LFG BULLETIN
SEPTEMBER 2002
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* LINGUISTICS IN THE NEWS *
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Terrorist Threat Warning
We have received some alarming information from very high sources in
the federal government. ...
According to these sources, terrorists may be planning an attack on
America's linguistic infrastructure. The targets will be critical
strategic phrases without which this nation cannot function, including:
"Like," "You know," "Like you know," "Like you know what I mean?,"
"Like you know what I'm saying?," "Have a nice day" and "Your call is
important to us."
Dave Barry, "You, like, better watch your language, mister", Miami
Herald, 2002.
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* OTHER NEWS *
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New ILFGA Executive Committee:
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ILFGA's 2002 elections are completed. The two new executive committee
members are:
Peter Sells (Stanford)
Andy Way (Dublin)
They join the following members of the Executive Committee:
Adams Bodomo (Hong Kong)
George Aaron Broadwell (SUNY, Albany)
Anette Frank (DFKI, Saarbruecken)
Victoria Rosen (Bergen)
New Program Committee for LFG2003:
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The program committee is now:
Jonas Kuhn (UT, Austin)
Tara Mohanan (Singapore)
New LFG Bibliographer:
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Miriam Butt (UMIST)
Please send her references for your LFG(-related) publications so that
she can keep the bibliography up to date.
Recent LFG Publications:
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Asudeh, Ash and Richard Crouch. 2002. Derivational parallelism and
ellipsis parallelism. In Line Mikkelsen and Christopher Potts (eds.),
Proceedings of the 21st West Coast Conference on Formal
Linguistics. pp. 1-14. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
Butt, Miriam, Helge Dyvik, Tracy Holloway King, Hiroshi Masuichi, and
Christian Rohrer. 2002. The Parallel Grammar Project. In J. Carroll,
N. Oostdijk, and R. Sutcliffe (eds.) Proceedings of the Workshop on
Grammar Engineering and Evaluation (COLING02). pp. 1-7.
Butt, Miriam and Tracy Holloway King. 2002. Urdu and the Parallel
Grammar Project. In N. Calzolari, K.-S. Choi, A. Kawtrakul, A. Lenci,
and T. Takenobu (eds.) Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Asian
Language Resources and International Standardization (COLING02).
pp. 39-45.
Kaplan, Ronald M., Tracy Holloway King, and John T. Maxwell III. 2002.
Adapting existing grammars: The XLE approach. In J. Carroll,
N. Oostdijk, and R. Sutcliffe (eds.) Proceedings of the Workshop on
Grammar Engineering and Evaluation (COLING02). pp. 29-35.
Seiler, Guido. 2002. Praepositionale Dativmarkierung im
Oberdeustchen. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Zurich.
Toivonen, Ida. 2002. The directed motion construction in
Swedish. Journal of Linguistics 38(2):313-345.
Slides and Handouts for a course on Optimality Theory and Typology
held by Joan Bresnan and Judith Aissen can be downloaded from:
http://www.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de/summerschool2002/CDV/CDAissen.htm
The Proceedings of the LFG02 conference in Athens are in the process
of being compiled. They should be out by the end of October.
(Please send us the citation for your recent publications to include
in the next issue; announcements of publicly available theses are
encouraged.)
Upcoming LFG Conferences:
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- LFG 2004: University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
Hosted by Ida Toivonen and Ash Asudeh
Dates are to be determined.
- LFG2003: State University of New York, Albany
Local Organizer: Prof. G. Aaron Broadwell
Email contact: g.broadwell@albany.edu
FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
LFG 2003
2003 INTERNATIONAL
LEXICAL FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR CONFERENCE
DATES 16-18 July 2003
Saratoga Springs, NY
Abstract submission receipt deadline: 15 February 2003
Submissions should be sent to the LFG Program Committee
(see addresses below)
The 8th International Lexical Functional Grammar Conference will be
held by the Department of Anthropology, University at Albany, SUNY in
Saratoga Springs, NY from 16 to 18 July 2003. A pre-conference
gathering and, possibly, a tutorial are planned for 15 July.
