LFG Bulletin, December 2013

Wed Dec 18 11:25:51 UTC 2013

LFG BULLETIN
December 2013

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

Next issue: March 2014

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

International Lexical Functional Grammar Association:
http://www.stanford.edu/~thking/

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

Facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/lfgpage

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CONTENTS

1. LFG 2014 Conference: call for papers, change of venue
2. Remembering Ivan Sag; the Ivan Sag Linguistic Institute Fund
3. Mary Dalrymple elected Fellow of the British Academy
4. Ron Kaplan receives honorary doctorate from the University of Copenhagen
5. Drafts for comments
6. Recent LFG work
7. Boilerplate

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1. LFG 2014 CONFERENCE: CALL FOR PAPERS, CHANGE OF VENUE

***PLEASE NOTE THE CHANGE OF VENUE***

The 19th International Lexical Functional Grammar Conference (LFG14) will be held 17 July - 19 July 2014 in ***Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA***

Conference website: http://lfg-conference.org/
Conference e-mail (NOT for abstract submission): lfg2014 'at' linguistlist.org
Abstract submission receipt deadline:  15 February 2014, 11:59 pm GMT
Abstracts should be submitted online using the online submission system at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lfg14

LFG 2014 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 site:
http://www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/external/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 2014
Acceptances sent out: 30 March 2014
Conference: 17 July - 19 July 2014

SUBMISSION SPECIFICATIONS
Abstracts for talks, posters/demonstrations and the dissertation session must be received by February 15, 2014. 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: lfg14 'at' easychair.org)

Anna Kibort, University of Oxford
Ida Toivonen, Carleton University

Local conference organizers (Email: lfg2014 'at' linguistlist.org)

Steven Abney, University of Michigan
Damir Cavar, Eastern Michigan University
Malgorzata Cavar, Eastern Michigan University
T. Daniel Seely, Eastern Michigan University

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2. REMEMBERING IVAN SAG; THE IVAN SAG LINGUISTIC INSTITUTE FUND

From Ron Kaplan, 12th September 2013:

I am very sorry to report that Ivan Sag passed away earlier this week, after a long and courageous battle with cancer.

Ivan was a great linguist, and a great friend and colleague from the earliest days of LFG.  His openness and enthusiasm, and his deep linguistic insights, made his interactions and collaborations with many of us in the LFG community richly rewarding both personally and intellectually. The contrast between LFG and HPSG was a wonderful stimulus for improvements to both theoretical approaches.

Some of us were present at the Ivan Fest celebration at Stanford this Spring, a very meaningful and emotional event.  It was amazing to see all of the people that Ivan had worked with over the years, and to hear how much he meant to them and how much he had influenced their careers.

We will miss him very much.

From Doug Arnold:

As a memorial to Ivan Sag, given his dedication to the LSA, particularly to the Institutes, an Ivan Sag Linguistic Institute Fund has been set up. Sending one more student to the Institute is the kind of thing that would have delighted him, and I think it will be a really appropriate memorial.

See the following URL, if you think you would like to make a donation:

http://www.linguisticsociety.org/donate

There is a drop-down menu that lists the funds you can donate to -- the Ivan Sag fund is at the top.

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3. MARY DALRYMPLE ELECTED FELLOW OF THE BRITISH ACADEMY

Congratulations to Mary Dalrymple, who has been elected a Fellow of the British Academy.

http://www.britac.ac.uk/fellowship/elections/index.cfm?member=16322

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4. RON KAPLAN RECEIVES HONORARY DOCTORATE FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN

Congratulations to Ron Kaplan, who recently received an honorary doctorate from the University of Copenhagen.

http://cst.ku.dk/english/ronkaplan/

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5. 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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6. RECENT LFG WORK

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

6.1 PUBLICATIONS

Elisabeth Mayer (2013). ‘Floating Agreement in American Spanish Leísta Dialects’. Australian Journal of Linguistics 33: 152-169.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07268602.2013.814528

6.2 PHD/MASTERS

For information about and access to postgraduate theses submitted by students of the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics at the University of Oxford, see
http://www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/dphil_theses
http://www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/mphil_theses

6.3 CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

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

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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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