<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span class="gmail-il">Call</span> for <span class="gmail-il">Papers: the deadline
for LFG19 has been extended to 22 February. The updated call for papers follows.</span><br><br> LFG19: The 24th International Lexical-Functional Grammar Conference<br><br> 8 July - 10 July 2019<br> Australian National University, Canberra<br><br>Conference website: <a href="http://www.dynamicsoflanguage.edu.au/lfg-2019/" target="_blank">http://www.dynamicsoflanguage.edu.au/<span class="gmail-m_7059514542415276192gmail-il"><span class="gmail-il">lfg</span></span>-2019/</a><br><br>Conference e-mail (NOT for abstract submission): lfg19anu 'at' <a href="http://gmail.com" target="_blank">gmail.com</a><br> <br>Abstract submission deadline: 22 February 2019, 23:59 GMT<br><br>Abstracts should be submitted using the online submission system at<br><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lfg19" target="_blank">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lfg19</a><br><br>Invited speakers:<br>Kersti Börjars (University of Manchester) and Louisa Sadler (University of Essex)<br><br>LFG19 welcomes work within the formal architecture of Lexical-Functional Grammar as well as<br>typological, formal, and computational work within the 'spirit of <span class="gmail-m_7059514542415276192gmail-il"><span class="gmail-il">LFG</span></span>' as a lexicalist approach to<br>language employing a parallel, constraint-based framework. The conference aims to promote<br>interaction and collaboration among researchers interested in non-derivational approaches to<br>grammar, where grammar is seen as the interaction of (perhaps violable) constraints from multiple<br>levels of structuring, including those of syntactic categories, grammatical relations, semantics and<br>discourse.<br><br>As Australia and the region are home to many of the world’s languages, we welcome <span class="gmail-il">papers</span> applying<br><span class="gmail-m_7059514542415276192gmail-il"><span class="gmail-il">LFG</span></span> approaches to describing lesser studied languages.<br><br>We will also organise a workshop on the ‘Syntax and Morphology Interface in <span class="gmail-m_7059514542415276192gmail-il"><span class="gmail-il">LFG</span></span>’ on 10th July 2019.<br><br>For more information see below. <br><br>There will be a Teach-in on <span class="gmail-m_7059514542415276192gmail-il"><span class="gmail-il">LFG</span></span> for Historical Linguistics on 6th July 2019, organised in<br>conjunction with ICHL24 (1st-5th July 2019, also held in Canberra).<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<br>presentations. Contributions can focus on results from completed as well as ongoing research, with<br>an emphasis on novel approaches, methods, ideas, and perspectives, whether descriptive, theoretical,<br>formal or computational. Presentations should describe original, unpublished work.<br><br>DISSERTATION SESSION<br><br>As in previous years, we are hoping to hold a special session that will give students the chance to<br>present recent PhD dissertations (or other student research dissertations). The dissertations must<br>be completed by the time of the conference, and they should be made publicly accessible (e.g., on<br>the World Wide Web). The talks in this session should provide an overview of the main original<br>points of the dissertation; the talks will be 20 minutes, followed by a 10-minute discussion period.<br><br>Students should note that the main sessions are certainly also open to student submissions. Students<br>who present <span class="gmail-il">papers</span> in either session will receive a small subvention towards their conference costs<br>from the International <span class="gmail-m_7059514542415276192gmail-il"><span class="gmail-il">LFG</span></span> Association (ILFGA).<br><br>TIMETABLE<br><br>Deadline for abstracts: 22 February 2019, 23:59 GMT<br>Notification of acceptance: 29 March 2019<br>Conference: 8 July - 10 July 2019<br><br><br>SUBMISSION SPECIFICATIONS<br><br>The language of the conference is English, and all abstracts must be written in English.<br><br>All abstracts should be submitted using the online submission system. Submissions should be in the<br>form of abstracts only. Abstracts can be up to three A4 pages, including figures and<br>references. Abstracts should be in 10pt or larger type, with margins of at least 2cm on all four<br>sides, and should include a title. Omit name and affiliation (including in PDF document properties),<br>and avoid obvious self-reference.