LFG 2003 welcomes work both within the formal architecture of
Lexical-Functional Grammar and typological, formal, and computational
work within the 'spirit of LFG', as a lexicalist approach to language
employing a parallel, constraint-based framework. The conference aims
to promote interaction and collaboration among researchers interested
in nonderivational approaches to grammar, where grammar is seen as the
interaction of (perhaps violable) constraints from multiple levels,
including category information, grammatical relations, and semantic
information. Further information about the syntactic theory LFG can
be obtained from:
http://clwww.essex.ac.uk/LFG/ and
http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg/
SUBMISSIONS: TALKS AND POSTERS
The main conference sessions will involve 40-minute talks (30 min. +
10 min. discussion period), and poster/system presentations.
Contributions should focus on results from completed as well as
ongoing research, with an emphasis on novel approaches, methods,
ideas, and perspectives, whether descriptive, theoretical, formal or
computational. Presentations should describe original, unpublished
work.
DISSERTATION SESSION
Like in the previous year, we are hoping to hold a special session
that will give students the chance to present recent PhD dissertations
(or other student research dissertations). The dissertations must be
completed by the time of the conference, and they should be made
publicly accessible (e.g., on the World Wide Web). The talks in this
session should provide an overview of the contents of the
dissertation; the time slots for the presentations will be 30 minutes
in total. The International LFG Association (ILFGA) will pay the
conference fees for the students presenting at the student session.
Students should note that the main sessions are certainly also open to
student submissions.
WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS
We also invite proposals for workshops and/or tutorials. Workshops
are a small group of talks (2-4) on a coherent topic that can be
expected to generate opposing views and discussion with the broader
audience. Participants to workshops are usually invited. Workshop
papers should be distributed in advance among participants and
participants should refer to each other's approaches. Tutorials
provide an introduction for non-experts to a specific field of study.
At this point in time, we welcome suggestions for workshops and
tutorials from potential organisers or people with specific interests.
The suggestions should be sent to the local organizers at:
g.broadwell@albany.edu
TIMETABLE
Deadline for receipt of paper submissions: 15 February 2003
Acceptances sent out: 31 March 2003
Deadline for workshop submissions: 15 January 2003
Workshop acceptances: 15 February 2003
Conference: 16-18 July 2003
SUBMISSION SPECIFICATIONS
Abstracts for talks, posters and the dissertation session must be
received by February 15, 2003. All abstracts should be sent to the
program committee at the addresses given below. For
workshops/tutorials, further site information or offers of
organisational help, contact the local organisers at the addresses
below.
Submissions should be in the form of abstracts only. Abstracts should
be one A4 page in 10pt or larger type and include a title. Omit name
and affiliation, and obvious self reference. A second page may be used
for data, c-/f- and related structures, and references.
Abstracts may be submitted by email or by regular mail. Email
submission is preferred.
The following information should be provided on a separate page or in
the body of the email:
PAPER TITLE: _________________________________________
______________________________________________________
(for each author:)
NAME: _____________________________
AFFILIATION: _____________________________
E-MAIL ADDRESS: _____________________________
IS AUTHOR A STUDENT? (Y/N) ___
(for author of contact:)
MAIL ADDRESS: _____________________________
_____________________________
PHONE NUMBER: _____________________________
FAX NUMBER: _____________________________
SESSION TYPE (should submission be considered (1) as either a talk or
a poster, (2) only as a talk, (3) only as a poster/demonstration, (4)
for the dissertation session): _______________________
(for dissertation session submissions:)
UNIVERSITY: _____________________________
ADVISOR(S): _____________________________
(EXPECTED) DATE OF SUBMISSION: ___________________
(In the absence of session type specification, submissions will be
considered for both the talk and the poster sessions, and the program
co-chairs may decide that certain submissions are better as poster
presentations than as read papers.)
Regular Mail:
Include:
- Eight copies of the abstract/paper.
- A card or cover sheet with author information.
Email:
Include the author information in the body of your email message.
