This year’s LFG will feature a workshop on argument structure. The idea is to facilitate discussion and comparison between several different approaches to the mapping between semantic roles and grammatical functions that are currently being pursued within LFG. Besides classical Mapping Theory, there is Kibort’s revised Mapping Theory, approaches that propose to do away with a separate a-structure projection altogether and to instead fold it into the semantic representation (e.g., Asudeh, Findlay, Lovestrand) and Beck and Butt’s proposals for event based linking.
The workshop will feature presentations, invited talks, and a general discussion led by Miriam Butt.
Confirmed Speakers:
- Jamie Findlay (University of Oslo)
- Gillian Ramchand (Oxford University)
- Ida Toivonen (Carleton University)
- Steve Wechsler (University of Texas, Austin)
- Miriam Butt (University of Konstanz)
Call for abstract submissions:
In addition, we call for submissions to the workshop that deal with any of the following:
1) the argument structure analyses of interesting phenomena;
2) computational approaches to argument structure;
3) discussions as to the formal representation/treatment of argument structure in LFG.
Abstracts should follow the same format as that of the main conference (https://conf.jfn.ac.lk/lfg/call-for-papers/)
Important dates:
- Deadline for abstracts: 7 March 2026, 23:59 UTC-12 (midnight anywhere on Earth)
- Notification of acceptance: 15 April 2026
- Workshop: 29/30 July 2026
Submit your abstract via: https://openreview.net/group?id=LFG/2026/Workshop/A-STR
Organisers:
Miriam Butt, University of Konstanz
Kengatharaiyer Sarveswaran, University of Jaffna