LFG BULLETIN
MARCH 2004
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* NEWS *
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NEW BULLETIN MAINTAINER:
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Hi. My name is Ash and I'll be your bulletin maintainer.
I'd like to thank Miriam Butt and Tracy Holloway King for their years of
tireless bulletin maintenance.
The bulletin comes out four times a year: March, July, September, December.
LFG 2004:
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1. Preregistration deadline: May 15, 2004.
Check the conference web site for registration instructions and other
information:
http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg/lfg2004/
2. LFG 2004 acceptances have been sent out by the program committee.
3. The conference program will be published on the web site shortly.
4. General conference information
LFG 2004
July 10-12, 2004
University of Canterbury
Christchurch, New Zealand
http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg/lfg2004/
contacts: Ida Toivonen <ida.toivonen@canterbury.ac.nz>
Ash Asudeh (asudeh@csli.stanford.edu>
ORGANISERS AND THEIR CONTACT ADDRESSES
Send abstract submissions and inquiries about submissions to:
Program Committee:
Email: Jonas Kuhn jonask@mail.utexas.edu
Tara Mohanan elltaram@nus.edu.sg
Mail: LFG 2004
c/o Tara Mohanan
Department of English Language and Literature
FASS Block 5, 7 Arts Link
National University of Singapore
Singapore 117570
Local conference organisers:
Email: Ida Toivonen ida.toivonen@canterbury.ac.nz
Ash Asudeh asudeh@csli.stanford.edu
Fax: +64 3 364 2969
Mail: Ida Toivonen
Department of Linguistics
University of Canterbury
Private Bag 4800
Christchurch 8020
New Zealand
WINTER SCHOOL IN LFG AND COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS:
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1. Preregistration deadline: May 1, 2004.
Check the winter school web site for registration instructions and other
information:
http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg/lfg2004/school/
2. General winter school information:
COURSES
Introduction to Lexical Functional Grammar
Instructors: Kersti Börjars and Nigel Vincent
University of Manchester
Computational linguistics lab class
Instructors: Mary Dalrymple and Ash Asudeh
King's College and University of Canterbury
Issues in Computational Linguistics
Instructor: Richard Crouch and Tracy Holloway King
Palo Alto Research Center
Advanced topic in LFG: Agreement
Instructors: Mary Dalrymple and Louisa Sadler
King's College and University of Essex
SEMINAR SPEAKERS
Joan Bresnan
Stanford University
Annie Zaenen and Tracy Holloway King
Palo Alto Research Center
Others TBA
LOCAL ORGANIZERS
Ida Toivonen <ida.toivonen@canterbury.ac.nz>
Ash Asudeh <asudeh@csli.stanford.edu>
LFG 2005:
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University of Bergen, Norway
dates to be determined
contacts: Helge Dyvik ( helge.dyvik@lili.uib.no )
Victoria Rosén ( victoria.rosen@lili.uib.no )
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* RECENT LFG OUTPUT *
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Recent LFG Publications:
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Adams Bodomo
http://www.hku.hk/linguist/staff/ab.html
Bodomo, A. B. and K. K. Luke (eds). 2003. Lexical-Functional Grammar
Analysis of Chinese. Journal of Chinese Linguistics Monograph 19.
Bodomo, A. B. 2004. The syntax of nominalized complex verbal predicates
in Dagaare. Studia Linguistica. 58 (1): 1-22.
Anette Frank
http://www.dfki.de/~frank/chrono.html
Anette Frank and Katrin Erk (2004): "Towards an LFG Syntax-Semantics
Interface for Frame Semantics Annotation" in: Alexander Gelbukh (eds):
Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing. Lecture Notes
in Computer Science, Vol. 2945, Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, pp. 1--12.
Anette Frank, Louisa Sadler, Josef van Genabith, Andy Way (2003): "From
Treebank Resources to LFG F-Structures. Automatic F-Structure Annotation
of Treebank Trees and CFGs extracted from Treebanks", in: A. Abeille
(ed): Treebanks. Building and using syntactically annotated corpora,
Kluwer Academic Publishers, The Netherlands, pp. 367-389.
Steve Wechsler
http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/%7Ewechsler/papers.html
Stephen Wechsler, to appear. Number as Person. Proceedings of the Fifth
Syntax And Semantics Conference In Paris.
Stephen Wechsler, to appear.Ê Elsewhere in Gender Resolution. In Kristin
Hanson and Sharon Inkelas (eds.) The Nature of the WordÑ Essays in Honor
of Paul Kiparsky. MIT Press.
Recent LFG Dissertations:
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Asudeh, Ash. 2004. Resumption as Resource Management. Ph.D. thesis,
Department of Linguistics, Stanford University.
Supervisors: Mary Dalrymple and Peter Sells.
Available: http://www.stanford.edu/~asudeh/
Clark, Brady Zack. 2004. A Stochastic Optimality Theory Approach to
Syntactic Change. Ph.D. thesis, Department of Linguistics, Stanford
University.
Supervisors: Paul Kiparsky and Elizabeth Traugott.
Available soon: http://www.stanford.edu/~bzack/
Lee, On Man. 2003. The Subject Function in Cantonese. M.Phil.
dissertation, Department of Linguistics, University of Hong Kong.
Supervisor: Adams Bodomo.
Teaching materials:
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The syllabus, slides, and homeworks for Ron Kaplan and Tracy Holloway
King's grammar engineering course are available at:
http://www.stanford.edu/class/linguist239e/
These materials will eventually be moved to Tracy's web site:
http://www2.parc.com/istl/members/thking/
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* ILFGA *
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DONATE TO ILFGA: There are three ways to make a donation:
0. Donate at the conference! ILFGA will be accepting donations at LFG04 in
New Zealand.
1. Send a check made out to "Intl. Lexical Functional Grammar
Assc." in US dollars to:
Tracy Holloway King
NLTT/ISTL
PARC
3333 Coyote Hill Rd
Palo Alto, CA 94304
USA
This is the simplest (and cheapest) method if you have access to US
dollars.
2. Have money transfered directly into the account.
Please let the ILFGA Treasurer, Tracy Holloway King ( thking@parc.com ), know if you
want to make a donation in this way.
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.
BE IN THE ILFGA DATABASE:
Please add yourself to the ILFGA linguist database.
To do so, send email to Chris Culy ( culy@fxpal.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
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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* EDITOR *
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Please send updates, suggestions and news for inclusion in the next
LFG Bulletin (July 2004) to: asudeh@csli.stanford.edu
Most importantly, please send information about:
- recent publications or papers
- recent dissertations
- teaching materials
- publically available grammars
- current grammar development efforts
Thank you,
Ash Asudeh
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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 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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* 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.