LFG BULLETIN
MARCH 2003
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* LINGUISTICS IN THE LITERATURE *
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Q: As far as grammar, what is the difference between "bring" and
"take"?
A: "Bring is a prehensile imprecation that must be used in the
vindictive tense:
EXAMPLE: "Earl should never of brung Silly String to the viewing."
Whereas "take" is used in fraternal exhortations:
EXAMPLE: "Take a gander at THEM headlamps!"
Dave Barry, "You, like, better watch your language, mister", Miami
Herald, 2002.
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* OTHER NEWS *
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LFG 2003:
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Local Organizer: Prof. G. Aaron Broadwell
Email contact: g.broadwell@albany.edu
LFG 2003
2003 INTERNATIONAL
LEXICAL FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR CONFERENCE
DATES 16-18 July 2003
Saratoga Springs, NY
Please book your hotel rooms early since they are filling up rapidly.
More information is available at:
http://www.albany.edu/anthro/lfg2003/lfg2003.htm
ATTENTION: Pre-conference activities for LFG 2003
Those attending LFG 2003 are encouraged to participate in an afternoon of
low-key pre-conference activities.
We'll meet each other at 12:00 noon in front of the Canfield Casino, in
Congress Park, Broadway, Saratoga Springs. (This is in the middle of
downtown
Saratoga Springs. Your hotel can give you directions.)
We'll have a picnic lunch there, and then split up for activities of various
energy levels:
-- walking tour of downtown, with frequent stops for ice-cream, drinks,
pommes frites, and/or chocolate
-- hiking at Lake George
-- visits to local museums
-- other fun things
If you think you'll be coming to the pre-conference day, send an e-mail to
the organizers at g.broadwell@albany.edu. That will help us figure out how
many to expect and give us a clearer idea of our transportation needs.
Tuesday, July 15
12:00 Informal pre-conference gathering
(Picnic lunch, hiking, visits to local museums, and
other activities)
Wednesday, July 16 (FIRST CONFERENCE DAY)
9:00-10:30 SPECIAL SESSION 1
"1978-2003: The 25th Anniversary of the First Course on LFG"
Joan Bresnan
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-12:20 SESSION 1A
Yehuda N. Falk: "The English Auxiliary System Revisited"
Rachel Nordlinger & Louisa Sadler: "The Syntax and Semantics
of Tensed Nominals"
12:20-2:00 Lunch break
2:00-3:20 SESSION 1B
Maia Androasson, Kersti Borjars, & Elisabet Engdahl:
"Subject positions in Swedish"
Elizabeth Coppock: "Sometimes it's hard to be Coherent"
3:20- 3:40 Coffee break
3:40- 5:00 SESSION 1C
Aoife Cahill, Mairead McCarthy, Josef Van Genabith, & Andy
Way: "Lexicalisation of Long-Distance Dependencies in a
Treebank-Based, Statistical LFG Grammar"
Anette Frank: "Projecting LFG F-Structures from Chunks"
5:30- 7:00 POSTER/DEMO SESSION
Miriam Butt, Tracy King & John Maxwell: "Complex Predication
via Restriction" (POSTER/DEMO)
Aoife Cahill, Mairead McCarthy, Josef Van Genabith, & Andy
Way: "Extracting Large-Scale Lexical Resources for LFG
from the Penn-II Treebank" (DEMO)
Aoife Cahill, Mairead McCarthy, Josef Van Genabith, & Andy
Way: "A Suite of Linguistic Tools for Use with the Penn-II
Treebank" (POSTER)
Anette Frank: "Projecting LFG F-Structures from Chunks"
(accompanying DEMO to the talk at 4:20)
Martin Frost: "Treebank Conversion - Creating a German
f-structure bank from the TIGER corpus" (POSTER)
Ron Kaplan & Tracy King: "Integration of low-level mark-up
with large-scale LFG grammatical analysis" (POSTER)
Thursday, July 17 (SECOND CONFERENCE DAY)
9:00-10:30 SPECIAL SESSION 2
"1978-2003: The 25th Anniversary of the First Course on LFG"
Ron Kaplan
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-12:20 SESSION 2A
Ryo Otoguro: "Focus clitics and discourse information
spreading"
