call for nominations

[Danièle Godard]

Dear HPSGers,

The HPSG standing committee announces a vacancy 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 once a year (see 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 term of Andreas Kathol is about to be up (Aug. 02),
we would like to find a replacement for him.

The purpose of this mail is to sollicit nominations for a new member.

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.

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)
Chan Chung (until 08/04; first mandate)
Daniele Godard (chair, until 08/02; extended mandate until 03)
Claire Grover (until 08/04; second mandate)
Andreas Kathol (until 08/02; second mandate)
Tibor Kiss  (until 08/04; first mandate)
Carl Pollard (permanent member)
Ivan Sag (permanent member)
Gert Webelhuth (until 08/02; first mandate).