Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar

Editor's Note

The 21th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (2014) was held at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York.

The conference featured 2 invited talks, 12 papers, and 2 posters selected by the program committee (Anne Abeillé (chair), Farrel Ackerman, Emily M. Bender, Olivier Bonami, Francis Bond, Robert Borsley, Claire Bowern, George A. Broadwell, Rui P. Chaves, Berthold Crysmann, Elisabet Engdahl, Dan Flickinger, Jeff Good, Fabiola Henri, Jong-Bok Kim, Jean-Pierre Koenig, Valia Kordoni, Robert D. Levine, Robert Malouf, Nurit Melnik, Philip Miller, Stefan Müller, Tsuneko Nakazawa, Joanna Nykiel, Gerald Penn, Adam Przepiórkowski, Frank Richter, Louisa Sadler, Manfred Sailer, Pollet Samvellian, Frank Van Eynde, Robert D. Van Valin Jr., Gert Webelhuth, Stephen Wechsler, Shûichi Yatabe, Eun-Jung Yoo).

A workshop on Understudied Languages and Syntactic Theory was attached to the conference. The workshop had three invited speakers and 6 regular papers. The workshop program was put together by Anne Abeillé, Farrel Ackerman, Emily M. Bender, Olivier Bonami, Francis Bond, Robert Borsley, Claire Bowern George A. Broadwell, Rui P. Chaves (chair), Berthold Crysmann, Elisabet Engdahl, Dan Flickinger, Jeff Good, Fabiola Henri, Jong-Bok Kim, Jean-Pierre Koenig, Valia Kordoni, Robert D. Levine, Robert Malouf, Nurit Melnik, Philip Miller, Stefan Müller, Tsuneko Nakazawa, Joanna Nykiel, Gerald Penn, Adam Przepiórkowski, Frank Richter, Louisa Sadler, Manfred Sailer, Pollet Samvellian, Frank Van Eynde, Robert D. Van Valin Jr., Gert Webelhuth, Stephen Wechsler, Shûichi Yatabe, and Eun-Jung Yoo.

We want to thank the respective program committees for putting this nice program together.

Thanks go to Rui P. Chaves and Jean-Pierre Koenig, who were in charge of local arrangements, and their assistants Anastasia Stepanova, Sanghee Lee, and Aron Marvel.

As in the past years the contributions to the conference proceedings are based on the five page abstract that was reviewed by the respective program committees, but there is no additional reviewing of the longer contribution to the proceedings. To ensure easy access and fast publication we have chosen an electronic format.

The proceedings include all the papers except those by Farell Ackerman, Tsuneko Nakazawa, Rui P. Chaves and Jeruen E. Dery, Ray Jackendoff, Cristin Kalinowski and Jeff Good, and Matthew Dryer.

The table of contents lists all the papers presented at the conference. Some papers were not submitted to the proceedings. For these papers, we suggest contacting the authors directly.

A list of BibTeX-Entries containing bibliographic information is also available.