LFG BULLETIN
DECEMBER, 1996
* NEWS *
- This "LFG bulletin" is an innovation to convey news and items of
topical interest. It replaces the mailing of (answers to)
FAQs you have come to expect -- these answers to the FAQs
did not change much so there did not seem much point in
mailing them round all the time. You can still access them
via the web, ftp, and mail (see below).
- LFG97 will be held in San Diego next summer. See "Upcoming
Events" below.
- A new version of the bibliography is available. See "How To
Retrieve LFG Documents" below.
- A new listing of recent papers in LFG is below. See "Recent
Publications in LFG."
Frequently Asked Questions: FAQs
Information on the following topics (FAQs) is available on the
LFG WebPage: http://clwww.essex.ac.uk/LFG/
1. WHAT IS LEXICAL-FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR?
2. WHAT ARE THE BEST INTRODUCTORY BOOKS/ARTICLES TO LFG?
3. THE LFG WWW SITE AND MAILING LIST
4. RECENT PUBLICATIONS IN LFG
5. LFG BIBLIOGRAPHY
6. HOW TO RETRIEVE LFG DOCUMENTS
7. PUBLICALLY AVAILABLE LFG SYSTEMS
8. PUBLICALLY AVAILABLE GRAMMARS; CURRENT GRAMMAR DEVELOPMENT EFFORTS
9. UPCOMING EVENTS
If you have access to ftp, but no access to Web, you can get a copy of
the FAQ by ftp (see "How to Retrieve LFG Documents" below). If you
have neither ftp nor Web access, but have email, send a mail
requesting a copy of the FAQ to doug#essex.ac.uk.
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: dalrymple@parc.xerox.com, or post them on the LFG list
(lfg@list.stanford.edu). Most importantly, please send information
about:
- your recent publications or papers
- publically available grammars
- current grammar development efforts
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* UPCOMING EVENTS *
ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS: LFG97
June 19 -- 21, 1997
University of California-San Diego
San Diego, California
Conference chair: Prof. Farrell Ackerman, UCSD
LFG97 will take place in June 1997 at the University of California-San
Diego. Papers are invited both within the formal architecture of
Lexical-Functional Grammar and in the `spirit of LFG', as a lexicalist
approach to language within a parallel, constraint-based framework.
There will be a series of 20-minute talks (with 10 minutes for
discussion), poster presentations, and workshops with invited
participants (see below). The talks and poster presentations may
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.
Abstract submissions should include:
- Five copies of a one-page abstract of the paper with a title. OMIT
name and affiliation. A second page may be used for data, c-/f- and
related structures, and references, but not for text.
- A 3" by 5" card with the title of the paper and the name(s) of the
author(s), address, e-mail address, and whether the author(s) are
students.
- If possible, please send a postscript or ascii file of the abstract
via email IN ADDITION TO the five hard copies.
Abstracts should be sent to the following address and should indicate
whether the submission is for a talk or a poster:
Dr. Tracy Holloway King
Information Sciences and Technologies Laboratory
Xerox PARC
3333 Coyote Hill Road
Palo Alto, CA 94304 USA
Important dates:
ABSTRACT RECEIPT DEADLINE: January 31, 1997
NOTIFICATION DATE: March 15, 1997
We plan to organize workshops on the following topics, with special
emphasis on how results in these areas are best accommodated within
lexicalist frameworks:
Grammaticalization and Linguistic Theory
Morphology and Linguistic Theory
Discourse and Phrase Structure
We hope to be able to offer some financial assistance to student
presenters attending the conference. Further information about
student subsidies will be available in late March.
A copy of this announcement is available by anonymous FTP from:
parcftp.xerox.com/pub/nl/lfgconference-announcement
Inquiries about abstract submissions should be sent to Dr. Tracy King,
thking@parc.xerox.com, and Dr. Miriam Butt, mutt@ims.uni-stuttgart.de.
Additional inquiries about the conference should be sent to
Prof. Farrell Ackerman, ackerman@ling.ucsd.edu.
