LFG BULLETIN
MARCH 2005
1. LINGUISTICS IN THE WORLD
1.1 Professor Proper Name with a Preposition in the Noun
"So I'm responsible for Amanda Boudreau's death?"
"No, you're not a noun, just an adverb, Perry. Maybe that's reassuring to
you."
James Lee Burke, Jolie Blon's Bounce, Simon & Schuster, 2002, p. 309
(Sent in by Joan Maling)
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1.2 Fun with relational nouns
Marge: That's my husband!
Cultist: He's our husband now!
The Simpsons, "The Joy of Sect", Original airdate: 08-Feb-1998
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2. NEWS
2.1 And the winner is
George Aaron Broadwell is the new Secretary-Treasurer of ILFGA (the
International Lexical Functional Grammar Association). He takes over from
the tireless Tracy Holloway King. Thanks, Tracy and thanks, Aaron!
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2.2 LFG 2005
The 10th LFG conference will be held in Bergen, Norway.
Web: http://ling.uib.no/lfg05/
Email: lfg05@uib.no
Registration:
The organizers ask that participants register by June 1 using the web form
at
http://ling.uib.no/lfg05/index.php?page=registrationform
Note: No prepayment is required
Dates: July 18-20, 2005
Local organizers:
Helge Dyvik, Victoria Rosén, Koenraad de Smedt and Helge Lødrup
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3. RECENT LFG OUTPUT
3.1 LFG04 Proceedings
Available online at:
http://csli-publications.stanford.edu/LFG/9/lfg04.html
Table of contents:*
* Only submitted papers are included here. For full TOC, please see
website.
Douglas Ball
Pseudo-Noun Incorporation and Argument Structure in Niuean
Leonoor van der Beek
Argument Order Alternations in Dutch
Leonoor van der Beek and Gerlof Bouma
The Role of the Lexicon in Optimality Theoretic Syntax
Genady Beryozkin and Nissim Francez
The "lost" Reading of Control Sentences and Plural Semantics in Glue
Michael Burke, Aoife Cahill, Ruth O'Donovan, Josef van Genabith, and Andy
Way
Evaluation of an Automatic F-Structure Algorithm against the Parc 700
Dependency Bank
Miriam Butt and Alexandros Tantos
Verbal Semantics via Petri Nets
Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy **
What Morphology can Tell us about Grammar
** Invited talk
Helen Charters
Functional Uncertainty in the Mandarin Nominal: A Unified Analysis of
Relative Clauses and Locative Structures
Richard Crouch, Tracy Holloway King, John T. Maxwell III, Stefan Riezler,
and Annie Zaenen
Exploiting F-structure Input for Sentence Condensation
Mary Dalrymple, Helge Dyvik, and Tracy Holloway King
Copular Complements: Closed or Open?
Mary Dalrymple, Ronald M. Kaplan, and Tracy Holloway King
Linguistic Generalizations over Descriptions
Cathryn Donohue and Mark Donohue
On the Special Status of Instrumentals
Yehuda Falk
The Hebrew Present-Tense Copula as a Mixed Category
Hitoshi Horiuchi
Lexical Integrity, Head Sharing, and Case Marking in Japanese Temporal
Affix Constructions
Florian Jaeger
Binding in Picture NPs Revisted: Evidence for a Semantic Principle of
Extended Argument-hood
Chiharu Uda Kikuta
An Optimality-Theoretic Alternative to the Apparent Wh-Movement in Old
Japanese
Valia Kordoni
Modern Greek Ditransitives in LMT
Tibor Laczko
Grammatical Functions, LMT, and Control in the Hungarian DP Revisited
Ana Luís and Ryo Otoguro
Proclitic Contexts in European Portuguese and their Effect on Clitic
Placement
Charles O. Marfo and Adams B. Bodomo
Information Processing in Akan Question-word Fronting and Focus
Constructions
Louise Mycock
The Wh-Expletive Construction
Peter Peterson
Non-restrictive Relatives and Other Non-syntagmatic Relations in an LF
framework
Workshop: Coordination and agreement
Peter Peterson
Introduction to the Workshop on Coordination and Agreement
Winter School Invited Talks
Winifred Bauer
Actor-Emphatic Sentences in Maori
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3.2 New and Forthcoming Textbooks
Kroeger, Paul. 2004. Analyzing Syntax: A Lexical-Functional Approach.
