Farrell Ackerman (ackerman@ling.ucsd.edu)
Mon, 18 Nov 1996 14:47:35 -0800
ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS: LFG97 June 19 -- 21, 1997 University of California-San Diego San Diego, California Conference chair: Prof. Farrell Ackerman, UCSD LFG97 will take place in June 1997 at the University of California-San Diego. Papers are invited both within the formal architecture of Lexical-Functional Grammar and in the `spirit of LFG', as a lexicalist approach to language within a parallel, constraint-based framework. There will be a series of 20-minute talks (with 10 minutes for discussion), poster presentations, and workshops with invited participants (see below). The talks and poster presentations may 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. Abstract submissions should include: - Five copies of a one-page abstract of the paper with a title. OMIT name and affiliation. A second page may be used for data, c-/f- and related structures, and references, but not for text. - A 3" by 5" card with the title of the paper and the name(s) of the author(s), address, e-mail address, and whether the author(s) are students. - If possible, please send a postscript or ascii file of the abstract via email IN ADDITION TO the five hard copies. Abstracts should be sent to the following address and should indicate whether the submission is for a talk or a poster: Dr. Tracy Holloway King Information Sciences and Technologies Laboratory Xerox PARC 3333 Coyote Hill Road Palo Alto, CA 94304 USA Important dates: ABSTRACT RECEIPT DEADLINE: January 31, 1997 NOTIFICATION DATE: March 15, 1997 We plan to organize workshops on the following topics, with special emphasis on how results in these areas are best accommodated within lexicalist frameworks: Grammaticalization and Linguistic Theory Morphology and Linguistic Theory Discourse and Phrase Structure We hope to be able to offer some financial assistance to student presenters attending the conference. Further information about student subsidies will be available in late March. A copy of this announcement is available by anonymous FTP from: parcftp.xerox.com/pub/nl/lfgconference-announcement Inquiries about abstract submissions should be sent to Dr. Tracy King, thking@parc.xerox.com, and Dr. Miriam Butt, , and Dr. Miriam Butt, mutt@ims.uni-stuttgart.de. Additional inquiries about the conference should be sent to Prof. Farrell Ackerman, Prof. Farrell Ackerman, ackerman@ling.ucsd.edu.
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