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* HOW TO RETRIEVE LFG DOCUMENTS *
Some LFG documents are available by FTP or email. There are two ways
to get them.
(1) First, you can get some files by email, via the Majordomo "get"
command. A list of available files can be obtained by sending a
message to
majordomo@list.stanford.edu
containing the following command:
index lfg
The following files are available. There may be additional files
as well. Send the command "index lfg" to see what is currently
available:
FAQ [the list of Frequently Asked Questions]
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]
lfg.bib [the LFG bibliography in BibTeX format]
lfgbib.text [the LFG bibliography in plain text format]
lfgbib.ps [the LFG bibliography in Postscript format]
lfgbib.rtf [the LFG bibliography in RTF format]
To get a file, send a message to majordomo@list.stanford.edu
containing the following command:
get lfg <filename>
For example, if you want to get the latest version of the FAQ, you
would send a message to majordomo@list.stanford.edu with the
following command:
get lfg FAQ
You will receive the file in an email message.
CAUTION: Some of the files that are available by this method are
Postscript files, which can be VERY LARGE. Postscript files end in
the extension .ps (for example, the file "neidle.ps" is a Postscript
file). If your mailer cannot handle EXTREMELY LARGE messages, don't
try to get these files by email. Instead, use the FTP option,
described below.
(2) Second, you can get the documents by anonymous FTP from
parcftp.xerox.com/. All of the documents are in the directory /pub/nl.
Here is a list of some of the files in that directory that are
relevant for LFG researchers:
LFG-FAQ [the latest version of this FAQ]
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]
lfg.bib [the LFG bibliography in BibTeX format]
lfgbib.text [the LFG bibliography in plain text format]
lfgbib.ps [the LFG bibliography in Postscript format]
lfgbib.rtf [the LFG bibliography in RTF format]
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 will probably be other
LFG-related files in that directory as well, which you are welcome
to retrieve.
(3) The LFG bibliography is also accessible via the WWW, 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/
If you have difficulty with any of these methods, contact
dalrymple@parc.xerox.com for assistance.
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* RECENT PUBLICATIONS AND PAPERS IN LFG *
Ackerman, Farrell and Gert Webelhuth. 1996. A PREDICATE function:
Empirical arguments and theoretical status. Paper presented at the
LFG Workshop, Grenoble, France, August 1996.
Alsina, Alex. 1996a. On the representation of event structure. In
Tara Mohanan and Lionel Wee, editors, Grammatical Semantics. National
University of Singapore. To appear.
Alsina, Alex. 1996b. Passive types and the theory of object
asymmetries. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. To appear.
Alsina, Alex. 1996c. Resultatives: a joint operation of semantic and
syntactic structures. Paper presented at the LFG Workshop, Grenoble,
France, August 1996.
Alsina, Alex. 1996d. The role of argument structure in grammar:
Evidence from Romance. CSLI Publications, Stanford, CA.
Amores, J. Gabriel and Jose F. Quesada. 1996. LektaII: A tool for
the development of efficient LFG-based machine translation systems.
Paper presented at the LFG Workshop, Grenoble, France, August 1996.
Andrews, Avery. 1996a. Causative structures and information
spreading. ms, Australian National University.
Andrews, Avery. 1996b. Semantic case-stacking and inside-out
unification. Australian Journal of Linguistics, 16(1).
Arka, I Wayan and Stephen Wechsler. 1996. A-structure and linear
order in Balinese binding. Paper presented at the LFG Workshop,
Grenoble, France, August 1996.
Austin, Peter. 1996. Ergativity, clitics and grammatical relations
in Sasak. Paper presented at the LFG Workshop, Grenoble, France,
August 1996.
Austin, Peter and Joan Bresnan. 1996. Non-configurationality in
Australian Aboriginal languages. Natural Language and Linguistic
Theory, 14(2):215--268.
Backofen, Rolf. 1996. Controlling functional uncertainty. In
Proc. of ECAI '96. Available from The Computation and Language
E-Print Archive, cmp-lg/9608002.
