LFG BULLETIN
JUNE 1999
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* PREFACE *
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The editors would like to apologize for the delay in getting out
this bulletin (people who are paying attention will have noted
that it's not June anymore but July).
We have good excuses.
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* NEWS *
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Announcements:
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- ESSLLI99 will be held in Utrecht this August. Details
are given below.
- The LSA summer school held this year at the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign from June 21 to July 30 includes the following
course:
Morphosyntax in LFG/OT, LING 495 section BN
Joan Bresnan (Stanford University)
Rachel Nordlinger (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
in Nijmegen)
- LFG99 is upon us --- July 19-21, 1999 at the University of
Manchester, Manchester, England.
All the participants who haven't yet done their handouts/slides
are presumably engaged in doing so as this bulletin goes out.
Good luck to you all.
The final program is included below.
Further Information can be found at:
URL: http://lings.ln.man.ac.uk/html/LFG/
Enquiries: LFG99@man.ac.uk
- A BUSINESS MEETING will take place as part of the LFG conference.
One of the issues that will be discussed are future venues of the
conference.
1) Adams Bodomo at Hong Kong has put in a bid for
LFG2001, which is to be held in Asia.
2) Stella Markantonatou at the National Technical University
of Athens has expressed interested in hosting LFG2002 (to
be held in Europe).
If anybody else is interested in putting in a suggestion for
LFG2001 or LFG2002, please direct them to the Executive Committe
or bring them up at the business meeting in Manchester.
- Voting to replace Miriam Butt and Farrell Ackerman on the
executive committee is currently underway, as is approval for
Yehuda Falk to replace Mary Dalrymple as the LFG list maintainer.
All ILFGA members should have received their ballots
electronically.
So far, the voting has been quite close, so your vote does
make a difference. If you haven't voted as yet, you still can
as the ballots are due back August 15, 1999.
- LFG2000 will be held in Berkeley, CA, USA in the third week of
July as part of the "Berkeley Formal Grammar Conference 2000".
This conference will encompass LFG2000 as well as an HPSG
conference and a day of workshops and talks of common interest.
The conference has been scheduled to take place as shown below.
LFG 2000: July 19-20
Common sessions: July 21
7th Int'l HPSG Conference: July 22-23
Authors will be asked to submit to the LFG On-Line Proceedings as
usual. In addition, all presenters at the Formal Grammar
Conference will be invited to submit their work to a volume in
CSLI's "Studies in Constraint-Based Lexicalism" series (editors
yet to be determined).
- Series in Constraint Based Lexicalism, CSLI Publications
Miriam Butt and Tracy King have joined the editorial board of the
Series in Constraint Based Lexicalism produced by CSLI
Publications.
There are two books out in this series already:
1) Lexical and Constructional Aspects of Linguistic
Explanation, edited by Gert Webelhuth, Jean-Pierre Koenig
and Andreas Kathol
2) Slavic in HPSG, edited by Robert Borsley and Adam
Przepiorkowski.
We currently have 4 LFG books in production which are based on
papers arising out of presentations of the last three LFG
conferences. These books will appear as part of the series.
Recent LFG Publications
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Butt, Miriam, Tracy Holloway King, Maria-Eugenia Nino, and Frederique
Segond. 1999. A Grammar Writer's Cookbook. Stanford: CSLI
Publications.
Dalrymple, Mary. (Ed.). 1999. Semantics and Syntax in Lexical
Functional Grammar: The Resource Logic Approach. Cambridge: The MIT
Press. Includes:
Richard Crouch, Mary Dalrymple, John Fry, Vineet Gupta, Mark
Johnson, Andrew Kehler, John Lamping, Dick Oehrle, Fernando
Pereira, Vijay Saraswat, Josef van Genabith.
