36.3496, Confs: 31st International Lexical-Functional Grammar Conference (Sri Lanka)

Tue Nov 18 05:05:02 UTC 2025

LINGUIST List: Vol-36-3496. Tue Nov 18 2025. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 36.3496, Confs: 31st International Lexical-Functional Grammar Conference (Sri Lanka)

Moderator: Steven Moran (linguist at linguistlist.org)
Managing Editor: Valeriia Vyshnevetska
Team: Helen Aristar-Dry, Mara Baccaro, Daniel Swanson
Jobs: jobs at linguistlist.org | Conferences: callconf at linguistlist.org | Pubs: pubs at linguistlist.org

Homepage: http://linguistlist.org

Editor for this issue: Valeriia Vyshnevetska <valeriia at linguistlist.org>

================================================================

Date: 15-Nov-2025
From: Tina Bögel [lfg.progcom at gmail.com]
Subject: 31st International Lexical-Functional Grammar Conference

LFG'26: The 31st International Lexical-Functional Grammar Conference
Short Title: LFG 2026

Date: 28-Jul-2026 - 30-Jul-2026
Location: Jaffna, Sri Lanka
Contact: Miriam Butt, Kengatharaiyer Sarveswaran, Mahendran
Thiruvarangan
Contact Email: lfg at jfn.ac.lk
Meeting URL: https://www.conf.jfn.ac.lk/lfg/

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics

Submission Deadline: 15-Feb-2026

LFG26 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should describe original, unpublished work.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).
Invited Speakers:
Ash Asudeh, University of Rochester, USA.
Rachel Nordlinger, University of Melbourne, Australia.
Associated Workshop: TBA
Conference Mode:
In person. Online participation will be possible in exceptional
circumstances.
Timetable:
Deadline for abstracts: 15 February 2026, 23:59 UTC-12 (midnight
anywhere on Earth)
Notification of acceptance:   1 April 2026
Conference: 28 July - 30 July 2026
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 11pt 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.
For dissertation session submissions, please add "Dissertation" to the
title of your abstract.
Please submit your abstract in .pdf format (or a plain text file).
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
PubliKon at the University of Konstanz. (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.
Abstract submission link:
https://openreview.net/group?id=LFG/2026/Conference
(Please make sure to create an account early on)
Pre-conference Activities:
There will be a day of pre- and post-conference activities on the 27th
and the 31st of July.
Organisers and Their Contact Addresses:
If you have queries about abstract submission or have problems
submitting your paper, please contact
the Program Committee.
Program Chairs (Email: lfg.progcom 'at' gmail.com)
Tina Bögel, University of Konstanz
Stephen Jones, University of Groningen
Local conference organizers (Email: lfg 'at' jfn.ac.lk)
Miriam Butt, University of Konstanz, Germany
Kengatharaiyer Sarveswaran, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka
Mahendran Thiruvarangan, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka
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/
Conference e-mail (NOT for abstract submission): lfg 'at' jfn.ac.lk

------------------------------------------------------------------------------

********************** LINGUIST List Support ***********************
Please consider donating to the Linguist List, a U.S. 501(c)(3) not for profit organization:

https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=87C2AXTVC4PP8

LINGUIST List is supported by the following publishers:

Bloomsbury Publishing http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/

Cambridge University Press http://www.cambridge.org/linguistics

Cascadilla Press http://www.cascadilla.com/

De Gruyter Brill https://www.degruyterbrill.com/?changeLang=en

Edinburgh University Press http://www.edinburghuniversitypress.com

John Benjamins http://www.benjamins.com/

Language Science Press http://langsci-press.org

Lincom GmbH https://lincom-shop.eu/

MIT Press http://mitpress.mit.edu/

Multilingual Matters http://www.multilingual-matters.com/

Narr Francke Attempto Verlag GmbH + Co. KG http://www.narr.de/

Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT) http://www.lotpublications.nl/

Peter Lang AG http://www.peterlang.com

----------------------------------------------------------
LINGUIST List: Vol-36-3496
----------------------------------------------------------