LFG BULLETIN
MARCH 1999
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* EDITORS *
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Please send updates, suggestions and news for inclusion in the next
LFG Bulletin (March 1999) to:
miriam.butt@uni-konstanz.de
thking@parc.xerox.com
Most importantly, please send information about:
- your recent publications or papers
- publically available grammars
- current grammar development efforts
Thank you,
Miriam Butt and Tracy Holloway King
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* NEWS *
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Announcements:
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- LFG99 will be held at the University of Manchester, Manchester,
England, July 19-21, 1999. The program is included below.
There will be two workshops:
1) Structure and Representation in Native American Languages
(Organizer: George Aaron Broadwell, University at Albany, SUNY)
2) Grammar Writing in LFG (Organizer: Victoria Rosen, Bergen)
Further Information can be found at:
URL: http://lings.ln.man.ac.uk/html/LFG/
Enquiries: LFG99@man.ac.uk
- As usual, a business meeting will take place as part of the LFG
conference. One of the issues that will be discussed is the venue
of LFG2001. The continent for that year is Asia, which gives us a
lot of room. Adams Bodomo at Hong Kong has already expressed
an interest and will be putting in a bid (and many thanks go to
him).
If anybody else is interested in putting in a suggestion for
LFG2001, please direct them to the Executive Committe or bring
them up at the business meeting in Manchester.
- Two members of the executive committee will have served their
terms this year: Miriam Butt and Farrell Ackerman.
The Nominating Committee is already at work and you will be
hearing from them soon.
- LFG2000 will be held in Berkeley, CA, USA in the third week of
July as part of the "Berkeley Formal Grammar Conference 2000".
This conference will encompass LFG2000 as well as an HPSG
conference and a day of workshops and talks of common interest.
The conference has been scheduled to take place as shown below.
LFG 2000: July 19-20
Common sessions: July 21
7th Int'l HPSG Conference: July 22-23
Authors will be asked to submit to the LFG On-Line Proceedings as
usual. In addition, all presenters at the Formal Grammar
Conference will be invited to submit their work to a volume in
CSLI's "Studies in Constraint-Based Lexicalism" series (editors
yet to be determined).
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* INFORMATION *
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Websites
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A searchable archive of the LFG e-mail list is now available at
http://listserv/linguistlist.org/archives/lfg.html
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A starter bibliography on Leximal Mapping Theory (LMT) can now
be found at:
http:://www-lfg/stanford.edu/lfg/bresnan/lmtbib.html
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Also check out Joan Bresnan's "Unofficial Links and Notes" page for a
wealth of information.
http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg/bresnan/unofficial-links.html
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The LFG Website at Stanford continues to grow and welcomes proposals
for subpages and volunteers to create and maintain them. Current
subpages include: LFG Morphosyntax, Optimal Syntax, Glue, and DOP-LFG.
These can be found at:
http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg
If you would like to volunteer to create such pages or have ideas of
other kinds of pages, please contact Tracy Holloway King
(thking@parc.xerox.com) or Miriam Butt (miriam.butt@uni-knostanz.de)
with your suggestions.
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The archive of LFG papers established earlier this year continues to
to be at:
http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg/archive/
Recent LFG Publications
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Ackerman, Farrell, and Gert Webelhuth. 1998. A Theory of
Predicates. Stanford: CSLI Publications.
Bod, Rens. 1998. Beyond Grammar: An Experience-Based Theory
of Language. Stanford: CSLI Publications.
Dalrymple, Mary. (Ed.). 1999. Semantics and Syntax in Lexical
Functional Grammar: The Resource Logic Approach. Cambridge: The MIT
Press.
Faltz, Leonard M. 1985. Reflexivization : a study in universal
syntax. New York : Garland Pub., 1985.
Schwarze, Christoph. 1998. A Lexical-Functional Analysis of Romance
Auxiliaries. Theoretical Linguistics 24(1):83-105.
