The 21th International Conference on Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG 2014)

[Anne Abeillé]

First Call for papers

Abstracts are solicited for presentations which address linguistic,
foundational, or computational issues relating to the framework of
Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar.

* Invited speakers:

Gert Webelhuth (Goethe U. Frankfurt)
Ray Jackendoff (Tufts U.)

* Conference Format:

There will be two sessions: a main session, with 30 minute presentations, and a poster session. The poster session is intended as a means of encouraging the presentation of work that is not yet fully mature.

Prospective speakers may submit either a 5 page abstract for the main session, or a 2 page abstract for the poster session. Abstracts submitted initially for the main session may be accepted, at the
discretion of the program committee, for presentation in the poster session instead.


* Venue and Related Events

The HPSG Conference will take place at the University of Buffalo in Buffalo, New York (USA) on 28-29 August 2014. 


- Workshop: 

The main conference will be preceded by a workshop on "Syntactic theory and understudied languages" on 27 August. 

Invited speakers: 
Matthew Dryer  (U. at Buffalo SUNY)
Philip LeSourd (Indiana U.)
George A. Broadwell (U. at Albany SUNY)

There is a separate call for papers for the workshop. 


* Submissions

All abstracts should be submitted via: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hpsg2014
They should be in PDF format.

Please direct any questions to the Program Committee Chair:
hpsg2014 at easychair.org

All abstracts will be reviewed anonymously by at least two reviewers. They should not include the authors' names, and authors are asked to avoid self-references.


* Important Dates

Abstract submission deadline: 15 April 2014
Notification of acceptance: 30 May 2014
Conference: 27-29 August 2014


* Publication

The conference proceedings will be published online by CSLI Publications. Only papers presented in the main session will be included in the proceedings.

A call for contributions to the proceedings will be issued after the conference. Proceedings of previous conferences are available at:  http://csli-publications.stanford.edu/HPSG/.


* Program Committee

Anne Abeillé (U. Paris Diderot) (chair)
Farrel Ackermann (UC San Diego)
Emily M. Bender (U. Washington)
Olivier Bonami (U. Paris Sorbonne)
Francis Bond (Nayang Technological U. Singapore)
Robert Borsley (U. of Essex)
Claire Bowern (Yale U.)
George A Broadwell (U. at Albany, SUNY)
Rui P. Chaves (U. at Buffalo SUNY)
Berthold Crysmann (CNRS, U. Paris Diderot)
Elisabeth Engdahl (U. of Gothenburg)
Dan Flickinger (Stanford U.)
Jeff Good (U. at Buffalo SUNY)
Fabiola Henri (U. of Kentucky)
Jong-Bok Kim (Kyung Hee U.)
Jean-Pierre Koenig (U. at Buffalo, SUNY)
Valia Kordoni (Humboldt U. Berlin)
Robert Levine (Ohio State U.)
Rob Malouf (San Diego State U.)
Nurit Melnik (The Open U. of Israel)
Philip Miller (U. Paris Diderot)
Stefan Müller (Freie U. Berlin)
Tsuneko Nakazawa (U. of Tokyo)
Joanna Nykiel (U. of Silesia)
Gerald Penn (U. of Toronto)
Adam Przepiorkowski (Polish Academy of Sciences)
Frank Richter (U. Tuebingen)
Louisa Sadler (U. of Essex)
Manfred Sailer (Goethe Frankfurt U.)
Pollet Samvelian (U. Sorbonne nouvelle)
Frank Van Eynde (U. Leuven)
Robert D. Van Valin Jr. (U. at Buffalo SUNY)
Gert Webelhuth (Goethe U. Frankfurt)
Stephen Wechsler (U. Texas Austin)
Shuichi Yatabe (U. of Tokyo)
Eun-Jung Yoo (Seoul National U.)

* Conference Web Site:

http://linguistics.buffalo.edu/hpsg21/index.html


* Local Arrangements Chair

Rui P. Chaves


* Links

For more information about HPSG, see, for example:
http://hpsg.stanford.edu/
http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/research/hpsg/
http://www.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/hpsg/

For more information on HPSG conferences:
http://www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/external/HPSG/