From Tina.Boegel at uni-konstanz.de  Sat Nov 15 21:08:49 2025
From: Tina.Boegel at uni-konstanz.de (=?UTF-8?Q?Tina_B=C3=B6gel?=)
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2025 22:08:49 +0100
Subject: [HPSG-L] First call for papers LFG 2026
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First Call for Papers

[Apologies for cross-posting]

 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? LFG'26: The 31st International Lexical-Functional 
Grammar Conference

 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?28 July - 30 July 2026
 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka


Abstract submission deadline: 15 February 2026, 23:59 UTC-12 (midnight 
anywhere on Earth)

Abstract submission link: 
https://openreview.net/group?id=LFG/2026/Conference
(Please make sure to create an account early on)

Conference website: https://www.conf.jfn.ac.lk/lfg/

Conference e-mail (NOT for abstract submission): lfg 'at' jfn.ac.lk

Invited speakers:
 ? ? Ash Asudeh, University of Rochester, USA.
 ? ? Rachel Nordlinger, University of Melbourne, Australia.


Associated Workshop: TBA

Conference mode:
In person. Online participation will be possible in exceptional 
circumstances.

LFG26 welcomes work within the formal architecture of Lexical-Functional 
Grammar as well as
typological, formal, and computational work within the 'spirit of LFG' 
as a lexicalist approach to
language employing a parallel, constraint-based framework. The 
conference aims to promote
interaction and collaboration among researchers interested in 
non-derivational approaches to
grammar, where grammar is seen as the interaction of (perhaps violable) 
constraints from multiple levels of structuring, including those of 
syntactic categories, grammatical relations, semantics and discourse.

SUBMISSIONS: TALKS AND POSTERS

The main conference sessions will involve 45-minute talks (30 min + 15 
min discussion), and poster
presentations. Contributions can focus on results from completed as well 
as ongoing research, with
an emphasis on novel approaches, methods, ideas, and perspectives, 
whether descriptive, theoretical,
formal or computational. Presentations should describe original, 
unpublished work.

DISSERTATION SESSION

As in previous years, we are hoping to hold a special session that will 
give students the chance to
present recent PhD dissertations (or other student research 
dissertations). The dissertations must
be completed by the time of the conference, and they should be made 
publicly accessible (e.g., on
the World Wide Web). The talks in this session should provide an 
overview of the main original
points of the dissertation; the talks will be 20 minutes, followed by a 
10-minute discussion period.

Students should note that the main sessions are certainly also open to 
student submissions. Students
who present papers in either session will receive a small subvention 
towards their conference costs
from the International LFG Association (ILFGA).

TIMETABLE

Deadline for abstracts: 15 February 2026, 23:59 UTC-12 (midnight 
anywhere on Earth)
Notification of acceptance:? ?1 April 2026
Conference: 28 July - 30 July 2026


SUBMISSION SPECIFICATIONS

The language of the conference is English, and all abstracts must be 
written in English.

All abstracts should be submitted using the online submission system. 
Submissions should be in the
form of abstracts only. Abstracts can be up to three A4 pages, including 
figures and
references. Abstracts should be in 11pt or larger type, with margins of 
at least 2cm on all four
sides, and should include a title. Omit name and affiliation (including 
in PDF document properties),
and avoid obvious self-reference.

For dissertation session submissions, please add "Dissertation" to the 
title of your abstract.

Please submit your abstract in .pdf format (or a plain text file).

The number of submissions is not restricted. However, in the interests 
of high participation and
broad representation, each author should be involved in a maximum of two 
oral papers and can only be
a single author of one. There are no restrictions on poster 
presentations. Authors may want to keep
this in mind when stating their preferences concerning the mode of 
presentation of their
submissions.

All abstracts will be reviewed anonymously by at least three referees. 
Papers accepted to the
conference can be submitted to the refereed proceedings, and will be 
published, subject to
acceptance, online by PubliKon at the University of Konstanz. (Please 
note that papers submitted
to the proceedings are no longer automatically accepted for publication 
in the proceedings.) See
http://web.stanford.edu/group/cslipublications/cslipublications/LFG/ for 
recent proceedings.


PRE-CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES

There will be a day of pre- and post-conference activities on the 27th 
and the 31st of July.


ORGANISERS AND THEIR CONTACT ADDRESSES

If you have queries about abstract submission or have problems 
submitting your paper, please contact
the Program Committee.

Program Chairs (Email: lfg.progcom 'at' gmail.com)
 ? ? Tina B?gel, University of Konstanz
 ? ? Stephen Jones, University of Groningen

Local conference organizers (Email: lfg 'at' jfn.ac.lk)
 ? ? Miriam Butt, University of Konstanz, Germany
 ? ? Kengatharaiyer Sarveswaran, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka
 ? ? Mahendran Thiruvarangan, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka


FURTHER INFORMATION

Further information about LFG as a framework for linguistic analysis is 
available at the following
site: https://ling.sprachwiss.uni-konstanz.de/pages/home/lfg/