Mohahan, Tara, and Lionel Wee (Eds.). 1999. Grammatical Semantics:
Evidence of Structure in Meaning. Stanford: CSLI Publications and
National University of Singapore. Includes:
"Introduction." by K. P. Mohanan, Tara Mohanan, and Lionel Wee
"On Representations in Grammatical Semantics." by Tara Mohanan
and K. P. Mohanan
"On the Representation of Event Structure." by Alex Alsina
Comments on Alsina by Vivienne Fong
"Explaining Grammatical Polysemy." by Lionel Wee
"Representing the Semantics of BA in Mandarin." by Geraint Wong
Comments on Wong by Mary Dalrymple
"Representing Presuppositions." by K. P. Mohanan and Tara Mohanan
Comments on K. P. Mohanan and T. Mohanan by Jane Simpson
Sag, Ivan, and Thomas Wasow. 1999. Syntactic Theory: A Formal
Introduction. Stanford: CSLI Publications. (Instructor's Manual
currently being written.)
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* Upcoming Events/Conferences *
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1) LFG99: Manchester, England
2) ESSLLI-99: Eleventh European Summer School in Logic, Language and
Information at Utrecht, The Netherlands
3) ESSLLI-99 Workshop on "Lexical Semantics and Linking in
Constraint-Based Theories"
1)
LEXICAL FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR ANNUAL MEETING
LFG99
19-21 July, 1999
Manchester University
URL: http://lings.ln.man.ac.uk/html/LFG/
Enquiries: LFG99@man.ac.uk
NOTE: Housing and registration information is available at the above
web site.
MONDAY JULY 19
9.00-9.45 Peter AUSTIN
Argument Coding and Clause Linkage in Australian Aboriginal
Languages
9.45-10.30 Farrell ACKERMAN and John MOORE
Telic Object as a Proto-Patient Property of Lexical Predicates
10.30-11.15 Anna SIEWIERSKA
Reduced Pronominals and Argument Prominence
11.15-11.45 BREAK
11.45-12.30 Yukiko MORIMOTO
Information Packaging and Argument Reversal: An Optimality
Theoretic Account of English Locative Inversion
12.30-1.15 Lunella MEREU
On the Grammatical Realization of Discourse Functions in Somali
1.15-2.45 LUNCH
2.45-4.15 WORKSHOP Grammar Writing in LFG
Organizer: Victoria ROSEN
Victoria ROSEN
Introduction
Annie ZAENEN
From theory to practice: a rocky road
Miriam BUTT, Stefanie DIPPER, Anette FRANK,
Tracy KING, and Jonas KUHN
ParGram Project: Introduction
How a Grammar is Written
Theoretical Implications
4.15-4.45 BREAK
4.45-6.15 WORKSHOP Grammar Writing in LFG
Miriam BUTT, Stefanie DIPPER, Anette FRANK,
Tracy KING, and Jonas KUHN
ParGram Project cont.
Helge DYVIK
The universality of f-structure: discovery or
stipulation? The case of modals
TUESDAY JULY 20
9.00-9.45 Tara MOHANAN and KP MOHANAN
Two Forms of BE in Malayalam
9.45-10.30 Devyani SHARMA
Nominal Clitics and Constructive Morphology in Hindi
10.30-11.00 BREAK
11.00-11.45 Jonas KUHN
Towards a Simple Architecture for the Structure-function Mapping
11.45-12.30 Josef VAN GENABITH, Andy WAY and Louisa SADLER
Semi-Automatic Generation of F-Structures from Treebanks
12.30-2.00 LUNCH
2.00-3.30 WORKSHOP Structure and Representation in Native American
Languages Organizer: George Aaron BROADWELL
Jack MARTIN
Optimal possession in Creek
Mary Catherine O'CONNOR
The interaction of syntax and pragmatics in
Northern Pomo: Towards an optimal solution
3.30-4.00 BREAK
4.00-5.30 WORKSHOP Structure and Representation in Native American
Languages
George Aaron BROADWELL
Optimal order and focus alignment in Two
Otomanguean languages
Amy DAHLSTROM
Non-thematic objects in Fox
5.30-6.30 BUSINESS MEETING
WEDNESDAY JULY 21
9.00-9.45 Kersti BORJARS, Erika CHISARIK, and John PAYNE
On the Justification for Functional Categories in LFG
9.45-10.30 Christoph SCHWARZE
Inflectional Classes in Lexical Functional Morphology -- Latin
-sk- and its Evolution
10.30-11.00 BREAK
11.00-11.45 Kenji YOKOTA
Light Verb Constructions in Japanese and Functional Uncertainty
11.45-12.30 Nikolas GISBORNE
English Light Verbs and the (Non)necessity of Argument
Structure
12.30-2.00 LUNCH
2.00-2.45 Judith BERMAN
Does German Satisfy the Subject Condition?
