LFG BULLETIN
July 2014
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CONTENTS
1. LFG 2014 Conference, Ann Arbor, USA
2. Workshop on the Syntax and Information Structure of Unbounded Dependencies
3. ILFGA Conference Subsidy for Students
4. LFG 2015 Conference website
5. Call for bids to host LFG 2016
6. Drafts for comments
7. Recent LFG work
8. Online resources
9. Boilerplate
Conference website: http://lfg-conference.org
PROGRAM
THURSDAY July 17
8:30 - 9:00 registration
9:00 - 9:15 opening
9:15 - 10:00 Agnieszka Patejuk and Adam Przepiórkowski 'In favour of the raising analysis of passivisation'
10:00 - 10:45 Helge Lødrup 'How can a verb agree with a verb? The cases of reanalysis and pseudocoordination in Norwegian'
10:45 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 11:45 Liselotte Snijders 'Non-reflexive binding in Warlpiri'
11:45 - 12:30 Helen Charters 'Anchor: a DF in DP'
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 - 14:45 Alex Alsina and Eugenio M. Vigo 'Copular inversion and non-subject agreement'
14:45 - 15:30 Jean-Philippe Marcotte 'Syntactic categories in the correspondence architecture'
15:30 - 15:45 Coffee break
15:45 - 16:30 Anna Kibort 'Mapping out a construction inventory with LFG's (Lexical) Mapping Theory'
16:30 - 17:15 Ash Asudeh, Gianluca Giorgolo and Ida Toivonen 'Meaning and valency: representation and specification'
FRIDAY July 18
9:00 - 9:45 Alessandro Jaker 'A formalization of selection and blocking in the Northeast Dene Verb'
9:45 - 10:30 Tina Boegel 'Degema and the string interface'
10:30 - 10:45 Coffee break
10:45 - 12:35 Panel "Language Documentation and Linguistic Theory"
Invited panelists: Rachel Nordlinger (The University of Melbourne), George Aaron Broadwell (University of Albany, SUNY)
12:35 - 13:35 Lunch break (lunch provided in the conference room)
13:35 - 15:05 Poster session
Alexandra Fiotaki and Stella Markantonatou 'Modern Greek tense in main and -subordinated clauses: an LFG/XLE treatment'
Tibor Laczko 'An LFG account of negation in Hungarian sentences'
Tibor Laczko 'Focus and verbal modifiers in Hungarian from an LFG perspective'
John Lowe 'Gluing meanings and semantic structures'
Agnieszka Patejuk and Adam Przepiórkowski 'Control into selected conjuncts'
Agnieszka Patejuk and Adam Przepiórkowski 'Structural case assignment to objects in Polish'
Tohru Seraku 'An LFG account of the compound particle TOIUNO in spontaneous Japanese'
Narayan Sharma 'Morphosyntax of Puma'
Peter Szűcs 'Information structure and the English left periphery'
Anne Tamm 'Genericity in grammar and lexicon: Estonian and Turkish preschoolers exploratory play'
15:05 - 15:20 Coffee break
15:20 - 16:05 Paul Kroeger 'An affectedness constraint in Kimaragang restructuring'
16:05 - 16:50 Oleg Belyaev and Dag Haug 'Pronominal coreference in Ossetic correlatives and the syntax-semantics interface'
16:50 - 17:35 ILFGA meeting
SATURDAY July 19
9:00 - 9:45 Richard Zimmermann 'An LFG model of Old English conjoined main clauses'
9:45 - 10:30 Tibor Laczko 'Essentials of an LFG analysis of Hungarian finite sentences'
10:30 - 11:15 Louise Mycock and John Lowe 'S-structure features for information structure analysis'
11:15 - 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 - 12:15 Miriam Butt 'Question and scope marking in Urdu/Hindi'
12:15 - 13:00 Adam Przepiórkowski 'A Glue Semantics approach to distance distributivity'
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch break
14:30 - 15:15 Maris Camilleri, Shaimaa Elsadek and Louisa Sadler 'Perceptual reports in (varieties of) Arabic'
15:15 - 16:00 I Wayan Arka 'Double control and crossed control in Indonesian: an LFG analysis'
16:00 - 16:15 Coffee break
16:15 - 16:30 Agnieszka Patejuk 'Unlike coordination in Polish'
16:30 - 17:15 Doug Arnold and Louisa Sadler 'The Big Mess: an LFG analysis'
17:15 - 17:30 Closing
The LFG 2014 conference will be immediately followed by the workshop 'The Syntax and Information Structure of Unbounded Dependencies' on Sunday, 20th July 2014 at the same venue (University of Michigan).
More information is available at: http://lfg-conference.org/program/workshop/
PROGRAM
SUNDAY July 20
9:30 Introduction: Ron Kaplan, Nuance
10:10 Discussion
10:20 Simplifying the syntactic representation of unbounded dependencies in LFG: Alex Alsina, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
11:00 Response: Dag Haug, University of Oslo
11:20 Discussion
11:30 break
11:50 Psycholinguistics: Philip Hofmeister, University of Essex
12:30 Response: Mary Dalrymple, University of Oxford
12:50 Discussion
1:00 lunch
2:00 A view from Minimalism: Rajesh Bhatt, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
2:40 Response: Ash Asudeh, University of Oxford/Carleton University
3:00 Discussion
3:10 break
3:30 Issues in the Representation of Information Structure: John Lowe and Louise Mycock, University of Oxford
4:10 Response: Tracy Holloway King, eBay
4:30 Discussion
4:40 General discussion
From Aaron Broadwell, Secretary-Treasurer, ILFG:
I am frequently contacted by students to ask about funding from ILFGA for conference travel. We do award a small subsidy, but unfortunately we don't have other funds for this.
My usual reply is a variation on the e-mail below:
ILFGA awards a small subsidy (between $60-100) to students who attend the meeting and present a paper or poster. We know that this is only a small contribution to the cost, but we hope that it may be somewhat helpful. There is no need to apply; if your paper or poster was accepted and you attend the meeting, you are eligible for the subsidy.
I would be happy to have the membership understand the general policy here, so that students know what the possibilities are.
News from local organiser Ryo Otoguro:
The website for the LFG 2015 conference can be found at:
http://www.lfg2015.org/
Conference dates: 18th to 20th July 2015
Conference location: Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
From Aaron Broadwell, Secretary-Treasurer, ILFG:
The International Lexical-Functional Grammar Association is now accepting bids to host LFG 2016. Following our preference for alternate regions of the world, bids from European hosts will get priority. We would also welcome bids from regions not previously represented, such as Africa or South America.
If your institution would like to host LFG 2016, please send me an e-mail < g "dot" broadwell "at" albany "dot" edu > by August 1. If you could write a paragraph or two about possible dates, facilities available, and any other relevant information, that would help the Executive Committee choose a site in case of multiple bids.
If you plan to be at the annual meeting in Ann Arbor in July, and would like to present a bid to host the conference, please let me know and I will add you to the agenda. If you are unable to be present at the July meeting, but would like someone to present a bid on your behalf, please let me know, and we will make arrangements for this.
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7.1 Conference Proceedings
LFG conference papers are available electronically at:
http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/LFG/
LFG website:
http://www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/external/LFG/
International Lexical Functional Grammar Association:
https://sites.google.com/site/ilfgalfg/home
More about LFG:
http://www.carleton.ca/~asudeh/LFG/more.txt
Facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/lfgpage
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.