LFG Bulletin, December 2011

Thu Dec 8 08:09:17 UTC 2011

LFG BULLETIN
December 2011

** Please send bulletin items to me by email  **
** < Louise.Mycock "at" gmail "dot" com >**

Next issue: March 2012

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LFG website:
http://www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/external/LFG/

International Lexical Functional Grammar Association:
http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg/ilfga/

More about LFG:
http://www.carleton.ca/~asudeh/LFG/more.txt

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CONTENTS

1. LFG 2012: first call for papers
2. LFG 2013 Conference location: Debrecen, Hungary
3. Debrecen Workshop on Argument Structure
4. New LFG Bibliographer: Meladel Mistica
5. Drafts for comments
6. Recent LFG work
7. Boilerplate

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1. LFG 2012, FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

The 17th International Lexical Functional Grammar Conference (LFG12)
28 June - 1 July 2012
Udayana University, Bali, Indonesia

Conference website: http://chl.anu.edu.au/linguistics/projects/ical-lfg/
Conference e-mail (NOT for abstract submission):  lfg2012 "at" gmail.com
Abstract submission receipt deadline:  15 February 2012, 11:59 pm GMT
Abstracts should be submitted online using the online submission system at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lfg12

LFG 2012 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.

Further information about LFG as a syntactic theory is available at the following sites:
http://www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/external/LFG/
http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg/

SUBMISSIONS: TALKS AND POSTERS
The main conference sessions will involve 45-minute talks (30 min. + 15 min. discussion), and poster/system 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 Presentations should describe original, unpublished work.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. The International LFG Association (ILFGA) will pay the conference fees for the students presenting at the dissertation session.

Students should note that the main sessions are certainly also open to student submissions.

TIMETABLE
Deadline for abstracts:  15 February, 2012
Acceptances sent out:  30 March, 2012
Conference:     28 June - 1 July, 2012

SUBMISSION SPECIFICATIONS
Abstracts for talks, posters/demonstrations and the dissertation session must be received by February 15, 2012. 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 two A4 pages in 10pt or larger type and should include a title. Omit name and affiliation, and obvious self-reference. Note: we no longer ask for a separate page for data and figures (c-/f- and related structures). They can be included in the text of the abstract, obeying the overall two-page limit. Please submit your abstract in .pdf format (or a plain text file). If you have any trouble converting your file into pdf please contact the Program Committee at the address below.

The number of submissions is not restricted.  However, the number of oral presentations per participant is limited.  The author of a single-authored paper which is accepted for oral presentation cannot also appear as the sole author or first author of a second orally presented paper.  Participants may be listed as the first author of at most two jointly submitted papers accepted for oral presentation. 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 by at least three 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
If you have queries about abstract submission or have problems using the EasyChair submission system, please contact the Program Committee.

Program Committee (Email: lfg12 "at" easychair.org)
Mary Dalrymple, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Dag Haug, University of Oslo, Norway

Local conference organizers (Email: lfg2012 "at" gmail.com)

I Wayan Arka (Udayana University and the Australian National University)
David Gil (Max Planck Institute)
I Nyoman Arya Wibawa (Udayana University)
Meladel Mistica (Australian National University)

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2. LFG 2013 CONFERENCE LOCATION: DEBRECEN, HUNGARY

The Executive Committee of the International Lexical-Functional Grammar Association is pleased to announce that the 2013 LFG conference will be held in Debrecen, Hungary.

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3. DEBRECEN WORKSHOP ON ARGUMENT STRUCTURE

The Debrecen Workshop on Argument Structure welcomes talks discussing state-of-the-art research in argument structure phenomena and their proper treatment in linguistic theory. We solicit papers which focus on these and related issues, either by investigating particular linguistic phenomena or by addressing more general design principles of grammar. We welcome submissions representing a variety of theoretical frameworks, such as Minimalism, LFG, HPSG, cognitive and construction grammar.

The workshop will take place at the University of Debrecen May 25-27, 2012. A total of 45 minutes will be allocated per speaker with 30 minutes for presentation and 15 minutes for discussion.

Authors are requested to submit their abstracts via EasyChair on or before January 31, 2012. The URL for abstract submission is: https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=was2012

We are planning to publish a volume of selected papers from the workshop.

Invited speakers:
John Beavers (The University of Texas at Austin)
Katalin É. Kiss (Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences & Pázmány Péter Catholic University)
Louisa Sadler (University of Essex)
Balázs Surányi (Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences & Pázmány Péter Catholic University)

Important dates:
Deadline for abstract submission: January 31, 2012
Notification of acceptance: March 15, 2012
Workshop date: May 25-27, 2012

Contact information:
Eva Kardos
Email: hungram "at" unideb.hu
Workshop website: http://was.unideb.hu

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4. NEW LFG BIBLIOGRAPHER: MELADEL MISTICA

After serving the LFG community as bibliographer, Aoife Cahill has now handed over responsibility for updating the online bibliography on LFG-related research to Meladel Mistica (ANU). Please join me in thanking Aoife and welcoming Meladel.

You can contact the LFG Bibliographer with additions, corrections, etc. by email < meladel "at" gmail "dot" com >

A link to the LFG Bibliography can be found here:

http://www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/external/lfg/FAQ/Bibliography.html

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5. DRAFTS FOR COMMENTS

From Bruno Estigarribia < estigarr "at" email "dot" unc "dot" edu >:

"I just finished a first draft of a paper analyzing clitic doubling (one clitic, one coreferential direct object in the same clause) and clitic tripling (one clitic, two coreferential direct objects) in Spanish, within LFG. I presented part of this work at the last Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, and I would like to submit it to Journal of Linguistics in the Winter (Jan-Feb). I would be very grateful if any of you with an interest in these and similar phenomena (Split NPs, apposition, information structure) would take a look and give me comments on this before I prepare it for submission. (I need to fix formatting, glosses, numbering, etc., and typeset it in LaTex, but the content is there).
Any and all comments much appreciated and thanks!"
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B-bfsTWOZ18jY2FmNzgwMzktNjJkOS00NjQxLTkwNzItMjQ0MzNmZDUyOTQ0

'Drafts for comments' offers bulletin readers the opportunity to submit information about drafts or projects on which they would like to receive comments from the community. This brings work in progress to the attention of the community and plays some of the role that previous incarnations of the archive played.

Please submit basic article/project information and a) a URL if the item is available online or else b) your contact email.

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6. RECENT LFG WORK

Send details of your recent work to < Louise.Mycock "at" gmail "dot" com >

6.1 PUBLICATIONS

Alsina, Alex. 2011. Tres classes de determinants en català. In Clàudia Pons & Maria-Rosa Lloret (eds.), Noves aproximacions a la fonologia i la morfologia del català, 11-36. Alacant: Institut Interuniversitari de Filologia Catalana.

6.2 CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

LFG conference papers are available electronically at:
http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/LFG/

6.3 DOWNLOADABLE LFG PAPERS

A list of web-pages where people post downloadable LFG papers:
http://arts.anu.edu.au/linguistics/LFG/

Additional suggestions welcome.

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7. BOILERPLATE

The boilerplate (standard text) which previously appeared at the end of every bulletin can be accessed at:

http://www.carleton.ca/~asudeh/LFG/more.txt

The LFG website also serves much of the same function as the boilerplate section.

http://www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/external/LFG/

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