[LFG] LFG Bulletin, December 2019

Tue Dec 31 08:42:59 UTC 2019

December 2019

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Next issue: March 2020

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CONTENTS

1. LFG20: The 25th International Lexical-Functional Grammar Conference -
Second Call for Papers
2. New LFG Reference Guide: "The Oxford Reference Guide to Lexical
Functional Grammar"
3. Drafts for comments
4. Recent LFG work
5. Online resources
6. Boilerplate

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1. LFG20: The 25th International Lexical-Functional Grammar Conference -
Second Call for Papers

Second Call for Papers

                     LFG20: The 25th International Lexical-Functional
Grammar Conference

                                  23 June - 25 June 2020
                                    University of Oslo

Conference website:
https://www.hf.uio.no/iln/english/research/news-and-events/events/conferences/2020/LFG2020/

Conference e-mail (NOT for abstract submission): lfg-2020 'at' iln.uio.no

Abstract submission deadline: 15 February 2020, 23:59 UTC-12 (midnight
anywhere on Earth)

Abstracts should be submitted using the online submission system at
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lfg20

Invited speakers:
Tatiana Nikitina (CNRS, Paris) and Helge Dyvik (University of Bergen)

Workshop: 26 June 2020, "Word order, Prosody and Information Structure in
the Scandinavian
Languages", for information, including submission, see the website:
https://www.hf.uio.no/iln/english/research/news-and-events/events/conferences/2020/LFG2020/workshop/

LFG20 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.

LFG20 will be preceded by two other linguistics conferences being held in
Oslo: the 12th
International Conference of Nordic and General Linguistics, June 15-17, and
the 12th International
Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics Conference, June 18-20.

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 2020, 23:59 UTC-12 (midnight anywhere
on Earth)
Notification of acceptance: 27 March 2020
Conference: 23 June - 25 June 2020

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 on the 22nd June 2020. More
information will be provided at
a later date.

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: lfg20 'at' easychair.org)

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

Local conference organizers (Email: lfg-2020 'at' iln.uio.no)

Helge Lødrup
Dag Haug

FURTHER INFORMATION

Further information about LFG as a framework for linguistic analysis is
available at the
following site:
https://ling.sprachwiss.uni-konstanz.de/pages/home/lfg/

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2. New LFG Reference Guide: "The Oxford Reference Guide to Lexical
Functional Grammar"

Dalrymple, Mary, John J. Lowe and Louise Mycock (2019). The Oxford
Reference Guide to Lexical Functional Grammar. Oxford: Oxford University
Press.

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-reference-guide-to-lexical-functional-grammar-9780198733300

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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://www.sas.rochester.edu/lin/sites/asudeh/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://www.sas.rochester.edu/lin/sites/asudeh/LFG/more.txt

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