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 University of Ghana, in Legon, Accra. The program committee for LFG24 were Tina Bögel and Stephen Jones. We would like to thank them for coordinating the review process and working with the local organisers, Adams Bodomo, Hasiyatu Abubakari, and Clement Appah, to put together this year's programme. This year's conference featured a very interesting workshop on West African languages, which was organized by Adams Bodomo and Miriam Butt. We would also like to thank the Executive Committee without whom the conference planning would not have been possible.
With this conference, Adams Bodomo has now officially organized the most LFG conferences to date and we would to thank him for bringing LFG to all corners of the world. This year's LFG conference was made particularly memorable by the verve and organizational skills Hasiyatu Abubakari and her team brought to the conference, serving up delicious food day after day and organizing a truly wonderful post-conference tour. We would also like to thank the Vice Chancellor of the University of Ghana for hosting our participants in her beautiful hill-top garden and the Linguistics Association of Ghana for giving us the opportunity to co-locate with the 16th Linguistics Association of Ghana Annual Conference (LAG 2024).
As usual, submission to the proceedings was open to all papers, posters, workshop 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.
Miriam Butt, Jamie Y. Findlay and Ida Toivonen, Editors, LFG'24
ISSN: 1098-6782
