LFG BULLETIN
September 2014
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Next issue: December 2014

CONTENTS

1. LFG conference in 2016
2. Tibor Laczkó appointed Secretary-Treasurer
3. ILFGA Election results
4. Victoria Rosén to serve as ILFGA Chair
5. Drafts for comments
6. Recent LFG work
7. Online resources
8. Boilerplate

1. LFG conference in 2016

The Executive Committee has decided that LFG16 will be held in Warsaw, Poland.

The Executive Committee of the ILFGA and the Standing Committee of the HPSG community have agreed to explore the possibility of having a joint HPSG-LFG meeting in Warsaw. The Executive Committee will soon send the relevant details to the LFG List.

2. Tibor Laczkó appointed Secretary-Treasurer of the ILFGA

From Aaron Broadwell, outgoing Secretary-Treasurer of the ILFGA:

"I am pleased to inform you that the Executive Committee of the International Lexical-Functional Grammar Association has appointed Tibor Laczkó as Secretary-Treasurer for a 3 year period, beginning Sept 1, 2014.

My term will come to an end this month [August 2014]. I'd like to thank the members of ILFGA for their assistance, and I hope that they will join me in congratulating Tibor."

On behalf of the ILFGA, many thanks go to Aaron for his years of hard work in this position. His efforts have been greatly appreciated.

3. ILFGA Election results

From Aaron Broadwell, outgoing Secretary-Treasurer, ILFGA:

"I am pleased to announce that Louisa Sadler and Anna Kibort have been elected to the ILFGA Executive Committee.

They replace Wayan Arka and Alex Alsina, who we heartily thank for their years of service to the association!"

4. Victoria Rosén to serve as ILFGA Chair

From Tibor Laczkó, Secretary-Treasurer of the ILFGA:

"The Executive Committee is pleased to announce that Victoria Rosén has accepted the invitation to serve as the Chair for a year."

5. 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.

6. Recent LFG work

Send details of your recent work to < Louise.Mycock "at" gmail "dot" com >

6.1 Publications

Ash Asudeh and Ida Toivonen (2014). 'With Lexical Integrity'. Theoretical Linguistics 40(1-2): 175-186.
access article

6.2 PhD/Masters

Alotaibi, Yasir (2014). 'Conditional Sentences in Modern Standard Arabic and the Taif Dialect'. University of Essex, UK.
The author develops a LFG analysis of the syntax of conditional sentences in Arabic. The thesis is available at:
http://www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/external/clmt/papers/theses/Alotaibi14Conditional.pdf

Petric, Ana-Marija (2014). 'Czech Impersonal Passive: An LFG approach analysis'. MPhil thesis, University of Oxford, UK.

For information about and access to postgraduate theses submitted by students of the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics at the University of Oxford, see:
http://www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/dphil_theses
http://www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/mphil_theses

6.3 Journals

From One-Soon Her:

"Taiwan Journal of Linguistics"

New Website: http://tjl.nccu.edu.tw/

Call for submissions
Taiwan Journal of Linguistics (TJL) is an international journal of general linguistics. TJL is an entirely open access journal; as such, there are no charges whatsoever to authors either. Submissions are welcome from all countries all year round. TJL publishes two issues each year, in January and July. The language of publication is English. A manuscript may follow the style sheet of any established linguistics journal; however, once accepted, an article must then conform strictly to TJL Style Sheet. TJL adheres to a strict standard of double-blind reviews. Further information is available at http://tjl.nccu.edu.tw/. Submissions should be e-mailed to tjl@nccu.edu.tw as an attachment. Two files, one in Word and the other in PDF, are required.

Articles in Press Available Online
In order to disseminate an accepted paper to its readers as soon as possible, once a paper is accepted and properly formatted, it is immediately posted online under "Articles in Press", before it appears in the print issue. TJL online issues, identical with the print issues in content, are open access, and all papers published or in press can be freely downloaded from: http://tjl.nccu.edu.tw/. Print copies can be purchased from:
Crane Publishing Co.
200, Section 2, Jinshan South Road, 3F
Taipei, 106 Taiwan, ROC
Tel: +886-2-2293-4497

Indexing
TJL is indexed in Scopus, MLA Directory of Periodicals, Linguistics Abstracts, Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts, EBSCOhost, Directory of Open Access Journals, CEPS, TEPS, and THCI Core.

6.4 Conference Proceedings

LFG conference papers are available electronically at:
http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/LFG/

7. Online resources

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

8. 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.