Locations for LFG 2011 and 2012

[George Aaron Broadwell]

Dear friends of LFG,

The Executive Committee of the International Lexical-Functional Grammar
Association is pleased to announce the locations of the 2011 and 2012 LFG
conferences.

LFG 2011 will be held at Hong Kong University.
LFG 2012 will be held in Bali.

This year we had a number of exceptionally strong proposals for hosting the
LFG conference, and it was difficult for the Executive Committee to
choose.   ILFGA has for a number of years tried to hold its annual meetings
at varying locations in the world, alternating between North America,
Europe, and the Asia/Pacific regions.  For 2011 and 2012, we have chosen two
Asia/Pacific

However, one of the chief factors in our decision was the desirability of
coordinating LFG conferences with other linguistics conferences that might
draw interested audiences.  So Hong Kong will host the Association for
Linguistic Typology meeting in 2011 and Bali will host the International
Conference on Austronesian Linguistics in 2012.   The Executive Committee
believes that coordination of our conference with these other international
conferences has the potential to engender new work in LFG while
simultaneously allowing LFG conference attendees to hear new work in
linguistic typology and Austronesian linguistics.

In order to encourage geographic diversity in conference location, we plan
to favor proposal from European hosts for the 2013 and 2104 conferences.

ILFGA is exceptionally grateful to the individuals and institutions that
have offered to host these upcoming conferences.  We offer our apologies to
the institutions whose proposals we were unable to accept.


Aaron Broadwell
Secretary-Treasurer
International Lexical-Functional Grammar Association
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