LFG BULLETIN DECEMBER 2002 ------------------------------ * LINGUISTICS IN THE LITERATURE * --------------------------------- Trurl and Klapaucius were students of the great Kerebron Emtadrat, who had been teaching general dragon theory for 47 years at the Neantic University. As everybody knows, there are no dragons. A simple mind might be satisfied with this statement, but not scientific inquiry. [...] And so, by means of very exact methodology, the highly talented Kerebron discovered three types of dragons: null dragons, imaginary dragons, and negative dragons. As already mentioned, none of these types exist, but each of these do not exist in their own very individual and different manner. The imaginary and null dragons, called imaginers and zeros by the experts, do not exist in a much less interesting manner than the negative dragons. .... Stanislaw Lem, The Dragons of Probability (freely translated from German by Miriam Butt) ---------------- * OTHER NEWS * ---------------- LFG 2003 Abstracts: -------------------- Abstract deadline is FEBRUARY 15; see details below. (Workshop deadline is JANUARY 15.) LFG02 Proceedings: ------------------- We are pleased to announce that the LFG02 Proceedings are now available as an on-line publication from CSLI Publications. To view the proceedings, go to: http://csli-publications.stanford.edu/ and click on: proceedings on-line which is near the bottom of the page. The papers can either be viewed individually or the entire proceedings can be downloaded as a single pdf file. In addition, abstracts are available as html files for on-line viewing. Recent LFG Publications: ------------------------ Asudeh, Ash. 2002. Richard III. In CLS 38: The main session. Papers from the 38th. meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, vol. 1. Chicago, IL: Chicago Linguistic Society. Lodrup, Helge. 2002. The Syntactic Structures of Norwegian Pseudocoordinations. Studia Linguistica 56, 2, 2002, 121-143. Lodrup, Helge. 2001. Clausal Arguments and Unbounded Dependencies. In Arthur Holmer, Jan-Olof Svantesson and Ake Viberg (eds). Proceedings of the 18th Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics, Volume 2. Pp. 69-80. Travaux de l'Institut de Linguistique de Lund. Lund University, Sweden 2001. Lodrup, Helge. 2000. Exceptions to the Norwegian passive: Unaccusativity, aspect and thematic roles. Norsk lingvistisk tidsskrift 1, 2000. Pp. 37-54. Lodrup, Helge. 1999. Linking and Optimality in the Norwegian Presentational Focus Construction. Nordic Journal of Linguistics 22, 2 1999, Pp. 205-229 Pienemann, M. 1998. Language processing and second language development: processability theory. Amsterdam: Benjamins. Pienemann, M. and Håkansson, G. 1999. A unified approach toward the development of Swedish as L2: a processability account. Studies in Second Language Acquisition 21, 383-420. Vigliocco, G., Butterworth, B. and Garrett, M.F. 1996. Subject-verb agreement in Spanish and English: differences in the role of conceptual constraints. Cognition 61, 261-98. Recent LFG Implementations: --------------------------- Avery Andrews Baby Glue 1.2 is now available at: http://arts.anu.edu.au/linguistics/people/averyandrews/software/ Upcoming LFG Conferences: ------------------------- - 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. - LFG2003: State University of New York, Albany Local Organizer: Prof. G. Aaron Broadwell Email contact: g.broadwell@albany.edu CALL FOR PAPERS LFG 2003 2003 INTERNATIONAL LEXICAL FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR CONFERENCE DATES 16-18 July 2003 Saratoga Springs, NY Abstract submission receipt deadline: 15 February 2003 Submissions should be sent to the LFG Program Committee (see addresses below) The 8th International Lexical Functional Grammar Conference will be held by the Department of Anthropology, University at Albany, SUNY in Saratoga Springs, NY from 16 to 18 July 2003. A pre-conference gathering and, possibly, a tutorial are planned for 15 July. LFG 2003 welcomes work both within the formal architecture of Lexical-Functional Grammar and typological, formal, and computational work within the 'spirit of LFG', as a lexicalist approach to language employing a parallel, constraint-based framework. The conference aims to promote interaction and collaboration among researchers interested in nonderivational approaches to grammar, where grammar is seen as the interaction of (perhaps violable) constraints from multiple levels, including category information, grammatical relations, and semantic information. Further information about the syntactic theory LFG can be obtained from: http://clwww.essex.ac.uk/LFG/ and http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg/ SUBMISSIONS: TALKS AND POSTERS The main conference sessions will involve 40-minute talks (30 min. + 10 min. discussion period), and poster/system presentations. Contributions should focus on results from completed as well as ongoing research, with an emphasis on novel approaches, methods, ideas, and perspectives, whether descriptive, theoretical, formal or computational. Presentations should describe original, unpublished work. DISSERTATION SESSION Like in the previous year, we are hoping to hold a special session that will give students the chance to present recent PhD dissertations (or other student research dissertations). The dissertations must be completed by the time of the conference, and they should be made publicly accessible (e.g., on the World Wide Web). The talks in this session should provide an overview of the contents of the dissertation; the time slots for the presentations will be 30 minutes in total. The International LFG Association (ILFGA) will pay the conference fees for the students presenting at the student session. Students should note that the main sessions are certainly also open to student submissions. WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS We also invite proposals for workshops and/or tutorials. Workshops are a small