Call for papers
LFG23 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.
LFG23 is sponsored by the Center for Language Sciences at the University of Rochester.
Abstract submission link:
Submit to LFG23
Important dates
Abstract submission deadline: February 15th, 2023, 23:59 UTC-12 (midnight anywhere on Earth)
Pre-conference activities: July 21, 2023
Conference: July 22–24, 2023
Workshop: Morning session, July 24, 2023
Invited speakers
George Aaron Broadwell (University of Florida)
William A. Foley (Columbia University & University of Sydney)
Conference workshop
Morning session, July 24, 2023
Theme: Revisiting Lexical Integrity
Conference mode
The conference will have a hybrid format. There will be in-person attendance as well as synchronous, online participation. The Zoom link and passcode will be sent out to all registered participants before the conference.
Submission information
Talks & 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 Presentations should describe original, unpublished work.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 30 minutes (20 min + 10 min discussion).
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
Abstract submission deadline: 15 February 2023, 23:59 UTC-12 (midnight anywhere on Earth)
Notification of acceptance: 31 March 2023
Conference & associated activities: 21–24 July 2023
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, including figures and references. 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.
For dissertation session submissions, please add “Dissertation” to the title of your abstract.
Please submit your abstract in .pdf format (or a plain text file).
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.
Refereeing procedure & proceedings
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 the CSLI Publications page for recent proceedings.
Pre-conference activities
There will be a day of pre-conference activities on July 21st. The ParGram Project Meeting will be held in the morning and there will be a social activity in the afternoon.
Conference workshop
There will be a themed workshop held on the morning of July 24th: Revisiting Lexical Integrity
Organizers and their contact addresses
If you have queries about abstract submission or have problems submitting your paper, please contact the program committee: lfg.progcom@gmail.com.
If you have queries about local information, please contact the local organizers: lfg23@rochester.edu
Program committee
Tina Bögel, University of Konstanz & Goethe University Frankfurt
Stephen Jones, University of Groningen
Local organizer
Ash Asudeh, University of Rochester
Further information
Further information about LFG as a framework for linguistic analysis is available at this site.