Second Call for papers


HPSG 2017


University of Kentucky, Lexington,
Kentucky (USA), 7-9 July 2017

* Invited speakers


Laura Michaelis, University of
Colorado-Boulder Robert D. Borsley, University of Essex

* Tutorial on HPSG Theory and Implementation


Emily Bender (University of Washington)
and Dan Flickinger (Stanford University)

* Special Session "Languages of the
Seven Countries"


The special session focuses on languages
from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen, and is not restricted
to any particular theoretic framework. All are welcome.

* Main Session


Abstracts are solicited for
presentations which address linguistic, foundational, or computational issues
relating to or in the spirit of the framework of Head-Driven Phrase Structure
Grammar.

* Conference Format


Prospective speakers must submit a 5
page abstract for the main session (30 minute presentation, plus 10 minute
discussion). The conference will be streamed online, and presenters who cannot
attend the conference because of travel bans can give their talks remotely.

* Venue and Related Events


The HPSG Conference (http://hpsg.uky.edu/) will be collocated with
the LSA's Summer Institute, at the University of Kentucky (https://lsa2017.uky.edu/), which takes
place during July 5th through August 1st.



Local Organizing Committee Chair: Fabiola
Henry (fabiola.henri@uky.edu),
University of Kentucky.

* Submissions


All abstracts should be submitted in PDF
format via:


https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hpsg2017



Please direct any questions to the
Program Committee Chair:


rchaves@buffalo.edu

All abstracts will be reviewed
anonymously by at least two reviewers. They should not include the authors'
names, and authors are asked to avoid self-references.



* Important Dates

Abstract submission deadline: 17 March
2017 Notification of acceptance: 15 April 2017


Conference: 7-9 July 2017

Conference proceedings submission: 15
October 2017



* Program Committee
Stefan Müller

Tsuneko Nakazawa


Anne Abeillé


Doug Arnold


Emily Bender


Francis Bond


Gosse Bouma


George Broadwell


Philippa Cook


Berthold Crysmann


Kordula De Kuthy


Dan Flickinger


Antske Fokkens


Petter Haugereid


Fabiola Henri


Anke Holler


Jong-Bok Kim


Jean-Pierre Koenig


Robert D. Levine


Nurit Melnik


Philip Miller


Joanna Nykiel


Gerald Penn


Pollet Samvellian


Sanghoun Song


Stephen Wechsler


Shûichi Yatabe


Eun-Jung Yoo

* Publication


The conference proceedings will be
published online by CSLI Publications. Only papers presented in the main
session will be included in the proceedings.



A call for contributions to the
proceedings will be issued after the conference. Proceedings of previous
conferences are available at:



http://csli-publications.stanford.edu/HPSG/.