LFG BULLETIN
JUNE 2005
* SPECIAL PLEA *
Please update your ILFGA database entries!
See items 2.3 and 5.2 below.
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CONTENTS
1. LFG 2005 (Bergen, Norway)
1.1 General Information
1.2 Program
2. ILFGA News
2.1 ILFGA Program Committee
2.2 ILFGA Executive Committee
2.3 ILFGA Database Maintainer
3. Recent LFG Work
3.1 Recent LFG Dissertation
4. Job News
4.1 University of Sydney Postdoctoral Fellowships
4.2 Carleton University
Boilerplate:
5. ILFGA
6. LFG Bulletin
7. FAQ
8. How to Retrieve LFG Documents
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1. LFG 2005
1.1 General Information
The 10th LFG conference will be held in Bergen, Norway.
Web: http://lfg05.uib.no/
Email: lfg05@uib.no
Dates: July 18-20, 2005
Local organizers:
Helge Dyvik, Victoria Rosén, Koenraad de Smedt and Helge Lødrup
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1.2 Program
Saturday, July 16
Optional pre-conference mountain hike.
Sunday, July 17
Optional pre-conference excursion with organized transportation.
Monday, July 18
8:30 - 9:00 Registration
9:00 - 9:20 Welcome
9:20 - 10:20 Invited talk
Dan Flickinger:
Weighing the Utility of Types in Grammatical Description
10:20 - 10:40 Coffee
10:40 - 12:00 Session 1A (Chair: Kersti Börjars)
Ingo Mittendorf and Louisa Sadler:
Numerals, Nouns and Number in Welsh NPs
Alex Alsina, Tara Mohanan, and KP Mohanan:
How to get rid of the COMP
12:00 - 13:20 Lunch
13:20 - 14:50 Student session (Chair: Peter Sells)
Jan Strunk:
Pro-Drop in Nominal Possessive Constructions
Rob O'Connor:
Information Structure in Lexical-Functional Grammar:
The Discourse-Prosody Correspondence in English and
Serbo-Croatian
Miltiadis Kokkonidis:
Why glue your donkey to an f-structure, when you can
constrain and bind it instead?
14:50 - 15:10 Coffee
15:10 - 16:30 Session 1B (Chair: Jonas Kuhn)
Michael Burke, Josef van Genabith and Andy Way:
Evaluating Automatically Acquired F-Structures against
Propbank
John Judge, Michael Burke, Aoife Cahill, Ruth O' Donovan,
Josef van Genabith and Andy Way:
Strong Domain Variation and Treebank-Induced LFG Resources
16:30 - 18:30 Workshop1
Mary Dalrymple, Stephen Wechsler, Louisa Sadler, Aline
Villavincencio and Irina Nikolaeva:
Agreement and its role in grammar
Tuesday, July 19
9:00 - 10:20 Session 2A (Chair: Andrew Spencer)
Ryo Otoguro:
Agreement Path in Icelandic
Peter Sells:
The Peripherality of the Icelandic Expletive
10:20 - 10:40 Coffee
10:40 - 12:40 Session 2B (Chair: Miriam Butt)
Christian Fortmann:
On Parentheticals (in German)
Stefanie Dipper:
German Quantifiers ? Determiners or Adjectives?
Leonel Figueiredo de Alencar and Carmen Kelling:
Are Reflexive Constructions Transitive or Intransitive?
