LFG 2010 - 15th International Lexical Functional Grammar Conference

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Category LFG 2010

Deadline: February 15, 2010 | Date: June 18, 2010

Venue/Country: Ottawa, Canada

Updated: 2010-06-04 19:32:22 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

18-20 June 2010

Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

Conference website: http://www.carleton.ca/lfg2010/

Conference e-mail (not for abstract submission): lfg2010carleton.ca

Call for Papers

LFG 2010 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.

Abstract submission receipt deadline: 15 February 2010, 11:59 pm GMT

Abstracts should be submitted using the online submission system at:

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lfg10

Further information about LFG as a syntactic theory is available at the

following site: http://www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/external/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 Presentations should describe original, unpublished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 2010

Acceptances sent out: 31 March 2010

Conference: 18-20 June 2010

Submission Specifications

Abstracts for talks, posters/demonstrations and the dissertation session

must be

received by February 15, 2010. 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.

While the number of submissions is not restricted, at most one

single-authored

submission or two first-authored submissions per person will be accepted for

oral presentation. 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 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: lfg10easychair.org

Martin Forst, Powerset/Microsoft, United States of America

Louisa Sadler, University of Essex, United Kingdom

Local conference organisers - Email: lfg2010carleton.ca

Ash Asudeh, Carleton University, Canada

Ida Toivonen, Carleton University, Canada

Information about the venue and the conference, as well as accommodation and

registration details will be posted on the conference website.