LFG BULLETIN
DECEMBER 1997
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* NEWS *
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ILFGA
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We are happy to announce that there is now an official organization
for those interested in LFG and related topics. The organization is
called the International Lexical Functional Grammar Association, ILFGA
for short.
We have had initial elections and the following have agreed to serve as
officers of the organization. A copy of the constitution is attached
below.
Membership is free of charge. We encourage everyone on this list to
become a member. To become a member contact Tracy Holloway King
(thking@parc.xerox.com).
The initial officers are:
Executive Committee: Farrell Ackerman
Kersti Borjars
Joan Bresnan
Miriam Butt
Ron Kaplan
Tara Mohanan
Nominating Committee: Mary Dalrymple
Nigel Vincent
Annie Zaenen
Secretary-Treasurer: Tracy Holloway King
LFG List Maintainer: Mary Dalrymple
Bulletin Maintainer: Miriam Butt
Local Conference Committee (Brisbane):
Chris Manning, Jane Simpson, et al.
Program Committee: Miriam Butt and Tracy Holloway King
LFG Webmaster: Doug Arnold
Further Announcements:
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- UPDATED ANNOUNCEMENT: LFG98 will be held at Emmanuel College,
The University of Queensland, Australia, June 30 - July 2, 1998.
See "Upcoming Events" below which contains updated workshop
information.
- LFG99 will be held at the University of Manchester, Manchester,
England, July 19-21, 1999. Details will be provided at a later date.
Local contacts/organizers are Nigel Vincent
(nigel.vincent@nessie.mcc.ac.uk) and
Kersti Borjars (kersti.borjars@man.ac.uk).
- Changing the Guard: Avery Andrews will be taking over the
LFG Bibliography from Mary Dalrymple starting January 1998.
- Proceedings of the LFG97 Conference are now available from
CSLI on-line Publications at:
http://www-csli.stanford.edu/publications/
Choose: Proceedings ON-LINE
(The proceedings of LFG96 are also available here.)
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* PUBLICITY/INFORMATION *
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Request For Dissertation Announcements
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If you or your students complete an dissertation of interest to the
LFG community, please post an announcement to the LFG list with:
Title
Author
University
Email address or other way to contact the author
Summary or abstract
Register Yourself
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The Linguist List has a data base of linguists and dissertations.
We strongly encourage you to register yourself via:
http://linguistlist.org/persop.html
and your dissertation via:
http://linguistlist.org/dissop.html
(All you have to do to register is to fill out the on-line form.)
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* Upcoming Events/Conferences *
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1) LFG98 at The University of Queensland
2) ESSLI-98 Summer School
3) Further Conference Announcements
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1) LFG98
Second Announcement, Call for Papers, and Registration Information
[New info: Workshops, Air Travel]
LFG98
1998 INTERNATIONAL LEXICAL FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR CONFERENCE
30 June - 2 July 1998
The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Submission receipt deadline: 30 January 1998
URL: http://www.sultry.arts.usyd.edu.au/LFG98/
Enquiries: lfg98@sultry.arts.usyd.edu.au
The Linguistic and Allied Workers Federation of Australia in association
with the Unofficial LFG Conference Organizing Committee and the
University of Queensland is pleased to invite you to participate in
LFG98 which will take place from 30 June till 2 July 1998 at Emmanuel
College, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
LFG98, the third in a series of international conferences, will take
place just before the Australian Linguistic Society annual meeting and
the two week Australian Linguistic Institute. The conference 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
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/
PARTICIPATION
LFG98 will be attended by most of the leading figures in the
international LFG community including Farrell Ackerman, Avery Andrews,
Kersti Borjars, Joan Bresnan, Mary Dalrymple, Ron Kaplan, K.P. Mohanan,
Tara Mohanan, Nigel Vincent, Annie Zaenen, ...
SUBMISSIONS
The conference will involve 20-minute talks, poster/system
presentations, and workshops. Talks and poster presentations will 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. We particularly
welcome papers and suggestions for workshops on languages of the
Asia-Pacific region. Presentations should describe original,
unpublished work.
Abstracts and papers must be received by 30 January 1998, and should be
submitted to the program committee chairs at the address given below.
For further information or offers of organisational help, contact the
LAWFA Organisers at the address below.
