Call for Papers
HEADLEX16: Warsaw Joint Conference on LFG & HPSG
25 July - 29 July 2016
Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
Conference website:
http://headlex16.ipipan.waw.pl
Conference e-mail (NOT for abstract submission):
< headlex16-chairs "at" nlp.ipipan.waw.pl >
Abstract submission deadline: 15 February 2015, 23:59 GMT
Abstracts should be submitted using the online submission system at
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=headlex16
HEADLEX16 welcomes work within the formal architectures of Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG) and Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG), as well as typological, formal, and computational work within the spirit of these theories.
The conference aims to promote interaction and collaboration among researchers interested in HPSG and LFG. There will be no separate sessions for the different frameworks, but sessions will be organized thematically. We especially encourage papers that are accessible and relevant to members of both communities.
The programme will include two special thematic workshops: one on "Grammatical Functions and their Representation" at the beginning of the conference, the other on "Development and Computational Processing of Linguistically Motivated Grammars" at the end of the conference. If you intend to submit to one of the workshops, please indicate this on the submission form. Further details about these workshops will be published in due course.
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 Presentations should describe original, unpublished work.
TIMETABLE
Deadline for abstracts: 15 February 2016, 23:59 GMT
Notification of acceptance: 30 March 2016
Conference: 25 July - 29 July 2016
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, plus up to two pages for references and figures, in 10pt or larger type and should include a title. Omit name and affiliation (including 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, representing both frameworks. Papers accepted to the conference can be submitted to the refereed proceedings, which will be published online by CSLI Publications. See http://web.stanford.edu/group/cslipublications/cslipublications/HPSG/ and http://web.stanford.edu/group/cslipublications/cslipublications/LFG/ for recent proceedings of HPSG and LFG conferences.
SOCIAL PROGRAMME
The conference will be preceded by an excursion on 24 July. Details will be announced nearer the time.
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: < headlex16-chairs "at" nlp.ipipan.waw.pl >)
Doug Arnold, University of Essex
Berthold Crysmann, CNRS, Paris
John Lowe, University of Oxford
Ida Toivonen, Carleton University
Local conference organizers (Email: < headlex16-local "at" nlp.ipipan.waw.pl >)
Agnieszka Patejuk, Polish Academy of Sciences
Adam Przepiórkowski, Polish Academy of Sciences
FUTHER INFORMATION
Further information about LFG as a syntactic theory is available at the following site:
http://www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/external/LFG/
For information about HPSG, see, for example:
http://hpsg.stanford.edu/, http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/research/hpsg/ or http://www.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/hpsg/ and on the HPSG conferences at http://www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/external/HPSG/.
HEADLEX16 subsumes two annual conferences:
The International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar
The International Lexical Functional Grammar Conference
'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.
Send details of your recent work to < Louise.Mycock "at" gmail "dot" com >
Joan Bresnan, Ash Asudeh, Ida Toivonen and Stephen Wechsler (2016). 'Lexical-Functional Syntax', 2nd edition. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
http://ca.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1405187816.html
Mary Dalrymple (2015). 'Obligatory Nonlocal Binding: An Exclusively Long Distance Anaphor in Yag Dii'. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 33(4): 1089-1120.
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11049-015-9282-z?wt_mc=internal.event.1.SEM.ArticleAuthorAssignedToIssue
Dag Haug and Tanya Niktina (2015). 'Feature sharing in agreement'. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory. Online First.
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11049-015-9321-9
Ida Toivonen, Piroska Csúri and Emile Van Der Zee (eds.) (2015). 'Structures in the Mind: Essays on Language, Music and Cognition in Honor of Ray Jackendoff. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/structures-mind
Elizabeth Christie (2015). 'The English Resultative'. PhD thesis, Carleton University.
http://llilab.carleton.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/100837116_Christie_E2.pdf
Stephen Jones (2015). 'Number in Meryam Mir'. MPhil thesis, University of Oxford.
http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:02b4a4de-3f33-43b2-943c-e5bf1724e4ce
Agnieszka Patejuk (2015). 'Unlike coordination in Polish: an LFG account'. PhD thesis, Institute of Polish Language, Polish Academy of Sciences.
http://nlp.ipipan.waw.pl/Bib/pat:15.pdf
Liselotte Snijders (2015). 'The Nature of Configurationality in LFG'. PhD thesis, University of Oxford.
http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:1310f160-283e-411e-a8d7-20ab4b3380c2
LFG conference papers are available electronically at:
http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/LFG/
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.carleton.ca/~asudeh/LFG/more.txt
Facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/lfgpage
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.