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LFG22: Final Call for Papers
by Agnieszka Patejuk 17 Jan '22

17 Jan '22

Final Call for Papers [Apologies for cross-posting] LFG22: The 27th International Lexical-Functional Grammar Conference 12 July - 14 July 2022 University of Groningen Conference website: https://www.ai.rug.nl/lfg22/ Conference e-mail (NOT for abstract submission): lfgconf2022 'at' gmail.com Abstract submission deadline: 15 February 2022, 23:59 UTC-12 (midnight anywhere on Earth) Abstracts should be submitted using the online submission system at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lfg22 Invited speakers: Miriam Butt (University of Konstanz) and Helge Lødrup (University of Oslo) Workshop: A workshop on Formal Grammars and Cognition is planned for Friday 15 July 2022. A workshop on Formal Grammars and Cognition will be held on Friday 15 July 2022. The workshop aims to promote discussion and collaboration between researchers working on formal theories of grammar (including but not limited to Lexical Functional Grammar) and those in the fields of language and cognition. Please refer to the conference website for more details. Conference mode: We are currently planning a physical conference and hope that speakers will be able to attend in person. A synchronous, online participation option will be available. LFG22 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 Presentations should describe original, unpublished work.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 2022, 23:59 UTC-12 (midnight anywhere on Earth) Notification of acceptance: 31 March 2022 Conference: 12 July - 14 July 2022 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. 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 http://web.stanford.edu/group/cslipublications/cslipublications/LFG/ for recent proceedings. PRE-CONFERENCE EXCURSION There will be an optional conference excursion on Monday 11 July 2022. 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 Chairs (Email: lfg22 'at' easychair.org) Tina Bögel, University of Konstanz Agnieszka Patejuk, Polish Academy of Sciences and University of Oxford Local conference organizers (Email: lfgconf2022 'at' gmail.com) Stephen Jones, University of Groningen 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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Jürgen Wedekind RIP
by Josef van Genabith 29 Dec '21

29 Dec '21

Jürgen Wedekind RIP It is with great sadness that we hear about the passing of Jürgen Wedekind (1956-2021). Jürgen made seminal contributions to LFG and unification-based grammars, including the use of classical logics in describing feature-based grammars, properties of machine translation and complexity and decidability of generation with feature-based grammars, with a string of publications in the journal of Computational Linguistics (1999, 2012, 2014 and 2020). Jürgen was our colleague at IMS, University of Stuttgart, Germany (1985-1996), a research scientist at the University of Tübingen, Germany (1996-1999), a senior researcher and graduate course director at the Center for Language Technology and the University of Copenhagen, Denmark (1999-2021) and a frequent visiting scholar and consultant at XEROX PARC, California. Jürgen obtained his PhD in 1990, and his Habilitation in 1998. We miss Jürgen as a colleague and a friend. We share our sorrow with Jürgen's family. Anette, Thierry and Josef

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LFG Bulletin, December 2021
by Agnieszka Patejuk 29 Dec '21

