co-chairs may decide that certain
submissions are better as poster presentations than as read
papers.)<br>
<br>
Regular Mail:<br>
Include:<br>
- Eight copies of the abstract/paper.<br>
- A card or cover sheet with author information.<br>
<br>
Email:<br>
Include the author information in the body of your email message.
Include or preferably attach your abstract. The preferred file
formats are PDF or plain ASCII. (If you cannot create PDF, HTML
and postscript will be accepted too. Postscript files require
special care to avoid problems: make sure your system is set to
include all fonts, or at least all but the standard 13; if using a
recent version of Word, make sure you click the printer Properties
button and then the Postscript tab, and there choose Optimize for
Portability; on all platforms make sure the system is not asking for a
particular paper size or other device-specific configuration. It
is your responsibility to send us a file that us and our reviewers can
print. You can often test this by trying to look at the file in a
screen previewer such as Ghostview.)<br>
<br>
All abstracts will be reviewed by at least three people.<br>
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.<br>
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<br>
ORGANISERS AND THEIR CONTACT ADDRESSES<br>
<br>
Send abstract submissions and inquiries about submissions to:<br>
<br>
Program Committee<br>
<br>
Email:<x-tab> </x-tab>Tara Mohanan <elltaram@nus.edu.sg><br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>Aoife Cahill
<aoife.cahill@computing.dcu.ie><br>
<br>
Mail:<x-tab> </x-tab>LFG 2005<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>c/o Tara
Mohanan<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>Department
of English Language and Literature<br>
<x-tab>
</x-tab>FASS Block 5, 7 Arts Link<br>
<x-tab
> </x-tab>National
University of Singapore<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>Singapore
117570</font><br>
<font color="#000000"></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">Local conference
organisers:<x-tab> </x-tab></font></div>
<div><font
color="#000000"><x-tab>
</x-tab>Helge Dyvik, Victoria Rosén, Koenraad de Smedt and Helge
Lødrup<br>
<br>
INFORMATION about Bergen, as well as accommodation and registration
details, are available on the conference website:</font></div>
<div><font
color="#000000"><x-tab>
</x-tab>http://ling.uib.no/lfg05/</font><br>
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