[LFG] First CFP: HPSG 2019, Bucharest, Romania

[Arnold, Doug]

[apologies for cross-postings]

The 26th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar

Submission Deadline: 15-Feb-2019

The 26th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar will be held on 25 July - 26 July 2019 at the University of Bucharest, Romania.

Abstracts are invited that address linguistic, foundational, or computational issues relating to or in the spirit of the framework of Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar.

Conference Format:
The HPSG 2019 conference will be a two-day main conference, which will be preceded by a one-day workshop on the Syntax-Morphology Interface in Romance. For more details please visit: http://conferences.unibuc.ro/hpsg2019/workshop.html

Invited speakers:
Geoff Pullum (University of Edinburgh)
Stephen Wechsler (University of Texas at Austin)

Submissions:
Two types of submissions for the main HPSG conference are invited:

*   Long papers (4-page abstract + 1 page data, figures & references; 30 minute presentation + 10 minute discussion)
*   Short papers (2-page abstract + 1 page data, figures & references; 15 minute presentation + 5 minute discussion)

Please note that abstracts submitted for the "long paper" track can be accepted as "short papers" (and vice versa). Only "long papers" will appear in the proceedings.

All abstracts should be submitted in PDF format via: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hpsg2019

All abstracts will be reviewed anonymously by at least two reviewers. The submissions should not include the authors' names, and authors are asked to avoid self-references. Please direct any questions to the Program Committee Chair: Petya Osenova (petya at bultreebank.org<mailto:petya at bultreebank.org>).

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/.


Important Dates:
Abstract submission deadline: 15 February 2019 (12 midnight GMT) Notifications of acceptance: 15 April 2019 Conference proceedings submission: 15 October 2019

Venue:
The HPSG 2019 Conference will take place at the University of Bucharest, Romania.
Website: http://conferences.unibuc.ro/hpsg2019/index.html


Local Organizing Committee Chairs:
Emil Ionescu (Faculty of Letters, University of Bucharest) Gabriela Bîlbîie (Faculty of Foreign Languages, University of Bucharest)

Any questions to the local organization should be posted to: hpsg2019 at gmail.com<mailto:hpsg2019 at gmail.com>

Program Committee:
Anne Abeillé
Doug Arnold
Emily Bender
Felix Bildhauer
Olivier Bonami
Francis Bond
Gosse Bouma
Antonio Branco
Rui Chaves
Philippa Cook
Dan Flickinger
Antske Fokkens
Petter Haugereid
Fabiola Henri
Anke Holler
Gianina Iordăchioaia
Jong-Bok Kim
Jean-Pierre Koenig
David Lahm
Adam Ledgeway
Bob Levine
Nurit Melnik
Philip Miller
Stefan Müller
Tsuneko Nakazawa
Rainer Osswald
Gerald Penn
Frank Richter
Louisa Sadler
Manfred Sailer
Pollet Samvellian
Elena Soare
Frank Van Eynde
Marleen Van Peteghem
Eun-Jung Yoo
Shûichi Yatabe


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