29 Dec '21

December 2021 ** Please send bulletin items to me by email ** ** < LFG.bulletin "at" gmail "dot" com >** Next issue: March 2022 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CONTENTS 1. "Modular Design of Grammar: Linguistics on the Edge" – volume dedicated to Mary Dalrymple 2. LFG Handbook: 8 new chapters published online! 3. SE-LFG in February 2022 (hybrid meeting: in-person/online) 4. Drafts for comments 5. Recent LFG work 6. Online resources 7. Boilerplate ------------------------------------------------------------------------ * ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. "Modular Design of Grammar: Linguistics on the Edge" – volume dedicated to Mary Dalrymple We are pleased to announce the availability of the volume dedicated to Mary Dalrymple, coinciding with her retirement from Oxford University. Mary has been a cornerstone of the LFG community throughout her career with seminal works in syntax, semantics, and grammar engineering. She has been an intellectual inspiration and model for colleagues and students throughout the LFG and broader linguistic community. Equally importantly, she has been, and remains, a dear friend. Modular Design of Grammar: Linguistics on the Edge Edited by I Wayan Arka, Ash Asudeh, and Tracy Holloway King Published by Oxford University Press in 2021 Table of Contents: 1. Introduction, Ronald M. Kaplan and Joan Bresnan Part I: Architecture and ontology 2. A speculation about what linguistic structures might be, Avery Andrews 3. The unrealized and the unheard, Ash Asudeh Part II: Constructions and agreement in a modular architecture 4. An LFG analysis of AANN constructions: 'A staggering ten doctoral dissertations', Bozhil Hristov 5. On the construct state in Arabic, Louisa Sadler 6. Agreement in Urdu adjectival adverbials, Miriam Butt and Tracy Holloway King 7. An LFG approach to Icelandic reciprocal constructions, Peter Hurst and Rachel Nordlinger Part III: Argument structure and grammatical functions 8. Four Swedish verbs and a functional distinction, Annie Zaenen and Elisabet Engdahl 9. Deagentivizing Norwegian verbs with reflexive and body part objects, Helge Lødrup 10. Perception verbs, copy raising, and evidentiality in Swedish and English, Ida Toivonen 11. Subjects in Austronesian: Evidence from Kelabit, Charlotte Hemmings 12. Pivot and puzzling relativization in Indonesian, I Wayan Arka Part IV: Categories: Synchrony and diachrony 13. Coordinate structures without syntactic categories, Adam Przepiórkowski and Agnieszka Patejuk 14. Decategorialization and Chinese nouns, Kersti Börjars and John Payne 15. The 'of' word, Nigel Vincent Part V: Representations beyond syntax 16. Paradigm structure influences syntactic behaviour: Ossetic case inflection, Oleg Belyaev 17. 'Wh'-question intonation in Standard Colloquial Bengali: An LFG analysis, Louise Mycock, Chenzi Xu, and Aditi Lahiri 18. Collectivist semantics, Dick Crouch and Aikaterini-Lida Kalouli 19. Asymmetric anaphoric dependencies determine available readings for VP-ellipsis, Andrew Kehler 20. Meaning in LFG, Jamie Y. Findlay More details at: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/modular-design-of-grammar-978019284… ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2. LFG Handbook: 8 new chapters published online! The following 8 new chapters of the Handbook of Lexical Functional Grammar have been published online (https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/312): Introduction to LFG Prosody and its interfaces Computational implementations and applications Treebank-driven parsing, translation and grammar induction using LFG LFG and Finno-Ugric languages LFG and Romance languages LFG and Semitic languages LFG and Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3. SE-LFG in February 2022 (hybrid meeting: in-person/online) >From Joey Lovestrand: "The next SE-LFG meeting is tentatively scheduled for February 5, 2022. Like the previous meeting, it will be a hybrid meeting both in-person in Oxford and online via Zoom. The SE-LFG meetings are a student-oriented meetings which give a chance for anyone to get feedback on LFG or LFG-aligned research projects in an informal setting. https://sites.google.com/site/selfgmeetings/south-of-england-lfg-meetings Please contact Joey Lovestrand (jl119(a)soas.ac.uk) if you might be interested in presenting at the next meeting." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4. 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5. Recent LFG work Send details of your recent work to < LFG.bulletin "at" gmail "dot" com > 5.1 Publications Bögel, Tina (2021). 'Function words at the interface: a two-tier approach'. Languages 6:4. [https://doi.org/10.3390/languages6040197] Laczkó, Tibor (2021). 'Lexicalising Clausal Syntax - The interaction of syntax, the lexicon and information structure in Hungarian.' Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 354. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins. [ https://benjamins.com/catalog/cilt.354] 5.2 Conference Proceedings LFG conference papers are available electronically at: http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/LFG/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6. Online resources LFG website: https://ling.sprachwiss.uni-konstanz.de/pages/home/lfg/ International Lexical Functional Grammar Association: https://ling.sprachwiss.uni-konstanz.de/pages/home/lfg/ilfga/index.html More about LFG: http://www.sas.rochester.edu/lin/sites/asudeh/LFG/more.txt Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/lfgpage ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 7. Boilerplate The boilerplate (standard text) which previously appeared at the end of every bulletin can be accessed at: http://www.sas.rochester.edu/lin/sites/asudeh/LFG/more.txt The LFG website also serves much of the same function as the boilerplate section.

