[LFG] LFG Bulletin, December 2020

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December 2020

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Next issue: March 2021

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CONTENTS

1. LFG21: The 26th 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. LFG21: The 26th International Lexical-Functional Grammar Conference
- Second Call for Papers

LFG21: The 26th International Lexical-Functional Grammar Conference

15 June - 17 June 2021
University of Oslo

Conference website:
https://www.hf.uio.no/iln/english/research/news-and-events/events/conferences/2021/lfg2021/index.html

Conference e-mail (NOT for abstract submission): lfg-2021 'at' iln.uio.no

Abstract submission deadline: 15 February 2021, 23:59 UTC-12 (midnight
anywhere on Earth)

Important notice: Depending on the situation with respect to the
pandemic, the conference might be
moved to an online event. In that case, the conference will take place
online in mid-July. The
decision whether the conference will move online will be made before
the final submission date, and
will be announced accordingly.

Abstracts should be submitted using the online submission system at
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lfg21

Invited speakers:
Ida Toivonen (Carleton University, Canada) and Stephen Wechsler
(University of Texas at Austin, USA)

Workshop (half-day): 18 June 2021.

LFG21 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.

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 2021, 23:59 UTC-12 (midnight
anywhere on Earth)
Notification of acceptance: 31 March 2021
Conference: 15 June - 17 June 2021

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 14th June 2021. 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: lfg21 'at' easychair.org)

Tina Bögel, University of Konstanz
Agnieszka Patejuk, Polish Academy of Sciences and University of Oxford

Local conference organizers (Email: lfg-2021 '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. 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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3. Recent LFG work

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

3.1 Publications

Bögel, Tina (2020). 'German case ambiguities at the interface:
production and comprehension'. In Kentner, Gerrit and Joost Kremers
(eds.), Prosody in Syntactic Encoding. Berlin: de Gruyter. 51-84.
[https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110650532-003]

Bögel, Tina (2020). 'Rhythmic phrasing of prosodic words: a diachronic
perspective from Old English, supported by experimental evidence from
German'. In Proceedings of NELS 50, MIT. Amherst: GLSA.

Butt, Miriam, Jabeen, Farhat and Tina Bögel. 'Ambiguity resolution via
the syntax-prosody interface: the case of kya ‘what’ in Urdu/Hindi'.
In Kentner, Gerrit and Joost Kremers (eds.), Prosody in Syntactic
Encoding. Berlin: De Gruyter. 85–118.
[https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110650532-004]

Wedekind, Jürgen and Ronald M. Kaplan (2020). 'Tractable
Lexical-Functional Grammar'. Computational Linguistics, 46:3. 515-569.
[https://doi.org/10.1162/coli_a_00384]

3.2 Conference Proceedings

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

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4. Online resources

LFG website:
https://ling.sprachwiss.uni-konstanz.de/pages/home/lfg/

International Lexical Functional Grammar Association:
https://ling.sprachwiss.uni-konstanz.de/pages/home/lfg/ilfga/index.html

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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5. 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.