[LFG] LFG Bulletin, September/October 2018

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September/October 2018

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CONTENTS

1. LFG19: The 24th International Lexical-Functional Grammar Conference -
First Call for Papers
2. Teach-in/workshop devoted to analysing language change using
Lexical-Functional Grammar
3. Donations: Matching Funds Drive
4. Drafts for comments
5. Recent LFG work
6. Online resources
7. Boilerplate

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1. LFG19: The 24th International Lexical-Functional Grammar Conference -
First 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.

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.

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. Teach-in/workshop devoted to analysing language change using
Lexical-Functional Grammar

>From Nigel Vincent:

"Between the International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL) 24,
to be held at the Australian National University in Canberra (ANU) 1-5 July
( http://www.dynamicsoflanguage.edu.au/ichl24/ ), and LFG2019, to be held
at ANU 8-10 July, on 6 July there will be a teach-in/workshop devoted to
analysing language change using Lexical-Functional Grammar. This will
include a brief introduction to relevant aspects of LFG and three sessions
applying these techniques to sets of data drawn from a range of languages.
The sessions will be delivered by Kersti Börjars, Louisa Sadler and Nigel
Vincent. We hope to be able to accommodate students who wish to gain
credits for their attendance and to make arrangements for marked
assessments. Nigel will also be giving one of the invited plenary lectures
at ICHL."

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3. Donations: Matching Funds Drive

>From Tibor Laczkó, ILFGA Secretary-Treasurer:

"Thanks to the generosity of two anonymous donors, our Matching Funds
Drive, announced at the Business Meeting at LFG18 in Vienna, is still
running. If you are willing to donate to the ILFGA to support student
presenters at LFG conferences, take this opportunity to have your donation
go twice as far (e.g. if you donate $10, another $10 will be added by one
of our donors). At the moment, we can receive donations up to $690 in this
configuration.

Please, get in touch with me about the technical details (
tibor_laczko at yahoo.com)."

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4. 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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5. Recent LFG work

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

5.1 Publications

Agnieszka Patejuk and Adam Przepiórkowski. From Lexical Functional Grammar
to Enhanced Universal Dependencies: Linguistically informed treebanks of
Polish. Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw,
2018. (263 pages). [free download:
http://nlp.ipipan.waw.pl/Bib/pat:prz:18:book.pdf]

5.2 Conference Proceedings

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

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6. 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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7. 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.
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