Cambridge University Press.
Catalogue entry: http://titles.cambridge.org/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521016541
Kroeger, Paul. To appear. Analyzing Grammar: An Introduction. Cambridge
University Press. Scheduled for May 2005.
Book notice:
http://titles.cambridge.org/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521016533
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3.3 Recent LFG Publications
3.3.1 I Wayan Arka
http://rspas.anu.edu.au/linguistics/bioiwa.html
Arka, I Wayan. 2003. Balinese morphosyntax: A lexical-functional approach.
Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
3.3.2 Adams Bodomo and co.
http://www.hku.hk/linguist/staff/ab.html
Bodomo, A. B., Olivia S.-C. Lam and Natalie S.-S. Yu. 2005. Double
Object and Serial Verb Benefactive Constructions in Cantonese. Acta
Orientalia.
Bodomo, A. B. 2004. Joan Bresnan. Encyclopedia of Linguistics,
2 vols, edited by P. Strazny. New York: Fitzroy Dearborn.
odomo, A. B. 2004. Moore and the Gur languages. Encyclopedia of
Linguistics, 2 vols, edited by P. Strazny. New York: Fitzroy Dearborn.
Bodomo, A. B. 2004. The syntax of nominalized complex verbal predicates
in Dagaare. Studia Linguistica. 58 (1): 1-22.
3.3.3 Miriam Butt and co.
http://ling.uni-konstanz.de/pages/home/butt/
Butt, M., T.H. King, and A. Varghese. 2004. A Computational Treatment of
Differential Case Marking in Malayalam. Proceedings of the International
Conference on Natural Language Processing 2004.
Available at: http://www2.parc.com/istl/members/thking/icon04.doc
3.3.4 Dick Crouch
http://www2.parc.com/istl/members/crouch/
Crouch, R. 2005. Packed Rewriting for Mapping Semantics to KR. Paper
presented at the 6th International Workshop on Computational Semantics,
Tilburg University.
Available at:
http://www2.parc.com/istl/groups/nltt/papers/iwcs05_crouch.pdf
3.3.5 Dublin City University, School of Computing
http://www.dcu.ie/computing/
"Treebank-based induction of probabilistic multi-lingual
LFG Resources"
Michael Burke, Olivia Lam, Aoife Cahill, Rowena Chan, Ruth O'Donovan,
Adams Bodomo, Josef van Genabith and Andy Way. Treebank-Based
Acquisition of a Chinese Lexical-Functional Grammar. Proceedings of the
PACLIC-18 Conference, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, pages 161-172.
Burke, M., A. Cahill, R. O' Donovan, J. van Genabith and A. Way
Treebank-Based Acquisition of Wide-Coverage, Probabilistic LFG
Resources: Project Overview, Results and Evaluation. The First
International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing
(IJCNLP-04), Workshop "Beyond shallow analyses - Formalisms and
statistical modeling for deep analyses"; March 22-24, 2004 Sanya City,
Hainan Island, China.
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3.4 Recent LFG Dissertations
Olivia S.-C. Lam. 2004. Aspects of the Cantonese Verb Phrase: Order and
Rank. MPhil Thesis. University of Hong Kong.
Supervisor: Adams Bodomo.
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3.5. Teaching materials
I've written a simple script for Mac OS X for launching the Xerox
Linguistic Environment (XLE) in Emacs from an icon. This is nice, because
it does not require students to muck around with shell files or the
Terminal application at all. If this would be useful to you, contact me to
get the files <asudeh@csli.stanford.edu>.
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4. ILFGA
4.1 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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4.2 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
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4.3 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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5. LFG BULLETIN
Please send updates, suggestions and news for inclusion in the next
LFG Bulletin (June 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
Thank you,
Ash Asudeh
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6. 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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7. 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.