<br><br>Please submit your abstract in .pdf format (or a plain text file). If you have any trouble<br>converting your file into .pdf please contact the Program Committee at the address below. (On the<br>Easychair submission system, if you upload your abstract as a .pdf file, please simply type<br>'abstract attached' in the abstract box.)<br><br>The number of submissions is not restricted. However, in the interests of high participation and<br>broad representation, each author should be involved in a maximum of two oral <span class="gmail-il">papers</span> and can only be<br>a single author of one. There are no restrictions on poster presentations. Authors may want to keep<br>this in mind when stating their preferences concerning the mode of presentation of their<br>submissions.<br><br>All abstracts will be reviewed anonymously by at least three referees. <span class="gmail-il">Papers</span> accepted to the<br>conference can be submitted to the refereed proceedings, and will be published, subject to<br>acceptance, online by CSLI Publications. (Please note that <span class="gmail-il">papers</span> submitted to the proceedings are<br>no longer automatically accepted for publication in the proceedings.) See<br><a href="http://web.stanford.edu/group/cslipublications/cslipublications/LFG/" target="_blank">http://web.stanford.edu/group/cslipublications/cslipublications/<span class="gmail-m_7059514542415276192gmail-il"><span class="gmail-il">LFG</span></span>/</a> for recent proceedings.<br><br>WORKSHOP<br><br>On 10th July 2019 we will hold a workshop on the ‘Syntax and Morphology Interface in <span class="gmail-m_7059514542415276192gmail-il"><span class="gmail-il">LFG</span></span>’.<br><br>The purpose of the workshop is to bring together fieldwork-based research in the morphology of<br>underdocumented languages and the cutting-edge theoretical research in <span class="gmail-m_7059514542415276192gmail-il"><span class="gmail-il">LFG</span></span>.<br><br>We invite abstracts on any topic on the syntax-morphology interface, based on first-hand data from<br>underdescribed languages. We welcome contributions in any framework within the spirit of <span class="gmail-m_7059514542415276192gmail-il"><span class="gmail-il">LFG</span></span>.<br>Descriptive <span class="gmail-il">papers</span> based on fresh data of individual languages from Australasia-Pacific regions are<br>equally welcome.<br><br>Abstracts for the workshop should *NOT* be submitted via the main Easychair system. Abstracts<br>should be submitted in .pdf format to lfg19anu 'at' <a href="http://gmail.com" target="_blank">gmail.com</a> by 22 February 2019, 23:59GMT. Please<br>make sure that your subject email is “Syntax and Morphology Interface Workshop”. Information<br>about the title of your abstract and the author(s) must be included in the body text of your email.<br>Abstract formatting and length specification are the same as for the main conference.<br><br>For further information see <a href="http://www.dynamicsoflanguage.edu.au/lfg-2019/workshop/" target="_blank">http://www.dynamicsoflanguage.edu.au/<span class="gmail-m_7059514542415276192gmail-il"><span class="gmail-il">lfg</span></span>-2019/workshop/</a>.<br><br>PRE-CONFERENCE EXCURSION<br><br>There will be a pre-conference excursion (bush walk) on the 7th July 2019. More information will be<br>made available in early 2019.<br><br>ORGANISERS AND THEIR CONTACT ADDRESSES<br><br>If you have queries about abstract submission or have problems using the EasyChair submission<br>system, please contact the Program Committee.<br><br>Program Chairs (Email: lfg19 'at' <a href="http://easychair.org" target="_blank">easychair.org</a>)<br><br>John Lowe, University of Oxford<br>Agnieszka Patejuk, Polish Academy of Sciences and University of Oxford<br><br>Local conference organizers (Email: lfg19anu 'at' <a href="http://gmail.com" target="_blank">gmail.com</a>)<br><br>I Wayan Arka<br>Elisabeth Mayer<br>Jane Simpson<br>Avery Andrews<br><br><br>FURTHER INFORMATION<br><br>Further information about <span class="gmail-m_7059514542415276192gmail-il"><span class="gmail-il">LFG</span></span> as a framework for linguistic analysis is available at the<br>following site:<br><a href="http://www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/external/LFG/" target="_blank">http://www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/external/<span class="gmail-m_7059514542415276192gmail-il"><span class="gmail-il">LFG</span></span>/</a></div></div>