Leonoor van der Beek: "The Dutch cleft constructions"
12:20- 1:45 Lunch break
1:45- 5:00 WORKSHOP "THE SYNTAX OF NATIVE AMERICAN LANGUAGES:
LEXICALIST PERSPECTIVES"
George Aaron Broadwell: "Optimality, complex predication, and
parallel structures in Zapotec"
Matthew Beach: "Asymmetries between passivization and
antipassivization in Inuktitut"
Amy Dahlstrom: "Focus constructions in Meskwaki (Fox)"
Lachlan Duncan: "Tz'utujil (Maya) clause structure"
Mary Catherine O'Connor: "Pronominal incorporation and
agreement inside the noun phrase"
5:30- 7:30 ILFGA business meeting
Friday, July 18 (THIRD CONFERENCE DAY)
9:00- 10:20 SESSION 3A
Sam Mchombo & Yukiko Morimoto: "Local constraints in
Chichewa discontinuous constituents"
Hanjung Lee: "Quantitative Variation in Object Marking
in Korean: An Experimental Study"
10:20-10:40 Coffee break
10:40-11:10 STUDENT DISSERTATION SESSION
Lee Yat Mei Sophia: "Complement Functions in Cantonese:
A Lexical-Functional Grammar Approach"
11:10-12:30 SESSION 3B
Valia Kordoni: "Valence Alternations: at the Syntax-Semantics
Interface"
Cholthicha Sudmuk: "The thuuk Construction in Thai"
12:30- 2:00 Lunch break
2:00-3:20 SESSION 3C
Juergen Wedekind & Bjarne Ørsnes: "Restriction and Verbal
Complexes in LFG -- A Case Study for Danish"
Jonas Kuhn: "Generalized Tree Descriptions for LFG"
3:20- 3:40 Coffee break
3:40- 5:00 SESSION 3D
KP & Tara Mohanan: "Universal and language-particular
constraints in OT-LFG"
Tara & KP Mohanan: "Inputs and Candidates in OT-LFG"
ALTERNATE PAPERS (in alphabetical order)
Adams B. Bodomo, Olivia Lam & Natalie Yu: "Expressing the Benefactive in
Hong Kong Chinese"
Lionel Clement & Alexandra Kinyon: "Generating LFGs with a MetaGrammar"
Andrew Spencer: "A Realization Approach to Case"
(The alternate papers that are not picked to replace a talk will be
presented in the POSTER SESSION on Wednesday July 16.)
Recent LFG Publications:
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Butt, Miriam, Tracy Holloway King, and John T. Maxwell III. 2003.
Productive Encoding of Urdu Complex Predicates in the ParGram
Project. Proceedings of EACL03, Workshop on Computational Linguistics
for South Asian Languages: Expanding Synergies with Europe.
King, Tracy Holloway, Richard Crouch, Stefan Riezler, Mary Dalrymple,
and Ronald Kaplan. 2003. The PARC 700 Dependency Bank. Proceedings
of EACL03: 4th International Workshop on Linguistically Interpreted
Corpora (LINC-03).
Upcoming LFG Conferences:
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- LFG 2004: University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
Hosted by Ida Toivonen and Ash Asudeh
Dates are to be determined.
- LFG 2005: Will be held somewhere in Europe/Africa. Bids will
be considered at the LFG2003 conference business
meeting. Please send a message to Tracy Holloway
King (thking@parc.com) if you intend to put in a bid.
Note that you may put in a bid even if you cannot
attend the conference.
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* ILFGA *
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DONATE TO ILFGA: There are three ways to make a donation:
0. Donate at the conference!
ILFGA will be accepting donations at LFG03 in Saratoga Springs.
1. Send a check made out to "Intl. Lexical Functional Grammar
Assc." in US dollars to:
Tracy Holloway King
NLTT/ISTL
PARC
3333 Coyote Hill Rd
Palo Alto, CA 94304
USA
This is the simplest (and cheapest) method if you have access to US
dollars.
2. Have money transfered directly into the account.
Please let the ILFGA Treasurer, Tracy Holloway King (thking@parc.com), know if you
want to make a donation in this way.
ILFGA is a 501(3)c organization (i.e. a non-profit) and as such
contributions are tax deductible in the US (and perhaps elsewhere; if
you are not in the US, check your home country for tax status). A
receipt will be issued for each donation.
BE IN THE ILFGA DATABASE:
Please add yourself to the ILFGA linguist database.
