[HPSG-L] 1st Call for Papers: HPSG2018

[Nurit Melnik]

Call for Papers

The 25th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar
29 June - 1 July 2018
The Komaba Campus of the University of Tokyo, Japan
Submission Deadline: 1-Feb-2018

CONFERENCE FORMAT
The HPSG 2018 conference will begin with a one-day workshop on the clause structure of Japanese and Korean, which will be followed by a 2-day main conference.

THE MAIN CONFERENCE (30 June - 1 July)
Invited speakers:
Makoto Kanazawa, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo
Doug Arnold, University of Essex

Abstracts are solicited for presentations which address linguistic, foundational, or computational issues relating to or in the spirit of the framework of Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar.

THE WORKSHOP ON THE CLAUSE STRUCTURE OF JAPANESE AND KOREAN (29 June)
Invited Speakers:
Daisuke Bekki, Ochanomizu University
Yusuke Kubota, University of Tsukuba

One aim of this workshop is to promote cross-framework discussion, and therefore we strongly encourage researchers from outside the HPSG framework to submit abstracts for this workshop.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to, whether predicates and suffixal morphemes following them, which together form prosodic constituents unambiguously, ever form morphosyntactic constituents as well, whether predicates are ever raised from their "base" positions, and whether each type of scrambling can be regarded as an instance of Move (or, in the HPSG parlance, SLASH-mediated long-distance dependency). There might appear to be something of a consensus regarding some of these issues within a given research community, but there is no discipline-wide consensus on these and related issues.

SUBMISSIONS
Prospective speakers for the two events must submit a 5-page abstract
(30 minute presentation, plus 10 minute discussion).
All abstracts should be submitted in PDF format via:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hpsg2018
All abstracts will be reviewed anonymously by at least two reviewers.
They should not include the authors' names, and authors are asked to avoid self-references.

Please direct any questions to the Program Committee Chair: Frank Richter
(f.richter at em.uni-frankfurt.de<mailto:f.richter at em.uni-frankfurt.de>)

IMPORTANT DATES
Abstract submission deadline: 1 February 2018
Notification of acceptance: 15 March 2018
Conference: 29 June - 1 July 2018

VENUE
The HPSG 2018 Conference will take place on the Komaba campus of the University of Tokyo.
Website: http://phiz.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~hpsg2018
Local Organizing Committee Chair: Shûichi Yatabe (yatabe at phiz.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp<mailto:yatabe at phiz.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp>),
University of Tokyo

PUBLICATION
The conference proceedings will be published online by CSLI Publications and include the papers presented at both the main conference and the workshop.
A call for contributions to the proceedings will be issued after the conference.
Proceedings of previous conferences are available at:
http://csli-publications.stanford.edu/HPSG/.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Doug Arnold
Daisuke Bekki
Olivier Bonami
Francis Bond
Gosse Bouma
George Broadwell
Rui Chaves
Philippa Cook
Berthold Crysmann
Kordula De Kuthy
Antske Fokkens
Petter Haugereid
Fabiola Henri
Anke Holler
Gianina Iordachoaia
Jong-Bok Kim
Jean-Pierre Koenig
Yusuke Kubota
David Lahm
Robert D. Levine
Yo Matsumoto
Nurit Melnik
Philip Miller
Stefan Müller
Tsuneko Nakazawa
Joanna Nykiel
Rainer Osswald
Gerald Penn
Frank Richter (chair)
Manfred Sailer
Pollet Samvellian
Sanghoun Song
Frank van Eynde
Stephen Wechsler
Shûichi Yatabe
Eun-Jung Yoo