LFG BULLETIN
                              MARCH 2001


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                     * LINGUISTICS IN THE NEWS  *
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     Q.  Please explain how to diagram a sentence.

     A.  First spread the sentence out on a clean, flat surface, such
         as an ironing board.  Then, using a sharp pencil or X-Acto
         knife, locate the "predicate," which indicates where the
         action has taken place and is usually located directly behind
         the gills. For example, in the sentence: "LaMont never would
         of bit a forest ranger," the action probably took place in a
         forest. Thus your diagram would be shaped like a little tree
         with branches sticking out of it to indicate the locations of
         the various particles of speech, such as your gerunds,
         proverbs, adjutants, etc.

[Dave Barry, lifted from
http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~beatrice/humor/index.html]


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                            * OTHER NEWS *
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Upcoming LFG Conferences:
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 -  LFG2001, Hong Kong, June 25-27, 2001
    Invited Speaker: Sam Mchombo

       organizer: Adams Bodomo
       email: lfg2001@hkusua.hku.hk
       web page: http://www.hku.hk/linguist/research/LFG2001.html

    The program for LFG01 will be out soon!

 -  LFG2002:
        organizer:  Stella Markantonatou (marks@ilsp.gr)
        venue: Athens, Greece

 -  LFG2003: somewhere in the USA
              If you are interested in hosting the LFG conference in
              the US, please contact Tracy Holloway King
              (thking@parc.xerox.com).
              PROPOSALS ARE STILL BEING ACCEPTED!
              Hopefully a decision will be made in Hong Kong during
              the LFG2001 business meeting.


Computational Linguistics Fall School in Konstanz
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 - 1st Fall School of the Computational Linguistics Section of the
   German Linguistics Society (DGfS).

   Place:  Konstanz
   Time:   September 10-21, 2001

   Courses:
                Stefan Mueller (DFKI) and Jonas Kuhn (IMS Stuttgart)
                Grammar Development in constraint-based Formalisms:
                HPSG and LFG

                Henning Reetz (Konstanz)
                From the Speechsignal to the Word

                Tibor Kiss (Bochum)
                Perl for Linguists

                Heike Zinsmeister and Sabine Schulte im Walde (IMS Stuttgart)
                Statistical Methods in Grammar Development


    Invited Speakers:       Mary Dalrymple (Xerox PARC)
                            Louisa Sadler (Essex)

    More information at:
         http://ling.uni-konstanz.de/pages/conferences/dgfs-cl00.html

    The deadline to register is June 1!


Recent LFG Publications:
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(Please send us the citation for your recent publications to include
in the next issue; announcements of publicly available theses are
encouraged.)


RECENT LFG PUBLICATIONS:

DALRYMPLE, Mary and Ronald M. Kaplan. 2000.  Feature Indeterminacy and
feature resolution.  Language 76(4):759-798.

MORIMOTO, Yukiko. "Discourse Configurationality in Bantu Morphosyntax"
(Stanford University, PhD dissertation). Available at:
      http://www-csli.stanford.edu/~morimoto
as a gzipped ps file.


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                             * ILFGA *
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   Elections for two new executive committee members will occur
   this summer.  Join now to be eligible to vote.

   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

   In addition, please add yourself to the ILFGA linguist database.
   To do so, send email to Chris Culy (culy@ai.sri.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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                             * EDITORS *
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Please send updates, suggestions and news for inclusion in the next
LFG Bulletin (June 2001) 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.