Dear all, this year’s LFG conference in Jaffna 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 invited speakers plus a general discussion led by Miriam Butt. Jamie Findlay has already agreed to participate. 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 and adhere to the same deadline (Feb. 15th) . We will post a submisison site on the conference website by the beginning of Februrary. https://www.conf.jfn.ac.lk/lfg/events/ Best, Miriam (and Sarves) **************************************************************** Miriam Butt Department of Linguistics University of Konstanz Fach 184 Tel: +49 7531 88 5109 78457 Konstanz Germany miriam.butt@uni-konstanz.de https://www.ling.uni-konstanz.de/butt/ "Shocking!" agreed Campion. "I don't know what my wife would say." Marlowe stared at him. "Good Lord, you haven't a wife, have you?" he said. "No," said Mr. Campion. "That's why I don't know what she'd say." Margery Allingham, "Mystery Mile" (p. 199) ****************************************************************