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FINAL CALL Workshop Experimental and Corpus-based Approaches to Ellipsis, SLE 2022 (Bucharest)
by Gabriela Bîlbîie 21 Dec '21

21 Dec '21

Dear colleagues, We are very pleased to announce that our proposal for the fourth edition of the *Experimental and Corpus-based Approaches to Ellipsis (ECBAE) *has been accepted for the *SLE 2022 meeting in Bucharest* (*https://societaslinguistica.eu/sle2022 <https://societaslinguistica.eu/sle2022>*). We therefore renew our call for papers for this workshop here. Like previous iterations, this workshop functions as a forum for ellipsis research, with special emphasis on methodologies aiming to improve the empirical foundations of the subfield. Contributions to the workshop will make headway in long-standing theoretical questions surrounding ellipsis (some of which are listed below) and will furnish advice on practical issues, such as how experimental methodologies can be improved to return more empirically reliable and theoretically impactful results. · Are structural cues used to recover the meaning of an ellipsis site, or is recoverability solely a semantic/pragmatic phenomenon? · How do different types of ellipsis differ from each other, and can some ellipsis types be subsumed under others? · Which factors are involved in yielding cross-linguistic differences in licensing specific elliptical utterances (e.g., syntactic, processing, prosodic, discursive constraints)? The line-up for ECBAE 4 is designed to offer a wide variety of perspectives on these research questions. The proposed workshop aims to cover a broad spectrum of ellipsis types (e.g. fragments, sluicing, post-auxiliary ellipsis, gapping, pseudogapping, etc.) and a range of methodologies (e.g. acceptability judgment, corpus-driven, production experiments, self-paced reading). We invite additional presentations for this workshop, which should address the research topics outlined above. While we specifically encourage contributions that can support their claims via experimental or corpus data, we are also open to papers that cannot yet deliver such empirical support, but make very clear-cut empirical predictions that can, in principle, be given such empirical support. The deadline for the SLE workshop programs is relatively short (15th January, 2022) – please mind the following information: *1.* *You should submit your 500 words abstracts in Easychair using the following link: **https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sle2022 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sle2022>**,* with a reference to the 3rd Call for papers *https://societaslinguistica.eu/sle2022/third-call-for-papers/ <https://societaslinguistica.eu/sle2022/third-call-for-papers/>* (guidelines about what abstracts should contain), and to the Submission guidelines *https://societaslinguistica.eu/sle2022/abstract-submission/ <https://societaslinguistica.eu/sle2022/abstract-submission/>* (practical information about how to submit them). *2.* You should select the WS your abstract belongs to upon abstract submission, i.e. Experimental and Corpus-Based Approaches to Ellipsis. *3.* *The deadline for abstract submission in Easychair is 15 January 2022*. It will not be possible to include any other abstract after this deadline. *4.* Please also note that *submitters have to be SLE members* to submit an abstract. For SLE membership, please go to *https://societaslinguistica.eu/membership <https://societaslinguistica.eu/membership>*. Abstracts submitted by non-members will not be considered. *5.* Please note that *one person may be the first author of only one submission of any kind* (workshop paper, general session paper, poster, or workshop proposal). We are looking forward to receiving your abstracts before January 15, 2021 via Easychair. Happy holidays! Gabriela Bîlbîie, James Griffiths & Volker Struckmeier -- Gabriela BILBIIE Faculté de Langues et Littératures Etrangères, Univ. de Bucarest Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle - UMR 7110 CNRS et Univ. Paris-Diderot www.llf.cnrs.fr/Gens/Bilbiie/index-fr.php

