LFG BULLETIN
SEPTEMBER 2008

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

International Lexical Functional Grammar Association:
http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg/ilfga/

More about LFG (old boilerplate section):
http://www.carleton.ca/~asudeh/LFG/more.txt

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CONTENTS

1. LFG 2009
2. Venue for LFG 2010
3. ILFGA: New Chair and Program Committee member
4. Drafts for comments
5. Downloadable LFG papers
6. Recent LFG work
7. Boilerplate

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1. LFG 2009

The following is from Anna Kibort, local organizer for next year's LFG 
conference.

14th INTERNATIONAL LEXICAL FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR CONFERENCE
13-16 July 2009
Cambridge, UK
Conference website: http://www.lfg09.net

The 14th International Lexical Functional Grammar Conference will be held at 
Trinity College, Cambridge, UK, from July 13th to 16th 2009. Pre-conference 
activities are planned for July 11th and 12th.

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2. VENUE FOR LFG 2010

The venue for LFG 2010 will be Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.

Ash Asudeh and Ida Toivonen will be the local organizers. This is the second 
time Ash and Ida will have organized the LFG conference, having previously been 
our hosts in the Southern Hemisphere at the University of Canterbury, New 
Zealand in 2004.
http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/LFG/9/lfg04.html

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3. ILFGA: NEW CHAIR AND PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBER

Nigel Vincent is the new Chair of the ILFGA's Executive Committee, taking over 
from Helge Lødrup. Louisa Sadler joins the Program Committee, replacing Kersti 
Börjars. Thanks to all!

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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.

PLEASE DO NOT SUBMIT THE DRAFT ITSELF TO THE BULLETIN MAINTAINER

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5. DOWNLOADABLE LFG PAPERS

From Avery Andrews:

I've put up a list of web-pages where people post downloadable LFG papers at:

http://arts.anu.edu.au/linguistics/LFG/

Additional suggestions would be quite welcome!

- Avery ** (reverse: anu.edu.au// !at! Avery.Andrews) **)
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6. RECENT LFG WORK

6.1 Conference Proceedings

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

The 2007 Grammar Engineering Across Frameworks proceedings, which contains 
several LFG papers, are at:
http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/GEAF/2007/geaf07.html

You can find the 2008 proceedings at:
http://www.aclweb.org/anthology-new/W/W08/#1700


6.2 PhD Dissertation

Tatiana Nikitina (2008). The mixing of syntactic properties and language 
change. Doctoral dissertation, Stanford University.
http://www.stanford.edu/~tann/nikitina_diss.pdf


6.3 Publications

D. G. Bobrow, B.Cheslow, C. Condoravdi, L. Karttunen, T.H. King, R. Nairn, V. 
de Paiva, C. Price, and A. Zaenen (2007). 'PARC's Bridge and Question Answering 
System'. Proceedings of the Grammar Engineering Across Frameworks (GEAF07) 
Workshop, pp. 46-66, CSLI Publications.
http://csli-publications.stanford.edu/GEAF/2007/papers/geaf07bobrowetal.pdf

T. Boegel, M. Butt, A. Hautli and S. Sulger (2007) `Developing a Finite-State 
Morphological Analyzer for Urdu and Hindi'.
Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Finite-State Methods and 
Natural Language Processing,
Potsdam, September.

Butt, M. and T.H. King (2007). `Urdu in a Parallel Grammar Development 
Environment'. In T. Takenobu and C.-R. Huang (eds.) Language Resources and 
Evaluation:Special Issue on Asian Language Processing: State of the Art 
Resources and Processing 41:191-207.

D. Crouch and T.H. King (2008) 'Type-checking in Formally Non-typed Systems'. 
Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Software Engineering, Testing, and Quality 
Assurance for Natural Language Processing, pp.3-4.
http://www.aclweb.org/anthology-new/W/W08/W08-0502.pdf

S. Dipper, H. Zinsmeister and M. Butt (eds.) (2007). 'Hybrid Methods'. Topical 
Computational Linguistic Issue of the Zeitschrift fuer Sprachwissenschaft 26(2).

Yehuda N. Falk (2008). 'Functional Relations in the English Auxiliary System'. 
Linguistics 46: 861-889.

J. Fang and T.H. King (2007) 'An LFG Chinese Grammar for Machine Use'. 
Proceedings of the Grammar Engineering Across Frameworks (GEAF07) Workshop, pp. 
144-160, CSLI Publications.
http://csli-publications.stanford.edu/GEAF/2007/papers/geaf07fangking.pdf

Helge Lødrup (2008). 'Raising to Object in Norwegian and the Derived Object 
Constraint'. Studia Linguistica 62, 2: 155-181.

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7. 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/LFG/

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