LFG BULLETIN
DECEMBER 2006
** Please send bulletin items to me by email **
** (reverse: carleton.ca !at! ash_asudeh). **
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LFG website:
http://www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/LFG/
International Lexical Functional Grammar Association:
http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg/ilfga/
More about LFG:
http://www.carleton.ca/~asudeh/LFG/more.txt
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CONTENTS
1. LFG webpages
2. LFG 2007: Information & Call for Papers
3. LSA Linguistic Institute 2007
4. Recent LFG work
5. Reminder of boilerplate policy
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1. LFG WEBPAGES
This is a follow up about the information on websites from the
previous bulletin.
a) The Essex website is currently the main portal:
http://www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/LFG/
Many thanks to Doug Arnold for maintaining that site.
b) Two of the subsidiary sites have been considerably improved:
DOP-LFG
http://www.nclt.dcu.ie/lfg-dop/
Glue Semantics (bibliography, resources)
http://www-csli.stanford.edu/~iddolev/glue_bibliography.html
Many thanks to Mary Hearne for the DOP-LFG site and to Iddo Lev for
the Glue Semantics site.
c) The Morphosyntax and OT pages still need updating.
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2. LFG 2007
First Call for Papers: LFG 2007
TWELFTH INTERNATIONAL LEXICAL FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR CONFERENCE
DATES July 28-30, 2007
Stanford University, California
Conference website: http://www-csli.stanford.edu/~thking/lfg07.html
Abstract submission receipt deadline: 15 February 2007
Submissions should be submitted using the online submission system at
http://www.easychair.org/LFG07/. Submissions will not be accepted in any
other way.
The 12th International Lexical Functional Grammar Conference will be
hosted by Stanford University, California from July 28th to 30th
2007, just after the LSA summer linguistic institute.
LFG 2007 welcomes work within the formal architecture of Lexical-
Functional Grammar as well as 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 non-derivational approaches to grammar, where grammar is seen as
the interaction of (perhaps violable) constraints from multiple
levels of structuring, including those of syntactic categories,
grammatical relations, semantics and discourse.
Further information about LFG as a syntactic theory is available at the
following sites:
<http://www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/LFG/>;
<http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg/>;
SUBMISSIONS: TALKS AND POSTERS
The main conference sessions will involve 45-minute talks (30 min. +
15 min. discussion), 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
As in previous years, 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 presentation
can either summarise the thesis or focus on some salient issue dealt
with in it. When preparing, the presenter should keep in mind the
strict time limit for the presentation.
Students should note that the main sessions are certainly also open
to student submissions but that these will then be judged by the same
criteria as any other submission. The International LFG Association
(ILFGA) will provide a small subsidy for all student presenters at
the conference.
TIMETABLE
Deadline for abstracts: 15 February 2007
Acceptances sent out: 31 March 2007
Conference: July 28-30 2007
SUBMISSION SPECIFICATIONS
Abstracts for talks, posters/demonstrations and the dissertation
session must be received by February 15, 2007. All abstracts should
submitted using the online submission system. Submissions should be
in the form of abstracts only. Abstracts can be up to two A4 pages
in 11pt or larger type and should include a title. Omit name and
affiliation, and obvious self-reference. Note: we no longer ask for
a separate page for data and figures (c-/f- and related structures).
They can be included in the text of the abstract, obeying the overall
two-page limit. Please submit your abstract in .pdf, .ps or .doc
format. If you have any trouble converting your file into this
format, please contact the Program Committee at the addresses below.
All abstracts will be reviewed by at least three people. Papers will
appear in the proceedings, which will be published online by CSLI
Publications.
ORGANISERS AND THEIR CONTACT ADDRESSES
If you have queries about abstract submission or have problems using the
EasyChair submission, please contact the Programme Committee.
Program Committee
Email: Kersti Börjars <k.borjars@man.ac.uk>
Aoife Cahill <aoife.cahill@computing.dcu.ie>
Local conference organisers:
Joan Bresnan
Tracy Holloway King
Adams Bodomo
Annie Zaenen
INFORMATION about Stanford, as well as accommodation and registration
details, are available on the conference website:
http://www-csli.stanford.edu/~thking/lfg07.html
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3. LSA Linguistic Institute 2007
Website: http://linginst07.stanford.edu/
The next LSA Linguistic Institute will be held from July 1-27, 2007,
at Stanford University. Presession (introductory) courses will be
offered July 1-3, followed by regular session courses July 5-27. The
theme of the institute is 'Empirical Foundations for Theories of
Language'. There are far too many courses of relevance to LFG to list
here; please see the website.
The institute Director is Peter Sells and the Associate Directors are
Juliette Blevins, Eve Clark, Dan Jurafsky, Beth Levin, and Ivan Sag.
Please note the following collocated special events, in particular
the LFG and HPSG conferences:
a) INSTITUTE LECTURES:
July 10: Hale Lecture
Marianne Mithun, University of California, Santa Barbara
July 17: Collitz Lecture
Asko Parpola, University of Helsinki
July 24: Sapir Lecture
Joan Bresnan, Stanford University
b) FORUM LECTURES:
July 8: William Labov, University of Pennsylvania
July 15: Elissa Newport, University of Rochester
July 22: Harald Baayen, MPI-Nijmegen
c) SPECIAL EVENT:
July 20-22: Mini-Course on Mixed-Effects Statistical Modelling.
