Invitation to HPSG 2006<br><br>The 13th International Conference<br>on<br>Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar<br>24 -27 July, 2006, Varna, Bulgaria<br><br><a href="http://www.bultreebank.org/HPSG06/">http://www.bultreebank.org/HPSG06/
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</a><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><br>The conference will include a tutorial day (July 24):
<br> Semantics within and beyond HPSG: LRS and LTAG<br> (Frank Richter and Laura Kallmeyer)<br> Construction-Based Grammar<br> (Ivan Sag)<br> HPSG meets Categorial Grammar<br> (Carl Pollard)<br> Implementation: Recent developments in LKB and TRALE
<br> (Berthold Crysmann and Gerald Penn)<br>and a workshop on "Regularity and Irregularity in Grammar and Language"<br>(July 25).<br><br>Main Conference<br>July 26 - 27<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>Workshop<br><br>"Regularity and Irregularity in Grammar and Language"<br>(announcement)
<br>July 25<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 1967 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><br><br><br>Program Committee for the Conference<br><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 (Stanford)<br>Berthold Crysmann (Saarbruecken)<br>Elisabeth Engdahl (Goeteborg)<br>Anna Feldman (Ohio)<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 (Ohio)<br>Stefan Müller (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>Further Information<br><br>Local Organisation:<br><br>Kiril Simov<br>BulTreeBank Project<br>Linguistic Modelling Laboratory, IPP,<br>Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
<br>Sofia, Bulgaria<br><br>Petya Osenova<br>BulTreeBank Project<br>Linguistic Modelling Laboratory, IPP,<br>Bulgarian Academy of Sciences<br>Sofia, Bulgaria<br><br>Program and Submissions:<br><br>Jan-Philipp Soehn<br>Seminar fuer Sprachwissenschaft
<br>Eberhard-Karls-Universitaet<br>Tuebingen, Germany<br><br>Conference Web Site:<br><br><a href="http://www.bultreebank.org/HPSG06/">http://www.bultreebank.org/HPSG06/</a><br><br>