1. LFG18: The 23rd International Lexical-Functional Grammar Conference

LFG18: The 23rd International Lexical-Functional Grammar Conference
17-19 July 2018
University of Vienna, Austria

Conference website: http://lfg2018.univie.ac.at/

Invited Speakers: Joan Bresnan, Stanford University and Ad Neeleman, University College London

The conference will be flanked by various activities. The organisers are offering a pre-conference excursion on July 16th, tentatively planned as a return cruise on the Danube to Wachau – you can find further information at http://lfg2018.univie.ac.at/special-events/pre-conference/

There will also be a workshop on Information Structure on July 20th. Further information is available at http://lfg2018.univie.ac.at/program/workshop/

2. Proceedings of LFG17

The LFG17 proceedings are available at:

http://web.stanford.edu/group/cslipublications/cslipublications/LFG/LFG-2017/index.shtml.

LIST OF CONTENTS:

Alsina, Alex and Vigo, Eugenio M. (Universitat Pompeu Fabra): 'Agreement: Interactions with Case and Raising'. 3–23
Alsina, Alex (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) and Vigo, Eugenio M. (Universitat Pompeu Fabra): 'Fixing LFG to Account for Direct-Inverse Agreement: The Case of Plains Cree'. 24–44
Asudeh, Ash (University of Oxford/Carleton University) and Toivonen, Ida (Carleton University): 'A Modular Approach to Evidentiality'. 45–65
Belyaev, Oleg (Lomonosov Moscow State University): 'Information Structure Conditions on the Agreement Controller in Dargwa'. 66–82
Belyaev, Oleg, Kozhemyakina, Anastasia and Serdobolskaya, Natalia (Lomonosov Moscow State University): 'In Defense of COMP: Complementation in Moksha Mordvin'. 83–103
Booth, Hannah (University of Manchester), Schätzle, Christin (University of Konstanz), Börjars, Kersti (University of Manchester) and Butt, Miriam (University of Konstanz): 'Dative Subjects and the Rise of Positional Licensing in Icelandic'. 104–124
Butt, Miriam, Bögel, Tina and Jabeen, Farhat (University of Konstanz): 'Polar kya and the Prosody-Syntax-Pragmatics Interface'. 125–145
Camilleri, Maris and Sadler, Louisa (University of Essex): 'Negative Sensitive Indefinites in Maltese'. 146–166
Camilleri, Maris and Sadler, Louisa (University of Essex): 'Posture Verbs and Aspect: A View from Vernacular Arabic'. 167–187
Carretero García, Paloma (University of Essex): 'Agreement in Asturian'. 188–208
Findlay, Jamie Y. (University of Oxford): 'Multiword Expressions and Lexicalism'. 209–229
Gotham, Matthew (University of Oslo): 'Glue Semantics and Locality'. 230–242
Laczkó, Tibor (University of Debrecen, Hungary): 'Modelling (In)definiteness, External Possessors and (Typological) Variation in Hungarian Possessive DPs'. 243–263
Lødrup, Helge (University of Oslo): 'Norwegian Pseudocoordination with the Verb drive 'carry on': Control, Raising, Grammaticalization'. 264–284
Lovestrand, Joseph and Lowe, John J. (University of Oxford): 'Minimal C-structure: Rethinking Projection in Phrase Structure'. 285–305
Patejuk, Agnieszka (Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences): 'A Gapping Analysis of Lexicalised Comparative Constructions'. 306–326
Patejuk, Agnieszka (Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences) and Przepiórkowski, Adam (Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences Institute of Philosophy, University of Warsaw): 'Filling the Gap'. 327–347
Przepiórkowski, Adam (Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences Institute of Philosophy, University of Warsaw): 'Hierarchical Lexicon and the Argument/Adjunct Distinction'. 348–367
Schwarz, Lara (The Pennsylvania State University) and Putnam, Michael T. (The Pennsylvania State University): 'Expanding the Pipeline: A Prolegomenon to Modeling Multilingual Grammars in LFG'. 368–386
Zipf, Jessica (University of Konstanz) and Quaglia, Stefano (University of Konstanz): 'Asymmetries in Italian Matrix Wh-questions: Word Order and Information Structure'. 387–405
Zymla, Mark-Matthias (University of Konstanz) and Sulger, Sebastian (University of Konstanz): 'Cross-Linguistically Viable Treatment of Tense and Aspect in Parallel Grammar Development'. 406–426

3. ILFGA NEWS

From Tibor Laczkó, ILFGA Secretary-Treasurer:

"I am happy to report that our end-of-year fundraising drive (the matching fund challenge) was a big success. We received $417.20 as donations, and this was doubled by our generous donor (who prefers to remain anonymous); thus, the result was $834.40 deposited into our account.

Dear donors, THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

Let me also inform you that there will be two more matching fund challenges this year. More about this at the Business Meeting at LFG18 in Vienna and in later issues of the Bulletin."

4. New semantics textbook by Paul Kroeger (open access)

Paul R. Kroeger. 2018. Analyzing meaning: An introduction to semantics and pragmatics (Textbooks in Language Sciences 5). Berlin: Language Science Press. free download: http://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/144

5. 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.

6. Recent LFG work

6.1 Dissertations

Tibor Laczkó (2017). 'Aspects of Hungarian Syntax from a Lexicalist Perspective'. Dissertation submitted for the degree Doctor of Academy, Hungarian Academy of Sciences. http://real-d.mtak.hu/960/7/dc_1267_16_doktori_mu.pdf

6.2 Conference Proceedings

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

7. 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://users.ox.ac.uk/~cpgl0036/LFG/more.txt

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

8. Boilerplate

The boilerplate (standard text) which previously appeared at the end of every bulletin can be accessed at:
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~cpgl0036/LFG/more.txt

The LFG website also serves much of the same function as the boilerplate section.