8 July - 10 July 2019
Australian National University, Canberra
Conference Website: http://www.dynamicsoflanguage.edu.au/lfg-2019/
Monday, 8 July |
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| 08.45 - 09.15 | Registration |
| 09.15 - 09.30 | Introduction |
| 09.30 - 10.30 | Invited talk: Kersti Börjars: "Noun Phrases in LFG" |
| 10.30 - 11.00 | Break |
| 10.30 - 11.00 | Break |
| 11.00 - 11.45 | Rachel Nordlinger, Evan Kidd and Gabriela Garrido Rodríguez: "An experimental study of free word order in Murrinhpatha (Australia)" |
| 11.45 - 12.30 | I Wayan Arka: "Number and comitative-inclusory constructions in Marori" |
| 12:30 - 14.00 | Lunch and late registration |
| 14.00 - 14.45 | Matthew Gotham: "Constraining scope ambiguity in LFG+Glue" |
| 14.45 – 15.30 | Mark-Matthias Zymla: "Aspectual Reasoning in LFG -- A Computational Approach to Grammatical and Lexical Aspect" |
| 15.30 - 16.00 | Break |
| 16.00 – 16.45 | Péter Szűcs: "Integrated and non-integrated left-dislocation in Hungarian" |
| 16.45 – 17.30 | John Lowe and Ali Birahimani: "The argument structure of Siraiki causatives" |
| 17:30 - 18:30 | Book Launch |
Tuesday, 9 July |
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| 09.00 - 09.45 | Mary Dalrymple and Tracy Holloway King: "A beautiful five days in Canberra" |
| 09.45 - 10.30 | Ryo Otoguro: "Locality and non-locality in cross-clausal agreement" |
| 10.30 - 11.00 | Break |
| 11.00 - 11.45 | Joan Bresnan: "On Weak Pronouns in English" |
| 11.45 - 12.30 | Avery Andrews: "A One-level Analysis of Icelandic Quirky Case" |
| 12:30 – 15.00 | Lunch and Poster Session |
| Poster 1 | Alex Alsina and Fengrong Yang: "Constraining expletives in English" |
| Poster 2 | Alexander Biswas: "The passé composé and passé surcomposé tenses in French: An LFG implementation of the collocational approach to inflectional periphrasis" |
| Poster 3 | Miriam Butt and K Sarveswaran: "Computational Challenges with Tamil Complex Predicates" |
| Poster 4 | Tibor Laczko: "In defence of the complex event vs. simple event distinction in Russian, Hungarian and English nominals" |
| Poster 5 | Tibor Laczko: "On the case of argument realization in Russian, Hungarian and English nominals" |
| Poster 6 | John Lowe, Adriana Molina Munoz and Antonia Ruppel: "Causatives and their passives in Sanskrit" |
| Poster 7 | Rigardt Pretorius and Ansu Berg: "An LFG analysis of Setswana auxiliary verb phrases indicating tense" |
| Poster 8 | Eleanor Ridge: "Effects of semantic role on constituent order: the negative clitic and object noun phrase in Vatlongos (Vanuatu, Oceanic)" |
| Poster 9 | Pori Saikia and Maris Camilleri: "Assamese case alignment shifts in progress: Perspectives from adult and child language data" |
| Poster 10 | Amanda Thomas: "Grammatical features in the history of pronouns: an LFG account" |
| Poster 11 | Glenn Windschuttel: "Non-agreeing verbs of two types, agreement auxiliaries and their implications for spoken and signed languages" |
| Poster 12 | Mark-Matthias Zymla and Gloria Sigwarth: "On the Syntax/Semantics Interface in Computational Glue Semantics: A Case Study" |
| 15.00 - 15.45 | Hannah Booth and Christin Schätzle: "Verb-first and verb-second in the history of Icelandic: the gradual development of syntactic structure" |
| 15.45 - 16.30 | Maris Camilleri and Louisa Sadler: "A non-canonical diachronic formation of raising predicates" |
| 16.30 - 17.00 | Break |
| 17.00 - 18.30 | ILFGA Business Meeting |
| 19.00 - 00.00 | Conference Dinner |
Wednesday, 10 July |
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| 09.30 - 10.15 | Ronald Kaplan and Jürgen Wedekind: "Tractability and Discontinuity" |
| 10.15 - 11.00 | Stephen Jones: "A cognitive model of incremental structure-building during language processing using an LFG-based representation" |
| 11.00 - 11.30 | Break |
| 11.30 - 12.15 | Tibor Laczko and György Rákosi: "Pronominal possessors and syntactic functions in the Hungarian possessive noun phrase" |
| 12.15 - 13.00 | Helge Lødrup, Raj Singh and Ida Toivonen: "Distributive possessors in Swedish and Norwegian: binding, agreement, and quantification" |
| 13.00 - 14.00 | Lunch |
| 14.00 - | Workshop |
From Tibor Laczkó, ILFGA Secretary-Treasurer:
"Two quick reminders before LFG19 from the secretary-treasurer of the ILFGA:
From György Rákosi:
Tibor Laczkó turned 60 this March, and the Festschrift (↑TOPIC NUM) = 60 was published to celebrate the occasion. The volume includes contributions by authors from the LFG community, and it is available online as a special issue of the journal Argumentum. I attach the contents below, and you can access the papers at this link: http://argumentum.unideb.hu/angol/contents.html
Börjars, Kersti, Rachel Nordlinger and Louisa Sadler (2019). Lexical-Functional Grammar. An introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/lexicalfunctional-grammar/F20A58D9BFCA15DDD1066BB31B28511A
Dalrymple, Mary, John J. Lowe and Louise Mycock (2019). The Oxford Reference Guide to Lexical Functional Grammar. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-reference-guide-to-lexical-functional-grammar-9780198733300
'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.
Send details of your recent work to < LFG.bulletin "at" gmail "dot" com >
PublicationsDyvik, Helge, Gyri Smørdal Losnegaard and Victoria Rosén (2019). 'Multiword expressions in an LFG grammar for Norwegian'. In: Parmentier, Yannick and Jakub Waszczuk, Representation and parsing of multiword expressions: Current trends. Berlin: Language Science Press, pp. 69–108.
http://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/202
Findlay, Jamie Y. (2019). 'Multiword expressions and the lexicon'. PhD thesis, University of Oxford.
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~sjoh2787/findlay-thesis.pdf
LFG conference papers are available electronically at: http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/LFG/
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