group of talks (2-4) on a coherent topic that can be expected to generate opposing views and discussion with the broader audience. Participants to workshops are usually invited. Workshop papers should be distributed in advance among participants and participants should refer to each other's approaches. Tutorials provide an introduction for non-experts to a specific field of study. At this point in time, we welcome suggestions for workshops and tutorials from potential organisers or people with specific interests. The suggestions should be sent to the local organizers at: g.broadwell@albany.edu TIMETABLE Deadline for receipt of paper submissions: 15 February 2003 Acceptances sent out: 31 March 2003 Deadline for workshop submissions: 15 January 2003 Workshop acceptances: 15 February 2003 Conference: 16-18 July 2003 SUBMISSION SPECIFICATIONS Abstracts for talks, posters and the dissertation session must be received by February 15, 2003. All abstracts should be sent to the program committee at the addresses given below. For workshops/tutorials, further site information or offers of organisational help, contact the local organisers at the addresses below. Submissions should be in the form of abstracts only. Abstracts can be up to two A4 pages in 10pt or larger type and should include a title. NEW The data and figures (c-/f- and related structures) do not have to be separate from the text: i.e., we would prefer an integration of examples and figures in the text of the abstract. Omit name and affiliation, and obvious self reference. Abstracts may be submitted by email or by regular mail. Email submission is preferred. The following information should be provided on a separate page or in the body of the email: PAPER TITLE: _________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ (for each author:) NAME: _____________________________ AFFILIATION: _____________________________ E-MAIL ADDRESS: _____________________________ IS AUTHOR A STUDENT? (Y/N) ___ (for author of contact:) MAIL ADDRESS: _____________________________ _____________________________ PHONE NUMBER: _____________________________ FAX NUMBER: _____________________________ SESSION TYPE (should submission be considered (1) as either a talk or a poster, (2) only as a talk, (3) only as a poster/demonstration, (4) for the dissertation session): _______________________ (for dissertation session submissions:) UNIVERSITY: _____________________________ ADVISOR(S): _____________________________ (EXPECTED) DATE OF SUBMISSION: ___________________ (In the absence of session type specification, submissions will be considered for both the talk and the poster sessions, and the program co-chairs may decide that certain submissions are better as poster presentations than as read papers.) Regular Mail: Include: - Eight copies of the abstract/paper. - A card or cover sheet with author information. Email: Include the author information in the body of your email message. Include or preferably attach your abstract. The preferred file formats are PDF or plain ASCII. (If you cannot create PDF, HTML and postscript will be accepted too. Postscript files require special care to avoid problems: make sure your system is set to include all fonts, or at least all but the standard 13; if using a recent version of Word, make sure you click the printer Properties button and then the Postscript tab, and there choose Optimize for Portability; on all platforms make sure the system is not asking for a particular paper size or other device-specific configuration. It is your responsibility to send us a file that us and our reviewers can print. You can often test this by trying to look at the file in a screen previewer such as Ghostview.) All abstracts will be reviewed by at least three people. Papers will appear in the proceedings, which will be published online by CSLI Publications. Selected papers may also appear in a printed volume published by CSLI Publications. ORGANISERS AND THEIR CONTACT ADDRESSES Send abstract submissions and inquiries about submissions to: Program Committee: Jonas Kuhn <jonask@mail.utexas.edu> Tara Mohanan <elltaram@nus.edu.sg> Mail: LFG 2003 c/o Jonas Kuhn Department of Linguistics 1 University Station, B5100 University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX 78712-1196 USA Contact the local conference organisers at: Email: George Aaron Broadwell <g.broadwell@albany.edu> Mail: George Aaron Broadwell Department of Anthropology Arts & Sciences Building, Room 237 University at Albany, SUNY 1400 Washington Ave. Albany, NY 12222 USA LOCATION Saratoga Springs is a resort town in upstate New York, famous for its mineral waters, spas, and horse racing. It has maintained and restored a beautiful, pedestrian-oriented downtown full of 19th century architecture. During the summer Saratoga Springs is also home to the Philadelphia Orchestra and the New York City Ballet. LFG 2003 sessions will be held at Empire State College, SUNY, located in downtown Saratoga Springs. Saratoga Springs is thirty miles north of Albany, NY, which is also the location of the nearest airport. Saratoga Springs is also serviced by Amtrak, Greyhound, and Trailways. The Adirondack Mountains begin about fifteen miles north of Saratoga Springs, at Lake George. [Participants coming from the Bay Area should be aware that flights from Oakland to Albany are often inexpensive, due to competition from Southwest Airlines.] For more information on the Saratoga Springs area, see http://www.saratoga.org http://www.discoversaratoga.org For more information on the University at Albany, see http://www.albany.edu More information will be available from a forthcoming conference website. ----------- * ILFGA * ----------- 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 ----------- * EDITORS * ----------- Please send updates, suggestions and news for inclusion in the next LFG Bulletin (March 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 --- * 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.