Bender, Emily. 1996. On the verbal status of Mandarin ba. Paper
presented at the LFG Workshop, Grenoble, France, August 1996.
Berman, Judith. 1996. Configurational and nonconfigurational aspects
of German sentence structure. Paper presented at the LFG Workshop,
Grenoble, France, August 1996.
Bodomo, Adams B. 1996. Complex verbal predicates: the case of serial
verbs in Dagaare and Akan. ms, Norwegian University of Science and
Technology.
Borjars, Kersti, Carol Chapman, and Nigel Vincent. 1996. Paradigms,
periphrases and pronominal inflection: a feature-based account.
Submitted to G. Booij and J. van Marle (eds), Yearbook of Morphology,
Dordrecht: Kluwer.
Bresnan, Joan. 1996a. Lexicality and argument structure. Paper
presented at the Paris Syntax and Semantics Conference, October 12 --
14, 1995.
Bresnan, Joan. 1996b. Optimal syntax: Notes on projection, heads,
and optimality. ms, Stanford University.
Brun, Caroline. 1996a. La coordination dans le cadre d'une grammaire
LFG du Francais. In Proceedings of the First Student Conference in
Computational Linguistics in Montreal, pages 192--199, Montreal.
Brun, Caroline. 1996b. Using priority union for non-constituent
coordination in LFG. Paper presented at the LFG Workshop, Grenoble,
France, August 1996.
Burheim, Tore. 1996. Aspects of merging Lexical Functional Grammar
with Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammar. ms, University of Bergen.
Butt, Miriam. 1996a. Complex predicates in Urdu. In Alex Alsina,
Joan Bresnan, and Peter Sells, editors, Complex Predicates. CSLI
Publications, Stanford, CA. To appear.
Butt, Miriam. 1996b. Constraining argument merger through aspect.
In E. Hinrichs, A. Kathol, and T. Nakazawa, editors, Syntax and
Semantics No. 30: Complex Predicates in Nonderivational
Syntax. Academic Press. To appear.
Butt, Miriam, Christian Fortmann, and Christian Rohrer. 1996.
Syntactic analyses for parallel grammars: Auxiliaries and genitive
NPs. In Proceedings of COLING '96, Copenhagen.
Butt, Miriam and W. Geuder, editors. 1996. Argument Projection:
Lexical and Syntactic Constraints. CSLI Publications, Stanford, CA.
In preparation.
Butt, Miriam and Tracy Holloway King. 1996. Exploring structural
topic and focus. Paper presented at the LFG Workshop, Grenoble,
France, August 1996.
Butt, Miriam, Maria-Eugenia Nino, and Frederique Segond. 1996.
Multilingual processing of auxiliaries in LFG. In D. Gibbon, editor,
Natural Language Processing and Speech Technology: Results of the 3rd
KONVENS Conference. Mouton De Gruyter, pages 111--122. Universitat
Bielefeld, 7 - 9 October 1996.
Chief, Lian-Cheng. 1996. An LFG account of Mandarin reflexive verbs.
Paper presented at the LFG Workshop, Grenoble, France, August 1996.
Choi, Hye-Won. 1996. Scrambling: Optimality-Theoretic Interaction
between Syntax and Discourse. Ph.D. thesis, Stanford University.
Crouch, Richard and Josef van Genabith. 1996. Context change and
underspecification in glue language semantics. Paper presented at the
LFG Workshop, Grenoble, France, August 1996.
Crouch, Richard and Josef van Genabith. 1997. How to glue a donkey
to an f-structure, or porting a dynamic meaning representation into
LFG's linear logic based glue-language semantics. Paper to be
presented at the Second International Workshop on Computational
Semantics, Tilburg, The Netherlands, January 1997.
Culy, Christopher D. 1996a. Agreement and Fula pronouns. Studies in
African Linguistics. To appear.
Culy, Christopher D. 1996b. Personal pronouns and systems of
pronominal binding. ms, University of Iowa.
