Call for Papers
 The 20th International Lexical Functional Grammar Conference (LFG15)
                              18 July - 20 July 2015
                      Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan


Conference website:  http://www.lfg2015.org
Conference e-mail (NOT for abstract submission):
     enquiry [at] lfg2015.org
Abstract submission receipt deadline:  15 February 2015, 11:59 pm GMT
Abstracts should be submitted online using the online submission system at
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lfg15


LFG15 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.

Further information about LFG as a syntactic theory is available at the
following site:
    http://www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/external/LFG/


SUBMISSIONS: TALKS AND POSTERS
The main conference sessions will involve 45-minute talks (30 min. + 15
min. discussion), and poster/system 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original, unpublished work.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. The students who
present in this session will receive a subvention towards their conference
costs from the International LFG Association (ILFGA).

Students should note that the main sessions are certainly also open to
student submissions.


TIMETABLE
Deadline for abstracts:  15 February 2015
Acceptances sent out:  30 March 2015
Conference:  18 July - 20 July 2015


SUBMISSION SPECIFICATIONS
Abstracts for talks, posters/demonstrations and the dissertation
session must be received by February 15, 2015. 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 two A4 pages in 10pt or larger type and should include a
title. Omit name and affiliation, and obvious self-reference. Note: we
no longer ask for a separate page for data and figures (c-/f- and
related structures). They can be included in the text of the abstract,
obeying the overall two-page limit. Please submit your abstract in
.pdf format (or a plain text file). If you have any trouble converting
your file into .pdf please contact the Program Committee at the address
below. (On the Easychair submission system, if you upload your abstract
 as a .pdf file, please simply type 'abstract attached' in the abstract box.)

The number of submissions is not restricted.  However, the number of
oral presentations per participant is limited. Each author can be
involved in a maximum of three papers that are presented orally, and
can only be the first author of a single paper. The program committee
will have discretionary powers to vary these rules in particular
situations as they see fit. 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 by at least three people. Papers accepted
to the conference can be submitted to the refereed proceedings, which
will be published online by CSLI Publications. Selected papers may also
appear in a printed volume published by CSLI Publications.


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 Committee (Email: lfg15 'at' easychair.org)

John Lowe, University of Oxford
Ida Toivonen, Carleton University

Local conference organizers (Email: enquiry [at] lfg2015.org)

Ryo Otoguro (Waseda University)
Yasunari Harada (Waseda University)
Akira Ishikawa (Sophia University)
Michiko Nakano (Waseda University)
Sachiko Shudo (Waseda University)
Yoshio Ueno (Waseda University)