LFG BULLETIN
MARCH 1998
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* NEWS *
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Announcements:
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- LFG98 PROGRAM: LFG98 will be held at Emmanuel College,
The University of Queensland, Australia, June 30 - July 2, 1998.
The preliminary program is below. For registration information,
see the conference web page at:
http://www.sultry.arts.usyd.edu.au/LFG98
or contact the organizers at:
lfg98@sultry.arts.usyd.edu.au
- Changing the Guard: Avery Andrews has taken over the
LFG Bibliography from Mary Dalrymple starting January 1998.
- Proceedings of the LFG97 Conference (CSLI on-line Publications)
now have an official ISSN 1098-6782. They are available at:
http://www-csli.stanford.edu/publications/
Choose: Proceedings ON-LINE
(The proceedings of LFG96 are also available here.)
- The web site LINGUISTIC ENTERPRISES is now available at
http://web.gc.cuny.edu/linguistics/enter/
This is a nonprofit site that aims to help academically
trained linguists find private sector employment. It offers
down-to-earth advice, how-to information, and an opportunity
to discuss prospects and problems with others who have found
work or are seeking it.
The site is maintained by the Ph.D. Program in Linguistics
at the Graduate School, City University of New York, in
conjunction with the Linguistic Society of America.
REMINDERS:
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- ILFGA: This is a newly created official organization for those
interested in LFG and related topics: the International Lexical
Functional Grammar Association. ILFGA is recognized by the State
of California as an unincorporated nonprofit organization.
Membership is free of charge. We encourage everyone on this list
to become a member. To become a member contact Tracy Holloway King
(thking@parc.xerox.com).
Executive Committee: Farrell Ackerman
Kersti Borjars
Joan Bresnan
Miriam Butt
Ron Kaplan
Tara Mohanan
Nominating Committee: Mary Dalrymple
Nigel Vincent
Annie Zaenen
Secretary-Treasurer: Tracy Holloway King
LFG List Maintainer: Mary Dalrymple
Bulletin Maintainer: Miriam Butt
Local Conference Committee (Brisbane):
Chris Manning, Jane Simpson, et al.
Program Committee: Miriam Butt and Tracy Holloway King
LFG Webmaster: Doug Arnold
- LFG99 will be held at the University of Manchester, Manchester,
England, July 19-21, 1999. Details will be provided at a later date.
Local contacts/organizers are Nigel Vincent
(nigel.vincent@nessie.mcc.ac.uk) and
Kersti Borjars (kersti.borjars@man.ac.uk).
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* PUBLICITY/INFORMATION *
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Request For Dissertation Announcements
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If you or your students complete an dissertation of interest to the
LFG community, please post an announcement to the LFG list with:
Title
Author
University
Email address or other way to contact the author
Summary or abstract
Register Yourself
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The Linguist List has a data base of linguists and dissertations.
We strongly encourage you to register yourself via:
http://linguistlist.org/persop.html
and your dissertation via:
http://linguistlist.org/dissop.html
(All you have to do to register is to fill out the on-line form.)
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* Upcoming Events/Conferences *
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1) LFG98 at The University of Queensland
2) ESSLI-98 Summer School
3) Further Conference Announcements
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1) LFG98
LFG98: INTERNATIONAL LEXICAL FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR CONFERENCE
30 June - 2 July 1998
The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Further information:
REGISTRATION: http://www.cltr.uq.edu.au:8000/ali98/rego2.html
We strongly encourage advanced registration!
