LFG BULLETIN
JULY 2009
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Next issue: September 2009
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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 2009 Conference, Cambridge, UK
2. Third Grammar Engineering Across Frameworks Workshop
3. Computational Linguistics Fall School
4. Drafts for comments
5. Recent LFG work
6. Boilerplate
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1. LFG 2009 Conference, Cambridge, UK
The 14th International LFG Conference will be held between 13-16 July 2009, at
Trinity College, Cambridge, UK.
Website: http://www.lfg09.net/
Local conference organiser - Anna Kibort, University of Surrey and Cambridge
University, United Kingdom
Information about pre-conference activities can be found here:
http://www.lfg09.net/preconference.html
PROGRAMME
MONDAY 13 July 2009
8:30 - 10:05 REGISTRATION
10:05 - 10:15 WELCOME
10:15 - 11:00 'A treatment of clitics via prosodic phonology in LFG'
Tina Bšgel, Miriam Butt, Ron Kaplan, Tracy Holloway King & John Maxwell III
11:00 - 11:30 TEA/COFFEE
11:30 - 12:15 'Looking out for number one: Greek word order'
Eirik Welo
12:15 - 13:00 'Irish clefting and information-structure'
Sebastian Sulger
13:00 - 14:00 LUNCH
14:00 - 14:30 Dissertation talk: 'Object functions and the syntax of double
object constructions in Lexical Functional Grammar'
Olivia Lam
14:30 - 15:15 'OBJ_ without OBJ: a typology of Meskwaki objects'
Amy Dahlstrom
15:15 - 16:00 'The prepositional passive as structure-sharing'
Alex Alsina
16:00 - 16:30 TEA/COFFEE
16:30 - 18:00 'SPEED PAPER' SESSION: 'Empirical challenges to LFG'
This session, including 5-minute presentations followed by discussion among
circulating participants, will feature local non-LFG linguists offering
empirical challenges to LFG theory.
'Addressee agreement in Siwi demonstratives'
Lameen Souag
'Opacity and optionality in the morphology-syntax-phonology mapping: the case
of ni-insertion and lla-displacement in Quechua'
Neil Myler
'On the origin of adjective dualism in Germanic'
Arturas Ratkus
'Word order and functional features in West Flemish verb clusters'
George Walkden
'The Final-Over-Final Constraint'
Theresa Biberauer, Anders Holmberg, Ian Roberts & Michelle Sheehan
TUESDAY 14 July 2009
9:00 - 9:45 'Negation in Modern Standard Arabic'
Ahmad Alsharif & Louisa Sadler
9:45 - 10:30 'The adjectival construct in Arabic'
Budour Al Sharifi & Louisa Sadler
10:30 - 11:00 Dissertation talk: 'Hebrew floating quantifiers: two different
constructions'
Ilona Spector
11:00 - 11:30 TEA/COFFEE
11:30 - 12:15 'F-structure transfer-based statistical machine translation'
Yvette Graham, Anton Bryl & Joseph van Genabith
12:15 - 13:00 'Cross-lingual projection of LFG f-structures: resource
induction for Polish'
Alina Tokarczyk & Anette Frank
13:00 - 14:00 LUNCH
14:00 - 16:45 THEMATIC SESSION: 'LFG perspectives on Scandinavian'
14:00 - 14:45 'med - the syntax and semantics of concomitance in Norwegian'
Dag Haug
14:45 - 15:30 'Looking possessor raising in the mouth: Norwegian possessor
raising with unergatives'
Helge L¿drup
15:30 - 16:00 TEA/COFFEE
16:00 - 16:45 'Outside-in binding of reflexives in Insular Scandinavian'
Tania Strahan
16:45 - 17:45 INVITED TALK
'Affix ordering and the morphosyntax of object marking in Moro'
Farrell Ackerman (UCSD)
18:00 - 19:30 EVENING EVENT
Wine reception at Cambridge University Press bookshop (1 Trinity Street,
Cambridge), the oldest bookshop site in the UK. This event is sponsored by CUP.