POSTER/SYSTEM PRESENTATIONS
We plan on having a scheduled session for posters and the demonstration
of systems, with the posters also available for viewing at other times
throughout the conferece.
WORKSHOPS
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 others approaches.
Three workshops are planned:
- CHINESE AND LFG. This workshop will include papers on event
structure and lexical mapping). Contact: Patrizia Pacioni
<p.pacioni@asian.unimelb.edu.au> for further information.
- VOICE AND GRAMMATICAL FUNCTIONS IN WESTERN AUSTRONESIAN LANGUAGES
Contacts: Peter K. Austin
<p.austin@linguistics.unimelb.edu.au>
Simon Musgrave
<s.musgrave@linguistics.unimelb.edu.au>
- A workshop organised by Kersti Borjars and Nigel Vincent on
CORRESPONDENCES (exact title TBA).
Contacts: Kersti Borjars <kersti.borjars@man.ac.uk>,
Nigel.Vincent@nessie.mcc.ac.uk
TIMETABLE
Deadline for receipt of submissions: 30 January 1998
Acceptances sent out: 16 March 1998
Deadline for receipt of papers for proceedings: 15 May 1998
Conference: 30 June - 2 July 1998
SUBMISSION SPECIFICATIONS
People may submit either abstracts or full length papers for refereeing.
The advantages of full paper submission are that it allows better
assessment of your work and that (at least for some people) accepted
refereed full papers count as a higher status publication. The program
chairs may decide that certain submissions are better as poster
presentations than as read papers. Submitters may also indicate if they
wish a submission to be considered as a poster/system presentation.
Full length papers. Papers should be no more than 15 pages, including
figures and references, in 11 or 12pt type, on A4/US Letter paper. The
printed text area must not exceed 165x230mm (6.5x9 inches), and should
be centred horizontally and vertically on the page. Omit name and
affiliation, and obvious self reference from the version for review.
Papers should include a roughly 100-200 word abstract at the beginning.
Abstracts. Abstracts should be one A4 page in 10pt or larger type and
include a title. Omit name and affiliation, and obvious self
reference. A second page may be used for data, c-/f- and related
structures, and references.
Papers/abstracts may be submitted by email or by regular mail (or by
both means as a safety measure). Email submission is preferred.
Paper. Include:
- Five copies of the abstract/paper.
- A card or cover sheet with the paper title, name(s) of the
author(s), affiliation, address, phone/fax number, e-mail address, and
whether the author(s) are students.
Email. Include or attach your paper as either a plain ASCII text, HTML,
or postscript file. Include the paper title, name(s) of the author(s),
address, phone/fax number, email address, and whether the author(s) are
students in the body of your email message.
All papers/abstracts will be reviewed by at least two people. Accepted
papers will appear in the proceedings, which will be distributed to all
participants at the workshop, and 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 paper/abstract/poster submissions and inquiries about submissions to:
Program Committee Chairs: Tracy King <thking@parc.xerox.com>
Miriam Butt <miriam.butt@uni-konstanz.de>
Mail: Tracy Holloway King
Information Sciences and Technologies Laboratory
Xerox PARC
3333 Coyote Hill Road
Palo Alto CA 94304
USA
Contact the conference organisers at:
Linguistic & Allied Christopher Manning <cmanning@mail.usyd.edu.au>
Organisers: Jane Simpson <jhs@mail.usyd.edu.au>
Email: lfg98@sultry.arts.usyd.edu.au
Mail: Christopher Manning or Jane Simpson
Linguistics F12
University of Sydney NSW 2006
AUSTRALIA
Linguistic & Allied Cynthia Allen, Australian National University
Workers: Avery Andrews, Australian National University
(paid up members) Peter Austin, University of Melbourne
Alan Dench, University of Western Australia
Nick Evans, University of Melbourne
William Foley, University of Sydney
Marilyn Ford, Griffith University
Paul Kroeger, SIL Darwin
Simon Musgrave, University of Melbourne
Rachel Nordlinger, Stanford University
Patrizia Pacioni, University of Melbourne
Peter Peterson, University of Newcastle
ASSOCIATED EVENTS
LFG98 precedes the 1998 Australian Linguistics Society Annual Meeting,
ALS-98, 3-5 July 1998, and the two week 1998 Australian Linguistics
Institute, ALI 98, 6-16 July 1998, both also to be held at The
University of Queensland. You can find more information about these
events at:
http://www.cltr.uq.oz.au:8000/als98/
http://www.cltr.uq.oz.au:8000/ali98/
Among the course highlights of ALI for LFGers are:
- courses on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages
(including one by Joan Bresnan and Rachel Nordlinger)
- courses on Sino-Tibetan, Austronesian, Tai and Lao languages
- Romance Syntax & Linguistic Theory: Luigi Rizzi & Adriana Belletti
- Event Conceptualization and Verb Meanings: Beth Levin
- Advanced Morphology: K.P. Mohanan & Tara Mohanan
LOCATION
Emmanuel College has a beautiful location beside the Brisbane River on
the St. Lucia campus of The University of Queensland. The college has
modern conference facilities including a variety of projection equipment.