To do so, send email to Chris Culy (culy@ai.sri.com) with the
following information:
NAME
AFFILIATION
OFFICIAL ADDRESS
EMAIL ADDRESS
WEB PAGE
RESEARCH INTERESTS
RESEARCH LANGUAGES
The database can be accessed at:
http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg/ilfga/member-database/ilfga-namelist.html
JOIN ILFGA:
If you haven't yet, you can still join ILFGA, the International
Lexical Functional Grammar Association by sending mail to:
majordomo@lists.stanford.edu with the message:
subscribe ilfga-members
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* EDITORS *
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Please send updates, suggestions and news for inclusion in the next
LFG Bulletin (June 2003) to:
mutt@ccl.umist.ac.uk
thking@parc.com
Most importantly, please send information about:
- your recent publications or papers
- publically available grammars
- current grammar development efforts
- recent dissertations
Thank you,
Miriam Butt and Tracy Holloway King
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Frequently Asked Questions: FAQs
Information on the following topics is available on the LFG WebPages:
http://clwww.essex.ac.uk/LFG/
http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg
1. WHAT IS LEXICAL-FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR?
2. WHAT ARE THE BEST INTRODUCTORY BOOKS/ARTICLES TO LFG?
3. THE LFG WWW SITE
4. THE LFG MAILING LIST
5. LFG BIBLIOGRAPHY, RECENT PUBLICATIONS IN LFG
6. HOW TO RETRIEVE LFG DOCUMENTS
7. PUBLICALLY AVAILABLE LFG SYSTEMS
8. CURRENT GRAMMAR DEVELOPMENT EFFORT
9. UPCOMING EVENTS
If you have access to ftp, but no access to Web, you can get a copy of
the FAQ by ftp or email (see "How to Retrieve LFG Documents" below).
Please help keep this document and the FAQ up to date!
Send updates and suggestions for improvements to the FAQ to
doug#essex.ac.uk.
Send updates, suggestions and news for inclusion in the LFG Bulletin
to miriam.butt@uni-konstanz.de or thking@parc.com, or post them
on the LFG list (LFG@listserv.linguistlist.org). Most importantly,
please send information about:
- your recent publications or papers
- publically available grammars
- current grammar development efforts
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* HOW TO RETRIEVE LFG DOCUMENTS *
Some LFG documents are available on the web, by FTP, or by email.
There are three ways to get them.
(1) Most of the documents are accessible via the WWW:
The current version of the list of Frequently Asked Questions about LFG:
http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg/lfg-information.html
Introductions to LFG:
http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg/clwww.essex.ac.uk/LFG/Introductions.html
http://clwww.essex.ac.uk/LFG/Introductions.html
The LFG bibliography:
http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg/bibliography.html
http://clwww.essex.ac.uk/LFG/Bibliography.html
The bibliography is also available at the CL/MT Group Bibliographic
Search Page, maintained by Doug Arnold of the University of Essex.
The URL is:
http://clwww.essex.ac.uk/search/
(2) You can get the documents by anonymous FTP from:
ftp ftp-lfg.stanford.edu
All of the documents are in subdirectories of the directory
/pub/lfg. Here is a list of some of the files in that directory that
are relevant for LFG researchers:
in the directory /pub/lfg/bibliography:
The LFG Bibliography in various versions and formats.
in the directory /pub/lfg/lfg-information:
FAQ [the latest version of the list of
Frequently Asked Questions about LFG]
in the directory /pub/lfg/lfg-introductions:
pracinstrucsforlfg.ps [an introduction to LFG notation by
Michael Wescoat]
formal-architecture.ps [an introduction to LFG by Ron Kaplan]
neidle.ps [an introduction to LFG by Carol Neidle]
sadler.ps [a paper on recent developments in LFG by
Louisa Sadler]
in the directory /pub/lfg/lfg-presentations:
Slides and handouts from LFG conferences and courses.
in the directory /pub/lfg/papers:
Papers that have been submitted to the LFG Archive.
Compressed versions of some of these files are also available.
The file names of the compressed versions are the same, except
they have ".gz" at the end. There may be other LFG-related files
in that directory as well, which you are welcome to retrieve.
(3) You can get some files by email, via the Listserv "get"
command. A list of currently available files can be obtained by
sending a message to
LISTSERV@listserv.linguistlist.org
(please note: address the message to LISTSERV, not LFG). The
message should contain the following command:
index lfg
The following files are available, and there may be additional files
as well:
LFG-bulletin.txt [the latest version of the LFG Bulletin]
FAQ.txt [the list of Frequently Asked Questions]
lfgbib.text [the LFG bibliography]
To get a file, send a message to LISTSERV@listserv.linguistlist.org
containing the following command:
get <filename>
For example, if you want to get the latest version of the FAQ, you
would send a message to LISTSERV@listserv.linguistlist.org with
the following command:
get FAQ.txt
You will receive the file in an email message.