LFG 2003 -- Conference Program

[Jonas Kuhn]

                      Lexical Functional Grammar 2003

        THE 8TH INTERNATIONAL LEXICAL FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR CONFERENCE

                               Sponsored by
              The Program in Linguistics and Cognitive Science
             University at Albany, State University of New York

                             July 16-18, 2003
                         Saratoga Springs, New York

   For registration information, please refer to the conference website:
             http://www.albany.edu/anthro/lfg2003/lfg2003.htm


Tuesday, July 15

12:00        Informal pre-conference gathering
             (Picnic lunch, hiking, visits to local museums, and
             other activities)


Wednesday, July 16 (FIRST CONFERENCE DAY)

9:00-10:30   SPECIAL SESSION 1
             "1978-2003: The 25th Anniversary of the First Course on LFG"
             Joan Bresnan

10:30-11:00  Coffee break

11:00-12:20 SESSION 1A

	     Yehuda N. Falk: "The English Auxiliary System Revisited"
	     Rachel Nordlinger & Louisa Sadler: "The Syntax and Semantics
                 of Tensed Nominals"

12:20- 2:00  Lunch break

2:00-3:20    SESSION 1B

	     Maia Andreasson, Kersti Borjars, & Elisabet Engdahl:
                 "Subject positions in Swedish"
	     Elizabeth Coppock: "Sometimes it's hard to be Coherent"

 3:20- 3:40  Coffee break

 3:40- 5:00  SESSION 1C

	     Aoife Cahill, Mairead McCarthy, Josef Van Genabith, & Andy
                 Way: "Lexicalisation of Long-Distance Dependencies in a
                 Treebank-Based, Statistical LFG Grammar"
	     Anette Frank: "Projecting LFG F-Structures from Chunks"

 5:30- 7:00  POSTER/DEMO SESSION
             Miriam Butt, Tracy King & John Maxwell: "Complex Predication
                 via Restriction" (POSTER/DEMO)
             Aoife Cahill, Mairead McCarthy, Josef Van Genabith, & Andy
                 Way: "Extracting Large-Scale Lexical Resources for LFG
                 from the Penn-II Treebank" (DEMO)
             Aoife Cahill, Mairead McCarthy, Josef Van Genabith, & Andy
                 Way: "A Suite of Linguistic Tools for Use with the Penn-II
                 Treebank" (POSTER)
             Anette Frank: "Projecting LFG F-Structures from Chunks"
                 (accompanying DEMO to the talk at 4:20)
             Martin Frost: "Treebank Conversion - Creating a German
                 f-structure bank from the TIGER corpus" (POSTER)
             Ron Kaplan & Tracy King: "Integration of low-level mark-up
                 with large-scale LFG grammatical analysis" (POSTER)


Thursday, July 17 (SECOND CONFERENCE DAY)

9:00-10:30   SPECIAL SESSION 2
             "1978-2003: The 25th Anniversary of the First Course on LFG"
             Ron Kaplan

10:30-11:00  Coffee break

11:00-12:20  SESSION 2A

	     Ryo Otoguro: "Focus clitics and discourse information
                 spreading"
	     Leonoor van der Beek: "The Dutch cleft constructions"

12:20- 1:45  Lunch break

1:45- 5:00   WORKSHOP "THE SYNTAX OF NATIVE AMERICAN LANGUAGES:
                 LEXICALIST PERSPECTIVES"
             George Aaron Broadwell: "Optimality, complex predication, and
 		parallel structures in Zapotec"
             Matthew Beach:  "Asymmetries between passivization and
		antipassivization in Inuktitut"
             Amy Dahlstrom: "Focus constructions in Meskwaki (Fox)"
             Lachlan Duncan: "Tz'utujil (Maya) clause structure"
             Mary Catherine O'Connor: "Pronominal incorporation and
		agreement inside the noun phrase"

 5:30- 7:30  ILFGA business meeting


Friday, July 18 (THIRD CONFERENCE DAY)

 9:00- 11:00 SESSION 3A

	     Sam Mchombo & Yukiko Morimoto: "Local constraints in
                 Chichewa discontinuous constituents"
	     KP & Tara Mohanan: "Universal and language-particular
                 constraints in OT-LFG"
	     Tara & KP Mohanan: "Inputs and Candidates in OT-LFG"

11:00-11:20  Coffee break

11:20-12:40  SESSION 3B

	     Valia Kordoni: "Valence Alternations: at the Syntax-Semantics
                 Interface"
	     Cholthicha Sudmuk: "The thuuk Construction in Thai"

12:40- 2:00  Lunch break

2:00-3:20    SESSION 3C

	     Juergen Wedekind & Bjarne Orsnes: "Restriction and Verbal
                 Complexes in LFG -- A Case Study for Danish"
	     Jonas Kuhn: "Generalized Tree Descriptions for LFG"

 3:20- 3:40  Coffee break

 3:40- 5:00  SESSION 3D

             Lionel Clement & Alexandra Kinyon:
                   "Generating LFGs with a MetaGrammar"
             Andrew Spencer: "A Realization Approach to Case"



ALTERNATE PAPER

  Adams B. Bodomo, Olivia Lam & Natalie Yu: "Expressing the Benefactive in
                  Hong Kong Chinese"

(If the alternate paper is not picked to replace a talk, it will be
presented in the POSTER SESSION on Wednesday July 16.)