2.45-3.30 Louisa SADLER
Non-Distributive Features and Coordination in Welsh
3.30-4.00 BREAK
4.00-4.45 John FRY
Resource-logical Event Semantics for LFG
4.45-5.30 Anette FRANK
Towards Optimal Linking
5.30-6.00 CLOSING REMARKS
ALTERNATE
Tibor LACZKO
The Anatomy of a Jolly-JokER -- A Comprehensive Analysis of a
Multi-Functional Deverbal Morpheme in Hungarian
2) ESSLII-99, the Eleventh European Summer School in Logic, Language
and Information will be held in August at Utrecht in The Netherlands.
More information and a list of courses and lectures can be found at:
http://esslli.let.uu.nl/
Some courses of LFG-related interest are:
Language and Computation
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Introductory:
- Bod/Kaplan: Data-oriented Parsing Models of Natural Language
- Butt/Frank/Kuhn: Development of Large Scale LFG Grammars
Language
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- de Hoop: Optimality Theory
3)
ESSLLI-99 Workshop on
LEXICAL SEMANTICS AND LINKING IN CONSTRAINT-BASED THEORIES
August 16-20, 1999
ORGANISOR: Valia Kordoni (University of Tuebingen)
TENTATIVE SCHEDULE
Monday, August 16, 1999
17:00-17:45
Anthony R. Davis (Santa Barbara, and Cycorp, Inc., Austin)
Linking and the Hierarchical Lexicon
17:45-18:30
Jean-Pierre Koenig (SUNY at Buffalo):
The architecture of lexical semantics
Tuesday, August 17, 1999
17:00-17:45
Dan Flickinger (CSLI, Stanford):
On using a hierarchy of lexical types for cross-categorial
regularities in subcategorization
17:45-18:30
Mike Calcagno (Ohio-State University and Universitaet Tuebingen):
The role of argument structure in an account of the
interaction between reflexives and causatives in French
Wednesday, August 18, 1999
17:00-17:45
Miriam Butt (Universitaet Konstanz):
The Development of Linking Theory in LFG
17:45-18:30
Mayumi Masuko (Waseda University, Tokyo)
Conditions for Argument Suppression
Thursday, August 19, 1999
17:00-17:45
Jose Castano (Brandeis University):
Spanish Clitics and Event Structure
17:45-18:30
Christof Rumpf and Barbara Stiebels (Duesseldorf):
Representing LDG in a Constraint-based framework
Friday, August 20, 1999
17:00-17:45
Claudia Kunze (Universitaet Tuebingen):
Semantics of Verbs within GermaNet and EuroWordNet
17:45-18:30
Natalia Brines-Moya (University of Essex):
Romance Grammatical Markers
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* INFORMATION *
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Websites
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A searchable archive of the LFG e-mail list is now available at
http://listserv/linguistlist.org/archives/lfg.html
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A starter bibliography on Leximal Mapping Theory (LMT) can now
be found at:
http:://www-lfg/stanford.edu/lfg/bresnan/lmtbib.html
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Also check out Joan Bresnan's "Unofficial Links and Notes" page for a
wealth of information.
http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg/bresnan/unofficial-links.html
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The LFG Website at Stanford continues to grow and welcomes proposals
for subpages and volunteers to create and maintain them. Current
subpages include: LFG Morphosyntax, Optimal Syntax, Glue, and DOP-LFG.
These can be found at:
http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg
If you would like to volunteer to create such pages or have ideas of
other kinds of pages, please contact Tracy Holloway King
(thking@parc.xerox.com) or Miriam Butt (miriam.butt@uni-knostanz.de)
with your suggestions.
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The archive of LFG papers established earlier this year continues to
to be at:
http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg/archive/
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* EDITORS *
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Please send updates, suggestions and news for inclusion in the next
LFG Bulletin (September 1999) to:
miriam.butt@uni-konstanz.de
thking@parc.xerox.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
to miriam.butt@uni-konstanz.de or thking@parc.xerox.com, or post them
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.