29.259, Calls: Comp Ling, Gen Ling, Semantics, Syntax/Austria

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Subject: 29.259, Calls: Comp Ling, Gen Ling, Semantics, Syntax/Austria

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Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2018 16:47:50
From: Ida Toivonen [ida.toivonen at carleton.ca]
Subject: 23rd International Lexical-Functional Grammar Conference

 
Full Title: 23rd International Lexical-Functional Grammar Conference 
Short Title: LFG18 

Date: 17-Jul-2018 - 19-Jul-2018
Location: Vienna, Austria 
Contact Person: Che Dewei
Meeting Email: dewei.che at univie.ac.at

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Semantics; Syntax 

Call Deadline: 15-Feb-2018 

Meeting Description:

LFG18 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. LFG 18 will be
held at the University of Vienna


2nd Call for Papers:

Abstracts should be submitted using the online submission system at
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lfg18

A workshop on Information Structure will be held on 20 July 2018
(http://lfg2018.univie.ac.at/program/workshop/)

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 Presentations should describe original, unpublished work.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 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).

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: two pages total for text, plus one page for diagrams and
examples. 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). (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. 

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:

As a pre-conference event, on 16 July 2018, there will be a whole-day boat
trip on the Danube from Vienna to Wachau, a picturesque valley west of Vienna.

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: lfg18 'at' easychair.org)

John Lowe, University of Oxford
Ida Toivonen, Carleton University

Local conference organizers (Email: dewei.che 'at' univie.ac.at)

Adams Bodomo, University of Vienna
Daniel Buring, University of Vienna
Che Dewei, University of Vienna
Hasiyatu Abubakari, University of Vienna
Izabela Jordanoska, University of Vienna

Further information about LFG  is available at the following site:
http://www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/external/LFG/




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