LINGUIST List 9.271

Mon Feb 23 1998

Calls: L2 Acquisition, Formal & Head-Driven PS Grammar

Editor for this issue: Anita Huang <anitalinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. Jeffrey Reeder, L2 Acquisition of Rom
2. Gosse Bouma, FHCG-98

CALL FOR PAPERS

SPECIAL SESSION: SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND THE ROMANCE LANGUAGES

1998 Convention of the Modern Language Association (MLA) 
December 27-30, 1998
San Francisco, CA

Abstracts of no more than 500 words on any aspect of second language
acquisition relating to the learning or teaching of Romance Languages
(preference given to language acquisition in instructed settings).
Abstracts must be received by March 16, 1998. Participants must be
MLA members by April 1, 1998.

Abstracts or inquiries to:

Jeffrey Reeder
Dept. of Modern Foreign Languages
Baylor University, Box 97393
Waco, TX 78798

FAX: (254) 710-3799

E-MAIL: Jeffrey_Reederbaylor.edu

		 JOINT CONFERENCE ON FORMAL GRAMMAR, 
	HEAD-DRIVEN PHRASE STRUCTURE GRAMMAR, AND CATEGORIAL GRAMMAR 

 		 August 14-16, 1998, 
			Saarbruecken, Germany

			
			SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

FHCG-98 combines the 4th conference on Formal Grammar and the 5th conference 
on Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar. It precedes the 10th European 
Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information (ESSLLI X).

AIMS and SCOPE 

FHCG-98 hopes to provide a platform for presentation of new and original 
research on formal grammar, head-driven phrase structure grammar, and
categorial grammar. 

Themes of interest include, but are not limited to,

* formal and computational syntax, semantics, and pragmatics; 
* head-driven phrase structure grammar and categorial grammar; 
* model-theoretic and proof-theoretic methods in linguistics; 
* constraint-based and resource-sensitive approaches to grammar;
* foundational, methodological and architectural issues in grammar.

SPECIAL EVENTS

The conference features a symposium on unbounded dependencies as well
as a special session on information packaging.

SYMPOSIUM on Unbounded Dependencies: Empirical Problems and Formal Techniques

Invited Speakers:

Anne Abeille 		(Paris 7 University)
Bob Carpenter 		(Bell Labs, Murray Hill)
Michael Moortgat 	(Utrecht University)
Ivan Sag 		(Stanford University)
Ed Stabler 		(UCLA)
Annie Zaenen 		(Xerox, Grenoble)

The symposium provides a comparison of recent work on unbounded dependencies 
from various theoretical angles. Relevant empirical issues include, but are 
not limited to, parasitic gaps, relative clauses, pied-piping, ATB-phenomena, 
weak and strong islands, comparatives, and the semantics of wh-questions. 

There will be presentations focussing on recent work in HPSG, LFG, TAG, CG,
and the Minimalist framework, followed by a panel discussion. 

SPECIAL SESSION on Information Packaging

Invited Speakers:

Elisabeth Engdahl (University of Gothenburg)
Enric Vallduvi (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, t.b.c.)

This session is concerned with formal approaches to information
packaging---those linguistic strategies which allow information
to be encoded in different ways, appropriate to different contexts,
emphasizing the interpretive significance of basic information
packaging distinctions and their grammatical realization within
and across natural languages.

The special session will consist of two invited lectures and
contributed papers appropriate to its theme.

SUBMISSION DETAILS

We invite E-MAIL submissions of abstracts for 30-minute papers 
(including questions and comments).

A submission should consist of two parts: 

- an information sheet (in ascii), containing the name of the author(s), 
 affiliation(s), e-mail and postal address(es), a title, and an 
 indication whether the paper is to be considered for the special session
 on information packaging;

- an abstract, consisting of a description of not more than 5 pages 
 (including figures and references). Abstracts may be either in plain 
 ASCII or in (unix-compatible encoded) postscript, PDF, or DVI. Please
 avoid using binhex or MIME.

Abstracts can be sent to 
	
	fgufal.mff.cuni.cz (Geert-Jan M. Kruijff)

(EXTENDED) ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE 

March, 31, 1998

NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE

May, 15, 1998

PROCEEDINGS

A full version of the accepted paper will be included in the conference 
proceedings, to be distributed at the conference. Full papers are due
July, 1, 1998.

PUBLICATION

Pending final approval by the publisher, a selected number of papers 
will be published as a volume of the recently started CSLI-series 
"Studies in Constraint-Based Lexicalism", with series editors Andreas 
Kathol, Jean-Pierre Koenig and Sam Mchombo. There will be a separate 
round of submission and reviewing for this volume after the conference. 

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

Gosse Bouma	 (Groningen, Chair)		
Richard Oehrle	 (Arizona, Chair)	
Klaus Netter	 (DFKI, Local Arrangements)
Geert-Jan Kruijff (Prague, Submissions)

Anne Abeille	 (Paris)		Bob Kasper (Ohio State) 
Bob Carpenter (Bell Labs) 		Andreas Kathol (UC Berkeley)
John Coleman (Oxford) 		Shalom Lappin (London) 
Ann Copestake	 (CSLI) 		Glyn Morrill	 (Barcelona)
Mary Dalrymple (Xerox Parc) 		Tsuneko Nakazawa (Tokyo)
Elisabeth Engdahl (Gotenborg) 		Anton Nijholt (Twente)
Daniele Godard (Paris) 		Gertjan van Noord (Groningen)
Erhard Hinrichs (Tuebingen) 		Carl Pollard (Ohio State)
Jack Hoeksema	 (Groningen)

FURTHER INFORMATION

Web site for ESSLLI X: http://top.coli.uni-sb.de/esslli/ 

Web site for FHCG-98 : http://www.dfki.de/events/hpsg98/

The organizers:

Gosse Bouma (chair) gosselet.rug.nl
Dick Oehrle (chair) rtochol.douglass.arizona.edu
Klaus Netter (local arrangements) klaus.netterdfki.de
Geert-Jan Kruijff (paper submissions) gjufal.mff.cuni.cz

FHCG-98 FHCG-98 FHCG-98 FHCG-98 FHCG-98 FHCG-98 FHCG-98 FHCG-98 FHCG-98 
		
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Gosse Bouma, Alfa-informatica, RUG, Postbus 716, 9700 AS Groningen
gosselet.rug.nl tel. +31-50-3635937 fax +31-50-3636855