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LFG22: Second Call for Papers
by Agnieszka Patejuk 13 Dec '21

13 Dec '21

Second Call for Papers [Apologies for cross-posting] LFG22: The 27th International Lexical-Functional Grammar Conference 12 July - 14 July 2022 University of Groningen Conference website: https://www.ai.rug.nl/lfg22/ Conference e-mail (NOT for abstract submission): lfgconf2022 'at' gmail.com Abstract submission deadline: 15 February 2022, 23:59 UTC-12 (midnight anywhere on Earth) Abstracts should be submitted using the online submission system at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lfg22 Invited speakers: Miriam Butt (University of Konstanz) and TBC Workshop: A workshop on Formal Grammars and Cognition is planned for Friday 15 July 2022. Conference mode: We are currently planning a physical conference and hope that speakers will be able to attend in person. A synchronous, online participation option will be available. LFG22 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 2022, 23:59 UTC-12 (midnight anywhere on Earth) Notification of acceptance: 31 March 2022 Conference: 12 July - 14 July 2022 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. 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 http://web.stanford.edu/group/cslipublications/cslipublications/LFG/ for recent proceedings. PRE-CONFERENCE EXCURSION There will be an optional conference excursion on Monday 11 July 2022. 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 Chairs (Email: lfg22 'at' easychair.org) Tina Bögel, University of Konstanz Agnieszka Patejuk, Polish Academy of Sciences and University of Oxford Local conference organizers (Email: lfgconf2022 'at' gmail.com) Stephen Jones, University of Groningen 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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CfParticipation LACompLing2021 / Logic and Algorithms in Computational Linguistics 2021, MALIN, Montpellier
by Roussanka Loukanova 13 Dec '21

