[LFG] LFG Bulletin, December 2017

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December 2017

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CONTENTS

1. LFG17: The 22nd International Lexical-Functional Grammar Conference
- First Call for Papers
2. "The very model of a modern linguist": Festschrift for Helge Dyvik
3. Drafts for comments
4. Recent LFG work
5. Online resources
6. Boilerplate

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1. LFG17: The 22nd International Lexical-Functional Grammar Conference
- First Call for Papers

LFG18: The 23rd International Lexical-Functional Grammar Conference
17 July - 19 July 2018
University of Vienna, Austria

Conference website: TBC

Conference e-mail (NOT for abstract submission): dewei.che 'at' univie.ac.at

Abstract submission deadline:  15 February 2018, 23:59 GMT

Abstracts should be submitted using the online submission system at
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lfg18

Invited speakers: TBC.

Workshop: a workshop on Information Structure will be held on 20 July 2018.

LFG18 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should describe original, unpublished work.

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.

Students should note that the main sessions are certainly also open to
student submissions. Students who present papers in either session
will receive a small subvention towards their conference costs from
the International LFG Association (ILFGA).

TIMETABLE

Deadline for abstracts:  15 February 2018, 23:59 GMT
Notification of acceptance:  30 March 2018
Conference:  17 July - 20 July 2018

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 and examples. Abstracts should be in 10pt or larger type,
with margins of at least 2cm on all four sides, and should include 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, and will be published, subject to acceptance, online by
CSLI Publications. (Please note that papers submitted to the
proceedings are no longer automatically accepted for publication in
the proceedings.) See
http://web.stanford.edu/group/cslipublications/cslipublications/LFG/
for recent proceedings.

PRE-CONFERENCE EXCURSION

On the 16 July 2018, there will be a pre-conference excursion,
tentatively planned as a return cruise on the Danube to Bratislava.

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: lfg18 'at' easychair.org)
John Lowe, University of Oxford
Ida Toivonen, Carleton University

Local conference organizers (Email: dewei.che 'at' univie.ac.at)
Adams Bodomo, University of Vienna
Daniel Buring, University of Vienna
Che Dewei, University of Vienna
Hasiyatu Abubakari, University of Vienna
Izabela Jordanoska, University of Vienna

FURTHER INFORMATION

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

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2. "The very model of a modern linguist": Festschrift for Helge Dyvik

>From Koenraad De Smedt:

This is the Festschrift for Helge Dyvik:
http://dx.doi.org/10.15845/bells.v8i1. It was presented to him on
Thursday Nov. 23. The book may be relevant to LFG practitioners
because it contains several articles which deal with LFG, and the
Preface summarizes Helge’s work which has partly been in LFG.

Table of Contents:
• Preface (Victoria Rosén, Koenraad De Smedt)
• Old English and Old Norwegian noun phrases with two attributive
adjectives (Kristin Bech)
• Judgement, taste and closely related Germanic languages (Robin Cooper)
• Unlike phrase structure category coordination (Mary Dalrymple)
• Finite-State Tokenization for a Deep Wolof LFG Grammar (Cheikh M. Bamba Dione)
• Syntactic discontinuities in Latin – A treebank-based study (Dag Haug)
• Increasing grammar coverage through fine-grained lexical
distinctions (Petter Haugereid)
• A word or two? (Christer Johansson)
• Preserving grammatical functions in LFG (Ronald M. Kaplan)
• Norwegian masse: from measure noun to quantifier (Torodd Kinn)
• Reflexive sentences with la ‘let' in Norwegian — active or passive?
(Helge Lødrup)
• From LFG structures to dependency relations (Paul Meurer)
• A full-fledged hierarchical lexicon in LFG: the FrameNet approach
(Adam Przepiórkowski)
• Norwegian bare singulars revisited (Victoria Rosén, Kaja Borthen)
• The concept of ‘translation unit’ revisited (Martha Thunes)
• Subject properties in presentational sentences in Icelandic and
Swedish (Annie Zaenen, Elisabet Engdahl, Joan Maling)

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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.

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4. Recent LFG work

Send details of your recent work to < LFG.bulletin "at" gmail "dot" com >

4.1 Conference Proceedings

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

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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://users.ox.ac.uk/~cpgl0036/LFG/more.txt

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

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6. Boilerplate

The boilerplate (standard text) which previously appeared at the end
of every bulletin can be accessed at:
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~cpgl0036/LFG/more.txt

The LFG website also serves much of the same function as the
boilerplate section.