LFG18: The 23rd International Lexical-Functional Grammar Conference
17 July - 19 July 2018
University of Vienna, Austria
Conference website: TBC
Conference e-mail (NOT for abstract submission): dewei.che 'at' univie.ac.at
Abstract submission deadline: 15 February 2018, 23:59 GMT
Abstracts should be submitted using the online submission system at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lfg18
Invited speakers: TBC.
Workshop: a workshop on Information Structure will be held on 20 July 2018.
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.
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 Presentations should describe original, unpublished work.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 2018, 23:59 GMT
Notification of acceptance: 30 March 2018
Conference: 17 July - 20 July 2018
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). 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
On the 16 July 2018, there will be a pre-conference excursion, tentatively planned as a return cruise on the Danube to Bratislava.
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
Further information about LFG as a syntactic theory is available at the following site:
http://www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/external/LFG/
From Koenraad De Smedt:
This is the Festschrift for Helge Dyvik: http://dx.doi.org/10.15845/bells.v8i1. It was presented to him on Thursday Nov. 23. The book may be relevant to LFG practitioners because it contains several articles which deal with LFG, and the Preface summarizes Helge’s work which has partly been in LFG.
Table of Contents:
'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.
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://users.ox.ac.uk/~cpgl0036/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://users.ox.ac.uk/~cpgl0036/LFG/more.txt
The LFG website also serves much of the same function as the boilerplate section.