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LFG25: The 30th International Lexical-Functional Grammar Conference
22 July - 24 July 2025
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
Abstract submission deadline: 15 February 2025, 23:59 UTC-12 (midnight
anywhere on Earth)
Abstract submission link:
https://openreview.net/group?id=LFG/2025/Conference
(Please make sure to create an account early on)
Conference website: TBA
Conference e-mail (NOT for abstract submission): LFG25 'at' upf.edu
Invited speakers: TBA
Associated Workshop: "Arguments and Challenges for lexicalism", organized
by Alex Alsina, Ash Asudeh, and Daniel Siddiqi
Conference mode:
In person. Online participation will be possible in exceptional
circumstances.
LFG25 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original, unpublished work.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 2025, 23:59 UTC-12 (midnight anywhere
on Earth)
Notification of acceptance: 31 March 2025
Conference: 22 July - 24 July 2025
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
11pt 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.
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
PubliKon at the University of Konstanz. (Please note that papers submitted
to the proceedings are no longer automatically accepted for publication in
the proceedings.) See
https://lfg-proceedings.org/lfg/index.php/main/issue/archive and
http://web.stanford.edu/group/cslipublications/cslipublications/LFG/ for
recent proceedings.
PRE-CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES
There will be a day of pre-conference activities on the 21st of July.
ORGANISERS AND THEIR CONTACT ADDRESSES
If you have queries about abstract submission or have problems submitting
your paper, please contact the Program Committee.
Program Chairs (Email: lfg.progcom 'at' gmail.com)
Tina Bögel, University of Konstanz and Goethe University Frankfurt
Stephen Jones, University of Groningen
Local conference organizers (Email: LFG25 'at' upf.edu)
Alex Alsina, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
FURTHER INFORMATION
Further information about LFG as a framework for linguistic analysis is
available at the following site:
https://ling.sprachwiss.uni-konstanz.de/pages/home/lfg/
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Dr Stephen Jones
Assistant Professor, Modelling Language and Cognition
Bernoulli Institute
University of Groningen
Office location:
Room 332, Bernoulliborg
Nijenborgh 9
9747AG Groningen
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Dear colleagues,
Our next LFG f-structure workshop will be held online on Tuesday 12 November from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm (UTC).
The meeting will consist of two parts. In the first half, we will discuss any issues of linguistic analysis and/or technical XLE issues in relation to computational grammars under development by participants. If you are developing an XLE grammar and are having any issues with XLE or your grammar, you can discuss these issues in the first half of the meeting. In the second half, depending on how much time is remaining, we will continue the comparison of f-structures for translational equivalents of the following sentences:
23. The farmer made his son clean the tractor.
24. The farmer made his son leave.
25. The farmer made her son buy the tractor.
The f-structures for the English versions of these sentences are available on the INESS page (see below) and in the Google Drive folder for this meeting series; please get in touch with one of us for access to this folder. Even if your grammar cannot analyse the translational equivalents of these sentences, you are welcome to attend the first half of the meeting and receive comments on your computational grammar and the structures that it produces, and you are also welcome to attend the second half to participate in discussion of these sentences for those grammars which can analyse them.
Best,
Mary, Lawrence, Elaine
*Zoom Meeting*
Join Zoom Meeting
https://tcd-ie.zoom.us/j/92690283651?pwd=VXdOWjczaWtUYXM3cklvZC8rVlFuZz09
Meeting ID: 926 9028 3651
Passcode: 801772
>From Beginners to Experts, all are Welcome!
We look forward to seeing you online soon.
- Mary Dalrymple, Lawrence (Chit-Fung) Lam, and Elaine Ui Dhonnchadha
Please refer to the message below for further details about the f-structure comparison meetings. Thank you!
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As we announced in an earlier message, Chit-Fung Lam (Lawrence), Elaine Ui Dhonnchadha, and Mary Dalrymple have revived the f-structure comparison sessions that were held in the regular meetings of the ParGram consortium (https://pargram.w.uib.no/). These meetings are held on-line, and anyone who is developing a grammar using the XLE grammar development platform (https://ling.sprachwiss.uni-konstanz.de/pages/xle/) is welcome to attend. We would also welcome participation by anyone using the Grammar Writer's Workbench ( https://parc-public.pages-external.parc.com/xle/isl/groups/nltt/medley/).
The first half of these meetings will consist of discussion of general issues in grammar development and specific issues in the grammars and analyses that participants are working on. Please bring your questions and issues with your grammar and the XLE to this part of the meeting. In the second half of these meetings, we will discuss and compare f-structures for a parallel set of translationally equivalent sentences, using the Pargram treebank sentences as a starting point. The Pargram treebank is available at the following link (scroll to the end of the page):
https://clarino.uib.no/iness/treebanks?collection=ParGram&reset-all=true
We will discuss the f-structures for the current sentences (we may not have time for a discussion of all of them). You are welcome to attend the second half of the meeting even if your grammar does not parse the translational equivalent of these sentences.
In preparation for the discussion in the second half of the meeting, participants will translate these sentences into the language they are working on, and produce and print out the f-structures to PDF. There is no need to print out c-structures. We have created a Google Drive directory for the f-structures, which currently contains f-structures for English, Irish, Mandarin, Norwegian, Polish and Welsh. In advance of the meeting, meeting participants should plan to deposit their f-structures there for as many of the sentences as you can parse. Please contact one of us if you would like to have access to this repository.
If you have any questions, or if you would like to be added to the list of people with access to the f-structure repository, please send email to one of us. We are looking forward to discussing your f-structures!
- Mary Dalrymple, Lawrence (Chit-Fung) Lam, and Elaine Ui Dhonnchadha