GENERAL: http://www.sultry.arts.usyd.edu.au/LFG98
lfg98@sultry.arts.usyd.edu.au
WORKSHOPS: http://www.sultry.arts.usyed.edu.au/LFG98/workshops.html
CORRESPONDENCES Workshop: Nigel Vincent nigel.vincent@man.ac.uk
Kersti Borjars kersti.borjar@man.ac.uk
AUSTRONESIAN Workshop: Simon Musgrave
s.musgrave@linguistics.unimelb.edu.au
Peter Austin p.austin@linguistics.unimelb.edu.au
CHINESE Workshop: Patrizia Pacioni p.pacioni@asian.unimelb.edu.au
TUESDAY 30 June
8:30-9:00 Coffee
9:00-10:00 Keynote talk
AVERY ANDREWS
10:00-10:30 Break
10:30-11:00 JOAN BRESNAN
Pidgin Genesis in OT
11:00-11:30 RENS BOD and RON KAPLAN
Grammaticality, Robustness, and Specificity in a
Probabilistic Approach to Lexical Functional Analysis
11:30-12:00 JOSEF VAN GENABITH, ANETTE FRANK, and MICHAEL DORNA
Transfer Constructions
12:00-1:30 Lunch
1:30-2:00 KERSTI BO"RJARS
Clitics, affixes and parallel correspondence
2:00-2:30 YEHUDA N. FALK
Case: Interaction Between Syntax and Discourse Grammar
2:30-3:00 RACHEL NORDLINGER
The case of subordinate clauses in Australian
languages: a constructive approach
3:00-3:30 Break
3:30-6:30 CORRESPONDENCES WORKSHOP
Organizers: Kersti Bo"rjars and Nigel Vincent
*If you are interested in participating in this
workshop, please see above website for details
and contact the organizers.*
WEDNESDAY 1 July
8:30-9:00 Coffee
9:00-9:30 MIRIAM BUTT and TRACY HOLLOWAY KING
Interfacing Phonology with LFG
9:30-10:00 FARRELL ACKERMAN
Constructions and Co-headedness: Determining the
Grammatical Function Status of Person/number Marking
10:00-10:30 Break
10:30-11:00 KUMARA HENADEERAGE
Anaphoric Binding in Colloquial Sinhala
11:00-11:30 MARIA LAPATA
Anaphoric Binding in Modern Greek
11:30-12:00 WAYAN ARKA and CHRISTOPHER D. MANNING
On the Three Subjects in Indonesian: Evidence from Binding
12:00-1:30 Lunch
1:30-6:30 AUSTRONESIAN WORKSHOP
Organizers: Simon Musgrave and Peter Austin
PETER AUSTIN and SIMON MUSGRAVE
Introduction: The problem of voice in Austronesian
languages
BILL FOLEY
Symmetrical Voice Systems and Precategoriality in
Philippine Languages
PAUL KROEGER
Response to Foley
BILL FOLEY
Reply to Kroeger
I WAYAN ARKA and JANE SIMPSON
Control of Complex Arguments in Balinese
MIKE DUKES
Evidence for Grammatical Functions in Tongan
THURSDAY 2 July
8:30-9:00 Coffee
9:00-9:30 ANETTE FRANK, TRACY HOLLOWAY KING, JONAS KUHN, and
JOHN MAXWELL
Optimality Theory Style Constraint Ranking in
Large-scale LFG Grammars
9:30-10:00 CAROLINE BRUN
Terminology Finite-State Preprocessing for
Computational LFG
10:00-10:30 Break
10:30-11:00 YUKIKO MORIMOTO
Dative Objects in Japanese -sa Nominalization
11:00-11:30 GEORGE AARON BROADWELL
Directionals as complex predicates in Choctaw
11:30-12:00 YO MATSUMOTO
A Reexamination of the Cross-linguistic
Parameterization of Causative Predicates: Japanese
Perspectives
12:00-1:30 Lunch
1:30-2:00 PETER SELLS
Scandinavian Clause Structure and Object Shift
2:00-2:30 JUDITH BERMAN, STEFANIE DIPPER, CHRISTIAN FORTMANN,
and JONAS KUHN
Argument Clauses and Correlative `es' in German --
Deriving Discourse Properties in a Unification Analysis
2:30-3:00 LOUISA SADLER
On the Analysis of Celtic Noun Phrases
3:00-3:30 Break
3:30-6:30 CHINESE WORKSHOP
Organizers: PATRIZIA PACIONI
ONE-SOON HER
Lexical Mapping in Chinese Inversion Constructions
CHU-REN HUANG
Classifying Event Structure Attributes: A Verbal
Semantic Perspective from Chinese.
HAIHUA PAN
An LFG Account of Chinese Passive Construction.
DISCUSSANTS: *please contact the organizer if you
wish to be a discussant.*
ALTERNATES:
NORBERT BRO"KER
A Projection Architecture for Dependency Grammar and
How it Compares to LFG
LIAN-CHENG CHIEF, CHU-REN HUANG, KEH-JIANN CHEN, MEI-CHIH TSAI,
and LILI CHANG
What Can Near Synonyms Tell Us
REGISTRATION AND ACCOMMODATION
Despite this being the first call for papers, you can already register
for the conference! Registration is joint with ALS and ALI. Simply
send your browser to:
http://www.cltr.uq.edu.au:8000/ali98/rego2.html
and print, fill in, and return the registration form there.
Registration for the LFG conference is (in Australian dollars) $60
regular registration, $40 for students. From overseas, payment by
credit card is usually cheapest and most convenient for you. If you are
not attending other events, simply tick the LFG conference box, enter
any required accommodation, and fill in your personal details and
payment information, and return to the address given.
