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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Hello Frank,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>There is no dative alternation in German or French, so there is no analogous contrast between “to give someone a kiss” and “*to give a kiss to someone” in those languages. The structure of the German translation resembles the former (with the difference that the NPs are case-marked); the structure of the French translation resembles the latter (but is perfectly grammatical).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Martin<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> The HPSG-L mailing list [mailto:HPSG-L@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG] <b>On Behalf Of </b>frank<br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, December 29, 2013 1:49 PM<br><b>To:</b> HPSG-L@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: Fwd: 19th International Lexical Functional Grammar Conference (LFG14)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Hello, everybody!<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> I am studying "light verb". In English, it is right to say<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>"give someone a kiss/kick"<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>It is wrong to say "give a kiss/kick to soemone"<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>How about German and French?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Are there any similar cases in the two languages?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Thank you!<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Frank Chang (China)<br><br><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><pre><span style='color:black'><br>At 2013-12-23 21:49:11,"Arnold, Doug" <<a href="mailto:doug@ESSEX.AC.UK">doug@ESSEX.AC.UK</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>>From: Ida Toivonen <<a href="mailto:Ida.Toivonen@carleton.ca">Ida.Toivonen@carleton.ca</a>><o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>>Subject: 19th International Lexical Functional Grammar Conference (LFG14)<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>>Date: 23 December 2013 10:29:19 GMT<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>> Second Call for Papers<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>>The 19th International Lexical Functional Grammar Conference (LFG14)<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>> 17 July - 19 July 2014<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>> Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>>Conference website: <a href="http://lfg-conference.org/">http://lfg-conference.org/</a><o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>>Conference e-mail (NOT for abstract submission):<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>> lfg2014 'at' linguistlist.org<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>>Abstract submission receipt deadline: 15 February 2014, 11:59 pm GMT<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>>Abstracts should be submitted online using the online submission system at<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>><a href="http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lfg14">http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lfg14</a><o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>>LFG14 welcomes work within the formal architecture of Lexical-Functional <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>>Grammar as well as typological, formal, and computational work within the <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>>'spirit of LFG' as a lexicalist approach to language employing a parallel, <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>>constraint-based framework. The conference aims to promote interaction and <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>>collaboration among researchers interested in non-derivational approaches <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>>to grammar, where grammar is seen as the interaction of (perhaps violable) <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>>constraints from multiple levels of structuring, including those of <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>>syntactic categories, grammatical relations, semantics and discourse.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>>Further information about LFG as a syntactic theory is available at the<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>>following site:<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>> <a href="http://www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/external/LFG/">http://www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/external/LFG/</a><o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>>SUBMISSIONS: TALKS AND POSTERS<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>>The main conference sessions will involve 45-minute talks (30 min. + 15<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>>min. discussion), and poster/system presentations. Contributions can focus<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>>on results from completed as well as ongoing research, with an emphasis on<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>>novel approaches, methods, ideas, and perspectives, whether descriptive,<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>>theoretical, formal or computational. Presentations should describe<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>>original, unpublished work.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>>DISSERTATION SESSION<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>>As in previous years, we are hoping to hold a special session that will give <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>>students the chance to present recent PhD dissertations (or other student <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>>research dissertations). The dissertations must be completed by the time of <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>>the conference, and they should be made publicly accessible (e.g., on the <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>>World Wide Web). The talks in this session should provide an overview of the <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>>main original points of the dissertation; the talks will be 20 minutes, <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>>followed by a 10-minute discussion period. The students who present in this <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>>session will receive a subvention towards their conference costs from the <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>>International LFG Association (ILFGA).<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>>Students should note that the main sessions are certainly also open to<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>>student submissions.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>>TIMETABLE<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>>Deadline for abstracts: 15 February 2014<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>>Acceptances sent out: 30 March 2014<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>>Conference: 17 July - 19 July 2014<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>>SUBMISSION SPECIFICATIONS<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>>Abstracts for talks, posters/demonstrations and the dissertation<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>>session must be received by February 15, 2014. The language of the<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>>conference is English, and all abstracts must be written in English.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>>All abstracts should be submitted using the online submission<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>>system. Submissions should be in the form of abstracts only. Abstracts<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>>can be up to two A4 pages in 10pt or larger type and should include a<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>>title. Omit name and affiliation, and obvious self-reference. Note: we<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>>no longer ask for a separate page for data and figures (c-/f- and<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>>related structures). They can be included in the text of the abstract,<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>>obeying the overall two-page limit. Please submit your abstract in<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>>.pdf format (or a plain text file). If you have any trouble converting<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>>your file into pdf please contact the Program Committee at the address<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>>below.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>>The number of submissions is not restricted. However, the number of<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>>oral presentations per participant is limited. Each author can be<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>>involved in a maximum of three papers that are presented orally, and<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>>can only be the first author of a single paper. The program committee<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>>will have discretionary powers to vary these rules in particular<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>>situations as they see fit. There are no restrictions on poster<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>>presentations. Authors may want to keep this in mind when stating<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>>their preferences concerning the mode of presentation of their<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>>submissions.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>>All abstracts will be reviewed by at least three people. Papers will<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>>appear in the proceedings, which will be published online by CSLI<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>>Publications. Selected papers may also appear in a printed volume<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>>published by CSLI Publications.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>>ORGANISERS AND THEIR CONTACT ADDRESSES<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>>If you have queries about abstract submission or have problems using the<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>>EasyChair submission system, please contact the Program Committee.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>>Program Committee (Email: lfg14 'at' easychair.org)<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>>Anna Kibort, University of Oxford<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>>Ida Toivonen, Carleton University<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>>Local conference organizers (Email: lfg2014 'at' linguistlist.org)<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>>Steven Abney, University of Michigan<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>>Damir Cavar, Eastern Michigan University<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>>Malgorzata Cavar, Eastern Michigan University<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:black'>>T. Daniel Seely, Eastern Michigan University<o:p></o:p></span></pre></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>