Call for Papers: the deadline for LFG25 has been extended to 19 February. 

Join us for 30 years of LFG, with invited speakers Joan Bresnan and Stefan Müller, and an interesting workshop on "Arguments and Challenges for lexicalism"!

The updated call for papers is below:


                      LFG25: The 30th International Lexical-Functional Grammar Conference


                                   22 July - 24 July 2025
                           Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain


Abstract submission deadline: 19 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: https://eventum.upf.edu/128654/detail/lfg25-the-30th-international-lexical-functional-grammar-conference.html


Conference e-mail (NOT for abstract submission): LFG25 'at' upf.edu


Invited speakers: Joan Bresnan (Stanford University) and Stefan Müller (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)


Core conference: 22-24 July 2025
Pre-conference activities: 21 July 2025
Workshop: 25 July 2025


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 Presentations should describe original, unpublished work.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 FOR SUBMISSIONS


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
http://web.stanford.edu/group/cslipublications/cslipublications/LFG/ for recent proceedings.




PRE-CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES


There will be a day of pre-conference activities on 21 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/