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<p><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px;">The International Conference on Role and Reference Grammar 2017 (RRG2017) - General information and first call for abstracts</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px;">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px;">The biannual International Conference on Role and Reference Grammar (RRG) will take place on August 1-3, 2017, at the Komaba Campus of the University of Tokyo, Japan. We are pleased to host plenary lectures
by Profs. Andrej Malchukov (Johannes Gutenberg U., Mainz), Heiko Narrog (Tohoku U.), and Mitsuaki Shimojo (SUNY Buffalo).</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px;">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px;">The 2017 Conference will deal with all aspects of functional linguistics. Papers dealing with further elaboration of RRG in areas like morphology, syntax, semantics, information structure, as well as language
processing and language change are encouraged. </span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px;">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px;">The Conference will have papers and a poster session. Each paper presentation will last twenty minutes, followed by another ten minutes for discussion. Abstracts must be received electronically by March
10, 2017 at <rrg2017(you-know-what)</span><a href="http://phiz.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px;">phiz.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp</a><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px;">>. They will be considered for presentation as
a talk or as a poster; if an abstract is intended for consideration as a poster only, that should be indicated. Abstracts should be no longer than two pages, including data and references, and must be submitted as PDF documents. The abstracts should be anonymous.
Submissions are limited to one single-authored and one-co-authored abstract or two co-authored abstracts. The email message must include the following information: author's name, affiliation, email address, and title of the abstract. Decisions on papers for
presentation and posters will be sent out no later than May 1, 2017. More details will be provided on the conference web page, to be installed in late January (</span><a href="http://phiz.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~rrg2017/index.html" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px;">http://phiz.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~rrg2017/index.html</a><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px;">).</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px;">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px;">Local Organizers:</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px;">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px;">Yoshiki Mori, Univ. of Tokyo</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px;">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px;">Naonori Nagaya, Tokyo Univ. of Foreign Studies</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px;">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px;">Wataru Nakamura, Tohoku Univ.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px;">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px;">Toshio Ohori, Univ. of Tokyo</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px;">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px;">Program Committee:</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px;">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px;">Delia Bentley, Uuniv. of Manchester</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px;">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px;">Daniel Everett, Bentley Univ.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px;">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px;">Lilian Guerrero, National Autonomous Univ. of Mexico</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px;">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px;">Rolf Kailuweit, Univ. of Freiburg</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px;">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px;">Ricardo Mairal, National Univ. of Distance Education</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px;">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px;">Wataru Nakamura, Tohoku Univ. </span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px;">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px;">Brian Nolan, Inst. of Technology, Blanchardstown</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px;">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px;">Toshio Ohori, Univ. of Tokyo</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px;">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px;">Robert Van Valin, Heinrich Heine Univ. & Univ. at Buffalo</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></span><br>
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