13 Dec '21

Call for Participation Symposium Logic and Algorithms in Computational Linguistics 2021 (LACompLing2021) 15 - 17 December 2021, Online https://staff.math.su.se/rloukanova/LACompLing2021-web/ Online streaming by CNRS, Montpellier, France https://malin2021.sciencesconf.org LACompLing2021 is part of the week Mathematical Linguistics (MALIN) 2021, Université de Montpellier, LIRMM, CNRS, Montpellier, France 13--17 December 2021, Online ==== PROGRAM WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 15 / Wed 15 Dec 09:00-9::40 Wed 15 Dec Stefan Müller (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany) The CoreGram Project: Deriving Crosslinguisitc Generalizations with HPSG Grammars of Multiple Languages (Invited Talk) 9:40-10:20 Wed 15 Dec Lars Hellan (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway) A Unified Valence Resource (Invited Talk) 10:20-10:40 Break 10:40-11:00 Wed 15 Dec Luuk Suurmeijer (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf), Noortje Venhuizen (Saarland University) and Harm Brouwer (Saarland University, Germany) Compositionality in Distributional Formal Semantics 11:00-12:00 Wed 15 Dec Michael Moortgat (Utrecht University, Netherlands) Dependency Relations, Modalities and the Syntax-Semantics Interface (Keynote Talk) 12:00-13:30 Lunch break 13:30-14:10 Wed 15 Dec Stepan Kuznetsov (Steklov Mathematical Institute, RAS, Russia) Complexity of the Lambek Calculus and Its Extensions (Invited Talk) 14:10-14:30 Wed 15 Dec Renhao Pei (Utrecht University, Netherlands) Generating Pragmatically Appropriate Sentences from Propositional Logic: the Case of Conditional and Biconditional 14:30-15:30 Wed 15 Dec Christian Retoré (Université de Montpellier and LIRMM-CNRS, France) Inferentialism and Natural Language Semantics, with a Focus on Quantifiers (Keynote Talk) 15:30-15:50 Break 15:50-16:30 Wed 15 Dec Denis Bechet (LS2N - University of Nantes, France) and Annie Foret (IRISA, University of Rennes 1, France) Categorial Dependency Grammars: Analysis and Learning (Invited Talk) 16:30-17:30 Wed 15 Dec Tracy King (Adobe, United States) White Roses, Red Backgrounds: Bringing Structured Representations to Search (Keynote Talk) THURSDAY DECEMBER 16 / Thu 16 Dec 09:00-09:20 Thu 16 Dec Hitomi Yanaka (The University of Tokyo, Japan) Towards Compositional Semantics and Inference System for Telicity 09:20-09:40 Thu 16 Dec Daisuke Bekki, Ribeka Tanaka and Yuta Takahashi (Ochanomizu University, Japan) Integrating Deep Neural Network with Dependent Type Semantics 09:40-10:20 Thu 16 Dec Zhaohui Luo (Dept of Computer Science, Royal Holloway, Univ of London, United Kingdom) Universes in Type-Theoretical Semantics (Invited Talk) 10:20-10:40 Break 10:40-11:20 Thu 16 Dec Kristina Liefke (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany) Meaning-Driven Combinatorial Restrictions and 'imagine *whether' (Invited Talk) 11:20-12:00 Thu 16 Dec Alexey Stukachev (Sobolev Institute of Mathematics, Novosibirsk State University, Russia) Generalized Computability and Effective Model Theory in Mathematical Linguistics (Invited Talk) 12:00-13:30 Lunch break 13:30-14:30 Thu 16 Dec Richard Moot, (Université de Montpellier and LIRMM-CNRS, Montpellier, France Graph Rewriting as a Universal Proof Theory for Modern Type-Logical Grammars (Keynote Talk) 14:30-15:30 Thu 16 Dec Randy Harris (University of Waterloo, Canada) Rhetorical Figures as Algorithms (Keynote Address) FRIDAY DECEMBER 17 / Fri 17 Dec 09:00-10:00 Fri 17 Dec Aarne Ranta (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) Abstract Wikipedia and Vastly Multilingual Natural Language Generation (Keynote Talk) 10:00-10:20 Fri 17 Dec Inari Listenmaa (Singapore Management University, Singapore), Martin Strecker (Singapore Management University, Singapore) and Warrick Macmillan (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) Natural Language Generation and Processing for the Legal Domain 10:20-10:40 Break 10:40-11:20 Fri 17 Dec Bjoern Jespersen (Utrecht University, Netherlands) Impossibilities without Impossibilia (Invited Talk) 11:20-12:00 Fri 17 Dec Marie Duzi (VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czechia) Questions and Answers on Dynamic Activities of Agents (Invited Talk) 12:00-13:30 Lunch break 13:30-13:50 Fri 17 Dec Symon Jory Stevensguille (The Ohio State University, United States) Decomposing Events into GOLOG 13:50-15:30 Fri 17 Dec Lasha Abzianidze (Utrecht University, Netherlands) How to Train a Theorem Prover for Natural Language Inference (Invited Talk) 15:30-16:00 Break 16:00-17:00 Fri 17 Dec Larry Moss (Indiana University Mathematics Department, United States) Monotonicity in Natural Language Inference: Theory and Practice (Keynote Talk LACL / LACompLing2021) ====

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lfg and dependency grammar?
by Joan Bresnan 13 Dec '21

13 Dec '21

Could someone fill me in on recent work on lfg and dependency grammar? References would be good. A computational psychologist colleague is interested. Joan -- Sent on the fly

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HPSG proceedings of 2021 out and migration to new place + DOIs
by Stefan Müller 13 Dec '21

