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