<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">The deadline for submitting abstracts for the 2017 International Role and Reference Grammar Conference in Tokyo, Japan, has been extended to </span><span style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">24 March 2017</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">. The call for papers is given below.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">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></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">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></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">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 24, 2017 at <rrg2017(you-know-what)<a href="http://phiz.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 238);" class="">phiz.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp</span></a>>. 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 (<a href="http://phiz.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~rrg2017/index.html" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 238);" class="">http://phiz.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~rrg2017/index.html</span></a>).</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Local Organizers:</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Yoshiki Mori, Univ. of Tokyo</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Naonori Nagaya, Tokyo Univ. of Foreign Studies</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Wataru Nakamura, Tohoku Univ.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Toshio Ohori, Univ. of Tokyo</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Program Committee:</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Delia Bentley, Uuniv. of Manchester</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Daniel Everett, Bentley Univ.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Lilian Guerrero, National Autonomous Univ. of Mexico</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Rolf Kailuweit, Univ. of Freiburg</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Ricardo Mairal, National Univ. of Distance Education</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Wataru Nakamura, Tohoku Univ. </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Brian Nolan, Inst. of Technology, Blanchardstown</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Toshio Ohori, Univ. of Tokyo</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Robert Van Valin, Heinrich Heine Univ. & Univ. at Buffalo </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">_______________________________________________ </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div></body></html>