The LFG22 Workshop on Formal Grammar and Cognition aims to promote discussion and collaboration between researchers working on formal theories of grammar and those in the fields of language and cognition.  We welcome submissions from experimental, theoretical, or cognitive modelling research that explores the relationship between grammar and cognition, and/or the contribution of formal grammar frameworks to describing and accounting for cognitive phenomena. Areas of interest for phenomena or theoretical treatments include, syntax, semantics, information structure, discourse representation, or any other area of language processing that is amenable to a formal account.

The workshop is associated with the Lexical Functional Grammar conference, being held in Groningen from 12-14 July 2022, but submissions are welcome from within any formal framework.

Submission Guidelines

All work must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:

• Presentations 30 minutes + 15 minutes for questions and answers
• Posters A0 posters for presentation at an interactive poster session

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 three A4 pages, including figures and references. Abstracts should be in 10pt or larger type, with margins of at least 2cm on all four sides, and should include a title. Omit name and affiliation (including in PDF document properties), and avoid obvious self-reference.

Please submit your abstract in .pdf format (or a plain text file).

The number of submissions is not restricted. However, in the interests of high participation and broad representation, each author should be involved in a maximum of two oral papers and can only be a single author of one. 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 anonymously by at least three referees.

List of Topics

• cognitive science
• formal grammar
• human language processing
• cognitive modelling

Invited Speaker

• Balthasar Bickel (University of Zürich)

Publication

Papers accepted to the workshop can be submitted to the refereed proceedings of the LFG22 Conference, and will be published, subject to acceptance, online by CSLI Publications. (Please note that papers submitted to the proceedings are no longer automatically accepted for publication in the proceedings.) See http://web.stanford.edu/group/cslipublications/cslipublications/LFG/ for recent proceedings.

Venue

The workshop will be held at the University of Groningen, Netherlands. A hybrid participation options will be available for participants who are unable to travel, but we hope that presenters will be able to attend in person.

Timetable

Deadline for abstracts: 10 April 2022, 23:59 UTC-12 (midnight anywhere on Earth)

Notification of acceptance: 13 May 2022

Workshop: 15 July 2022 (in association with the LFG22 Conference from 12-14 July 2022)

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to s.m.jones 'at' rug.nl