[LFG] HPSG 2017 :: New Call for Papers (extended deadline: March 24th)

[Rui Chaves]

========== New Call for Papers: Extended deadline (**March 24th**)  ==========

HPSG 2017
University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky (USA), 7-9 July 2017

Main Session:

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

Special Session ''Languages of the Seven Countries''

The special session focuses on languages from Iran, Iraq, Libya,
Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen, and is not restricted to any
particular theoretic framework. All are welcome.

Invited speakers:
Robert Borsley (University of Essex)
Laura Michealis (University of Colorado)

Tutorial: Theory & Implementation
Emily Bender (University of Washington)
Dan Flickinger (Stanford University)

Conference Format:

Prospective speakers must submit a 5 page abstract for the main
session (30 minute presentation, plus 10 minute discussion). The
conference will be streamed online, and presenters who cannot attend
the conference because of travel bans can give their talks remotely.

Local Organizing Committee Chair: Fabiola Henry
(fabiola.henri at uky.edu), University of Kentucky.

Submissions:

All abstracts should be submitted in PDF format via:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hpsg2017

Please direct any questions to the Program Committee Chair: rchaves at buffalo.edu

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: **24 March 2017**
Notification of acceptance: 15 April 2017
Conference: 7-9 July 2017
Conference proceedings submission: 15 October 2017

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
Doug Arnold
Emily Bender
Francis Bond
Gosse Bouma
George Broadwell
Philippa Cook
Berthold Crysmann
Kordula De Kuthy
Dan Flickinger
Antske Fokkens
Petter Haugereid
Fabiola Henri
Anke Holler
Jong-Bok Kim
Jean-Pierre Koenig
Robert D. Levine
Nurit Melnik
Philip Miller
Stefan Müller
Tsuneko Nakazawa
Joanna Nykiel
Gerald Penn
Manfred Sailer
Pollet Samvellian
Sanghoun Song
Stephen Wechsler
Shûichi Yatabe
Eun-Jung Yoo