SECOND CALL FOR LFG 2012

Wed Dec 14 14:40:04 UTC 2011

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
conferenceaims 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describe original, unpublished work.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)