LINGUIST List 17.522

Thu Feb 16 2006

Calls: Applied Ling/Singapore;Syntax/Bulgaria

Editor for this issue: Kevin Burrows <kevinlinguistlist.org>

Directory         1.    Makoto Takeda, The 2nd CLS International Conference
         2.    Jan-Philipp Soehn, 13th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar
Message 1: The 2nd CLS International Conference
Date: 16-Feb-2006
From: Makoto Takeda <clasic2006nus.edu.sg>
Subject: The 2nd CLS International Conference



Full Title: The Second CLS International Conference Short Title: CLaSIC 2006
Date: 07-Dec-2006 - 09-Dec-2006 Location: Singapore, Singapore Contact Person: Titima Suthiwan (Chairperson)
Meeting Email: < click here to access email >
Web Site: http://www.fas.nus.edu.sg/cls/clasic2006/
Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Language Acquisition

Call Deadline: 31-May-2006

Meeting Description:

CLaSIC organised by the Centre for Language Studies, National University of Singapore aims at bringing together academics, researchers and professionals from Asia and beyond for a productive and rewarding exchange of insights, experiences, views and perspectives on current and future developments in foreign language teaching and learning.

The Centre for Language Studies(CLS), National University of Singapore(NUS) is pleased to announce the Second CLS International Conference (CLaSIC 2006) to be held from 7-9 December 2006 at Holiday Inn Atrium Singapore, which is a 4 star hotel located near city area in Singapore. The theme of the conference is:

''Processes and Process-Orientation in Foreign Language Teaching and Learning''

We would like to invite you and your colleagues to participate in this conference and to present papers on the sub-themes listed in the Call for the Papers below. We would be most grateful if you could circulate information about the conference within your institution and enclose a PDF copy of the conference brochure for this purpose. If you require more information, please feel free to write to us at the addresses given below.

Call for Papers

The CLS invites submissions for Papers and Poster Presentations on one of the following sub-themes:

- Foreign Language Teaching Methodologies- Innovations in Language Teaching- ICT, Multimedia and Foreign Language Learning- Syllabus Design and Curriculum Development- Teacher Education and Professional Development- Theories in Second Language Acquisition- Linguistics Theories and Language Learning

Other topics may also be considered though preference will be given to the above.

Presentation proposals can be submitted online at the following URL, latest by 31 May 2006:

http://www.fas.nus.edu.sg/cls/clasic2006/

Alternatively, you can send your proposal to the corresponding address below. Please state in your submission 1) the sub-theme to which your presentation is related and include 2) an abstract of between 150-200 words and 3) brief biodata of not more than 50 words. On-line submissions are preferred. The language medium for all presentations at the conference is English.

The SecretaryCLaSIC 2006 Organising CommitteeCentre for Language StudiesFaculty of Arts and Social SciencesNational University of SingaporeBlock AS4, 02-05, 9 Arts Link, Singapore 117570Fax (65) 6777 7736e-mail: clasic2006nus.edu.sg


Message 2: 13th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar
Date: 15-Feb-2006
From: Jan-Philipp Soehn <jp.soehnuni-tuebingen.de>
Subject: 13th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar



Full Title: 13th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar Short Title: HPSG 2006
Date: 24-Jul-2006 - 27-Jul-2006 Location: Varna, Bulgaria Contact Person: Jan-Philipp Soehn
Meeting Email: < click here to access email >
Web Site: http://www.bultreebank.org/HPSG06/
Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Language Description; Linguistic Theories; Morphology; Phonology; Pragmatics; Semantics; Syntax; Text/Corpus Linguistics

Call Deadline: 15-Mar-2006

Meeting Description:

HPSG 2006The 13th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar

Varna, BulgariaJuly 24 - 27, 2006

SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

HPSG 2006The 13th International Conference onHead-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar

Varna, BulgariaJuly 24 - 27, 2006

Conference website: http://www.bultreebank.org/HPSG06/

The 13th International Conference on HPSG will take place in Varna onJuly 24 -27, 2006, hosted by the Linguistic Modelling Laboratory, IPP,Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.The conference will include some tutorials (July 24, tba)and a workshop on ''Regularity and Irregularity in Grammar and Language'' (July 25).

INVITED SPEAKERS

Workshop:Frank van Eynde (Leuven)

Main conference:Stefan Mueller (Bremen)Shravan Vasishth (Potsdam)

MAIN CONFERENCEJuly 26 - 27

Abstracts are solicited for 20 minute presentations (followed by 10minutes of discussion) which address linguistic, foundational, orcomputational issues relating to the framework of Head-Driven PhraseStructure Grammar.

