LFG BULLETIN
March 2017
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Next issue: July 2017

CONTENTS

1. LFG17: The 22nd International Lexical-Functional Grammar Conference
2. Proceedings of HEADLEX16
3. ILFGA news
4. Call for bids for hosting LFG18
5. Donations to the ILFGA
6. Drafts for comments
7. Recent LFG work
8. Online resources
9. Boilerplate

1. LFG17: The 22nd International Lexical-Functional Grammar Conference

LFG17: The 22nd International Lexical-Functional Grammar Conference
25 July - 27 July 2017
University of Konstanz, Germany

Conference website: http://typo.uni-konstanz.de/lfg2017/

Invited Speakers: Geoffrey K. Pullum, University of Edinburgh and Peter Sells, University of York

The conference will be flanked by various activities. There will be pre-conference activities on July 24th. The organisers are offering a choice between an excursion to the Danube Valley on July 24th or a guided tour of the city of Konstanz, which is celebrating 600 years since the Konzil. You can find further information on the pre-conference activities at http://typo.uni-konstanz.de/lfg2017/excursion/.

There will also be an XLE tutorial on July 28th. Further information is available at http://typo.uni-konstanz.de/lfg2017/xle-tutorial/

The conference dinner is planned for Wednesday, 26th of July.


2. Proceedings of HEADLEX16

From Tracy Holloway King for the HeadLex editors:

"The HeadLex 2016 proceedings are available at:

http://web.stanford.edu/group/cslipublications/cslipublications/HPSG/2016/

They are accessible through both the HPSG and LFG On-line CSLI Publications pages. The proceedings were up in late 2016 and so you can cite them with a 2016 publication date.

As always, we are grateful to CSLI Publications for supporting the on-line proceedings for so many years."

LIST OF CONTENTS

Arad Greshler, Tali, Herzig Sheinfux, Livnat (University of Haifa), Melnik, Nurit (The Open University of Israel) and Wintner, Shuly (University of Haifa): 'Reference patterns in subjunctive complement clauses of Modern Standard Arabic'. 4-22

Arka, I Wayan (Australian National University / Udayana University): 'Externally and internally headed relative clauses in Marori'. 23-42

Arnold, Doug (University of Essex) and Lucas, Christopher (SOAS, University of London): 'One of Those Constructions that Really Needs a Proper Analysis'. 43-63

Beermann, Dorothee and Hellan, Lars (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway): 'Switched control and other 'uncontrolled' cases of obligatory control'. 64-82

Belyaev, Oleg (Lomonosov Moscow State University and Institute of Linguistics RAS): 'Ergative gender agreement in Dargwa "backward control" or feature sharing?' 83-103

Bonami, Olivier (Université Paris Diderot), Borsley, Robert D. (University of Essex) and Tallerman, Maggie (Newcastle University): 'On pseudo-non-finite clauses in Welsh'. 104-124

Börjars, Kersti, Ghadgoud, Khawla and Payne, John (The University of Manchester): 'Aspectual object marking in Libyan Arabic'. 125-139

Butt, Miriam, Sulger, Sebastian (University of Konstanz), Rahman, Mutee U (Isra University) and Ahmed, Tafseer (DHA Suffa University): 'Adverb agreement in Urdu, Sindhi and Punjabi'. 140-160

Ćavar, Damir, Moe, Lwin, Hu, Hai and Steimel, Kenneth (Indiana University): 'Preliminary results from the Free Linguistic Environment project'. 161-181

Chiruzzo, Luis and Wonsever, Dina (Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay): 'Transforming the AnCora corpus to HPSG'. 182-193

Crysmann, Berthold (Laboratoire de linguistique formelle, CNRS and U Paris-Diderot): 'An underspecification approach to Hausa resumption'. 194-214

Duncan, Lachlan: 'On the perfect tense-aspect in K'ichee'an Mayan: An LFG approach'. 215-235

Faghiri, Pegah and Samvelian, Pollet (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3): 'How much structure is needed: The case of the Persian VP'. 236-254

Findlay, Jamie Y. (University of Oxford): 'The prepositional passive in Lexical Functional Grammar'. 255-275

Fiotaki, Alexandra (University of Ioannina) and Tzortzi, Katerina (University of Crete): 'Exhaustive object control constructions in Greek: an LFG/XLE treatment'. 276-296

Goldstein, David M. (University of California, Los Angeles) and Haug, Dag T. T. (University of Oslo): 'Second-position clitics and the syntax-phonology interface: The case of ancient Greek'. 297-317

Jones, Stephen (University of Oxford): 'The syntax-prosody interface in Korean: resolving ambiguity in questions'. 318-338

King, Tracy Holloway (A9 Amazon): 'Theoretical linguistics and grammar engineering as mutually constraining disciplines'. 339-359

Lahm, David (University of Frankfurt): 'Refining the semantics of lexical rules in HPSG'. 360-379

