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<div style="direction: ltr;font-family: Tahoma;color: #000000;font-size: 10pt;">LFG18: The 23rd International Lexical-Functional Grammar Conference<br>
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17 July - 19 July 2018<br>
University of Vienna, Austria<br>
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Conference website: http://lfg2018.univie.ac.at/<br>
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Conference e-mail (NOT for abstract submission): dewei.che 'at' univie.ac.at<br>
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Abstract submission deadline: 15 February 2018, 23:59 GMT<br>
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Abstracts should be submitted using the online submission system at<br>
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lfg18<br>
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Invited speakers: T.B.C., see conference website for up-to-date information<br>
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Workshop: a workshop on "Information Structure: Form and Interpretation" will<br>
be held on 20 July 2018. This workshop invites contributions on the marking and<br>
interpretation of information structure, including focus, topic, contrast and givenness<br>
in the context of non-transformational grammars. Further information is provided below,<br>
and please see http://lfg2018.univie.ac.at/program/workshop/ for full details.<br>
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LFG18 welcomes work within the formal architecture of Lexical-Functional Grammar<br>
as well as typological, formal, and computational work within the 'spirit of LFG' as a<br>
lexicalist approach to language employing a parallel, constraint-based framework. The<br>
conference aims to promote interaction and collaboration among researchers interested<br>
in non-derivational approaches to grammar, where grammar is seen as the interaction<br>
of (perhaps violable) constraints from multiple levels of structuring, including those<br>
of syntactic categories, grammatical relations, semantics and discourse.<br>
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SUBMISSIONS: TALKS AND POSTERS<br>
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The main conference sessions will involve 45-minute talks (30 min + 15 min discussion),<br>
and poster presentations. Contributions can focus on results from completed as well as<br>
ongoing research, with an emphasis on novel approaches, methods, ideas, and<br>
perspectives, whether descriptive, theoretical, formal or computational. Presentations<br>
should describe original, unpublished work.<br>
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DISSERTATION SESSION<br>
As in previous years, we are hoping to hold a special session that will give students<br>
the chance to present recent PhD dissertations (or other student research<br>
dissertations). The dissertations must be completed by the time of the conference, and<br>
they should be made publicly accessible (e.g., on the World Wide Web). The talks in this<br>
session should provide an overview of the main original points of the dissertation; the<br>
talks will be 20 minutes, followed by a 10-minute discussion period.<br>
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Students should note that the main sessions are certainly also open to student<br>
submissions. Students who present papers in either session will receive a small<br>
subvention towards their conference costs from the International LFG Association<br>
(ILFGA).<br>
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TIMETABLE<br>
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Deadline for abstracts: 15 February 2018, 23:59 GMT<br>
Notification of acceptance: 30 March 2018<br>
Conference: 17 July - 20 July 2018<br>
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SUBMISSION SPECIFICATIONS<br>
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The language of the conference is English, and all abstracts must be written in English.<br>
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All abstracts should be submitted using the online submission system. Submissions should<br>
be in the form of abstracts only. Abstracts can be up to three A4 pages: two pages total<br>
for text, plus one page for diagrams and examples. Abstracts should be in 10pt or larger<br>
type, with margins of at least 2cm on all four sides, and should include a title. Omit<br>
name and affiliation (including in PDF document properties), and avoid obvious self-<br>
reference.<br>
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Please submit your abstract in .pdf format (or a plain text file). If you have any<br>
trouble converting your file into .pdf please contact the Program Committee at the<br>
address below. (On the Easychair submission system, if you upload your abstract as a .pdf<br>
file, please simply type 'abstract attached' in the abstract box.)<br>
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The number of submissions is not restricted. However, in the interests of high<br>
participation and broad representation, each author should be involved in a maximum of<br>
two oral papers and can only be a single author of one. There are no restrictions on<br>
poster presentations. Authors may want to keep this in mind when stating their<br>
preferences concerning the mode of presentation of their submissions.<br>
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All abstracts will be reviewed anonymously by at least three referees. Papers accepted to<br>
the conference can be submitted to the refereed proceedings, and will be published,<br>
subject to acceptance, online by CSLI Publications. (Please note that papers submitted to<br>
the proceedings are no longer automatically accepted for publication in the proceedings.)<br>
See http://web.stanford.edu/group/cslipublications/cslipublications/LFG/ for recent<br>
proceedings.<br>
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PRE-CONFERENCE EXCURSION<br>
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As a pre-conference event, on 16 July 2018, there will be a whole-day boat trip on the<br>
Danube from Vienna to Wachau, a picturesque valley west of Vienna. The cost of the trip<br>
is about 50 euros and there will be an option in the registration form to select this<br>
trip. The price includes the boat ride with stops at sights along the way, lunch, dinner<br>
and wine tasting.<br>
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WORKSHOP ON INFORMATION STRUCTURE: FORM AND INTERPRETATION<br>
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This workshop invites contributions on the marking and interpretation of information<br>
structure, including focus, topic, contrast and givenness in the context of non-<br>
transformational grammars. These may include, but need not be limited to, contributions<br>
on:<br>
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A. Information structure marking in lesser studied languages; what categories<br>
need to be distinguished to account for distributional facts? How are they<br>
encoded, and what options are there for mapping them onto a universal<br>
representation of IS functions?<br>
B. Different ways of focus marking: Ways to model the influence of syntactic<br>
position, morphological marking and prosodic marking on the signalling of IS<br>
categories, across languages, but also in languages that combine several of<br>
these.<br>
C. IS ambiguities: Patters in which the same form is compatible with different<br>
sizes, or even locations, of pragmatic focus/topic etc ('focus projection').<br>
How to model these, and what patterns are attested?<br>
D. Prosodic Structure in LFG, especially those aspects apparently relevant for<br>
IS-marking, i.e. stress, accent, tones and phrasing.<br>
E. IS Semantics: What machinery (multidimensional meanings, underspecified<br>
representations, structured meanings…) is needed to account for the semantics<br>
of IS marking, and how to implement them e.g. using glue semantics.<br>
F. IS Pragmatics: What are the pragmatic conditions on the use of IS categories,<br>
i.e. how do pragmatic rules make reference to such labels as 'focus', 'topic',<br>
etc.<br>
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Submission for the workshop should NOT be made on the EasyChair submission system, but
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should be sent direct to adams.bodomo 'at' univie.ac.at AND daniel.buring 'at' univie.ac.at.<br>
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ORGANISERS AND THEIR CONTACT ADDRESSES<br>
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If you have queries about abstract submission or have problems using the EasyChair submission<br>
system, please contact the Program Committee.<br>
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Program Chairs (Email: lfg18 'at' easychair.org)<br>
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John Lowe, University of Oxford<br>
Ida Toivonen, Carleton University<br>
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Local conference organizers (Email: dewei.che 'at' univie.ac.at)<br>
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Adams Bodomo, University of Vienna<br>
Daniel Buring, University of Vienna<br>
Che Dewei, University of Vienna<br>
Hasiyatu Abubakari, University of Vienna<br>
Izabela Jordanoska, University of Vienna<br>
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FURTHER INFORMATION<br>
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Further information about LFG as a syntactic theory is available at the following site:<br>
http://www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/external/LFG/<br>
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