Although it will be the middle of winter in Australia, one should expect
good weather in Brisbane: sunny days with maximum temperatures of about
20 C (68 F) and overnight minimums of about 10 C (50 F).
Brisbane is the capital of Queensland, the state in the north east part
of Australia. Surrounding areas of Queensland hold many of Australia's
most famous tourist destinations, such as the Great Barrier Reef (it's
an excellent time of year to visit), Fraser Island, spectacular national
parks and rainforest, and the Sunshine Coast and Gold Coast (which offer
nightlife and casinos, as well as miles of beaches and fashionable
resorts).
While there are direct flights to Brisbane, most international flights
come through Sydney. Sydney, with its breathtaking harbour, opera
house, and bridges, pulsating city life and great food, has many
attractions, and you may also want to spend some time there before or
after the conference. It is also the home of the LAWFA organisers, so
drop us a line and we can either show you a good time or arrange for you
to give a seminar at the University of Sydney Linguistics Department.
REGISTRATION AND ACCOMMODATION
Despite this being the first call for papers, you can already register
for the conference! Registration is joint with ALS and ALI. Simply
send your browser to:
http://www.cltr.uq.edu.au:8000/ali98/rego2.html
and print, fill in, and return the registration form there.
Registration for the LFG conference is (in Australian dollars) $60
regular registration, $40 for students. From overseas, payment by
credit card is usually cheapest and most convenient for you. If you are
not attending other events, simply tick the LFG conference box, enter
any required accommodation, and fill in your personal details and
payment information, and return to the address given.
We recommend staying at Emmanuel College, the student dormitory where
the conference will take place. Single rooms at Emmanuel College (with
shared facilities) cost $37 a night including breakfast and supply of
linens (but no room service). Rooms have telephones, desks, lights, and
supposedly also internet connections! There are, of course, many hotels
in Brisbane, which you can find out about from tourist guides or web
sites such as:
http://www.maxlink.com.au/bcl/accom.htm
All conference registration and university accommodation is to be
arranged through the ALI office at the University of Queensland.
Arranging other accommodation is your responsibility. Please do not
send registration forms or accommodation requests to the LFG conference
organisers. If you cannot get the registration form from the web, you
may contact the LFG conference organisers to get them to send you a
copy. You must pre-register. Supplementary registrations for LFG98
will be available at the door to participants at other associated
linguistic events (ALAA, ALI, and ALS), but you must be pre-registered
for some event.
AIR TRAVEL TO ALI98
Qantas has been appointed official airline for the Language and
Linguistics in Brisbane 1998 events.
A discount of 45% off the full
economy airfare excluding taxes at the time of booking has been
negotiated for travel within Australia only. This fare is subject to
availability in group class. The Qantas Association Sales toll free
telephone number for Australian delegates is: 1800 684 880.
If travelling to Brisbane from outside Australia contact your local
Qantas office for the best available fare of the day. (ALI is currently
negotiating with Qantas Airways for special price fares for overseas
course presenters and we will post information if there is any helpful
outcome for overseas visitors.)
Please quote your Association Profile Number "1271140" and destination and
date of conference when making your reservation.
LOCAL TRANSPORTATION
Details on transportation to the University will be provided with the
final program.
PRE-CONFERENCE BUSHWALK
We are planning on arranging a pre-conference trip into national parks
within an easy drive of Brisbane. We are envisaging a two day trip,
which will involve moderate day walks, but staying overnight in
accommodation (i.e., decent shoes but no camping equipment required).
To participate, you should plan on arriving by June 27. If you would be
interested in going on such a trip, please let us know at
<lfg98@sultry.arts.usyd.edu.au>.
