LFG BULLETIN
December 2021
Next issue: Marc 2022

CONTENTS

  1. "Modular Design of Grammar: Linguistics on the Edge" – volume dedicated to Mary Dalrymple
  2. LFG Handbook: 8 new chapters published online!
  3. SE-LFG in February 2022 (hybrid meeting: in-person/online)
  4. Drafts for comments
  5. Recent LFG work
  6. Online resources
  7. Boilerplate

1. "Modular Design of Grammar: Linguistics on the Edge" – volume dedicated to Mary Dalrymple

We are pleased to announce the availability of the volume dedicated to Mary Dalrymple, coinciding with her retirement from Oxford University. Mary has been a cornerstone of the LFG community throughout her career with seminal works in syntax, semantics, and grammar engineering. She has been an intellectual inspiration and model for colleagues and students throughout the LFG and broader linguistic community. Equally importantly, she has been, and remains, a dear friend.

Table of Contents:

  1. Introduction, Ronald M. Kaplan and Joan Bresnan
Part I: Architecture and ontology
  1. A speculation about what linguistic structures might be, Avery Andrews
  2. The unrealized and the unheard, Ash Asudeh
Part II: Constructions and agreement in modular architecture
  1. An LFG analysis of AANN constructions: 'A staggering ten doctoral dissertations', Bozhil Hristov
  2. On the construct state in Arabic, Louisa Sadler
  3. Agreement in Urdu adjectival adverbials, Miriam Butt and Tracy Holloway King
  4. An LFG approach to Icelandic reciprocal constructions, Peter Hurst and Rachel Nordlinger
Part III: Argument structure and grammatical functions
  1. Four Swedish verbs and a functional distinction, Annie Zaenen and Elisabet Engdahl
  2. Deagentivizing Norwegian verbs with reflexive and body part objects, Helge Lødrup
  3. Perception verbs, copy raising, and evidentiality in Swedish and English, Ida Toivonen
  4. Subjects in Austronesian: Evidence from Kelabit, Charlotte Hemmings
  5. Pivot and puzzling relativization in Indonesian, I Wayan Arka
Part IV: Categories: Synchrony and diachrony
  1. 13. Coordinate structures without syntactic categories, Adam Przepiórkowski and Agnieszka Patejuk
  2. 14. Decategorialization and Chinese nouns, Kersti Börjars and John Payne
  3. The 'of' word, Nigel Vincent
Part V: Representations beyond syntax
  1. Paradigm structure influences syntactic behaviour: Ossetic case inflection, Oleg Belyaev
  2. 'Wh'-question intonation in Standard Colloquial Bengali: An LFG analysis, Louise Mycock, Chenzi Xu, and Aditi Lahiri
  3. Collectivist semantics, Dick Crouch and Aikaterini-Lida Kalouli
  4. Asymmetric anaphoric dependencies determine available readings for VP-ellipsis, Andrew Kehler
  5. Meaning in LFG, Jamie Y. Findlay

More details at: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/modular-design-of-grammar-9780192844842

2. LFG Handbook: 8 new chapters published online!

The following 8 new chapters of the Handbook of Lexical Functional Grammar have been published online (https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/312):

3. SE-LFG in February 2022 (hybrid meeting: in-person/online)

From Joey Lovestrand:
"The next SE-LFG meeting is tentatively scheduled for February 5, 2022. Like the previous meeting, it will be a hybrid meeting both in-person in Oxford and online via Zoom.
The SE-LFG meetings are a student-oriented meetings which give a chance for anyone to get feedback on LFG or LFG-aligned research projects in an informal setting.
https://sites.google.com/site/selfgmeetings/south-of-england-lfg-meetings

Please contact Joey Lovestrand (jl119@soas.ac.uk) if you might be interested in presenting at the next meeting."

4. Drafts for comments

'Drafts for comments' offers bulletin readers the opportunity to submit information about drafts or projects on which they would like to receive comments from the community. This brings work in progress to the attention of the community and plays some of the role that previous incarnations of the archive played.

Please submit basic article/project information and (a) a URL if the item is available online or else (b) your contact email.

5. Recent LFG work

Send details of your recent work to < LFG.bulletin "at" gmail "dot" com >

Publications Conference Proceedings

LFG conference papers are available electronically at: http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/LFG/

6. Online Resources

7. Boilerplate

The boilerplate (standard text) which previously appeared at the end of every bulletin can be accessed at:
http://web.kim.uni-konstanz.de/Bulletin/boilerplate.html

The LFG website also serves much of the same function as the boilerplate section.