About the Journal
The LFG proceedings publish the papers presented at the annual LFG conference. Abstracts are peer-reviewed (double-blind) before being accepted to the conference. For the proceedings the full papers undergo another round of reviewing. Presentation at the conference does not automatically qualify papers for the proceedings, they must be accepted to the proceedings after the review of the full papers.
LFG conferences are intended to foster research and academic exchange on any work within the formal architecture of Lexical Functional Grammar as well as typological, formal, computational and psycholinguistic work within the 'spirit of LFG' as a lexicalist approach to language employing a parallel, constraint-based framework.
Here is a link to the LFG proceedings from 1996 to 2021 published by CSLI Publications.
Current Issue
This year's Conference on Lexical Functional Grammar was held at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. The program committee for LFG'25 were Tina Bögel and Stephen Jones. We would like to thank them for coordinating the review process and working with the local organisers, Alex Alsina and Nuo Xu, to put together this year's programme. We would also like to thank Alex and Nuo for organising a wonderful walking tour of the Gothic parts of Barcelona, which started the conference off in style.
This year's conference featured an engaging panel discussion on Arguments and Challenges for Lexicalism, which was organised by Ash Asudeh and Nadeem Siddiqi and led to a spirited and provocative discussion. Thank you to Ash and Nadeem for putting this together.
Finally, we would also like to thank the Executive Committee, without whom the conference planning would not have been possible.
As usual, submission to the proceedings was open to all papers, posters, workshop and panel presentations, and invited talks given at the conference. Some of these presentations were not submitted to the proceedings. For these, we suggest contacting the authors directly. We note that all of the abstracts were peer-reviewed anonymously (double-blind reviewing) and that all of the papers submitted to the proceedings underwent an additional round of reviewing with the possibility of rejection from the proceedings. We would like to express our heartfelt thanks to all of the anonymous reviewers for the donation of their expertise and effort for detailed and constructive reviews in what is often a very short turn-around time.
Finally, we (Jamie & Ida) would also like to note that this is the final year for Miriam Butt as an editor of the LFG Proceedings. As she lays down the mantle she has worn so indefatigably for 30 years, we wish to express our deepest professional and personal appreciation for her hard work and dedication. Thank you, Miriam! You will be missed!
Miriam Butt, Jamie Y. Findlay and Ida Toivonen
Editors, LFG'25