We recommend staying at Emmanuel College, the student dormitory where
the conference will take place. Single rooms at Emmanuel College (with
shared facilities) cost $37 a night including breakfast and supply of
linens (but no room service). Rooms have telephones, desks, lights, and
supposedly also internet connections! There are, of course, many hotels
in Brisbane, which you can find out about from tourist guides or web
sites such as:
http://www.maxlink.com.au/bcl/accom.htm
All conference registration and university accommodation is to be
arranged through the ALI office at the University of Queensland.
Arranging other accommodation is your responsibility. Please do not
send registration forms or accommodation requests to the LFG conference
organisers. If you cannot get the registration form from the web, you
may contact the LFG conference organisers to get them to send you a
copy. You must pre-register. Supplementary registrations for LFG98
will be available at the door to participants at other associated
linguistic events (ALAA, ALI, and ALS), but you must be pre-registered
for some event.
PRE-CONFERENCE BUSHWALK
We are planning on arranging a pre-conference trip into national parks
within an easy drive of Brisbane. We are envisaging a two day trip,
which will involve moderate day walks, but staying overnight in
accommodation (i.e., decent shoes but no camping equipment required).
To participate, you should plan on arriving by June 27. If you would be
interested in going on such a trip, please let us know at
<lfg98@sultry.arts.usyd.edu.au>.
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2) ESSLI-98 Summer School
This year's ESSLI will be held in Saarbruecken, Germany from August
17-28, 1998 (http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~esslli98/).
Of interest for the LFG-community in particular will be a course held
by Joan Bresnan and Louisa Sadler on `Modelling Dynamic Interactions
between Morphology and Syntax' to be held during the second week
(week2).
Course Abstract:
Morphology appears to interact with syntax dynamically.
Typologically, richer morphology is associated with weaker syntactic
word order restrictions and reduction of hierarchical syntactic
structure (witness the nonconfigurationality of Australian languages).
Under historical language change, syntactic constituents often cross
the syntax-morphology boundary to become morphologically bound, while
preserving their interactions with other syntactic constituents (as in
cliticization). Synchronically, words may preempt or block syntactic
phrases, and conversely.
Most contemporary lexicalist theories of syntax encapsulate word
structure and phrase structure to such an extent that explaining these
dynamic interactions is difficult. However, the architecture of LFG
is distinctive in postulating a strict separation of morphology from
syntax ONLY in the structural domain, while allowing both words and
hierarchical phrases to have functions of the same types (represented
by complex feature structures). This provides a useful formal tool
for investigating dynamic linguistic interactions between morphology
and syntax within a well-defined feature-logic based theory. We will
use this framework to model several types of dynamic morphosyntactic
interactions in a number of languages, developing ideas from
morphological blocking theory, economy principles, and optimality
theory.
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3) Further Conference Announcements
Brief summary of conference calls and announcements posted to this
list:
10th conference on Nordic and General Linguistics: OT workshop on
Nordic languages
6 to 8 June 1998
Reykjavi'k, Iceland
Kersti Bo"rjars: k.borjars@man.ac.uk
WLSS98: II Workshop on Lexical Semantics Systems
6-7 April 1998
Pisa, Italy
wlss98@celi.sns.it
http://celi.sns.it/~wlss98
FHCG-98: Joint Conference on Formal Grammar, Head-Driven Phrase
Structure Grammar, and Categorial Grammar
August 14-16, 1998
Saarbruecken, Germany
http://www.dfki.de/events/hpsg98/
Twendial'98: 13th Twente Workshop on Language Technology is the 2nd
workshop on Formal Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue
May 13-15, 1998
University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands
Joris Hulstijn: joris@cs.utwente.nl
KONVENS 98: Computers, Linguistics, and Phonetics between Language and
Speech
Oct. 5-7, 1998
University of Bonn, Germany
konvens98@uni-bonn.de
http://www.ikp.uni-bonn.de/Konvens98
Submission deadline: April 15, 1998
International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems
FOIS'98
June 6-8, 1998
Trento, Italy
http://mnemosyne.itc.it:1024/fois98/
A Workshop on Minimizing the Effort for Language Resource Acquisition
26 May, 1998
Granada, Spain
Svetlana Sheremetyeva: lana@crl.nmsu.edu
Adapting Lexical and Corpus Resources to Sublanguages and Applications
May 26, 1998
Granada, Spain
Paola Velardi: velardi@dsi.uniroma1.it
http://www.icp.inpg.fr/ELRA/conflre.html
Distributing and Accessing Linguistic Resources
May 27 1998
Granada, Spain
http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/conflre.html
Linguistic Coreference Workshop
26 May 1998
Granada, Spain
Dr. Victor Raskin: vraskin@purdue.edu
The Evaluation of Parsing Systems
26 May 1998
Granada, Spain
