call for nominations

[Danièle Godard]

Dear HPSGers,

The HPSG standing committee announces two vacancies in the committee and
calls for nominations.

The function of the committee is to make sure that a conference focusing on
HPSG-related topics is held regularly (I've attached a document about it
below).  As one means of involving more of the scholarly community,
membership in the committee is rotated to regularly bring in new people.
Since the terms of Tsuneko Nakazawa and Erhard Hinrichs are about to be up
(Aug. 01), we would like to find replacements for them.

The purpose of this mail is to sollicit nominations for two new members.

The task of committee members is to participate in deliberations about
yearly conferences.  For this we'd like someone who's reliable and willing
to chase down information when this is needed.  We'd also like to keep a
balance of interests, constituencies and biographies. In this instance, we
would like one new member (at least) to be a woman, and one new member (at
least) to be from Asia (both properties can be combined).

For clarification: a 'nomination' is a proposal, it is not a vote. With an
eye to maintaining civility, we do NOT propose a public discussion of
scholarly and personal qualities or even indirect comparison, since such
matters are sensitive.  Nominations should thus be sent to the committee
ALONE, not the HPSG list.  You can send them to me, and I'll put something
together for the committee.

Please submit your nominations in this form:

1. Name of nominee, email
2. Your name, email
3. Assurance that this person would agree if selected.
   !! please cc your nomination to the nominee so that (s)he knows!!
4. your reasons, if any.  Please be brief (50 wd.)

Nominations will close two weeks after this is posted.

Daniele Godard
daniele.godard at linguist.jussieu.fr


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                        HPSG Standing Committee

The primary task of the standing committee is to see that the hpsg
conference is organized at regular intervals.  The standing committee
consists of seven regular members, including one student member, plus two
permanent members (i.e., nine in total).  Carl Pollard and Ivan Sag are the
permanent members. Regular members serve a term of three years, which may
be extended for a second three years, but only once.

The chair is chosen from the standing committee and normally serves two
years as chair.  The chair is named one year in advance (in order to follow
preparations in detail), and stays on a year in the committee after being
chair so that that experience is readily available.  If necessary, the
chair's term on the committee is extended to comply with these rules.

Previous members may be renominated (after a break in service); in
particular, nothing should prevent student members from serving as
non-student members.

Memberships in the standing committee:
Ash Asudeh (student member)
Daniele Godard
Claire Grover
Erhard Hinrichs
Andreas Kathol
Tsuneko Nakazawa
Carl Pollard
Ivan Sag
Gert Webelhuth



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