[LFG] LFG Bulletin, December 2018

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December 2018

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Next issue: March 2019

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CONTENTS

1. LFG19: The 24th International Lexical-Functional Grammar Conference
- Second Call for Papers
2. Drafts for comments
3. Recent LFG work
4. Online resources
5. Boilerplate

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1. LFG19: The 24th International Lexical-Functional Grammar Conference
- Second Call for Papers

LFG19: The 24th International Lexical-Functional Grammar Conference

8 July - 10 July 2019
Australian National University, Canberra

Conference website: http://www.dynamicsoflanguage.edu.au/lfg-2019/

Conference e-mail (NOT for abstract submission): lfg19anu 'at' gmail.com

Abstract submission deadline:  15 February 2019, 23:59 GMT

Abstracts should be submitted using the online submission system at
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lfg19

Invited speakers:
Kersti  Börjars (University of Manchester) and Louisa Sadler
(University of Essex)

LFG19 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.

As Australia and the region are home to many of the world’s languages,
we welcome papers applying
LFG approaches to describing lesser studied languages.

We will also organise a workshop on the ‘Syntax and Morphology
Interface in LFG’ on 10th July 2019.

For more information see below.

There will be a Teach-in on LFG for Historical Linguistics on 6th July
2019, organised in
conjunction with ICHL24 (1st-5th July 2019, also held in Canberra).

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 2019, 23:59 GMT
Notification of acceptance:  29 March 2019
Conference:  8 July - 10 July 2019

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,
including figures and
references. 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.

WORKSHOP

On 10th July 2019 we will hold a workshop on the ‘Syntax and
Morphology Interface in LFG’.

The purpose of the workshop is to bring together fieldwork-based
research in the morphology of
underdocumented languages and the cutting-edge theoretical research in LFG.

We invite abstracts on any topic on the syntax-morphology interface,
based on first-hand data from
underdescribed languages. We welcome contributions in any framework
within the spirit of LFG.
Descriptive papers based on fresh data of individual languages from
Australasia-Pacific regions are
equally welcome.

Abstracts for the workshop should *NOT* be submitted via the main
Easychair system. Abstracts
should be submitted in .pdf format to lfg19anu 'at' gmail.com by 15
February 2019, 23:59GMT. Please
make sure that your subject email is  “Syntax and Morphology Interface
Workshop”. Information
about the title of your abstract and the author(s) must be included in
the body text of your email.
Abstract formatting and length specification are the same as for the
main conference.

For further information see
http://www.dynamicsoflanguage.edu.au/lfg-2019/workshop/.

PRE-CONFERENCE EXCURSION

There will be a pre-conference excursion (bush walk) on the 7th July
2019. More information will be
made available in early 2019.

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: lfg19 'at' easychair.org)

John Lowe, University of Oxford
Agnieszka Patejuk, Polish Academy of Sciences and University of Oxford

Local conference organizers (Email: lfg19anu 'at' gmail.com)

I Wayan Arka
Elisabeth Mayer
Jane Simpson
Avery Andrews

FURTHER INFORMATION

Further information about LFG as a framework for linguistic analysis
is available at the
following site:
http://www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/external/LFG/

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2. 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.

>From Joan Bresnan:
"Formal grammar, usage probabilities, and English tensed auxiliary
contraction" [https://web.stanford.edu/~bresnan/publications/]

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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3. Recent LFG work

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

3.1 Publications

Kaplan, Ronald (2018). 'Formal aspects of underspecified features'. In
Condoravdi, Cleo and Tracy Holloway King (eds.), Tokens of meaning:
Papers in honor of Lauri Karttunen. Stanford: CSLI Publications.
349-368.

3.2 PhD/Masters

Lovestrand, Joseph (2018). 'Serial verb constructions in Barayin:
Typlogy, description and Lexical-Functional Grammar'. PhD thesis,
University of Oxford. https://oxford.academia.edu/JoeyLovestrand

3.3 Conference Proceedings

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

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4. 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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5. 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.