The 31st International Lexical Functional Grammar Conference (LFG2026)
Venue: Department of Computer Science, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka
Dates: 28-30 July 2026
Website: https://conf.jfn.ac.lk/lfg/
28 July 2026
| Time | Event / Topic | Speaker / Venue |
|---|---|---|
| 08:30-09:00 | Registration | At the venue |
| 09:00-09:45 | Inauguration | |
| 09:00-09:45 | Lighting oil lamp | At the venue |
| 09:00-09:45 | Welcome address by the Head of the Department of Computer Science | Dr. Barathy Mayurathan University of Jaffna |
| 09:00-09:45 | Welcome dance | Students |
| 09:00-09:45 | Address by the chair of the organizing committee | Prof. Miriam Butt University of Konstanz |
| 09:00-09:45 | Address by the Dean, Faculty of Science | The Dean University of Jaffna |
| 09:00-09:45 | Address by the Vice Chancellor | Snr. Prof. T. Velnampy University of Jaffna |
| 09:00-09:45 | Address by a member of the Executive Committee | Dr. John J. Lowe University of Oxford |
| 09:45-10:45 | Keynote 1 | Rachel Nordlinger University of Melbourne |
| 10:45-11:30 | LFG 2026 Group Picture & Tea Break | At the venue |
| 11:30-13:00 | Technical Sessions | |
| 11:30-13:00 | Case Concord as Subsumption: Mixed Agreement vs. Case Assignment in Slavic | Adam Przepiórkowski University of Warsaw & Polish Academy of Sciences |
| 11:30-13:00 | The morphology-syntax distribution of labor: the case of agreement | Alex Alsina Pompeu Fabra University |
| 13:00-14:00 | Lunch | At the venue |
| 14:00-16:15 | Technical Sessions | |
| 14:00-16:15 | Compliant elephants: the Sanskrit reflexive (and) causative in Paninian LFG | John J. Lowe University of Oxford |
| 14:00-16:15 | Morphological vs. Periphrastic Causatives in Tamil | Miriam Butt; Kengatharaiyer Sarveswaran; Natalia Villanueva; Francesca Hoffmeier University of Konstanz; University of Jaffna |
| 14:00-16:15 | Instrumental Morphology Underdetermines Argumenthood: Causee Realisation in Turkish Ditransitive Causatives | Seda Öztürk University of Oxford |
| 16:15-16:45 | Tea Break | At the venue |
| 17:00-18:00 | Business Meeting | At the venue |
29 July 2026
| Time | Event / Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 09:00-11:15 | Technical Sessions | |
| 09:00-11:15 | Variation in multi-part expression of predicators in north/central Australian languages | Jane Simpson Australian National University |
| 09:00-11:15 | LFG meets diachronic typology in Indonesian Austronesian: how reciprocal meaning migrates under morphological attrition | I Wayan Arka; Marcelinus Y.F. Akoli; Charbel El Khaisi; Yustinus Ghanggo Ate; Emma Keith; Yuchen L; Keira Mullan; Yana Qomariana Australian National University |
| 09:00-11:15 | On coordination and how it does not involve selectional violations | Agnieszka Patejuk; Adam Przepiórkowski Polish Academy of Sciences; University of Warsaw & Polish Academy of Sciences |
| 11:15-11:45 | Tea Break | At the venue |
| 11:45-13:15 | Technical Sessions | |
| 11:45-13:15 | Bulgarian clitics: a computational implementation at the syntax-prosody interface | Tina Bögel University of Konstanz |
| 11:45-13:15 | PCDRT-inspired pronoun and presupposition resolution in XLE+Glue | Mark-Matthias Zymla; Nadine Bade; Kascha Kruschwitz; Piyapath T Spencer University of Konstanz |
| 13:15-14:00 | Lunch | At the venue |
| 14:00-15:30 | Technical Sessions | |
| 14:00-15:30 | Coordination of prepositions that require different values of case | Agnieszka Patejuk Polish Academy of Sciences |
| 14:00-15:30 | Case-marking in Pitjantjatjara: Edge inflection and noun phrase structure | Sasha Wilmoth; Rachel Nordlinger University of Melbourne |
| 15:30-17:00 | Poster Session + Tea Break | |
| 15:30-17:00 | Agreement in Partitive Constructions | Despina Kazana; Maria Flouraki SOAS, University of London |
| 15:30-17:00 | The Morphosyntax of Possessives in Turkish | Elif Ebru Ersöyleyen University of Rochester |
| 15:30-17:00 | Case Innovation via Goals: Evidence from Indo-Aryan | Miriam Butt; Ashwini Deo; Benazir Mumtaz University of Konstanz; University of Texas at Austin |
| 15:30-17:00 | Extending the ParGram Treebank: Progress and Issues in Cantonese and Irish | Chit-Fung Lam; Elaine Uí Dhonnchadha University of Oxford; Trinity College Dublin |
| 17:30-18:30 | Reception | At the venue |
| 19:00 onwards | Conference Dinner | To be announced |
30 July 2026
| Time | Event / Topic | Speaker / Venue |
|---|---|---|
| 09:00-10:00 | Keynote 2 | Ash Asudeh University of Rochester |
| 10:00-10:30 | Tea Break | At the venue |
| 10:30-12:00 | Technical Sessions | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Some of the major steps towards a comprehensive LFG analysis of partitivity in Hungarian | Tibor Laczkó University of Debrecen |
| 10:30-12:00 | Hindi differential object marking in Evolutionary LFG | Sampada Deshpande; Stephen Wechsler University of Texas, Austin |
| 12:00-13:00 | Lunch | At the venue |
| Workshop on Argument Structure | ||
| 13:00-13:30 | Introduction | Miriam Butt University of Konstanz |
| 13:30-14:00 | Talk | Jamie Findlay University of Oslo |
| 14:00-14:45 | Event Structure and Role Relations | Gillian Ramchand University of Oxford |
| 14:45-15:15 | Tea Break | |
| 15:15-16:00 | Argument structure and the conceptualization of events | Ida Toivonen Carleton University |
| 16:00-16:45 | Argument structure emerges from paradigmatic clustering | Steve Wechsler University of Texas, Austin |
| 16:45-17:30 | Case and Event Based Linking | Miriam Butt; Ashwini Deo University of Konstanz; University of Texas, Austin |
| 17:30-18:00 | General Discussion | |
| 18:00-18:30 | Closing Remarks | At the venue |
| 19:30 onwards | Celebrations | Venue will be announced later |