13 Dec '21

Hi everybody, The proceedings of this year's HPSG conference are out now. This took a bit longer than usual but it also was a highly complex task this year. The complete set of proceedings starting from 2001 was migrated to a new place: https://proceedings.hpsg.xyz/ Preparations and negotiations for this started in April. Negotiations with CSLI Pubs in September, programming and testing in September. I created a new script reading in the abstracts and creating XML that can be imported into the open journal system. We collected ORCIDs of authors and entered them. I tried to buy a web domain for the proceedings, but hpsg.org costs $3.500. We now got hpsg.xyz for free. (The Fachinformationsdienst Linguistik Frankfurt/Main, our new host, pays for the domain.) All HPSG papers, including the old ones, have DOIs now. I am also CCing the LFG list since this also applies to HeadLex papers from 2016, which include LFG papers. I wrote yet another script for the CSLI page that points to the DOIs now rather than to the PDFs in Stanford. The pages are not in place yet, but I hope this will happen sometime soon. This is this year's proceedings: https://proceedings.hpsg.xyz/issue/view/21 OJS should have told your ORCID account about your new achievement. I think you have to switch the papers to visible, if you want this. The list of bibtex entries is attached. Have a lot of fun! Best wishes, stay healthy and have a good time during the holidays if you have some Stefan

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Request for items: LFG Bulletin, December 2021
by Agnieszka Patejuk 06 Dec '21

06 Dec '21

Dear all, I am now putting together the LFG Bulletin for December 2021. Please take this opportunity to keep the rest of the LFG community up to date with news, details of recent publications and drafts for comments, and anything else that may be of interest. News of recent dissertations and theses is, as always, very welcome. Please send items to: <LFG.bulletin "at" gmail "dot" com> on or before **20th December 2021**. Best wishes, Agnieszka

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PhD position at the University of Konstanz
by Tina Bögel 02 Dec '21

02 Dec '21

Dear colleagues, please feel free to share this announcement with interested students. *One PhD position (TVL-13, 65%) for work at the interface between prosodic structure and formal/computational LFG grammars at the University of Konstanz, Germany* Application Deadline: 31.1.2022 Start of the project: April 2022 We are looking for a PhD student to work with us on the joint DFG/AHRC-project "Prosodic structure at the interface between language and speech" awarded to Tina Bögel (University of Konstanz) and Alice Turk (University of Edinburgh). Both language redundancy and prosodic structure affect characteristics of speech related to acoustic salience and intelligibility. The idea that prosodic structure is the interface between grammar and speech led to proposals that speakers plan the prosodic structure of an utterance in order to make less predictable parts of speech more intelligible via its effects on acoustic saliency. The goals of this project are 1) to test the hypothesis that prosodic structure is the interface between language and speech, and 2) to implement this interface in a (computational) LFG-grammar in order to test and evaluate our architectural assumptions. The PhD student's project will relate to the integration of language redundancy effects into the LFG modules (e.g., to determine an appropriate representation of bigram frequencies and their effects in the lexicon, syntactic structure, and prosodic structure, and to implement them accordingly into a computational LFG grammar). The PhD student will also assist in the design and execution of several speech production experiments in close collaboration with all members of the project. Your profile: - A very good MA-degree in a relevant field - good English language skills - basic knowledge in phonetics and statistics - general knowledge of syntax It is a plus if you have any of these skills: - knowledge of Lexical Functional Grammar (or even its computational implementation) - experience with speech production/perception experiments - rule-based computational or programming skills We do not expect you to be the perfect match, but we expect you to acquire the necessary skills within a year (with support from us and classes offered at the Department of Linguistics at the University of Konstanz) and to be open towards different subfields within linguistics. We offer: - a pleasant and supportive working environment - support for contributions to conferences and general publications - an integration into a very research-oriented department with colleagues from various subfields of linguistics - the possibility of obtaining a PhD Please send your application as one pdf to Tina.Boegel(a)uni-konstanz.de including - your CV - your BA/MA certificates - a motivational letter - and two referees who we could contact The University of Konstanz is committed to ensuring an environment that provides equal opportunities and promotes diversity as well as a good balance between university and family life. As an equal opportunity employer, we strive to increase the number of women working in the ﬁeld advertised (https://www.uni-konstanz.de/en/equalopportunities/equal-opportunity/). Persons with disabilities are explicitly encouraged to apply. They will be given preference if appropriately qualiﬁed (contact + 49 7531 88–4016). -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Tina Bögel FB Sprachwissenschaft Universität Konstanz https://ling.sprachwiss.uni-konstanz.de/pages/home/boegel/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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