Call for papers

We invite 20-minute (plus 10-minute discussion) presentation proposals on the following general and/or specific topics: 

General topics

• At the crossroads between functionalist, cognitivist and/or constructionist approaches.
  
• Division of labour of lexical semantics and constructional semantics. 
  
• Role of metaphor and metonymy and other cognitive operations in meaning construction and grammar. 
  
• Relationship between semantics, pragmatics and discourse in meaning construction and/or meaning representation. 
  
• Cognitive modeling and construal. 
  
• Pragmatic inferencing. 
  

Papers that pay special attention to the treatment of these topics within the LCM and FunGramKB are particularly welcome. 

LCM and FunGramKB specific topics

• Meaning construction and meaning representation in the LCM.
  
• Methodological tools in the LCM (e.g. equipollence). 
  
• Syntactic representation in the LCM. 
  
• The form of lexical and constructional templates in the LCM. 
  
• Connections between the LCM and FunGramKB. 
  
• Lexico-grammatical knowledge in FunGramKB. 
  
• Terminology in FunGramKB. 
  
• Conceptual representation in FunGramKB. 
  
• Reasoning in FunGramKB. 
  
• NLP applications of FunGramKB.
  

Guidelines for submissions

Submission should include the following information:

1. Author's name
   
2. Affiliation 
   
3. E-mail address
   
4. Paper title
5. An abstract with a maximum of 500 words, excluding references

The official language of the conference is English.

All paper proposals are assumed to represent original and unpublished work.

Confirmation will be emailed.

Deadline

The deadline for proposal submission is April 30th, 2013  via e-mail to fgkb.lcm.2013@gmail.com

Please set the subject line of your e-mail to include the following reference:  
II  LCM-FUNGRAMKB conference

Notification of acceptance or rejection of submitted proposals will be mailed by May 10th, 2013.