LFG BULLETIN DECEMBER 2008 ** Please send bulletin items to me by email ** ** (reverse: ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/ !at! Louise.Mycock) ** Next issue: March 2009 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ LFG website: http://www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/LFG/ International Lexical Functional Grammar Association: http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg/ilfga/ More about LFG (old boilerplate section): http://www.carleton.ca/~asudeh/LFG/more.txt ------------------------------------------------------------------------ * ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CONTENTS 1. LFG 2009: First Call for Papers 2. Drafts for comments 3. Recent LFG work 4. Boilerplate ------------------------------------------------------------------------ * ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. LFG 2009 First Call for Papers FOURTEENTH INTERNATIONAL LEXICAL FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR CONFERENCE July 13-16, 2009 Trinity College, Cambridge, United Kingdom Conference website: http://www.lfg09.net Conference e-mail (NOT for abstract submission): Anna Kibort <ak243 "at" cam.ac.uk> Abstract submission receipt deadline: 15 February 2009, 11:59 pm GMT Abstracts should be submitted using the online submission system at http://www.easychair.org/LFG09/ The 14th International Lexical Functional Grammar Conference will be held at Trinity College, Cambridge, from July 13th to 16th, 2009. LFG 2009 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. Further information about LFG as a syntactic theory is available at the following sites: - http://www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/LFG/ - http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg/ SUBMISSIONS: TALKS AND POSTERS The main conference sessions will involve 45-minute talks (30 min. + 15 min. discussion), and poster/system 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. The International LFG Association (ILFGA) will pay the conference fees for the students presenting at the student session. Students should note that the main sessions are certainly also open to student submissions. TIMETABLE Deadline for abstracts: 15 February 2009 Acceptances sent out: 31 March 2009 Conference: July 13-16 2009 SUBMISSION SPECIFICATIONS Abstracts for talks, posters/demonstrations and the dissertation session must be received by February 15, 2009. All abstracts should be submitted using the online submission system. Submissions should be in the form of abstracts only. Abstracts can be up to two A4 pages in 10pt or larger type and should include a title. Omit name and affiliation, and obvious self-reference. Note: we no longer ask for a separate page for data and figures (c-/f- and related structures). They can be included in the text of the abstract, obeying the overall two-page limit. Please submit your abstract in .pdf or .doc format. If you have any trouble converting your file into any of these formats, please contact the Program Committee at the address below. Each individual may be the single author on only one submission and the first author on at most two submissions; however, s/he may be a co-author on any number of submissions. All abstracts will be reviewed by at least three people. Papers will appear in the proceedings, which will be published online by CSLI Publications. Selected papers may also appear in a printed volume published by CSLI Publications. 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 Committee - Email: lfg09 "at" easychair.org - Martin Forst, Palo Alto Research Center, United States of America - Louisa Sadler, University of Essex, United Kingdom Local conference organiser - Email: ak243 "at" cam.ac.uk/ - Anna Kibort, University of Surrey and Cambridge University, United Kingdom INFORMATION about the venue and the conference, as well as accommodation and registration details will appear on the conference web site: http://www.lfg09.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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. PLEASE DO NOT SUBMIT THE DRAFT ITSELF TO THE BULLETIN MAINTAINER ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3. RECENT LFG WORK 3.1 Conference Proceedings LFG conference papers are available electronically at: http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/site/ONLN.html 3.2 PhD Lam, Olivia. 2008. Object functions and double object constructions in Lexical Functional Grammar. D. Phil thesis. University of Oxford. 3.3 Publications Helge Lødrup (2008). 'The diversity and unity of the accusative with infinitive construction: A Norwegian perspective'. Linguistics 46.5: 891-916. K. Owczarzak, J. Van Genabith and A. Way (2008). 'Evaluating Machine Translation with LFG Dependencies'. Machine Translation, vol. 21, Netherlands: Springer. 95-119. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4. BOILERPLATE The boilerplate (standard text) which previously appeared at the end of every bulletin can be accessed at: http://www.carleton.ca/~asudeh/LFG/more.txt The LFG website also serves much of the same function as the boilerplate section. http://www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/LFG/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------