LFG BULLETIN
FEBRUARY 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 2006 (general information)
3. LFG 2005 (brief report)
4. Recent LFG work
5. New boilerplate policy
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1. LFG WEBPAGES
1.1 New website
The ILFGA Executive Committee recently dealt with the issue of the LFG
websites. This arose because neither the Stanford nor Essex websites
had been been very actively maintained for some time. The following
simple steps will be taken:
a) The Essex website has been reworked by Doug Arnold, who will remain
its interim maintainer. The website can be found at:
http://www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/LFG/
The idea is for this website to work principally as a portal to
subsites, which will mean minimal maintenance of the principal site.
b) The Executive Committee would like to ask for two volunteers to serve
as the LFG Web Officer and/or the FAQ Maintainer. The main task for
the FAQ maintainer would be to update the FAQ appropriately, seeking
advice from the LFG community where appropriate.
The task of the web officer, who would take over from Doug, would
include being responsible to the Executive Committee for the following:
- general responsibility for the web presence of the LFG community
- maintaining the main page
(and subpages that no-one else takes responsibility for;
see (c) below)
- designing style files for consistent look and feel across pages
(see (d) below)
- offering help and advice to other page maintainers and the
committee on web matters
- being ultimate arbiter of matters of readability, style,
etc. in Web pages
It is not anticipated that this will involve much work, especially
once the initial transition period is over, since Doug has just
redone the
portal page.
If you would like to volunteer for either of these tasks, email Mary
Dalrymple (reverse: ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/ !at! mary.dalrymple).
c) From Mary Dalrymple, chair of the executive committee:
'Volunteers needed to update and maintain the OT-LFG and LFG
Morphosyntax web pages! These subpages of the Stanford LFG page
have gotten badly out of date. The ILFGA Executive Committee is
looking for volunteers to update these pages and maintain them. We
would be particularly happy for people to volunteer who are able to
provide web space for one or the other of these pages at their own
institutions. If these web pages reflect your interests, please
help out the LFG community by taking charge of the update and
maintenance of these pages.'
If you would like to volunteer for either of these tasks, email Mary
Dalrymple (reverse: ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/ !at! mary.dalrymple).
d) Doug has designed a simple css style file that would give a
consistent look and feel on the subpages. It can be used by putting
the following in the <head></head> field of the html document:
<LINK rel=stylesheet
href="http://www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/LFG/lfg.css"
type="text/css">
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2. LFG 2006
The Eleventh International Lexical Functional Grammar Conference
(LFG06) will be held in Konstanz, Germany.
Website: http://ling.uni-konstanz.de/pages/conferences/lfg06/
Conference dates: 10 - 13 July 2006
Local organizer: Miriam Butt
Deadline for abstracts: February 15, 2006 (passed)
Notification of acceptances: March 31, 2006
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3. LFG 2005
The following is from Victoria Rosén, one of the local organizers for
the last LFG conference (2005).
'The 10th LFG conference was held in Bergen, Norway,
July 18-21. There were 62 participants, including 20 students.
There were 23 talks presented, including the invited talk by Dan
Flickinger, "Weighing the Utility of Types in Grammatical
Description", and three talks in a special student session. In
addition there were two workshops, "Agreement and its Role in
Grammar", arranged by Mary Dalrymple and Louisa Sadler, and "LFG
Approaches to Clitics", arranged by Tracy Holloway King. There was
also a poster session with eight presentations.
After the main conference a tutorial on "Treebank-Based Rapid
Induction of Wide-Coverage Lexical-Functional Grammar Resources" was
held by Josef van Genabith. There were 18 participants.
The proceedings from the conference will be appearing soon. The
conference website will remain available at:
http://lfg05.uib.no
Don't miss the "memories from the conference" on the links page!
The organizing committee, Helge Dyvik, Victoria Rosén, Koenraad de
Smedt and Helge Lødrup, would like to thank everyone who participated
for helping to make the conference a success.'
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4. RECENT LFG WORK
4.1 Joan Bresnan's festschrift
In August 2005, Joan Bresnan was presented a festschrift entitled
'Architectures, Rules, and Preferences: A Festschrift for Joan Bresnan'
It is to be published by CSLI Publications and has contributions from
the following authors:
Cynthia Allen
Alex Alsina
Avery Andrews
Ash Asudeh and Ida Toivonen
Judith Berman
Miriam Butt
Young-Mee Yu Cho and Mariko Saiki
Hye-Won Choi
Mary Dalrymple, Ron Kaplan, and Tracy King
Yehuda Falk
Abdelkader Fassi Fehri and Marie-Thérèse Vinet
Jane Grimshaw
Akira Ishikawa
Gerhard Jäger
Paul Kroeger
Hanjung Lee
Elena Maslova
Rachel Nordlinger and Louisa Sadler
Carol Neidle
Peter Peterson
Malka Rappaport Hovav and Beth Levin
Guido Seiler
Jane Simpson
Nigel Vincent and Kersti Börjars
4.2 Recent LFG Publications
Ash Asudeh. (2005). 'Control and semantic resource sensitivity'.
Journal of Linguistics 41(3): 465?511.
Ash Asudeh (2005). 'Relational nouns, pronouns, and resumption'.
Linguistics and Philosophy 28(4): 375?446.
http://www.ling.canterbury.ac.nz/personal/asudeh/
http://www.carleton.ca/~asudeh/
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Philippa Cook (to appear/in press). 'The datives that aren't born
equal: beneficiaries and the dative passive'. In Daniel Hole, André
Meinunger & Werner Abraham (eds.), Datives and Similar Cases.
Benjamins. Philadelphia/Amsterdam
http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/mitarb/homepage/cook/files/1130159828.pdf
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Dublin City University, School of Computing
http://www.dcu.ie/computing
Aoife Cahill, Michael Burke, Martin Forst, Ruth O'Donovan, Christian
Rohrer, Josef van Genabith and Andy Way (2005).
'Treebank-Based Acquisition of Multilingual Unification Grammar
Resources'. Research on Language & Computation 3(2): 247 - 279.
Ruth O'Donovan, Michael Burke, Aoife Cahill, Josef van Genabith and Andy
Way (2005). 'Large-Scale Induction and Evaluation of Lexical
Resources from the Penn-II and Penn-III Treebanks'. Computational
Linguistics 31(3): 328-365.
4.3 Recent LFG Dissertation
Leonoor van der Beek (to appear). Topics in Corpus Based Dutch
Syntax, PhD thesis, University of Groningen.
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~vdbeek/
4.4 Recent lexicalist work
Stephen Wechsler (2005). 'What is right and wrong about little v'. In
Mila Vulchanova andTor A. Åfarli (eds.) Grammar and Beyond? Essays in
honour of Lars Hellan. Oslo: Novus Press. 179-195.
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5. New boilerplate policy
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.