Lødrup, Helge (University of Oslo): 'Verbal present participles in Norwegian: Controlled complements or parts of complex predicates'. 380-400

Lowe, John (University of Oxford): 'Participles, gerunds and syntactic categories'. 401-421

Maekawa, Takafumi (Ryukoku University): 'Seminumerals, determiners and nouns in English'. 422-441

Moeljadi, David (Nanyang Technological University), Bond, Francis (Nanyang Technological University) and Morgado da Costa, Luís (Nanyang Technological University): 'Basic copula clauses in Indonesian'. 442-456

Müller, Stefan (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin): 'Flexible phrasal constructions, constituent structure and (cross-linguistic) generalizations: A discussion of template-based phrasal LFG approaches'. 457-477

Otoguro, Ryo (Waseda University) and Snijders, Liselotte (Waseda University): 'Syntactic, semantic and information structures of floating quantifiers'. 478-498

Pankau, Andreas (Freie Universität Berlin): 'Quirky subjects in Icelandic, Faroese, and German: A Relational Grammar account'. 499-519

Patejuk, Agnieszka (Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences): 'Integrating a rich external valency dictionary with an implemented XLE/LFG grammar'. 520-540

Patejuk, Agnieszka (Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences) and Przepiórkowski, Adam (Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences and Institute of Philosophy, University of Warsaw): 'Reducing grammatical functions in LFG'. 541-559

Przepiórkowski, Adam (Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences and Institute of Philosophy, University of Warsaw): 'How not to distinguish arguments from adjuncts in LFG'. 560-580

Ramhöj, Rickard (University of Gothenburg): 'On the argument structure of raising-to-subject with passive predicates in Swedish'. 581-598

Richter, Frank (Goethe Universität Frankfurt a.M.): 'Categorematic unreducible polyadic quantifiers in Lexical Resource Semantics'. 599-619

Ritchie, Sandy (SOAS): 'Two cases of prominent internal possessor constructions'. 620-640

Sailer, Manfred and Am-David, Assif (Goethe University Frankfurt a. M.): 'Definite meaning and definite marking'. 641-661

Shiraïshi, Aoi (LLF, University Paris Diderot) and Abeillé, Anne (LLF, University Paris Diderot and IUF): 'Peripheral ellipsis and verb mismatch'. 662-680

Yatabe, Shûichi (University of Tokyo): 'Medial left-node raising in Japanese'. 681-701


3. ILFGA news

From Tibor Laczkó:

"I am pleased to announce that Peter Austin has been appointed to the Nominating Committee of ILFGA. He will be replacing One-Soon Her, and we heartily thank One-Soon for her service to the association over the last three years."


4. Call for bids for hosting LFG18

From Tibor Laczkó, ILFGA Secretary-Treasurer:

"The Executive Committee is inviting bids for hosting LFG18. Given the general practice of ILFGA (rotation among three parts of the world: (i) North and South America; (ii) Europe and Africa; (iii) Asia, Australia, and the Pacific), the locations of previous conferences (from 2011), the locations of LFG15, LFG16, LFG17 (see below), now it is bids from the Americas that should enjoy priority. In case there are no bids from that part of the world, Asia, Australia and the Pacific can have a chance. In addition, if a potential host from a different continent has some specific reasons and arguments for organizing LFG18 that can also be taken into consideration.

LFG conferences:
2011: Hong Kong, Asia
2012: Bali, Indonesia/Australia
2013: Debrecen, Europe
2014: Ann Arbor, America
2015: Tokyo, Asia
2016: Warsaw, Europe
2017: Konstanz, Europe (there were no bids from America)

If you think you might be interested in hosting LFG18 (or indeed any future LFG Conference) please get in touch with me (regardless of your geographical location) at < tibor_laczko "at" yahoo "dot" com >."


5. Donations to the ILFGA

From Tibor Laczkó, ILFGA Secretary-Treasurer:

"This is a reminder that ILFGA invites and thankfully accepts donations for the fundamental purpose of supporting student presenters at our conferences. Donations are typically made during the conferences; however, if you are willing to donate at other times, please contact me at < tibor_laczko "at" yahoo "dot" com > and we will discuss the technicalities."


6. 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.


7. Recent LFG work

Send details of your recent work to < Louise.Mycock "at" gmail "dot" com >

7.1 Publications

Butt, Miriam, Farhat Jabeen, and Tina Bögel (2017). 'Verb Cluster Internal Wh-Phrases In Urdu: Prosody, Syntax And Semantics/Pragmatics'. Linguistic Analysis 40:3 & 4.

7.2 Conference Proceedings

LFG conference papers are available electronically at:
http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/LFG/


8. Online resources

LFG website:
http://www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/external/LFG/

International Lexical Functional Grammar Association:
https://sites.google.com/site/ilfgalfg/home

More about LFG:
http://www.carleton.ca/~asudeh/LFG/more.txt

Facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/lfgpage


9. 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.