Harald Baayen, MPI-Nijmegen.
d) WORKSHOPS:
July 6-8: Variation, gradience and frequency in Phonology (Arto Anttila)
July 13-15:
Towards the Interoperability of Language Resources (EMELD) (Arienne
Dwyer and Helen Aristar-Dry)
Grammar Engineering Across Frameworks (Emily Bender and Tracy
Holloway King)
New Techniques in Sound Pattern Research (Diana Archangeli and Jeff
Mielke)
July 14: Ethnographic Methods in Sociocultural Linguistics (Mary
Bucholtz and Kira Hall)
July 17-19: Alternative Approaches to Language Classification (Philip
Baldi)
July 21: Empirical approaches to morphological case (Cathryn Donohue
and Jóhanna Barddal)
July 21-22: 2nd Workshop on Computational Approaches to Arabic Script-
based Languages (Ali Farghaly and Karine Megerdoomian)
e) CONFERENCES:
July 20-22: 14th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase
Structure
July 28-30: 12th International Lexical-Functional Grammar Conference
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4. RECENT LFG WORK
4.1 Ronald M. Kaplan's festschrift
At the LFG 2006 conference in Konstanz, Ron Kaplan was presented a
festschrift entitled 'Intelligent Linguistic Architectures:
Variations on Themes by Ronald M. Kaplan', edited by Miriam Butt,
Mary Dalrymple, and Tracy Holloway King.
It is published by CSLI Publications (available very soon) and has
contributions from the following authors:
Martin Kay
John T. Maxwell III
Stefan Riezler and John T. Maxwell III
JÃ&fraq14;rgen Wedekind
Richard R. Burton
Mary Dalrymple
Josef van Genabith
Christian Rohrer and Martin Forst
Beau Sheil and Bjarne Ørsnes
Joan Bresnan and John Mugane
Miriam Butt and Tracy Holloway King
Anette Frank
Lauri Karttunen
Louisa Sadler
Neal Snider and Annie Zaenen
Bonnie Webber
Ash Asudeh
Dick Crouch
4.2 Recent LFG Publications
Asudeh, Ash and Ida Toivonen. 2006. 'Symptomatic Imperfections'.
Journal of Linguistics 42(2): 395-422.
Asudeh , Ash and Ida Toivonen. 2006. Response to David Adger's
‘Remarks on Minimalist feature theory and Move’. Journal of
Linguistics 42(3): 395-422
http://www.carleton.ca/~asudeh/
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Dalrymple, Mary and Irina Nikolaeva. 2006. Syntax of natural and
accidental coordination: Evidence from agreement. Language, to appear.
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Dublin City University, School of Computing
http://www.dcu.ie/computing
A. Cahill and J. van Genabith, Robust PCFG-Based Generation using
Automatically Acquired LFG Approximations,
In COLING/ACL 2006, Proceedings of the joint conference of the
International Committee on Computational Linguistics and the
Association for Computational Linguistics 2006, Sydney, Australia
Judge, J., A. Cahill and J. van Genabith, QuestionBank: Creating a
Corpus of Parse-Annotated Questions,
In COLING/ACL 2006, Proceedings of the joint conference of the
International Committee on Computational Linguistics and the
Association for Computational Linguistics 2006, Sydney, Australia
Chrupala, G. and J. van Genabith, Using Machine-Learning to Assign
Function Labels to Parser Output for Spanish,
In COLING/ACL 2006, Proceedings of the joint conference of the
International Committee on Computational Linguistics and the
Association for Computational Linguistics 2006, Sydney, Australia.
Rehbein, I. and J. van Genabith, German Verbs and Pleonastic
Prepositions,in (eds. Arsenijevic, B., T. Baldwin and B. Trawinski)
Third ACL-SIGSEM Workshop on Prepositions, Proceedings of the
Workshop, EACL 2006, 3 April 2006, Trento, Italy, pp.57-64.
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Falk, Yehuda. 2006. Subjects and Universal Grammar: An Explanatory
Theory. Cambridge University Press.
http://pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il/~msyfalk/
http://www.cup.cam.ac.uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521858542
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Toivonen, Ida. 2006. 'On continuative on'. Studia Linguistica 60(2):
181-219'.
http://www.carleton.ca/~toivonen/
4.3 Recent LFG Thesis
Cobb, Caroline. 2006. The Syntax of Adverbs: An LFG Approach. MPhil
thesis, Oxford University.
http://eprints.ouls.ox.ac.uk/archive/00001092/
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5. Reminder of boilerplate policy
(Originally announced in the last bulletin)
There has traditionally been a lot of boilerplate (standard text) at
the end of every bulletin. This has made the bulletin somewhat longer
than necessary and some of the information is becoming (I suspect)
out of date.
I have moved the boilerplate to:
http://www.carleton.ca/~asudeh/LFG/more.txt
The LFG website also serves much of the same function as the
boilerplate section.
From now on I'll just include a pointer to the boilerplate website
and the LFG website at the top of the bulletin.
Feedback on this decision would be welcome. Please contact me by email.