LFG Bulletin, December 2012

Thu Dec 20 10:08:57 UTC 2012

LFG BULLETIN
December 2012

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

Next issue: March 2013

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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 2013 Conference, second call for papers
2. New ILFGA Executive Committee Members, LFG List Maintainer
3. LFG: new resources
4. Drafts for comments
5. Recent LFG work
6. Boilerplate

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1. LFG 2013 CONFERENCE, SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

The 18th International Lexical Functional Grammar Conference (LFG13) will be held 18 July - 20 July 2013 at Debrecen University, Hungary.

Conference website:  http://lfg13.unideb.hu
Conference e-mail (NOT for abstract submission):  hungram (at) unideb (dot) hu
Abstract submission receipt deadline:  15 February 2013, 11:59 pm GMT
Abstracts should be submitted online using the online submission system at
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lfg13

LFG 2013 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 Presentations should describe original, unpublished work.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 students who present in this session will receive a subvention towards their conference costs from the International LFG Association (ILFGA).

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

TIMETABLE
Deadline for abstracts:  15 February, 2013
Acceptances sent out:  30 March, 2013
Conference:     18 July - 20 July, 2013

SUBMISSION SPECIFICATIONS
Abstracts for talks, posters/demonstrations and the dissertation session must be received by February 15, 2013. 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.  Each author can be involved in a maximum of three papers that are presented orally, and can only be the first author of a single paper. The program committee will have discretionary powers to vary these rules in particular situations as they see fit. 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 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: lfg13 "at" easychair.org)

Dag Haug, University of Oslo, Norway
Anna Kibort, University of Cambridge, UK and Polish Academy of Sciences

Local conference organizers (Email: hungram (at) unideb (dot) hu)
Tibor Laczko (co-chair)
Gyuri Rákosi (co-chair)
Eva Kardos
Gabor Csernyi

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2. NEW ILFGA EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEMBERS, LFG LIST MAINTAINER

This year, Györgi Rákosi and Victoria Rosén became members of the Executive Committee.

Gerlof Bouma is now LFG List Maintainer.

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3. LFG: NEW RESOURCES

Members are encouraged to subscribe to and use the new Lexical Functional Grammar Facebook page.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Lexical-functional-grammar/114360148580198?ref=stream

Details of other resources can be found at the LFG home page:
http://www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/external/LFG/

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4. DRAFTS FOR COMMENTS

'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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5. RECENT LFG WORK

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

5.1 PUBLICATIONS

Tamm, Anne (2012). ‘Scalar Verb Classes: Scalarity, Thematic Roles, and Arguments in the Estonian Aspectual Lexicon’. Florence: Firenze University Press.
http://www.fupress.com/scheda.asp?IDV=2249

5.2 CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

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

5.3 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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6. 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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