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2) ESSLI-98 Summer School
This year's ESSLI will be held in Saarbruecken, Germany from August
17-28, 1998 (http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~esslli98/).
Of interest for the LFG-community in particular will be a course held
by Joan Bresnan and Louisa Sadler on `Modelling Dynamic Interactions
between Morphology and Syntax' to be held during the second week
(week2).
Course Abstract:
Morphology appears to interact with syntax dynamically.
Typologically, richer morphology is associated with weaker syntactic
word order restrictions and reduction of hierarchical syntactic
structure (witness the nonconfigurationality of Australian languages).
Under historical language change, syntactic constituents often cross
the syntax-morphology boundary to become morphologically bound, while
preserving their interactions with other syntactic constituents (as in
cliticization). Synchronically, words may preempt or block syntactic
phrases, and conversely.
Most contemporary lexicalist theories of syntax encapsulate word
structure and phrase structure to such an extent that explaining these
dynamic interactions is difficult. However, the architecture of LFG
is distinctive in postulating a strict separation of morphology from
syntax ONLY in the structural domain, while allowing both words and
hierarchical phrases to have functions of the same types (represented
by complex feature structures). This provides a useful formal tool
for investigating dynamic linguistic interactions between morphology
and syntax within a well-defined feature-logic based theory. We will
use this framework to model several types of dynamic morphosyntactic
interactions in a number of languages, developing ideas from
morphological blocking theory, economy principles, and optimality
theory.
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Submissions are encouraged to the Formal Grammar conference,
which is associated with ESSLI.
JOINT CONFERENCE ON FORMAL GRAMMAR, HEAD-DRIVEN PHRASE STRUCTURE
GRAMMAR, AND CATEGORIAL GRAMMAR
Saarbrueken, Germany
August 14-16, 1998
fg@ufal.mff.cuni.cz
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ESSLI Workshops:
ESSLI - 98 Workshop on LOGIC AND PRAGMATICS
Saarbrueken, Germany
August 24 - 28, 1998
Deadline for submissions: February 15, 1998
jens.allwood@ling.gu.se
http://www.ling.gu.se/~jens/logprag.html
ESSLLI-98 Workshop on CURRENT TOPICS IN CONSTRAINT-BASED THEORIES
OF GERMANIC SYNTAX
Saarbrueken, Germany
August 17 - 21, 1998
Deadline for submission: 15 February 1998
tibor@heidelbg.ibm.com, dm@sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de
http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~esslli98/workshops.html
ESSLLI-98 Workshop on RECENT ADVANCES IN CORPUS ANNOTATION
Saarbrueken, Germany
August 17 - 21, 1998
Deadline for submission: 15 February 1998
krenn@coli.uni-sb.de
http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~esslli98/workshops.html
ESSLLI-98 Workshop on MUTUAL KNOWLEDGE, COMMON GROUND AND PUBLIC INFORMATION
Saarbrueken, Germany
August 24 - 28, 1998
Deadline for submission: February 15, 1998
rieser@lili.uni-bielefeld.de, heydrich@lili.uni-bielefeld.de
http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~esslli98/workshops.html
ESSLLI'98 STUDENT SESSION
Saarbruecken, Germany
August 17-28, 1998
Deadline for submissions: February 15, 1998
korbay@ufal.mff.cuni.cz
http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/esslli/
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3) Further Conference Announcements
Brief summary of conference calls and announcements posted to this list:
COLING-ACL'98
Universite de Montreal, Montreal (Quebec), Canada
August 10-14, 1998
Deadline for submissions: January 30, 1998
http://www-rali.iro.umontreal.ca/COLING-ACL98/
coling-acl98@iro.umontreal.ca
WLSS98 II WORKSHOP ON LEXICAL SEMANTIC SYSTEMS
Pisa, Italy
19-20 March 1998
Deadline for submission: 15 December 1997
wlss98@celi.sns.it
http://celi.sns.it/~wlss98
BRIDGES AND INTERFACES: FORM, MEANING, AND FUNCTION
Prague, Czech Republic
March 12-14, 1998
Deadlines: December 20, 1997 (grant application);
February 9, 1998 (registration)
brdickov@ufal.mff.cuni.cz
FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION
Granada, Spain
28-30 May 1998
Deadline for submission: December 1, 1997
lrec@ilc.pi.cnr.it
13TH TWENTE WORKSHOP ON LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY: THE 2ND WORKSHOP ON
FORMAL SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS OF DIALOGUE