WORKSHOP''Regularity and Irregularity in Grammar and Language''(announcement)July 25

The workshops associated with HPSG conferences typically address topicsthat are relevant to any grammatical framework. Contributions to theworkshop from other frameworks are as welcome as abstract submissionsfrom the HPSG community!

The relationship between regularity and irregularity in language hasalways been a central research theme in linguistic theorizing.Contemporary grammatical frameworks in the generative tradition are noexception in this regard, with research dating back at least as far asGeorge Lakoff's 1966 dissertation.

Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar is particularly well-suited toaddress such issues, due to its lexicalist orientation and to itsextensive use of types and inheritance hierarchies. Consequently,HPSG researchers have made significant contributions to the study ofregularity and irregularity in the areas of morphology, syntax andsemantics. To name only a few examples:

morphology and morphology-syntax interface: Flickinger's dissertationon lexical rules and the structure of the lexicon (Flickinger 1987);Nerbonne and Krieger's work on the organization of the lexicon and oninflectional morphology (Nerbonne and Krieger 1993); Riehemann'scorpus-based study of derivational morphology (Riehemann 1998);Malouf's constructional approach to English gerunds.

syntax and syntax-semantics interface: Przepiorkowski's account ofcase assigmnment in Polish (Przepiorkowski 1999); Sag's papers onassignment rules and exceptions in the English auxiliary system (Sag 2001);Ginzburg and Sag's constructional approach to the syntax and semanticsof questions (Ginzburg and Sag 2001).

semantics: research on licensing of special elements, including idioms(Riehemann 2001, Soehn 2006), n-words and negative polarity items(Przepiorkowski and Kupsc 1999; Sailer/Richter 1999; De Swart and Sag2002).

We invite contributions that address issues related to the aboveresearch topics, that discuss theoretical issues in the treatment ofregularity and irregularity in language, or that present empiricalstudies that pose interesting challenges to existing accounts.

The format of submission and the deadlines for the workshop will beidentical to that of the main conference.

SUBMISSION DETAILS

For both the main conference and the workshop, we invite E-MAILsubmissions of abstracts for presentations which should consist of twoparts:

1. a separate information page in plain text format, containing- author name(s)- affiliation(s)- e-mail and postal address(es)- title of paper

2. an extended abstract of not more than 5 (five) pages, including allfigures and references. Abstracts should be in PDF format.

We use an online subscription system. All abstracts should besubmitted via http://www.easychair.org/HPSG2006(If you have any questions: jp.soehnuni-tuebingen.de).

Abstracts for the main conference should mention 'HPSG-06' andabstracts for the workshop should mention 'Workshop-06' in thesubject line. All abstracts will be reviewed anonymously by at leasttwo reviewers. Authors are asked to avoid self-references in theabstracts.

IMPORTANT DATES

Abstract submission deadline: March 15, 2006Notification of acceptance: May 15, 2005Tutorial, Workshop, and Conference: July 24 - 27, 2006

PUBLICATION

The proceedings of the conference will be published on-line by CSLIpublications. A call for papers for contributions will be issued afterthe conference. On-line proceedings of previous conferences areavailable at http://csli-publications.stanford.edu/HPSG/''>http://csli-publications.stanford.edu/HPSG/

PROGRAM COMMITTEE for the CONFERENCE

Anne Abeille (Paris)Raul Aranovich (Davis)Emily Bender (Washington)Gosse Bouma (Groningen)Antonio Branco (Lisbon)Chan Chung (Dongseo)Ann Copestake (Stanford)Berthold Crysmann (Saarbruecken)Elisabeth Engdahl (Goeteborg)Anna Feldman (Ohio)Dan Flickinger (Stanford)Howard Gregory (Goettingen)Daniele Godard (Paris)Erhard Hinrichs (Tuebingen, chair)Jong-Bok Kim (Kyung Hee)Valia Kordoni (Saarbruecken)Ania Kupsc (Nancy)Shalom Lappin (London)Robert Levine (Ohio)Stefan Mueller (Bremen)Tsuneko Nakazawa (Tokyo)Petya Osenova (Sofia)Gerald Penn (Toronto)Luisa Sadler (Essex)Ivan Sag (Stanford)Manfred Sailer (Goettingen)Gautam Sengupta (Hyderabad)Jan-Philipp Soehn (Tuebingen, chair)Jesse Tseng (Nancy)Nathan Vaillette (Amherst)Stephen Wechsler (Austin)Eun-Jung Yoo (Seoul)Larisa Zlatic (Austin)

LOCAL ORGANIZATION

Chair: Kiril Simov (Sofia)

FURTHER INFORMATION

local organization: Kiril Simov and Petya Osenova

programm and submissions: Jan-Philipp Soehn

conference web site: http://www.bultreebank.org/HPSG06/

submission web site: http://www.easychair.org/HPSG2006/