LFG BULLETIN
March 2012
** Please send bulletin items to me by email ** ** < Louise.Mycock "at" gmail "dot" com >**
Next issue: June 2012
LFG website:
http://www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/external/LFG/
International Lexical Functional Grammar Association: http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg/ilfga/
More about LFG:
http://www.carleton.ca/~asudeh/LFG/more.txt
CONTENTS
This year's conference will take place 28 June-1 July 2012 at Udayana University, Bali, Indonesia.
More information can be found on the conference website: http://chl.anu.edu.au/linguistics/projects/ical-lfg/
2. GREEK XLE GRAMMARS
Alex Tantos/University of Thessaloniki/Greece and Stella Markantonatou/Institute for Language and Speech Processing/Athens/Greece have initiated a group of undergraduate and graduate students who will develop Greek XLE grammars. The first results are expected by the end of June.
3. DEBRECEN WORKSHOP ON ARGUMENT STRUCTURE
The Debrecen Workshop on Argument Structure will be held 25th-27th May 2012 at the University of Debrecen.
The preliminary program and abstracts can be viewed on the workshop
website
(http://was.unideb.hu).
May 25, Friday
9:00 - 10:00 registration
10:00 - 10:15 opening remarks
10:15 - 11:15 invited talk by Louisa Sadler (University of Essex): TBA
11:15 - 12:00 Júlia Bácskai-Atkári (Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences): Arguments of adjectives in degree expressions
12:00 - 13:30 lunch break
13:30 - 14:15 Niina Ning Zhang (National Chung-Cheng University): Times, arguments, and the projection of VP shells
14:15 - 15:00 Artemis Alexiadou, Gianina Iordachioaia, Fabienne Martin, Florian Schäfer (University of Stuttgart), and Mariangeles Cano (University of Madrid): External arguments in derived nominals
15:00 - 15:45 Mikhail Knyazev (Utrecht Institute of Linguistics): Sentential arguments are DPs: evidence from nominalization
15:45 - 16:15 coffee break
16:15 - 17:00 Nora Boneh (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and Léa Nash (Université Paris 8 / CNRS UMR 7023): Paths to datives
17:00 - 17:45 Héctor Fernández-Alcalde (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid / CCHS-CSIC): Dative case, prepositions, and argument structure in Spanish
May 26, Saturday
9:30 - 10:30 invited talk by Balázs Surányi (Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Pázmány Péter Catholic University): TBA
10:30 - 11:15 Inna Tolskaya (CASTL, UiT): Verbal prefixes in Russian: conceptual structure versus syntax
11:15 - 12:00 Víctor Acedo-Matellán and Cristina Real-Puigdollers (Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona): Aspectual and quantificational properties of locative verbs
12:00 - 13:00 lunch break
13:00 - 13:45 Christopher Piñón (Université de Lille 3 / STL UMR 8163): The reflexive impersonal construction in Polish
13:45 - 14:30 Alexis Dimitriadis and Martin Everaert (Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS): Characterizing reflexivization: semantic and syntactic perspectives
14:30 - 14:45 coffee break
14:45 - 15:30 Attila Cserép (University of Debrecen): Idiom passivization from a cognitive linguistic viewpoint
15:30 - 16:15 Tetsuya Kogusuri (Daito Bunka University): The passive of the gesture expression construction: event structure and discourse function
16:30 departure for wine tasting and dinner in Tokaj/Bodrogkisfalud
May 27, Sunday
9:30 - 10:30 invited talk by Katalin &EACUTE;. Kiss (Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Pázmány Péter Catholic University): Ways of licensing external possessors
10:30 - 11:15 Eduardo Soares (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul): Nonaffected incremental themes: the case of verbs of creation
11:15 - 12:00 Razieh Shojaei, Gholamhossein Karimi-Doostan, and Ali Safari (Tehran University): A-structure alternation in Persian LVCs
12:00 - 13:30 lunch break
13:30 - 14:30 invited talk by John Beavers (The University of Texas at Austin): TBA
14:30 - 15:15 Joseph Potashnik (Tel Aviv University): Constraining the unaccusative alternation
15:15 - 15:30 coffee break
15:30 - 16:15 Orsolya Tánczos (Pázmány Péter Catholic University): Causative constructions in the Udmurt language
16:15 - 17:00 Balkiz Ozturk and Eser Erguvanli Taylan (Bogazici University): Transitivity in Pazar Laz
Please note that WAS will coincide with a number of conferences and sports events in Debrecen. We strongly encourage participants to make travel and accommodation arrangements as soon as possible.
4. DRAFTS FOR COMMENTS
'Drafts for comments' offers bulletin readers the opportunity to submit information about drafts or projects on which they would like to receive comments from the community. This brings work in progress to the attention of the community and plays some of the role that previous incarnations of the archive played.
Please submit basic article/project information and a) a URL if the item is available online or else b) your contact email.
5. RECENT LFG WORK
Send details of your recent work to < Louise.Mycock "at" gmail "dot" com >
5.1 PUBLICATIONS
Ash Asudeh. 2012. The Logic of Pronominal Resumption. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [Preview available from Google Books]
Corien Bary and Dag Trygve Truslew Haug (2011), 'Temporal anaphora across and inside sentences: The function of participles', Semantics and Pragmatics 4.8, http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/sp.4.8
5.2 CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
Gianluca Giorgolo and Ash Asudeh. 2012. <M,n,*> Monads for conversational implicatures. To appear in Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 16. Available at: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~cpgl0036/research/
Francois Lareau, Mark Dras, Benjamin Borschinger and Robert Dale. 2011. Collocations in Multilingual Natural Language Generation: Lexical Functions meet Lexical Functional Grammar. In Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Association Workshop 2011, Canberra: 95-104. http://www.alta.asn.au/events/alta2011/proceedings/pdf/U11-1013.pdf
LFG conference papers are available electronically at: http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/LFG/
5.3 DOWNLOADABLE LFG PAPERS
A list of web-pages where people post downloadable LFG papers: http://arts.anu.edu.au/linguistics/LFG/
Additional suggestions welcome.
6. BOILERPLATE
The boilerplate (standard text) which previously appeared at the end of every bulletin can be accessed at:
http://www.carleton.ca/~asudeh/LFG/more.txt
The LFG website also serves much of the same function as the boilerplate section.
http://www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/external/LFG/