9.271, Calls: L2 Acquisition, Formal & Head-Driven PS Grammar

Mon Feb 23 19:07:38 UTC 1998

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Subject: 9.271, Calls: L2 Acquisition, Formal & Head-Driven PS Grammar

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Date:  Mon, 23 Feb 1998 10:30:05 -0500
From:  Jeffrey Reeder <Jeffrey_Reeder at BAYLOR.EDU>
Subject:  L2 Acquisition of Rom

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Date:  Mon, 23 Feb 1998 21:04:23 +0100 (MET)

From:  Gosse Bouma <gosse at let.rug.nl>
Subject:  FHCG-98

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Date:  Mon, 23 Feb 1998 10:30:05 -0500
From:  Jeffrey Reeder <Jeffrey_Reeder at BAYLOR.EDU>
Subject:  L2 Acquisition of Rom

CALL FOR PAPERS

SPECIAL SESSION: SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND THE ROMANCE LANGUAGES

1998 Convention of the Modern Language Association (MLA)
December 27-30, 1998
San Francisco, CA

Abstracts of no more than 500 words on any aspect of second language
acquisition relating to the learning or teaching of Romance Languages
(preference given to language acquisition in instructed settings).
Abstracts must be received by March 16, 1998.  Participants must be
MLA members by April 1, 1998.

Abstracts or inquiries to:

Jeffrey Reeder
Dept. of Modern Foreign Languages
Baylor University, Box 97393
Waco, TX 78798

FAX:  (254) 710-3799

E-MAIL:  Jeffrey_Reeder at baylor.edu

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Date:  Mon, 23 Feb 1998 21:04:23 +0100 (MET)

From:  Gosse Bouma <gosse at let.rug.nl>
Subject:  FHCG-98

		   JOINT CONFERENCE  ON FORMAL GRAMMAR,
	HEAD-DRIVEN PHRASE STRUCTURE GRAMMAR, AND CATEGORIAL GRAMMAR

            		 August 14-16, 1998,
			Saarbruecken,  Germany

			SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

FHCG-98 combines the 4th conference on Formal Grammar and the 5th conference
on Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar. It precedes the 10th European
Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information (ESSLLI X).

AIMS and SCOPE

FHCG-98 hopes to provide a platform for presentation of new and original
research on formal grammar, head-driven phrase structure grammar, and
categorial grammar.

Themes of interest include, but are not limited to,

* formal and computational syntax, semantics, and pragmatics;
* head-driven phrase structure grammar and categorial grammar;
* model-theoretic and proof-theoretic methods in linguistics;
* constraint-based and resource-sensitive approaches to grammar;
* foundational, methodological and architectural issues in grammar.

SPECIAL EVENTS

The conference features a symposium on unbounded dependencies as well
as a special session on information packaging.

SYMPOSIUM on Unbounded Dependencies: Empirical Problems and Formal Techniques

Invited Speakers:

Anne Abeille 		(Paris 7 University)
Bob Carpenter 		(Bell Labs, Murray Hill)
Michael Moortgat 	(Utrecht University)
Ivan Sag 		(Stanford University)
Ed Stabler 		(UCLA)
Annie Zaenen 		(Xerox, Grenoble)

The symposium provides a comparison of recent work on unbounded dependencies
from various theoretical angles. Relevant empirical issues include, but are
not limited to, parasitic gaps, relative clauses, pied-piping, ATB-phenomena,
weak and strong islands, comparatives, and the semantics of wh-questions.

There will be presentations focussing on recent work in HPSG, LFG, TAG, CG,
and the Minimalist framework, followed by a panel discussion.

SPECIAL SESSION on Information Packaging

Invited Speakers:

Elisabeth Engdahl (University of Gothenburg)
Enric Vallduvi    (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, t.b.c.)

This session is concerned with formal approaches to information
packaging---those linguistic strategies which allow information
to be encoded in different ways, appropriate to different contexts,
emphasizing the interpretive significance of basic information
packaging distinctions and their grammatical realization within
and across natural languages.

The special session will consist of two invited lectures and
contributed papers appropriate to its theme.

SUBMISSION DETAILS

We invite E-MAIL submissions of abstracts for 30-minute papers
(including questions and comments).

A submission should consist of two parts:

- an information sheet (in ascii), containing the name of the author(s),
  affiliation(s), e-mail and postal address(es), a title, and an
  indication whether the paper is to be considered for the special session
  on information packaging;

- an abstract, consisting of a description of not more than 5 pages
  (including figures and references). Abstracts may be either in plain
  ASCII or in (unix-compatible encoded) postscript, PDF, or DVI. Please
  avoid using binhex or MIME.

Abstracts can be sent to

	fg at ufal.mff.cuni.cz (Geert-Jan M. Kruijff)

(EXTENDED) ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE

March, 31, 1998

NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE

May, 15, 1998

PROCEEDINGS

A full version of the accepted paper will be included in the conference
proceedings, to be distributed at the conference. Full papers are due
July, 1, 1998.

PUBLICATION

Pending final approval by the publisher, a selected number of papers
will be published as a volume of the recently started CSLI-series
"Studies in Constraint-Based Lexicalism", with series editors Andreas
Kathol, Jean-Pierre Koenig and Sam Mchombo. There will be a separate
round of submission and reviewing for this volume after the conference.

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

Gosse Bouma	    (Groningen, Chair)		
Richard Oehrle	    (Arizona,   Chair)	
Klaus Netter	    (DFKI, Local Arrangements)
Geert-Jan Kruijff   (Prague, Submissions)

Anne Abeille	  (Paris)		Bob Kasper        (Ohio State)
Bob Carpenter     (Bell Labs) 		Andreas Kathol    (UC Berkeley)
John Coleman      (Oxford) 		Shalom Lappin     (London)
Ann Copestake	  (CSLI) 		Glyn Morrill	  (Barcelona)
Mary Dalrymple    (Xerox Parc) 		Tsuneko Nakazawa  (Tokyo)
Elisabeth Engdahl (Gotenborg) 		Anton Nijholt     (Twente)
Daniele Godard    (Paris) 		Gertjan van Noord (Groningen)
Erhard Hinrichs   (Tuebingen) 		Carl Pollard      (Ohio State)
Jack Hoeksema	  (Groningen)

FURTHER INFORMATION

Web site for ESSLLI X: http://top.coli.uni-sb.de/esslli/

Web site for FHCG-98 : http://www.dfki.de/events/hpsg98/

The organizers:

Gosse Bouma        (chair)               gosse at let.rug.nl
Dick Oehrle        (chair)               rto at chol.douglass.arizona.edu
Klaus Netter       (local arrangements)  klaus.netter at dfki.de
Geert-Jan Kruijff  (paper submissions)   gj at ufal.mff.cuni.cz

FHCG-98 FHCG-98 FHCG-98 FHCG-98 FHCG-98 FHCG-98 FHCG-98 FHCG-98 FHCG-98

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Gosse Bouma, Alfa-informatica, RUG, Postbus 716, 9700 AS Groningen
gosse at let.rug.nl      tel. +31-50-3635937      fax  +31-50-3636855

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