Include or preferably attach your abstract. The preferred file
formats are PDF or plain ASCII. (If you cannot create PDF, HTML and
postscript will be accepted too. Postscript files require special care
to avoid problems: make sure your system is set to include all fonts,
or at least all but the standard 13; if using a recent version of
Word, make sure you click the printer Properties button and then the
Postscript tab, and there choose Optimize for Portability; on all
platforms make sure the system is not asking for a particular paper
size or other device-specific configuration. It is your
responsibility to send us a file that us and our reviewers can print.
You can often test this by trying to look at the file in a screen
previewer such as Ghostview.)
All abstracts will be reviewed by at least three people.
Papers will appear in the proceedings, which will be published online
by CSLI Publications. Selected papers may also appear in a printed
volume published by CSLI Publications.
ORGANISERS AND THEIR CONTACT ADDRESSES
Send abstract submissions and inquiries about submissions to:
Program Committee:
Jonas Kuhn <jonask@mail.utexas.edu>
Tara Mohanan <elltaram@nus.edu.sg>
Mail: LFG 2003
c/o Jonas Kuhn
Department of Linguistics
1 University Station, B5100
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX 78712-1196
USA
Contact the local conference organisers at:
Email: George Aaron Broadwell <g.broadwell@albany.edu>
Mail: George Aaron Broadwell
Department of Anthropology
Arts & Sciences Building, Room 237
University at Albany, SUNY
1400 Washington Ave.
Albany, NY 12222
USA
LOCATION
Saratoga Springs is a resort town in upstate New York, famous for its
mineral waters, spas, and horse racing. It has maintained and
restored a beautiful, pedestrian-oriented downtown full of 19th
century architecture. During the summer Saratoga Springs is also home
to the Philadelphia Orchestra and the New York City Ballet. LFG 2003
sessions will be held at Empire State College, SUNY, located in
downtown Saratoga Springs.
Saratoga Springs is thirty miles north of Albany, NY, which is also
the location of the nearest airport. Saratoga Springs is also
serviced by Amtrak, Greyhound, and Trailways. The Adirondack
Mountains begin about fifteen miles north of Saratoga Springs, at Lake
George.
[Participants coming from the Bay Area should be aware that flights
from Oakland to Albany are often inexpensive, due to competition from
Southwest Airlines.]
For more information on the Saratoga Springs area, see
http://www.saratoga.org
http://www.discoversaratoga.org
For more information on the University at Albany, see
http://www.albany.edu
More information will be available from a forthcoming conference
website.
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* ILFGA *
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DONATE TO ILFGA: There are three ways to make a donation:
0. Donate at the conference!
ILFGA will be accepting donations at LFG03 in Saratoga Springs.
1. Send a check made out to "Intl. Lexical Functional Grammar
Assc." in US dollars to:
Tracy Holloway King
NLTT/ISTL
PARC
3333 Coyote Hill Rd
Palo Alto, CA 94304
USA
This is the simplest (and cheapest) method if you have access to US
dollars.
2. Have money transfered directly into the account.
Please let the ILFGA Treasurer, Tracy Holloway King (thking@parc.com), know if you
want to make a donation in this way.
ILFGA is a 501(3)c organization (i.e. a non-profit) and as such
contributions are tax deductible in the US (and perhaps elsewhere; if
you are not in the US, check your home country for tax status). A
receipt will be issued for each donation.
BE IN THE ILFGA DATABASE:
Please add yourself to the ILFGA linguist database.
To do so, send email to Chris Culy (culy@ai.sri.com) with the
following information:
NAME
AFFILIATION
OFFICIAL ADDRESS
EMAIL ADDRESS
WEB PAGE
RESEARCH INTERESTS
RESEARCH LANGUAGES
The database can be accessed at:
http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg/ilfga/member-database/ilfga-namelist.html
JOIN ILFGA:
If you haven't yet, you can still join ILFGA, the International
Lexical Functional Grammar Association by sending mail to:
majordomo@lists.stanford.edu with the message:
subscribe ilfga-members
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* EDITORS *
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Please send updates, suggestions and news for inclusion in the next
LFG Bulletin (December 2002) to:
mutt@ccl.umist.ac.uk
thking@parc.com
Most importantly, please send information about:
- your recent publications or papers
- publically available grammars
- current grammar development efforts
- recent dissertations
Thank you,
Miriam Butt and Tracy Holloway King
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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.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.