Enschede, The Netherlands
13 - 15 May 1998
Deadline for submissions: February 1, 1998
joris@cs.utwente.nl
http://www.cs.utwente.nl/Docs/parlevink/twlt/
11TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INDUSTRIAL & ENGINEERING
APPLICATIONS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE & EXPERT SYSTEMS
Castellon, Spain
June 1-4, 1998
Deadline for submissions: November 7, 1997
iea98@titan.inf.uji.es
http://titan.inf.uji.es/IEA98/
11th ANNUAL CUNY CONFERENCE ON HUMAN SENTENCE PROCESSING
Hosted by Rutgers University, New Jersey
March 19-21, 1998
abstract deadline: November 7, 1997 (spoken paper), January 12, 1998 (poster)
cuny@ruccs.rutgers.edu
http://ruccs.rutgers.edu/cuny98
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS, SPEECH AND DOCUMENT
PROCESSING
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Unit, Calcutta, India
February 18 - 20, 1998
Paper Submission: 15 October, 1997
bbc@isical.ernet.in
THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION-THEORETIC APPROACHES TO
LOGIC, LANGUAGE, AND COMPUTATION
Hsi-tou, Taiwan
16-19 June, 1998
Deadline for submission: 15 December, 1997
ITALLC98@coli.uni-sb.de
http://www.phil.ccu.edu.tw/~itallc98/home.html
* EDITORS *
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Please send any items you wish to include in the next bulletin (March 1998) to:
miriam.butt@uni-konstanz.de
thking@parc.xerox.com
Thank you,
Miriam Butt and Tracy Holloway King
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* ILFGA CONSTITUTION *
Constitution of the International Lexical Functional Grammar Association
Article I. Name and Objective
1. This Association shall be known as the International Lexical
Functional Grammar Association.
2. Its objective shall be the advancement of LFG based approaches for
scientific study of language.
Article II. Membership
1. Membership in the Association shall be open to individuals. There
shall be two classes of membership: regular and life.
2. Any person who subscribes to the objectives of the Association may
become a regular member by registration with the Association.
3. Any individual member may become a life member by payment of the
appropriate dues set by the Executive Committee.
4. Membership in the Association entitles a member to the following
rights, and only members are entitled to such rights: (a) To vote; (b)
To be elected for an office.
Article III. Officers and Committees
1. The officers of the Association shall be the Executive Committee.
2. The Executive Committee shall be composed of six voting members.
With the exception of the first year of the Association, each member
shall be elected for three years. In the first year, two members of
the Executive Committee shall serve three years, two shall serve two
years, and two shall serve one year. Each year thereafter, an
election shall be held to fill the vacated positions. Consecutive
terms shall be allowed. The Chair shall be selected by the Executive
Committee from the Executive Committee members serving their third
year and shall serve as Chair for one year. There shall be maximally
three non-voting members of the Executive Committee: the
Secretary-Treasurer, the Bulletin Maintainer, and the LFG List
Maintainer. The duties of the Executive Committee are to choose the
site of the Annual Conference based on nominations by the members of
the Association, to select the Secretary-Treasurer of the Association,
the Program Committee, and the Nominating Committee, and to evaluate
the needs of the Association as reflected by the Objective of the
Association.
3. The Secretary-Treasurer shall fulfill the following duties:
maintain the Association's accounts, membership list, correspondence,
and web page; supervise the voting procedure, tally the votes, and
announce the results; submit a yearly report as to the status of the
Association to the Executive Committee and to the Association at the
Business Meeting. The Secretary-Treasurer shall serve for three years
and may serve consecutive terms. The Secretary-Treasurer shall be a
non-voting member of the Executive Committee.
4. The Bulletin Maintainer shall compile and disseminate the quarterly
electronic newsletter in March, June, September, and December. The
Bulletin Maintainer is nominated by the Nominating Committee and voted
into office by the members of the Association. There is no fixed
term for the Bulletin Maintainer. If the Bulletin Maintainer is not
already an elected member of the Executive Committee, then the
Bulletin Maintainer shall be a non-voting member of the Executive
Committee.