Dalrymple, Mary, John Lamping, Fernando C. N. Pereira, and Vijay
Saraswat. 1996a. A deductive account of quantification in LFG. In
Makoto Kanazawa, Christopher J. Pinon, and Henriette de Swart,
editors, Quantifiers, Deduction, and Context. CSLI Publications,
Stanford, CA.
Dalrymple, Mary, John Lamping, Fernando C. N. Pereira, and Vijay
Saraswat. 1996b. Intensional verbs without type-raising or lexical
ambiguity. In Jerry Seligman and Dag Westerstaahl, editors, Logic,
Language and Computation. Center for the Study of Language and
Information, Stanford, California, pages 167--182. Also in
Proceedings of the Conference on Information-Oriented Approaches to
Logic, Language and Computation/Fourth Conference on Situation Theory
and its Applications, Saint Mary's College of California, Moraga,
California. June 1994.
Dalrymple, Mary, John Lamping, Fernando C. N. Pereira, and Vijay
Saraswat. 1996c. Quantifiers, anaphora, and intensionality. Journal
of Logic, Language, and Information, to appear.
Declerk, Thierry. 1996. Modeling information-passing with the LFG
Workbench. Paper presented at the LFG Workshop, Grenoble, France,
August 1996.
Flores, Sylvie and Jerome Vachey. 1996. Generating a lexicon for
syntactic LFG-processor from a French generic electronic dictionary
encoded in the GENELEX model. Paper presented at the LFG Workshop,
Grenoble, France, August 1996.
Frank, Anette. 1996. Another view on complex predicate formation in
French and Italian: Evidence from auxiliary selection,
reflexivization, and past participle agreement. Paper presented at
the LFG Workshop, Grenoble, France, August 1996.
Koenig, Esther. 1996. Reasoning on logical forms or syntactic
structures. Paper presented at the LFG Workshop, Grenoble, France,
August 1996.
Koenig, Esther and Uwe Reyle. 1996. Proofs in the landscape of
underspecified representations. Paper presented at the LFG Workshop,
Grenoble, France, August 1996.
Laczko, Tibor. 1996. Lexical mapping theory and possessors in NPs.
Paper presented at the LFG Workshop, Grenoble, France, August 1996.
Levin, Beth and Malka Rappaport. 1996. Two types of resultatives.
Paper presented at the LFG Workshop, Grenoble, France, August 1996.
Lodrup, Helge. 1996. Underspecification in Lexical Mapping Theory:
The case of Norwegian existentials and resultatives. Paper presented
at the LFG Workshop, Grenoble, France, August 1996.
Manning, Christopher D. 1996. Argument structure as a locus for
binding theory. Paper presented at the LFG Workshop, Grenoble,
France, August 1996.
Markantonatou, Stella. 1996. Complex predicate formation as semantic
allomorphism: the case of English resultatives. Paper presented at
the LFG Workshop, Grenoble, France, August 1996.
Matsumoto, Yo. 1996. A syntactic account of light verb phenomena in
Japanese. Journal of East Asian Linguistics, 5(2).
Maxwell, III, John T. 1996. An efficient parser for LFG. Paper
presented at the LFG Workshop, Grenoble, France, August 1996.
Maxwell, III, John T. and Ronald M. Kaplan. 1996a. An efficient
parser for LFG. Paper presented at the LFG Workshop, Grenoble,
France, August 1996.
Maxwell, III, John T. and Ronald M. Kaplan. 1996b. Unification-based
parsers that automatically take advantage of context-freeness.
Available from the Computation and Language E-Print Archive
(http://xxx.lanl.gov/cmp-lg/).
Maxwell, III, John T. and Christopher D. Manning. 1996. A theory of
non-constituent coordination based on finite-state rules. Paper
presented at the LFG Workshop, Grenoble, France, August 1996.
Mohanan, K. P. and Tara Mohanan. 1996a. On representations in
grammatical semantics. In Tara Mohanan and Lionel Wee, editors,
Grammatical Semantics. National University of Singapore. To appear.
Mohanan, K. P. and Tara Mohanan. 1996b. Semantic representation in
LFG. Paper presented at the LFG Workshop, Grenoble, France, August
1996.