I Wayan Arka. 1999. Morphosyntax to Pragmatics in Balinese: A
Lexical-Functional Approach. Revised version of dissertation which
can be found at:
http://www.sultry.arts.usyd.edu/ling/papers/arka/
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
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* Upcoming Events/Conferences *
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1) LFG99: Manchester, England
2) ESSLLI-99: Eleventh European Summer School in Logic, Language and
Information at Utrecht, The Netherlands
3) ESSLLI-99 Workshop on "Lexical Semantics and Linking in
Constraint-Based Theories"
1)
LEXICAL FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR ANNUAL MEETING
LFG99
19-21 July, 1999
Manchester University
URL: http://lings.ln.man.ac.uk/html/LFG/
Enquiries: LFG99@man.ac.uk
MONDAY JULY 19
9.00-9.45 Peter AUSTIN
Argument Coding and Clause Linkage in Australian Aboriginal
Languages
9.45-10.30 Farrell ACKERMAN and John MOORE
Telic Object as a Proto-Patient Property of Lexical Predicates
10.30-11.15 Anna SIEWIERSKA
Reduced Pronominals and Argument Prominence
11.15-11.45 BREAK
11.45-12.30 Yukiko MORIMOTO
Information Packaging and Argument Reversal: An Optimality
Theoretic Account of English Locative Inversion
12.30-1.15 Lunella MEREU
On the Grammatical Realization of Discourse Functions in Somali
1.15-2.45 LUNCH
2.45-4.15 WORKSHOP Grammar Writing in LFG - part 1
Organizer: Victoria ROSEN
4.15-4.45 BREAK
4.45-6.15 WORKSHOP Grammar Writing in LFG - part 2
TUESDAY JULY 20
9.00-9.45 Tara MOHANAN and KP MOHANAN
Two Forms of BE in Malayalam
9.45-10.30 Devyani SHARMA
Nominal Clitics and Constructive Morphology in Hindi
10.30-11.00 BREAK
11.00-11.45 Jonas KUHN
Towards a Simple Architecture for the Structure-function Mapping
11.45-12.30 Josef VAN GENABITH and Andy WAY
Semi-Automatic Generation of F-Structures from Treebanks
12.30-2.00 LUNCH
2.00-3.30 WORKSHOP Structure and Representation in Native American
Languages - part 1
Organizer: George Aaron Broadwell
3.30-4.00 BREAK
4.00-5.30 WORKSHOP Structure and Representation in Native American
Languages - part 2
5.30-6.30 BUSINESS MEETING
WEDNESDAY JULY 21
9.00-9.45 Kersti BORJARS, Erika CHISARIK, and John PAYNE
On the Justification for Functional Categories in LFG
9.45-10.30 Christoph SCHWARZE
Inflectional Classes in Lexical Functional Morphology -- Latin
-sk- and its Evolution
10.30-11.00 BREAK
11.00-11.45 Kenji YOKOTA
Light Verb Constructions in Japanese and Functional Uncertainty
11.45-12.30 Nikolas GISBORNE
English Light Verbs and the (Non)necessity of Argument
Structure
12.30-2.00 LUNCH
2.00-2.45 Judith BERMAN
Does German Satisfy the Subject Condition?
2.45-3.30 Hanjung LEE
The Domain of Grammatical Case in Lexical-Functional Grammar
3.30-4.00 BREAK
4.00-4.45 John FRY
Resource-logical Event Semantics for LFG
4.45-5.30 Anette FRANK
Towards Optimal Linking
5.30-6.00 CLOSING REMARKS
ALTERNATES
Tibor LACZKO
The Anatomy of a Jolly-JokER -- A Comprehensive Analysis of a
Multi-Functional Deverbal Morpheme in Hungarian
Louisa SADLER
Non-Distributive Features and Coordination in Welsh
2) ESSLII-99, the Eleventh European Summer School in Logic, Language
and Information will be held next year during the month of August at
Utrecht in The Netherlands. More information and a list of courses
and lectures can be found at: http://esslli.let.uu.nl/
Some courses of LFG-related interest are:
Language and Computation
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Introductory:
- Bod/Kaplan: Data-oriented Parsing Models of Natural Language
- Butt/Frank/Kuhn: Development of Large Scale LFG Grammars
Language
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- de Hoop: Optimality Theory
3)
ESSLLI-99 Workshop on
LEXICAL SEMANTICS AND LINKING IN CONSTRAINT-BASED THEORIES
August 16-20, 1999
ORGANISER: Valia Kordoni (University of Tuebingen)
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Miriam Butt (University of Konstanz)
Anthony Davis (Univ. of California, Santa Barbara)
Dan Flickinger (Stanford University)
Jean-Pierre Koenig (SUNY, Buffalo)
BACKGROUND:
In recent years, there has been an increasing interest among
syntacticians in the interface between syntax and word meaning. In
constraint-based theories like LFG and HPSG, this interest has led to
the development of the Lexical Mapping Theory (LMT) and the
Hierarchical Lexicon models, respectively.
Having as a common starting point their recognition for the importance
of word classes for the interface between syntax and lexical
semantics, LMT and the Hierarchical Lexicon models vary both
ontologically, and in the range of linguistic phenomena they attempt
to explain, some of which include, but in no way are they limited to,
the following:
- Split Intransitivity phenomena (unaccusative vs. unergative verbs)
- Variation among verbs of emotion and location
- Subcategorization alternations and the linking of indirect arguments
- Morpholexical Processes, including causative verbs
- Complex predicates
- Symmetric predicates
The aim of the workshop is to provide a forum for researchers and
advanced Ph.D. students to present and discuss approaches on empirical
and formal issues related to the Syntax-Lexical Semantics Interface in
the frameworks of LFG and HPSG. The workshop intends to continue the
series of courses and workshops on lexical semantics and on the
interactions between morphology, syntax and semantics held at previous
summer schools. It is also dedicated to support inter-framework
discussions, since it is focussing on the lexical semantics and
linking components of both LFG and HPSG.
WORKSHOP FORMAT:
The workshop will consist of five sessions with two 30+10-minute presentations in each session.
Questions related to the workshop should be addressed to:
Valia Kordoni
Universitaet Tuebingen
Seminar fuer Sprachwissenschaft
Kleine Wilhelmstr. 113
D-72074 Tuebingen
GERMANY
korder@sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de
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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#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@listserv.linguistlist.org). 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 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.