LFG BULLETIN
JUNE 2002
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* LINGUISTICS IN THE NEWS *
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Q: I am a top business executive writing an important memo, and I wish
to know if the following wording is correct: "As far as sale, your
figures do not jive with our parameters."
A: You have made the common grammatical error of using the fricative
infundibular tense following a third-person corpuscular imprecation.
the correct wording is: "You're fired."
Dave Barry, "Mr. Language Person", Miami Herald, 2001.
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* OTHER NEWS *
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Recent LFG Publications:
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Alsina, Alex. 2001. Is Case Another Name for Grammatical Function?
Evidence from Object Asymmetries. In Objects and other Subjects.
Grammatical Functions, Functional Categories and Configurationality, ed.
William D. Davies and Stanley Dubinsky, 77-102. Dordrecht: Kluwer
Academic Publishers.
Asudeh, Ash. 2002. A resource-sensitive semantics for equi and raising.
In David Beaver, Stefan Kaufmann, Brady Clark, and Luis Casillas (eds.),
The construction of meaning. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications.
Asudeh, Ash and Richard Crouch. 2002. Glue semantics for HPSG. In Frank
van Eynde, Lars Hellan and Dorothee Beermann (eds.), Proceedings of the
HPSG '01 Conference. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications.
Crouch, Richard, Ron Kaplan, Tracy Holloway King, and Stefan
Riezler. 2002. A Comparison of Evaluation Metrics for a
Broad-coverage Stochastic Parser". Workshop Proceedings "Beyond
Parseval - Towards Improved Evaluation Measures for Parsing
Systems. LREC 2002. pp 67-74.
Recent Dissertations:
Ida Toivonen, Stanford University, 2001
The Phrase Structure of Non-Projecting Words
This dissertation concerns the syntactic realization of `small words',
by which I mean words that are not morphologically bound morphemes,
although they are also not fully projecting words. These elements are
problematic for three reasons: first, they are difficult to categorize
structurally; second, they do not form a uniform class; and third,
they do not fit neatly into most theories of phrase structure. The
empirical focus is on Swedish verbal particles, but I also discuss
Danish, German and English particles (or words that are traditionally
called particles), as well as clitics from a variety of languages.
Most example sentences are drawn from published sources, mainly the
Swedish PAROLE corpus, available on the WWW at
http://www.spraakdata.gu.se/lb/parole. Some examples are also
elicited from native speakers. The formal analysis is cast in Lexical
Functional Grammar.
Available electronically at: http://www-cmll.concordia.ca/linguistics/toivonen/
(Please send us the citation for your recent publications to include
in the next issue; announcements of publicly available theses are
encouraged.)
Upcoming LFG Conferences:
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- LFG 2004: Proposals now being accepted. Contact Tracy Holloway
King at thking@parc.com if you are interested in hosting LFG04.
- LFG2003, State University of New York, Albany
local Organizer: Prof. G. Aaron Broadwell
email contact: g.broadwell@albany.edu
Exact dates are yet to be determined.
- LFG2002, Athens, 3-5 July 2002
Now accepting pre-registration.
Program below.
organizers: Dr. Yanis Maistros
Dr. Stella Markantonatou
email: marks@ilsp.gr
web page: http://thais.cs.ece.ntua.gr/LFG2002/
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME (subject to change)
Tuesday July 2, 2002
19.00 - 20.00 Registration
20.00 - 21.30 informal gathering event
Wednesday July 3, 2002
8.00 - all day Registration
9.00 -10.00 opening session
10.00-10.15 BREAK
10.15-12.30 SESSION A
10.15-11.00 Tracy Holloway King and Mary Dalrymple
Agreement inside and outside the noun phrase
11.00-11.45 Anette Frank
A (discourse) functional analysis of asymmetric coordination
11.45-12.30 Ash Asudeh and Richard Crouch
Coordination and parallelism in Glue Semantics:
integrating discourse cohesion and the element constraint
12.30-14.00 LUNCH
14.00-15.30 RECENT PhD SESSION
14.00-14.30 Hyun-Ju Park
Object Asymmetry in Korean
14.30-15.00 Henk Vanhoe
Aspects of the syntax of psychological verbs in Spanish:
a lexical functional analysis
15.00-15.30 Ida Toivonen
The phrase structure of non-projecting words
15.30-15.45 BREAK
15.45-17.15 SESSION B
15.45-16.30 Mark Johnson
Dynamic programming for Stochastic Lexical-Functional Grammars
16.30-17.15 Jonas Kuhn
Corpus-based learning in Stochastic OT-LFG - Experiments
with a bidirectional bootstrapping approach
17.15-17.30 BREAK
17.30-19.00 POSTER SESSION
Posters/Alternate Papers (in alphabetical order)
Farrell Ackerman
The Morphology of Periphrasis: arguments from Tundra Nenets
Carmen Kelling
Argument Realization: French Psych Verb Nominalizations
Posters (in alphabetical order)
J. Gabriel Amores and J. F. Quesada
Delfos2: A Dialogue System inspired in LFG
Erika Chisarik
The syntax of partitive noun phrases in Hungarian: An LFG approach
Frederick Hoyt
Topic, Subject and Syntactic Predication in Arabic
Valia Kordoni
Participle-Adjective Formation in Modern Greek
Tibor Laczko
Control and complex event nominals in Hungarian
Rob O'Connor
Clitics in LFG -- Prosodic Structure and Phrasal Affixation
Johannes Thomann
LFG as a pedagogical grammar
Nicholas Yates
French Causatives: a bi-clausal account
