Call for Papers --- LFG99

[Miriam Butt]

			   CALL FOR PAPERS
				LFG99

		1999 INTERNATIONAL LEXICAL FUNCTIONAL
			  GRAMMAR CONFERENCE

                        19 July - 21 July 1999

		     The University of Manchester

	    Submission receipt deadline: 15 February 1999

	       URL: http://lings.ln.man.ac.uk/html/LFG/

		    Enquiries: LFG99 at man.ac.uk

The University of Manchester is pleased to invite you to participate
in LFG99 which will take place from Monday, July 19 till Wednesday,
July 21 1999 at the University of Manchester, UK.

The conference welcomes work both within the formal architecture of
Lexical-Functional Grammar and 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 nonderivational approaches to grammar, where grammar is seen as the
interaction of constraints from multiple dimensions of linguistic
substance, including category information, grammatical relations, and
semantic information. Further information about the syntactic theory
LFG can be obtained from:

                   http://clwww.essex.ac.uk/LFG/


SUBMISSIONS

The conference will involve 30-minute talks, poster/system
presentations, and workshops.  Talks and poster presentations will
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. We
particularly welcome papers and suggestions for workshops on a given
language area. Presentations should describe original, unpublished
work.

Abstracts and papers must be received by February 15, 1999, and should
be submitted to the program committee chairs at the address given
below. For further information or offers of organisational help,
contact the local organisers at the address below.


POSTER/SYSTEM PRESENTATIONS

A scheduled session for posters and the demonstration of systems is
planned as part of the conference, with the posters also available for
viewing at other times throughout the conferece.


WORKSHOPS

Workshops are a small group of talks (2-4) on a coherent topic that
can be expected to generate opposing views and discussion with the
broader audience. Participants to workshops are usually
invited. Workshop papers should be distributed in advance among
participants and participants should refer to each others approaches.

At this point in time, we welcome suggestions for workshops from
potential organisers or people with certain interests.  Suggestions
for workshops should be sent to the local organizers at
LFG99 at man.ac.uk.

Topics that have been mentioned for potential workshops include: 
 - phenomena within a given language area (such as Amerindian)
 - field work and linguistic theory
 - event conceptualization and lexical semantics
 - constructions/construction grammar and LFG

Actual workshop topics and participants will be announced later.



TIMETABLE

 Deadline for workshop proposals:		   30 November 1998

 Deadline for receipt of submissions:              15 February 1999

 Acceptances sent out:                             31 March 1999

 Conference:                                       19 July - 21 July 1999



SUBMISSION SPECIFICATIONS

People may submit either abstracts or full length papers for
refereeing. The advantages of full paper submission are that it allows
better assessment of your work and that (at least for some people)
accepted refereed full papers count as a higher status
publication. The program chairs may decide that certain submissions
are better as poster presentations than as read papers.  Submitters
may also indicate if they wish a submission to be considered as a
poster/system presentation.

Full length papers. Papers should be no more than 15 pages, including
figures and references, in 11 or 12pt type, on A4/US Letter paper. The
printed text area must not exceed 165x230mm (6.5x9 inches), and should
be centred horizontally and vertically on the page.  Omit name and
affiliation, and obvious self reference from the version for
review. Papers should include a roughly 100-200 word abstract at the
beginning.

Abstracts. Abstracts should be one A4 page in 10pt or larger type and
include a title. Omit name and affiliation, and obvious self
reference. A second page may be used for data, c-/f- and related
structures, and references.

Papers/abstracts may be submitted by email or by regular mail (or by
both means as a safety measure). Email submission is preferred.

Regular Mail
Include:
- Five copies of the abstract/paper.
- A card or cover sheet with the paper title, name(s) of the
author(s), affiliation, address, phone/fax number, e-mail address, and
whether the author(s) are students.

Email. 
Include or attach your paper as either a plain ASCII text, HTML, or
postscript file.  Include the paper title, name(s) of the author(s),
address, phone/fax number, email address, and whether the author(s)
are students in the body of your email message.

All papers/abstracts will be reviewed by at least two people.
papers will appear in the proceedings which will be published online
by CSLI Publications. Selected papers may also appear in a printed
volume published by CSLI Publications.

ORGANISERS AND THEIR CONTACT ADDRESSES

Send paper/abstract/poster submissions and inquiries about submissions to:
Program Committee Chairs:
                               Tracy King <thking at parc.xerox.com>
                               Miriam Butt <miriam.butt at uni-konstanz.de>
Mail:
                               Tracy Holloway King
                               Information Sciences and Technologies Laboratory
                               Xerox PARC
                               3333 Coyote Hill Road
                               Palo Alto CA 94304
                               USA


Contact the conference organisers at: 

Email:				  LFG99 at man.ac.uk

Mail:				  Kersti Borjars or Nigel Vincent
				  Department of Linguistics  
				  University of Manchester      
				  Manchester M13 9PL            
				  UK



ASSOCIATED EVENTS

Given the great success of the pre-conference bushwalk organized as
part of LFG98, we are planning an organised walk in the Peak District
for the weekend preceding the conference. Details and information on
how to sign up for it will be provided in a subsequent call for
papers.

On the last evening of the conference there will be a conference
dinner in a stately home on the outskirts of Manchester.


LOCATION

The conference will be held at Hulme Hall, a Hall of Residence near the
main University buildings. Different types of B&B accommodation will be
available in Hulme Hall, where all lectures, book displays etc will also
take place. Details of this and registration form will be provided at a
later stage.