LFG2002 PROGRAM

[Jonas Kuhn]

                      2002 INTERNATIONAL LEXICAL FUNCTIONAL
                               GRAMMAR CONFERENCE

                              DATES 3-5 July 2002

                 National Technical University of Athens, Greece.
                    URL: http://thais.cs.ece.ntua.gr/LFG2002/


CONFERENCE PROGRAM:
(subject to change)

DAY ONE: Wednesday July 3, 2002

9.00 -10.00 Opening session

10-10.15 BREAK

10.15-11.00 Tracy Holloway King and Mary Dalrymple
        'Agreement inside and outside the noun phrase'
11.00-11.45 Anette Frank
        'A (discourse) functional analysis of asymmetric coordination'
11.45-12.30 Ash Asudeh and Richard Crouch
        'Coordination and parallelism in Glue Semantics: integrating
        discourse cohesion and the element constraint'

12.30-2.00 LUNCH

Recent PhD Session
2.00-2.30 Hyun-Ju Park
        'Object Asymmetry in Korean'
2.30-3.00 Henk Vanhoe,
        'Aspects of the syntax of psychological verbs in Spanish: a
        lexical functional analysis'
3.00-3.30       Ida Toivonen
        'The phrase structure of non-projecting words'

3.30-3.45 BREAK

3.45-4.30       Mark Johnson
        'Dynamic programming for Stochastic Lexical-Functional
        Grammars'
4.30-5.15 Jonas Kuhn
        'Corpus-based learning in Stochastic OT-LFG - Experiments
        with a bidirectional bootstrapping approach'

5.30-7.00 POSTER SESSION

Posters/Alternate Papers (in alphabetical order):
Farrell Ackerman
        'The Morphology of Periphrasis: arguments from Tundra Nenets'
Yehuda Falk
        'Resumptive Pronouns in LFG'
Carmen Kelling
        'Argument Realization: French Psych Verb Nominalizations

Posters
J. Gabriel Amores and J. F. Quesada
        'Delfos2: A Dialogue System inspired in LFG'
Erika Chisarik
        'The syntax of partitive noun phrases in Hungarian:
        An LFG approach'
Frederick Hoyt
        'Topic, Subject and Syntactic Predication in Arabic'
Valia Kordoni
        'Participle-Adjective Formation in Modern Greek'
Tibor Laczko
        'Control and complex event nominals in Hungarian'
John Moore
        'Impersonal Constructions and the Subject Condition'
Rob O'Connor
        'Clitics in LFG -- Prosodic Structure and Phrasal Affixation
Johannes Thomann
        'LFG as a pedagogical grammar'
Nicholas Yates
        'French Causatives: a bi-clausal account'
Heike Zinsmeister, Jonas Kuhn and Stefanie Dipper
        'Utilizing LFG Parses for Treebank Annotation'


DAY TWO: Thursday July 4, 2002

9.00-9.45       Ron Kaplan and Annie Zaenen
        'Partial VP-fronting in German: an LFG solution'
9.45-10.30 Dorothee Beermann and Lars Hellan
        'VP-Chaining in Oriya'

10.30-11.00 BREAK

11.00-11.45 Ash Asudeh
        'The syntax of preverbal particles and adjunction in Irish'
11.45-12.30 T. Florian Jaeger and Veronica Gerassimova
        'Bulgarian word order and the role of the direct object clitic
        in LFG'

12.30-2.00 LUNCH

2.00-2.45 Lionel Clement, Kim Gerdes and Sylvain Kahane
        'A Topological Grammar for German implemented in XLFG'
2.45-3.30 Aoife Cahill, Mairead McCarthy, Josef Van Genabith and Andy
Way
        'Parsing Text with a PCFG Derived from Penn-II'

3.30-3.45 BREAK

3.45-5.15 Par Gram Demo

5.30-6.30 ILFGA business meeting


DAY THREE: Friday July 5, 2002

9.00-9.45  George Aaron Broadwell
        'Constraint symmetry and branching order'
9.45-10.30 Yukiko Morimoto
        'Prominence mismatches and differential object marking in Bantu'

10.30-11.00 BREAK

11.00-11.45 Bjarne Oersnes
        'Subject extraction, case marking and empty categories in
Danish'
11.45-12.30 Helge Lodrup
        'Infinitival complements and the form-function relation'

12.30-2.00 LUNCH

Morphology Session I
2.00-2.45 Rachel Nordlinger and Louisa Sadler
        'Revisiting Morphological Composition'
2.45-3.30 Dan Brassil
        'Maintaining the Strong Lexicalist Hypothesis: A Morphological
         Approach to Periphrasis'

3.30-4.00 BREAK

Morphology Session II
4.00-4.45 Ana Luis, Louisa Sadler and Andrew Spencer
        'Phrasal affixation and the syntax/morphology interface'
4.45-5.30 Miriam Butt and Ron Kaplan
        'The Morphology Syntax interface in LFG'

DAY FOUR: Saturday July 6, 2002
8am  TOUR OF THE ACROPOLIS

END.

ALL OTHER INFORMATION including accommodation and registration
details is available on the conference website:
       http://thais.cs.ece.ntua.gr/LFG2002/


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Jonas Kuhn *** jonask at stanford.edu  *** Tel: +1-650-723-2441
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Stanford CA 94305-2150 USA