LFG BULLETIN
SEPTEMBER 1999
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* NEWS *
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Announcements:
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- Results of voting for ILFGA offices
Our new executive committee members are:
Louisa Sadler
Jane Simpson
Our new LFG list maintainer is:
Yehuda Falk
- New program committee to start LFG2000 (Berkeley):
Chris Manning
Rachel Nordlinger
- Outgoing officers are: Farrell Ackerman, Miriam Butt (Exec. Comm.)
Mary Dalrymple (LFG list)
Miriam Butt, Tracy King (Prog. Comm.)
- Amendment: ILFGA is currently voting on an amendment to the
constitution to include official wording that we
are a non-profit organization; voting ends
October 1, 1999.
- If you would like to join ILFGA (the International LFG
Association), please send mail to:
majordomo@lists.stanford.edu
with the message:
subscribe ilfga-members
or contact Tracy King (thking@parc.xerox.com) in her function as
secretary/treasurer.
Recent LFG Publications:
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Andrews, Avery and Chris Manning. 1999. Complex Predicates and
Information Spreading in LFG. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications.
Choi, Hye-Won. Optimizing Structure in Context. Stanford, CA: CSLI
Publications.
Wilson, Stephen. 1999. Coverbs and Complex Predicates in
Wagiman. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications.
LFG Conference Updates:
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- LFG2000 will be held in Berkeley, CA, USA in the third week of
July as part of the "Berkeley Formal Grammar Conference 2000".
The local organizer is Andreas Kathol.
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).
- Thanks go to Adams Bodomo, who will be the local organizer for
LFG2001, to be held in Hong Kong.
- Stella Markantonatou at the National Technical University
of Athens has expressed interest in hosting LFG2002 (to
be held in Europe), but no decision has been taken as yet.
If your institution is interested in hosting LFG2002, please send
email to Tracy King (thking@parc.xerox.com) who will forward
your request to the executive committee. A final decision on
the location of LFG2002 will be made at LFG2000.
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* Upcoming Events/Conferences *
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Time to start thinking about your abstract for LFG2000!
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* Past Events/Conferences *
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This year has seen the following events/conferences go by already:
- LSA Summer school (Linguistic Society of America, Urbana-Champaign)
- ESSLLI Summer School (European Summer School for Logic, Language
and Information, Utrecht)
- AILA 99 (World Congress of Applied Linguistics, Tokyo)
- LFG 99 (Manchester)
At each of these, foundational/overview courses and talks were
held by a number of different people.
Check out Joan Bresnan's "Unofficial Links and Notes" page for more
information and a nice summary of the highlights of these events.
http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg/bresnan/unofficial-links.html
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* INFORMATION *
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Websites
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Andy Way has put up a website which contains own work and pointers to
other resources and papers on Deriving Linguistic Resources from
Treebanks.
http://www.compapp.dcu.ie/~away/Treebank/treebank.html
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A searchable archive of the LFG e-mail list is available at
http://listserv/linguistlist.org/archives/lfg.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/
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* EDITORS *
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Please send updates, suggestions and news for inclusion in the next
LFG Bulletin (December 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
- 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.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.