FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS<br><br>HPSG 2006<br>The 13th International Conference on<br>Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar<br><br>Varna, Bulgaria<br>July 24 - 27, 2006<br><br>Conference website: <a href="http://www.bultreebank.org/HPSG06/">
http://www.bultreebank.org/HPSG06/</a><br><br><br>The 13th International Conference on HPSG will take place in Varna on<br>July 24 -27, 2006, hosted by the Linguistic Modelling Laboratory, IPP,<br>Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
<br>The conference will include four tutorials (July 24, details follow in our <br>CALL FOR PARTICIPATION) and a workshop on "Regularity and Irregularity <br>in Grammar and Language" (July 25).<br><br><br>INVITED SPEAKERS
<br><br>Workshop:<br>Frank van Eynde (Leuven)<br><br>Main conference:<br>Stefan Mueller (Bremen)<br>Shravan Vasishth (Potsdam)<br><br><br><br>MAIN CONFERENCE<br>July 26 - 27<br><br>Abstracts are solicited for 20 minute presentations (followed by 10
<br>minutes of discussion) which address linguistic, foundational, or<br>computational issues relating to the framework of Head-Driven Phrase<br>Structure Grammar.<br><br><br><br>WORKSHOP<br>"Regularity and Irregularity in Grammar and Language"
<br>(announcement)<br>July 25<br><br>----<br>The workshops associated with HPSG conferences typically address topics<br>that are relevant to any grammatical framework. Contributions to the<br>workshop from other frameworks are as welcome as abstract submissions
<br>from the HPSG community!<br><br>The relationship between regularity and irregularity in language has<br>always been a central research theme in linguistic theorizing.<br>Contemporary grammatical frameworks in the generative tradition are no
<br>exception in this regard, with research dating back at least as far as<br>George Lakoff's 1966 dissertation.<br><br>Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar is particularly well-suited to<br>address such issues, due to its lexicalist orientation and to its
<br>extensive use of types and inheritance hierarchies. Consequently,<br>HPSG researchers have made significant contributions to the study of<br>regularity and irregularity in the areas of morphology, syntax and<br>semantics. To name only a few examples:
<br><br>morphology and morphology-syntax interface: Flickinger's dissertation<br>on lexical rules and the structure of the lexicon (Flickinger 1987);<br>Nerbonne and Krieger's work on the organization of the lexicon and on
<br>inflectional morphology (Nerbonne and Krieger 1993); Riehemann's<br>corpus-based study of derivational morphology (Riehemann 1998);<br>Malouf's constructional approach to English gerunds.<br><br>syntax and syntax-semantics interface: Przepiorkowski's account of
<br>case assigmnment in Polish (Przepiorkowski 1999); Sag's papers on<br>assignment rules and exceptions in the English auxiliary system (Sag 2001);<br>Ginzburg and Sag's constructional approach to the syntax and semantics
<br>of questions (Ginzburg and Sag 2001).<br><br>semantics: research on licensing of special elements, including idioms<br>(Riehemann 2001, Soehn 2006), n-words and negative polarity items<br>(Przepiorkowski and Kupsc 1999; Sailer/Richter 1999; De Swart and Sag
<br>2002).<br><br>We invite contributions that address issues related to the above<br>research topics, that discuss theoretical issues in the treatment of<br>regularity and irregularity in language, or that present empirical
<br>studies that pose interesting challenges to existing accounts.<br><br>The format of submission and the deadlines for the workshop will be<br>identical to that of the main conference.<br><br><br>SUBMISSION DETAILS<br><br>
For both the main conference and the workshop, we invite E-MAIL<br>submissions of abstracts for presentations which should consist of two<br>parts:<br><br>1. a separate information page in plain text format, containing<br>
- author name(s)<br>- affiliation(s)<br>- e-mail and postal address(es)<br>- title of paper<br><br>2. an extended abstract of not more than 5 (five) pages, including all<br>figures and references. Abstracts should be in PDF format.
<br><br>We use an online subscription system. All abstracts should be <br>submitted via <a href="http://www.easychair.org/HPSG2006">http://www.easychair.org/HPSG2006</a><br>(If you have any questions: <a href="mailto:jp.soehn@uni-tuebingen.de">
jp.soehn@uni-tuebingen.de</a>).<br><br>Abstracts for the main conference should mention 'HPSG-06' and<br>abstracts for the workshop should mention 'Workshop-06' in the<br>subject line. All abstracts will be reviewed anonymously by at least
<br>two reviewers. Authors are asked to avoid self-references in the<br>abstracts.<br><br>IMPORTANT DATES<br><br>Abstract submission deadline: March 15, 2006<br>Notification of acceptance: May 15, 2005<br>Tutorial, Workshop, and Conference: July 24 - 27, 2006
<br><br>PUBLICATION<br><br>The proceedings of the conference will be published on-line by CSLI<br>publications. A call for papers for contributions will be issued after<br>the conference. On-line proceedings of previous conferences are
<br>available at <a href="<a href="http://csli-publications.stanford.edu/HPSG/">http://csli-publications.stanford.edu/HPSG/</a>"><a href="http://csli-publications.stanford.edu/HPSG/">http://csli-publications.stanford.edu/HPSG/
</a></a><br><br>PROGRAM COMMITTEE for the CONFERENCE<br><br>Anne Abeille (Paris)<br>Raul Aranovich (Davis)<br>Emily Bender (Washington)<br>Gosse Bouma (Groningen)<br>Antonio Branco (Lisbon)<br>Chan Chung (Dongseo)<br>
Ann Copestake (Cambridge)<br>Berthold Crysmann (Saarbruecken)<br>Elisabeth Engdahl (Goeteborg)<br>Anna Feldman (Columbus)<br>Dan Flickinger (Stanford)<br>Howard Gregory (Goettingen)<br>Daniele Godard (Paris)<br>Erhard Hinrichs (Tuebingen, chair)
<br>Jong-Bok Kim (Kyung Hee)<br>Valia Kordoni (Saarbruecken)<br>Ania Kupsc (Nancy)<br>Shalom Lappin (London)<br>Robert Levine (Columbus)<br>Stefan Mueller (Bremen)<br>Tsuneko Nakazawa (Tokyo)<br>Petya Osenova (Sofia)<br>Gerald Penn (Toronto)
<br>Luisa Sadler (Essex)<br>Ivan Sag (Stanford)<br>Manfred Sailer (Goettingen)<br>Gautam Sengupta (Hyderabad)<br>Jan-Philipp Soehn (Tuebingen, chair)<br>Jesse Tseng (Nancy)<br>Nathan Vaillette (Amherst)<br>Stephen Wechsler (Austin)
<br>Eun-Jung Yoo (Seoul)<br>Larisa Zlatic (Austin)<br><br><br>LOCAL ORGANIZATION<br><br>Chair: Kiril Simov (Sofia)<br><br><br>FURTHER INFORMATION<br><br>local organization: Kiril Simov and Petya Osenova<br><br>programm and submissions: Jan-Philipp Soehn
<br><br>conference web site: <a href="http://www.bultreebank.org/HPSG06/">http://www.bultreebank.org/HPSG06/</a><br><br>submission web site: <a href="http://www.easychair.org/HPSG2006/">http://www.easychair.org/HPSG2006/</a>
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