WEDNESDAY 15 July 2009
9:00 - 9:45 'Paraphrases in LFG-based broad-coverage semantics'
Sina Zarrie§ & Jonas Kuhn
9:45 - 10:30 'A computational morphosyntactic analysis for the applicative
-i in Indonesian'
I Wayan Arka, Avery Andrews, Mary Dalrymple, Meladel Mistica & Jane Simpson
10:30 - 12:30 POSTER/SYSTEM SESSION
10:30 - 11:00 TEA/COFFEE
'A hybrid filtering approach for question answering'
Sisay Fissaha Adafre & Josef van Genabith
'Differential marking in Shona applicatives: a Bidirectional OT approach'
Raœl Aranovich
'Adjacency and locality: a constraint-based analysis of complementizer-adjacent
extraction'
Ash Asudeh
'Exploiting XLE's finite state interface in LFG-based statistical machine
translation'
Eleftherios Avramidis & Jonas Kuhn
'Using tri-lexical dependencies in LFG parse disambiguation'
Aoife Cahill, Uli Heid, Christian Rohrer & Marion Weller
'A tale of two taqs: an OT-LFG account of plurals and distributives in K'ichee'
Mayan'
Lachlan Duncan
'Islands: a mixed analysis'
Yehuda Falk
'Constraining disjunctive constructions in Modern Greek'
Maria Flouraki & Despina Kazana
'Problems of German VP coordination'
Martin Forst & Christian Rohrer
'The Old Irish 'passive' verb, its realisations and development'
Jenny Graver
'Converting dependency graphs to f-structures'
Dag Haug & Marius J¿hndal
'Adapting stochastic LFG input for semantics'
Annette Hautli & Tracy Holloway King
'Intermediary agents and unexpressed pronouns'
Anna Kibort
'Relational nouns and argument structure - evidence from Hungarian'
Tibor Laczk—
'On the status of reflexive and reciprocal clitics in Italian and Serbian'
Maja Mili_evi_
'Automatic acquisition of LFG resources for German - as good as it gets'
Ines Rehbein & Josef van Genabith
'On the difference between auxiliaries, serial verbs and light verbs'
Melanie Seiss
'Parsing Arabic using treebank-based LFG resources'
Lamia Tounsi, Mohammed Attia & Josef van Genabith
'Case and grammatical functions in Imbabura: a Lexical Mapping Theory approach'
Beatriz Willgohs & Patrick Farrell
'OBLs hobble computations'
Annie Zaenen & Dick Crouch
12:30 - 13:30 LUNCH
13:30 - 14:15 'Complex and even more complex reflexives: the case of the
Hungarian šnmaga 'himself''
Gyšrgi R‡kosi
14:15 - 15:00 'On the split nature of the Dutch laten-causative'
Gerlof Bouma & Jonas Kuhn
15:00 - 15:30 TEA/COFFEE
15:30 - 16:15 'Adnominal clauses with genitive subjects across Asia'
Peter Sells
16:15 - 17:00 'Udi person markers and lexical integrity'
Michael Wescoat
17:30 - 19:00 PUBLIC LECTURE: 'Deep natural language processing for web-scale
search'
Ron Kaplan (Stanford University & Powerset Inc./Microsoft)
Keynote public lecture on the applications of cutting-edge natural language
processing technology, which has LFG as its theoretical basis, to semantic
search processes over the world wide web, as illustrated at powerset.com and in
the semantic features included in the new Microsoft search engine at bing.com.
This event is sponsored by Microsoft Corporation.
19:30 - 23:00 EVENING EVENT
Conference dinner at Queens' College, Cambridge (the Old Hall).
THURSDAY 16 July 2009
9:00 - 12:30 WORKSHOP: 'Blurring Component Boundaries: levels of analysis or
growth of information?'
Chair: Nigel Vincent
Workshop and public debate on Dynamic Syntax and Lexical-Functional Grammar,
with keynote contributions by the original developers of both formalisms: Ruth
Kempson (King's College London) and Joan Bresnan (Stanford University). The
Workshop is partially funded by the Mont Follick Fund, University of Manchester.
9:00 - 9:10 Introduction by Nigel Vincent
9:10 - 9:50 '"What do you do?" Variation in interrogative predicates'
Louise Mycock
9:50 - 10:30 'Narrowing the competence-performance gap: syntax as
time-linear growth of semantic representation'
Ruth Kempson & Jieun Kiaer
10:30 - 10:50 TEA/COFFEE
10:50 - 11:30 'Clitics as calcified processing strategies: the case study of
Spanish clitic placement and the PCC as a tree-logic restriction'
Miriam Bouzouita & Stergios Chatzikyriakidis
11:30 - 12:10 'The dynamics of syntax: implications for LFG'
Joan Bresnan
12:10 - 12:30 General discussion
12:30 - 13:00 ILFGA Business Meeting
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2. Third Grammar Engineering Across Frameworks Workshop
The 3rd "Grammar Engineering Across Frameworks" workshop will be held in
Singapore on August 6th in conjunction with ACL. The workshop website,
including program, is available at:
http://www.issco.unige.ch/en/events/workshop/GEAF09/
and includes several LFG and LFG-related presentations and demos.