Mohanan, Tara. 1996. Frozen word order in a free word order
language. Paper presented at the LFG Workshop, Grenoble, France,
August 1996.
Nakamura, Wataru. 1996. Case spreading/stacking in Korean: Evidence
for the Macrorole tier. Paper presented at the LFG Workshop,
Grenoble, France, August 1996.
Newman, Paula S. 1996. Computational approaches to P2 clitic
placement. Paper presented at the LFG Workshop, Grenoble, France,
August 1996.
Nordlinger, Rachel and Joan Bresnan. 1996. Nonconfigurational tense
in Wambaya. Paper presented at the LFG Workshop, Grenoble, France,
August 1996.
Oersnes, Bjarne. 1996. Argument structure and prominence relations:
the case of Danish synthetic compounding. Paper presented at the LFG
Workshop, Grenoble, France, August 1996.
Rambow, Owen. 1996. Word order, clause union, and the formal
machinery of syntax. Paper presented at the LFG Workshop, Grenoble,
France, August 1996.
Reyle, Uwe and Esther Konig. 1996. Proofs in the landscape of
underspecified representations. ms, University of Stuttgart,
Institute for Computational Linguistics.
Rosen, Victoria. 1996. The LFG architecture and ``verbless''
syntactic constructions. Paper presented at the LFG Workshop,
Grenoble, France, August 1996.
Sadler, Louisa. 1996. New developments in LFG. In Keith Brown and
Jim Miller, editors, Concise Encyclopedia of Syntactic
Theories. Elsevier Science, Oxford.
Saiki, Mariko. 1996a. An analysis of the passive in Japanese: A
preliminary study towards the clarification of the thematic role
theme. Studies in Humanities, 33(1):21--50. College of Liberal Arts,
Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan.
Saiki, Mariko. 1996b. Suppression of arguments within the passive
predicates in Japanese. In Proceedings of Sophia University
Linguistic Society, volume 11, Sophia University, Tokyo.
Schwarze, Christoph. 1996a. Die farblosen Praepositionen des
Franzoesischen: vage Praedikate oder Kasusmarker? Romanische
Forschungen. To appear.
Schwarze, Christoph. 1996b. Lexikalisch-funktionale Grammatik. Eine
Einfuehrung in 10 Lektionen, mit franzosischen Beispielen.
Arbeitspapier Nr. 76.
Schwarze, Christoph. 1996c. The syntax of Romance auxiliaries.
Paper presented at the LFG Workshop, Grenoble, France, August 1996.
Segond, Frederique and Max Copperman. 1996. The scope of ambiguity
in a computational LFG. Paper presented at the LFG Workshop,
Grenoble, France, August 1996.
Simpson, Jane. 1996. Preferred word order and grammaticalisation of
associated path in some Australian languages. Paper presented at the
LFG Workshop, Grenoble, France, August 1996.
Soto, Teresa Lopez and Gabriela Fernandez Diaz. 1996. Integration of
semantic patterns and statistical information for an LFG-based parser.
Paper presented at the LFG Workshop, Grenoble, France, August 1996.
Toivonen, Ida. 1996. Possessive pronouns and suffixes in Finnish.
Paper presented at the LFG Workshop, Grenoble, France, August 1996.
van Genabith, Josef and Dick Crouch. 1996a. Direct and
underspecified interpretation of LFG f-structures. In Proceedings of
COLING '96, Copenhagen.
van Genabith, Josef and Richard Crouch. 1996b. Direct and indirect
interpretation of LFG f-structures as underspecified semantic
representations. Paper presented at the LFG Workshop, Grenoble,
France, August 1996.
Vincent, Nigel and Kersti Bojars. 1996. Suppletion and syntactic
theory. Paper presented at the LFG Workshop, Grenoble, France, August
1996.
Yamamoto, Kazuyuki. 1996. The tough constructions in English and
Japanese: A Lexical-Functional Grammar approach. In Akira Ikeya,
editor, Linguistic Workshop Series 3: The Tough Constructions in
English and Japanese, Tokyo. Kurosio.