john.carroll@cogs.susx.ac.uk
http://www.icp.inpg.fr/ELRA/conflre.html
ECML-98 Workshop: Towards adaptive NLP-driven systems: linguistic
information, learning methods and applications
Roberto Basili: basili@info.utovrm.it
FroCoS'98: Frontiers of Combining Systems
October 2-4, 1998
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
frocos98@wins.uva.nl
http://www.wins.uva.nl/~mdr/FroCoS98
Submission deadline: May 15, 1998
COLING-ACL '98 Workshop: Processing of Dependency-based Grammars
August 15, 1998
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
http://tornade.ere.umontreal.ca/~polguera/Eng/DGworkshop.html
http://coling-acl98.iro.umontreal.ca
COLING-ACL '98 Workshop: First Workshop on Computational Terminology
August 15, 1998
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
db@lli.univ-paris13.fr,Christian.Jacquemin@iut-nantes.univ-nantes.fr,
lhommem@ere.umontreal.ca
http://coling-acl98.iro.umontreal.ca
COLING-ACL '98 Workshop: Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages
August 15, 1998
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Michael Rosner: mros@cs.um.edu.mt
http://www.cs.um.edu.mt/~mros/casl
Submission deadline: April 6, 1998
COLING-ACL '98 Workshop: Discourse Relations and Discourse Markers
August 15, 1998
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Eduard Hovy: hovy@isi.edu
http://www.cs.tu-berlin.de/~marker/aclcolingws.html
Submission deadline: April 7, 1998
TANLPS: Towards adaptive NLP-driven systems: linguistic information,
learning methods and applications
24 April 1998
Chemnitz, Germany
Roberto Basili: basili@info.utovrm.it
TALN 1998: Le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles
10-11-12 juin 1998
Paris, France
taln@biomath.jussieu.fr
http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/taln1998/
* EDITORS *
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Please send any items you wish to include in the next bulletin (June
1998) to:
miriam.butt@uni-konstanz.de
thking@parc.xerox.com
Thank you,
Miriam Butt and Tracy Holloway King
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Frequently Asked Questions: FAQs
Information on the following topics (FAQs) is available on the
LFG WebPage:
http://clwww.essex.ac.uk/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 (see "How to Retrieve LFG Documents" below). If you
have neither ftp nor Web access, but have email, send a mail
requesting a copy of the FAQ to doug#essex.ac.uk.
Please help keep this document and the FAQ up to date!
Send updates and suggestions for improvements to the FAQ to
doug#essex.ac.uk.
Send updates, suggestions and news for inclusion in the LFG Bulletin
to miriam.butt@uni-konstanz.de or thking@parc.xerox.com, or post them
on the LFG list (lfg@list.stanford.edu). Most importantly, please
send information about:
- your recent publications or papers
- publically available grammars
- current grammar development efforts
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* HOW TO RETRIEVE LFG DOCUMENTS *
Some LFG documents are available by FTP or email. There are two ways
to get them.
(1) First, you can get some files by email, via the Majordomo "get"
command. A list of available files can be obtained by sending a
message to
majordomo@list.stanford.edu
containing the following command:
index lfg
The following files are available. There may be additional files
as well. Send the command "index lfg" to see what is currently
available:
FAQ [the list of Frequently Asked Questions]
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]
lfg.bib [the LFG bibliography in BibTeX format]
lfgbib.text [the LFG bibliography in plain text format]
lfgbib.ps [the LFG bibliography in Postscript format]
lfgbib.rtf [the LFG bibliography in RTF format]
To get a file, send a message to majordomo@list.stanford.edu
containing the following command:
get lfg <filename>
For example, if you want to get the latest version of the FAQ, you
would send a message to majordomo@list.stanford.edu with the
following command:
get lfg FAQ
You will receive the file in an email message.
CAUTION: Some of the files that are available by this method are
Postscript files, which can be VERY LARGE. Postscript files end in
the extension .ps (for example, the file "neidle.ps" is a Postscript
file). If your mailer cannot handle EXTREMELY LARGE messages, don't
try to get these files by email. Instead, use the FTP option,
described below.
(2) Second, you can get the documents by anonymous FTP from
parcftp.xerox.com/. All of the documents are in the directory /pub/nl.
Here is a list of some of the files in that directory that are
relevant for LFG researchers:
LFG-FAQ [the latest version of the FAQ]
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]
lfg.bib [the LFG bibliography in BibTeX format]
lfgbib.text [the LFG bibliography in plain text format]
lfgbib.ps [the LFG bibliography in Postscript format]
lfgbib.rtf [the LFG bibliography in RTF format]
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 will probably be other
LFG-related files in that directory as well, which you are welcome
to retrieve.
(3) The LFG bibliography is also accessible via the WWW, 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/
If you have difficulty with any of these methods, contact
dalrymple@parc.xerox.com for assistance.