Call for expressions of interest -- Lingfest2008 workshop

[Simon Musgrave]

Posted on behalf of Rachel Nordlinger:

CALL FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST

The annual Lexical-Functional Grammar conference will be held in Sydney from
4-6 July 2008 as part of Lingfest2008, following on from the Austronesian
Formal Linguistics Association conference, the ALS conference, and a
possible workshop on Papuan languages (see
http://www.lingfest.arts.usyd.edu.au/ for details).

In order to take this opportunity to foster interaction between the LFG
community and the local linguistic community, we propose to hold a speed
paper/poster session on 'empirical challenges to LFG' specifically targeted
at researchers of under-described languages who may have little or no
experience of LFG.  The session would be held during the LFG conference and
would consist of 5 minute speed papers or concise posters (depending on the
number of interested participants) outlining a set of interesting and/or
novel empirical facts that appear to have implications for formal syntactic
theory.  These brief presentations will be followed by drinks and nibbles
during which participants and other LFG conference attendees can meet,
discuss the data, throw around solutions, etc.

At this stage we would like to hear from anyone who would be interested in
contributing to this session.  Please send your expression of interest, and
a tentative topic for your speed paper/poster to Rachel Nordlinger
<racheln at unimelb.edu.au> by March 31st, 2008.


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Dr. Rachel Nordlinger
Senior Lecturer & Postgraduate Research Coordinator
Linguistics, School of Languages and Linguistics
University of Melbourne
Victoria 3010
AUSTRALIA
ph. +61-(0)3-8344-4227, fax. +61-(0)3-8344-8990
http://www.linguistics.unimelb.edu.au/about/staff/profiles/nordlinger/

-- 
Simon Musgrave
Lecturer
Linguistics Program, LCL
Monash University
Victoria 3800
Australia

Simon.Musgrave at arts.monash.edu.au
+61 (0)3 9905 8234 (phone)
+61 (0)3 9905-8492 (fax)
Personal page:
http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/linguistics/staff/smusgrave.php


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