Evidence from German and Romance
12:40 - 14:10 Lunch
14:10 - 15:30 Session 2C (Chair: Louisa Sadler)
Louise Mycock:
Wh-in-situ in Constituent Questions
Kersti Börjars and Nigel Vincent:
Objects: Position vs function
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee
16:00 - 18:00 Workshop 2
Tracy Holloway King:
LFG Approaches to Clitics: Introduction
Michael Wescoat:
English nonsyllabic auxiliary contractions:
An analysis in LFG with lexical sharing
Ana Luis and Ryo Otoguru:
Morphological and syntactic well-formedness:
The case of European Portuguese proclitics
Rob O'Connor:
Clitics in LFG - Prosodic Structure and Phrasal Affixation
19:00 - 23:00 Banquet at Lyststedet Bellevue
Wednesday, July 20
9:00 - 10:20 Session 3A (Chair: Josef van Genabith)
Martin Forst, Jonas Kuhn and Christian Rohrer:
Corpus-based learning of OT constraint rankings for
large-scale LFG grammars
Helge Dyvik, Victoria Rosén and Paul Meurer:
LFG, Minimal Recursion Semantics and Translation
10:20 - 10:40 Coffee
10:40 - 12:00 Session 3B (Chair: Alex Alsina)
Bruno Estigarribia:
Direct Object Clitic Doubling in OT-LFG: A New Look at
Rioplatense Spanish
Ruth O'Donovan, Aoife Cahill, Josef van Genabith and Andy
Way:
Automatic Acquisition of Spanish LFG Resources from the
CAST3LB Treebank
12:00 - 14:00 Poster session and Lunch
Dorothee Beermann, Jonathan Brindle, Lars Hellan, Solomon
Tedla, Florence Bayiga, Janicke Furberg, Yvonne Otoo and
Mary Esther Kropp Dakubu:
Constraints on Comparatives in a Lexical-Functional
Approach
George Aaron Broadwell:
It ain't necessarily S(V)O: Two kinds of VSO languages
Helge Dyvik, Victoria Rosén, Dorothee Beermann, John
Carroll, Dan Flickinger, Lars Hellan, Janne Bondi
Johannessen, Jan Tore Lønning, Paul Meurer, Torbjørn
Nordgård, Stephan Oepen and Erik Velldal:
LOGON: Towards a Machine Translation System Integrating LFG
and HPSG
Yehuda N. Falk:
Open Argument Functions
Anna Kibort:
The ins and outs of the Participle-Adjective Conversion Rule
Victoria Rosén and Koenraad de Smedt:
Constructing a Parsed Corpus with a Large LFG Grammar
Gerold Schneider:
A Broad-Coverage, Representationally Minimalist LFG-like
Parser: Chunks and F-Structures Are Enough
Karene Wong, Wee Lian Hee, Tara Mohanan, and Chin Seok Koon:
Delimiters in Singapore English
14:00 - 15:20 Session 3C (Chair: Nigel Vincent)
Miriam Butt and Tracy Holloway King:
Restriction for Morphological Valency Alternations: The
Urdu Causative
Andrew Spencer:
Case in Hindi-Urdu
15:20 - 15:40 Coffee
15:40 - 17:00 Session 3D (Chair: Carmen Kelling)
György Rákosi and Tibor Laczkó:
The Categorial Status of Agreement-Marked Infinitives in
Hungarian
Caroline Féry and Sam Mchombo and Yukiko Morimoto:
Partitioning discourse information: a case of Chichewa
split NPs
17:00 - 18:00 ILFGA business meeting
Thursday, July 21
9:00 - 12:00 Tutorial
Josef van Genabith:
Treebank-Based Rapid Induction of Wide-Coverage
Lexical-Functional Grammar Resources
The room for the tutorial is to be announced.
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2. ILFGA NEWS
2.1 ILFGA Program Committee
(Submitted by George Aaron Broadwell)
The ILFGA Program Committee has the responsibility of soliciting the
abstracts for our annual conference, getting these abstracts
reviewed, and organizing the program for the meeting. This is one of
the more demanding jobs within ILFGA, and we would like to extend our
deepest appreciation to Tara Mohanan and Aiofe Cahill for their work
on this and previous conference programs. Tara will be stepping down
this year, after two years of excellent service, and ILFGA is pleased
to announce that the Executive Committee has named Kersti Börjars to
the Program Committee for a two-year term.
Many thanks are due to Tara for her hard work, and to Kersti for
agreeing to take on this important service for the LFG community!
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2.2 ILFGA Executive Committee
(From an email by George Aaron Broadwell to the ILFGA membership)
This year two members of the ILFGA Executive Committee will be coming
to the end of their terms. We'd like to extend our deep thanks to
Andy Way and Peter Sells for their years of service to our association!
ILFGA is now conducting elections to fill these two positions on the
Executive Committee. The nominating committee and members of ILFGA
have come up with the following candidates:
Ash Asudeh
Helge Lødrup
Josef van Genabith
Information on the candidates is available from the ILFGA database at:
http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg/ilfga/member-database/ilfga-
namelist.html
Voting is open to all ILFGA members and the procedure was outlined in
Aaron Broadwell's email. Contact Aaron if you have queries.
All ballots must be received by August 15, 2005.
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2.3 ILFGA Database Maintainer
Tracy Holloway King returns to being the maintainer of the ILFGA
database of linguists working in LFG. Many thanks to Chris Culy, the
outgoing maintainer. To add yourself to the database or update your
entry, send relevant information to Tracy via email: thking@parc.com.