The proceedings will be available on-line with the rest of the ACL and ACL
workshop proceedings.
For questions, see the website or contact Tracy Holloway King (Tracy dot King
at microsoft dot com).
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3. Computational Linguistics Fall School
September 7-19, 2009, Konstanz, Germany
The Computational Linguistics Fall School was established by the German
Linguistics Association as a biennial event for students who wish to broaden
their knowledge of techniques and methods used in natural language processing.
The motivation is to give interested students an understanding of innovative
and emerging fields in computational linguistics, including fields not
traditionally taught in standard degree programs. All lectures will be in
English. In 2009 the Fall School will be held at the University of Konstanz,
Germany.
Further information can be found here:
http://ling.uni-konstanz.de/pages/conferences/fallschool2009/index.html
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4. DRAFTS FOR COMMENTS
Andrews, Avery. 2009. 'Lexical' vs. ' Grammatical' Meaning-constructors for
Glue Semantics, talk to be delivered at Australian LInguistics Society meeting
in July 09.
http://arts.anu.edu.au/linguistics/people/AveryAndrews/papers (see Drafts
section)
Dalrymple, Mary and Bozhil Hristov. 2009. Agreement patterns and coordination
in Lexical Functional Grammar. Ms, Oxford.
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~cpgl0015/closestconjunct.pdf
'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.
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5. RECENT LFG WORK
Send details of your recent work to Louise.Mycock /at/ ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/
5.1 CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
LFG conference papers are available electronically at:
http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/site/ONLN.html
5.2 PUBLICATIONS
Briem, Daniela, Britta Balliel, Brigitte Rockstroh, Miriam Butt, Sabine Schulte
im Walde and Ramin Assadollahi 2009. `Distinct processing of function verb
categories in the human brain'. Brain Research 1249:173--180.
Butt, M. and M. Steinbach (eds.), 2008. Vernaeht und Zugeßixt: Von
Versprechern, Fluechen, Dialekten & Co.. Mannheim: Dudenverlag.
Butt, M. 2008 'Modern Approaches to case: an overview', In Andrej Malchukov and
Andrew Spencer (eds.) The Handbook of Case, 27-43. Oxford University Press.
Butt, M. 2008 'Case in Lexical-Functional Grammar', In Andrej Malchukov and
Andrew Spencer (eds.) The Handbook of Case, 59-71. Oxford University Press.
Butt, M., T. Boegel, A. Hautli and S. Sulger 2009. 'Urdu and the Modular
Architecture of ParGram'. Proceedings of the Conference on Language and
Technology 2009 (CLT09), 1-7. Center for Research in Urdu Language Processing
(CRULP), Lahore.
Butt, Miriam and Melanie Seiss. 2009. 'Complex predicates: An overview'.
Language and Linguistics Compass (Blackwell)
URL: http://www.blackwellcompass.com/subject/linguistics
Delmonte, Rodolfo. 2007. Computational Linguistic Text Processing: Logical
Form, Semantic Interpretation, Discourse Relations and Question Answering. Nova
Publishers.
https://www.novapublishers.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=6678&osCsid=
bdf2894aa970f3c4a2f2dc239c92dcb3
Delmonte, Rodolfo. 2008. Computational Linguistic Text Processing: Lexicon,
Grammar, Parsing and Anaphora Resolution. Nova
Publishers.
https://www.novapublishers.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=7409&osCsid=b
df2894aa970f3c4a2f2dc239c92dcb3
Mycock, L. J. 2007. 'The Role of Prosody in Constituent Question Formation: a
comparison of Hungarian and Japanese'. The Phonetician 95:7-18.
http://www.isphs.org/Phonetician/phonetician95i.pdf
5.3 DOWNLOADABLE LFG PAPERS
A list of web-pages where people post downloadable LFG papers:
http://arts.anu.edu.au/linguistics/LFG/
Additional suggestions welcome.
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6. BOILERPLATE
The boilerplate (standard text) which previously appeared at the end of every
bulletin can be accessed at:
http://www.carleton.ca/~asudeh/LFG/more.txt
The LFG website also serves much of the same function as the boilerplate
section.
http://www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/LFG/
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