5. The LFG List Maintainer shall maintain the electronic LFG mailing
list. The LFG List Maintainer is nominated by the Nominating
Committee and voted into office by the members of the Association.
There is no fixed term for the LFG List Maintainer. If the LFG List
Maintainer is not already an elected member of the Executive
Committee, then the LFG List Maintainer shall be a non-voting member
of the Executive Committee.
6. The LFG Web Master shall maintain the resource web page for the
Association. The LFG Web Master shall serve an indefinite term and
shall nominate their successor to be approved by the Executive
Committee.
7. The Program Committee shall be composed of two members each serving
a one year term; consecutive terms shall be permitted. The duties of
the Program Committee shall be to collect the abstracts for the Annual
Conference, ensure that they are evaluated fairly, and form the program
of the Annual Conference from the selected abstracts.
8. The Local Conference Committee shall be composed of at least one
member chosen by the local site of the Annual Conference. The local
site may add as many additional members as they feel necessary to
fulfill the duties of the committee. The duties of the Local
Conference Committee are to issue calls for the Annual Conference,
organize the logistics of the Conference, and organize the workshops
in conjunction with the Program Committee. The duties of the Local
Conference Committee do not include determining the program of the
Annual Conference.
9. The Nominating Committee shall be composed of three members chosen
by the Executive Committee. Each member shall serve for three years
and may not serve two consecutive terms. The Nominating Committee's
duties are to nominate members of the Association for the Executive
Committee, the Bulletin Maintainer, and the LFG List Maintainer as
necessary. These nominations shall be submitted to vote of the
membership of the Association according to the procedure in Article
III-10.
10. The Voting Process shall be as follows. First, the Nominating
Committee shall put forth its list of nominations to the members of
the Association by May 1. Second, additional nominations from the
members to be included on the ballot shall be due by June 1. Third,
the Nominating Committee shall disseminate ballots to the members of
the Association by June 15. Fourth, all votes must be received by the
Secretary-Treasurer by August 15 in order to be considered valid.
Fifth, the Secretary-Treasurer shall announce the results of the
election by September 1. Sixth, all new offices shall commence on
September 1.
Article IV. Fiscal Policy
All funds of the Association shall be managed by the
Secretary-Treasurer, who shall report to the Chair of the Executive
Committee. A financial report shall be made each year at the Annual
Conference, and its contents shall be open for inspection by members of
the Association.
Article V. Meetings
1. There shall be three kinds of meetings: (a) the Annual Conference,
(b) the Annual Business Meeting, and (c) the meeting(s) of the
Executive Committee. A quorum shall consist of those present at each
meeting.
2. The Association shall hold one Annual Conference each year. The
site of the Annual Conference shall be chosen by the Executive
Committee based on nominations by the members of the Association.
Nominations for the meeting site shall take place at the Business
Meeting two years prior to the Annual Conference in question.
Nominations may also be made by proxy to the Secretary-Treasurer prior
to said Business Meeting. An effort shall be made not to hold the
Annual Conference on the same continent for two consecutive years.
3. One Annual Business Meeting shall be held at the same time and
place as the Annual Conference. The Business Meeting shall be open to
all members of the Association.
4. One Meeting of the Executive Committee shall be held at the same time and
place as the Annual Conference. Additional meetings may be held at
the discretion of the Chair.
Article VI. Publications
1. The Association shall publish the LFG Bulletin, issued quarterly by
the Bulletin Maintainer in March, June, September, and December. The
Bulletin shall be disseminate electronically to all members of the
Association and to all subscribers of the LFG mailing list.
2. The Association shall maintain the LFG List, an electronic
discussion forum and bulletin board.
3. The Association shall maintain two electronic web pages: (a) the
Association web page which shall be maintained by the
Secretary-Treasurer or their nominee, and (b) the LFG resource page
which shall be maintained by the LFG Web Master.
Article VII. Registration and the Secretariat
The Association shall be registered as a non-profit Association in
the United States of America. It shall have an address located in the
United States of America.
Article VIII. Amendments
Any proposed amendment to this constitution must be submitted to the
Secretary-Treasurer in writing, signed by at least ten members of the
Association. This shall be submitted to the members at the time of
the regular election for officers. An amendment must have the
approval of two-thirds of the members voting.
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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
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 (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 miriam.butt@uni-konstanz.de or thking@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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* 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 the 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.