See item 5.2 below for further details.
* IMPORTANT: Please update your entries! *
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3. RECENT LFG WORK
3.1 Recent LFG Dissertation
Anna Kibort. 2004. Passive and passive-like constructions in English and
Polish. PhD thesis. University of Cambridge.
Supervisor: Jim Blevins.
Reviewers: Andrew Spencer, Greville Corbett.
Available through http://www.surrey.ac.uk/LIS/SMG/group_members.htm
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4. JOB NEWS
4.1 University of Sydney Postdoctoral Research Fellowships
(From an email by Jane Simpson to the LFG list)
The University of Sydney will be offering up to ten new Postdoctoral
Fellowships in 2006. The Fellowships are extremely prestigious and
highly competitive internationally in line with equivalent externally
funded fellowships. Successful applicants are expected to be based
full-time at the University for the duration of the Fellowship.
Applicants seeking to join the University from another organisation
in Australia or from overseas are particularly encouraged to apply.
Applicants currently employed at the University of Sydney who
commenced employment on or after 1 July 2004 are eligible to apply.
The application form and related information is available from the
Research Office website at: http://www.usyd.edu.au/su/reschols/
Please contact the Research Office for further assistance on
+61 2 9351 4469 or via email: research@usyd.edu.au.
Please contact staff at the Department of Linguistics if you are
considering an application, as we would be happy to work with you on
an application. Check the website for staff with similar interests:
http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/linguistics/
The closing date: Friday, 16 September 2005.
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4.2 Carleton University
Ida Toivonen and I have accepted tenure-track positions at Carleton
University in Ottawa, Canada. The positions are joint appointments in
cognitive science and linguistics. My position starts in January,
2006 and Ida's starts in July, 2006.
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5. ILFGA
5.1 Donate to ILFGA
There are three ways to make a donation:
1. Donate at the conference! ILFGA will be accepting donations at LFG05.
2. Send a check made out to "Intl. Lexical Functional Grammar
Assc." in US dollars to:
George Aaron Broadwell
Department of Anthropology
Arts & Sciences Building, Room 237
University at Albany, SUNY
1400 Washington Ave., Albany, NY 12222
USA
This is the simplest (and cheapest) method if you have access to US
dollars.
3. Have money transfered directly into the account. For this you
need the account number and the ABA number (this number
identifies the bank).
Contact Aaron Broadwell (g.broadwell at albany.edu)
for the required information.
Note that there is usually a fee for transferring money this way and
so several people from the same institution/country may wish to
combine their donations into a single transfer.
Please let Aaron Broadwell know once you have made the deposit to
get your receipt.
ILFGA is a 501(3)c organization (i.e. a non-profit) and as such
contributions are tax deductible in the US (and perhaps elsewhere; if
you are not in the US, check your home country for tax status). A
receipt will be issued for each donation.
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5.2 BE IN THE ILFGA DATABASE:
Please add yourself to the ILFGA linguist database.
To do so, send email to Tracy Holloway King (thking@parc.com)
with the following information:
NAME
AFFILIATION
OFFICIAL ADDRESS
EMAIL ADDRESS
WEB PAGE
RESEARCH INTERESTS
RESEARCH LANGUAGES
The database can be accessed at:
http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg/ilfga/member-database/ilfga-
namelist.html
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5.3 Join ILFGA:
If you haven't yet, you can still join ILFGA, the International
Lexical Functional Grammar Association by sending mail to
majordomo@lists.stanford.edu
with the message:
subscribe ilfga-members
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6. LFG BULLETIN
Please send updates, suggestions and news for inclusion in the next
LFG Bulletin (September 2005) to: asudeh@csli.stanford.edu
Most importantly, please send information about:
- pithy quotes
- recent publications or papers
- recent dissertations
- teaching materials
- publicly available grammars
- current grammar development efforts
- job news
Thank you,
Ash Asudeh
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7. 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 Arnold:
doug@essex.ac.uk
Send updates, suggestions and news for inclusion in the LFG Bulletin to
Ash Asudeh:
asudeh@csli.stanford.edu
or post them on the LFG list (LFG@listserv.linguistlist.org).
Most importantly, please send Ash information about:
- recent publications or papers
- recent dissertations
- teaching materials
- publically available grammars
- current grammar development efforts
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8. 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.