Heike Zinsmeister, Jonas Kuhn and Stefanie Dipper
Utilizing LFG Parses for Treebank Annotation
Thursday July 4, 2002
9.00-10.30 SESSION A
9.00-9.45 Yehuda Falk
Resumptive Pronouns in LFG
9.45-10.30 Dorothee Beermann and Lars Hellan
VP-Chaining in Oriya
10.30-11.00 BREAK
11.00-12.30 SESSION B
11.00-11.45 Ash Asudeh
The syntax of preverbal particles and adjunction in Irish
11.45-12.30 T. Florian Jaeger and Veronica Gerassimova
Bulgarian word order and the role of the direct object
clitic in LFG
12.30-14.00 LUNCH
14.00-15.30 SESSION C
14.00-14.45 Lionel Clement, Kim Gerdes and Sylvain Kahane
A Topological Grammar for German implemented in XLFG
14.45-15.30 Aoife Cahill, Mairead McCarthy, Josef Van Genabith and Andy Way
Parsing with a PCFG and Automatic F-Structure Annotation
15.30-15.45 BREAK
15.45-17.15 ParGram Demo
17.30-18.30 ILFGA business meeting
Friday July 5, 2002
9.00-10.30 SESSION A
9.00-9.45 George Aaron Broadwell
Constraint symmetry and branching order
9.45-10.30 Yukiko Morimoto
Prominence mismatches and differential object marking in Bantu
10.30-11.00 BREAK
11.00-12.30 SESSION B
11.00-11.45 Bjarne Oersnes
Subject extraction, case marking and empty categories in Danish
11.45-12.30 Helge Lodrup
Infinitival complements and the form-function relation
12.30-14.00 LUNCH
14.00-15.30 MORPHOLOGY SESSION I
14.00-14.45 Rachel Nordlinger and Louisa Sadler
'Revisiting Morphological Composition'
14.45-15.30 Dan Brassil
Maintaining the Strong Lexicalist Hypothesis: A
Morphological Approach to Periphrasis
15.30-16.00 BREAK
16.00-17.30 MORPHOLOGY SESSION II
16.00-16.45 Ana Luis, Louisa Sadler and Andrew Spencer
Phrasal affixation and the syntax/morphology interface
16.45-17.30 Miriam Butt and Ron Kaplan
The Morphology Syntax interface in LFG
Saturday July 6, 2002
8am TOUR OF THE ACROPOLIS
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* ILFGA *
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VOTING: There will be a vote to replace two of the executive committee
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* EDITORS *
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Please send updates, suggestions and news for inclusion in the next
LFG Bulletin (September 2002) to:
miriam.butt@uni-konstanz.de
thking@parc.com
Most importantly, please send information about:
- your recent publications or papers
- publically available grammars
- current grammar development efforts
- recent dissertations
Thank you,
Miriam Butt and Tracy Holloway King
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Frequently Asked Questions: FAQs
Information on the following topics is available on the LFG WebPages:
http://clwww.essex.ac.uk/LFG/
http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/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 or email (see "How to Retrieve LFG Documents" below).
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
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on the LFG list (LFG@listserv.linguistlist.org). 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 on the web, by FTP, or by email.
There are three ways to get them.
(1) Most of the documents are accessible via the WWW:
The current version of the list of Frequently Asked Questions about LFG:
http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg/lfg-information.html
Introductions to LFG:
http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg/clwww.essex.ac.uk/LFG/Introductions.html
http://clwww.essex.ac.uk/LFG/Introductions.html
The LFG bibliography:
http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg/bibliography.html
http://clwww.essex.ac.uk/LFG/Bibliography.html
The bibliography is also available 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/
(2) You can get the documents by anonymous FTP from:
ftp ftp-lfg.stanford.edu
All of the documents are in subdirectories of the directory
/pub/lfg. Here is a list of some of the files in that directory that
are relevant for LFG researchers:
in the directory /pub/lfg/bibliography:
The LFG Bibliography in various versions and formats.
in the directory /pub/lfg/lfg-information:
FAQ [the latest version of the list of
Frequently Asked Questions about LFG]
in the directory /pub/lfg/lfg-introductions:
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]
sadler.ps [a paper on recent developments in LFG by
Louisa Sadler]
in the directory /pub/lfg/lfg-presentations:
Slides and handouts from LFG conferences and courses.
in the directory /pub/lfg/papers:
Papers that have been submitted to the LFG Archive.
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 may be other LFG-related files
in that directory as well, which you are welcome to retrieve.
(3) You can get some files by email, via the Listserv "get"
command. A list of currently available files can be obtained by
sending a message to
LISTSERV@listserv.linguistlist.org
(please note: address the message to LISTSERV, not LFG). The
message should contain the following command:
index lfg
The following files are available, and there may be additional files
as well:
LFG-bulletin.txt [the latest version of the LFG Bulletin]
FAQ.txt [the list of Frequently Asked Questions]
lfgbib.text [the LFG bibliography]
To get a file, send a message to LISTSERV@listserv.linguistlist.org
containing the following command:
get <filename>
For example, if you want to get the latest version of the FAQ, you
would send a message to LISTSERV@listserv.linguistlist.org with
the following command:
get FAQ.txt
You will receive the file in an email message.