[LFG] LFG Bulletin, December 2016

Mon Dec 12 19:03:42 UTC 2016

December 2016

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

Next issue: March 2017

------------------------------------------------------------------------

CONTENTS

1. LFG17: The 22nd International Lexical-Functional Grammar Conference - First Call for Papers 
2. Call for bids for hosting LFG18 
3. Drafts for comments 
4. Recent LFG work 
5. Online resources 
6. Boilerplate

------------------------------------------------------------------------
*
------------------------------------------------------------------------

1. LFG17: THE 22ND INTERNATIONAL LEXICAL-FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR CONFERENCE - FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

LFG17: The 22nd International Lexical-Functional Grammar Conference
25 July - 27 July 2017
University of Konstanz, Germany

Conference website: http://typo.uni-konstanz.de/lfg2017/
Conference e-mail (NOT for abstract submission): lfg17 'at' uni-konstanz.de
Abstract submission deadline: 15 February 2017, 23:59 GMT
Abstracts should be submitted using the online submission system at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lfg17

Invited speakers:
Geoffrey K. Pullum (University of Edinburgh) and Peter Sells (University of York)

LFG17 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.

SUBMISSIONS: TALKS AND POSTERS
The main conference sessions will involve 45-minute talks (30 min + 15 min discussion), and poster 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 Presentations should describe original, unpublished work.

TIMETABLE
Deadline for abstracts: 15 February 2017, 23:59 GMT
Notification of acceptance: 30 March 2017
Conference: 25 July -27 July 2017

SUBMISSION SPECIFICATIONS
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 three A4 pages: two pages total for text, plus one page for diagrams, in 10pt or larger type and including a title. Omit name and affiliation (including in PDF document properties), and avoid obvious self-reference.

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. (On the Easychair submission system, if you upload your abstract as a .pdf file, please simply type 'abstract attached' in the abstract box.)

The number of submissions is not restricted. However, in the interests of high participation and broad representation, each author should be involved in a maximum of two oral papers and can only be a single author of one. 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 anonymously by at least three referees. Papers accepted to the conference can be submitted to the refereed proceedings, which will be published online by CSLI Publications. See http://web.stanford.edu/group/cslipublications/cslipublications/LFG/ for recent proceedings.

SOCIAL PROGRAMME AND XLE TUTORIAL:
The conference will be preceded by an excursion on 24 July (possibly including an overnight stay in the Danube valley).
There will be an XLE tutorial on the day following the conference.
Details will be announced nearer the time.

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 Chairs (Email: lfg17 'at' easychair.org)
John Lowe, University of Oxford
Ida Toivonen, Carleton University

Local conference organizers (Email: lfg17 'at' uni-konstanz.de)
Miriam Butt, University of Konstanz
Annette Hautli-Janisz, University of Konstanz
Tina Bögel, University of Konstanz
Sebastian Sulger, University of Konstanz
Jessica Zipf, University of Konstanz
Katerina Kalouli, University of Konstanz
Christin Schätzle, University of Konstanz

FURTHER INFORMATION
Further information about LFG as a syntactic theory is available at the following site:
http://www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/external/LFG/

------------------------------------------------------------------------

2. CALL FOR BIDS FOR HOSTING LFG18

From Tibor Laczkó, ILFGA Secretary-Treasurer:

"The Executive Committee is inviting bids for hosting LFG18. Given the general practice of ILFGA (rotation among three parts of the world: (i) North and South America (ii) Europe and Africa (iii) Asia, Australia, and the Pacific), the locations of previous conferences (from 2011), the locations of LFG15, LFG16, LFG17 (see below), now it is bids from the Americas that should enjoy priority. In case there are no bids from that part of the world, Asia, Australia and the Pacific can have a chance. In addition, if a potential host from a different continent has some specific reasons and arguments for organizing LFG18 that can also be taken into consideration.

LFG conferences:
2011: Hong Kong, Asia
2012: Bali, Indonesia/Australia
2013: Debrecen, Europe
2014: Ann Arbor, America
2015: Tokyo, Asia
2016: Warsaw, Europe
2017: Konstanz, Europe (there were no bids from America)

If you think you might be interested in hosting LFG18 (or indeed any future LFG Conference) please get in touch with me < tibor_laczko "at" yahoo "dot" com > (regardless of your geographical location)."

------------------------------------------------------------------------

3. 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.

------------------------------------------------------------------------

4. RECENT LFG WORK

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

4.1 Publications

Butt, Miriam, Farhat Jabeen and Tina Bögel (2016). 'Verb Cluster Internal Wh-Phrases In Urdu: Prosody, Syntax And Semantics/Pragmatics'. Linguistic Analysis 40: (3 and 4).

4.2 Conference Proceedings

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

------------------------------------------------------------------------

5. ONLINE RESOURCES

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

International Lexical Functional Grammar Association:
https://sites.google.com/site/ilfgalfg/home

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

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

------------------------------------------------------------------------

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.

------------------------------------------------------------------------