LFG97 Prelim Schedule

[Lexical Functional Grammar Conference 1997]

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            LFG97
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Preliminary Conference Schedule:


LFG97
University of California, San Diego
June 19 -- 21, 1997

THURSDAY

9.00-9.30  Mary Dalrymple (Xerox PARC) and Ronald Kaplan (Xerox PARC)
           A set-based approach to feature resolution
9.30-10.00 Tibor Laczko (Lajos Kossuth University)
           An Analysis of Hungarian -U Adjectives: The Case of Another
           Morphologically Bound Predicate
10.00-10.30 Kersti Borjars (University of Manchester) and Nigel
            Vincent (University of Manchester)
            Double case and the "wimpishness" of morphology

10.30-11.00 BREAK

11.00-11.30 Nissim Francez (Technion-IIL and CWI) and Ian Pratt
            (University of Manchester)
            Deductive derivation of temporal prepositions meanings in
            LFG's glue language approach
11.30-12.00 John Fry (Stanford University)
            Polarity sensitivity and scope in `glue language' semantics
12.00-12.30 Josef van Genabith (Dublin City University) and Richard
            Crouch (University of Nottingham)
            On comparing dynamic and underspecified semantics for LFG

12.30-2.00 LUNCH

2.00-5.00 WORKSHOP: Discourse and Phrase Structure
          Organizer/discussant: Maria Polinsky (UCSD)
          Participants: Hye-Won Choi (USC), Knud Lambrecht (University
          of Texas, Austin), Tracy Holloway King (Stanford University)

FRIDAY

9.00-9.30  Miriam Butt (Universitaet Konstanz), Mary Dalrymple
           (Xerox PARC), and Anette Frank (Rank Xerox, Grenoble)
           The nature of argument structure
9.30-10.00 Julia Barron (University of Manchester)
           LFG and the history of raising verbs
10.00-10.30 Adams Bodomo (The Norwegian University of Science and
            Technology)
            A conceptual mapping theory for serial verbs

10.30-11.00 BREAK

11.00-11.30 Mark Johnson (Brown University)
            F-structure constraints as resource dependencies
11.30-12.00 Siamak Rezaei (University of Edinburgh)
            A Dynamic Representation of Grammatical Relations
12.00-12.30 Xavier Briffault, K. Chibout, G. Sabah, J. Vapillon (LIMSI-CNRS)
            A linguistic engineering framework for the conception,
            management and exploitation of linguistic data based on LFG

12.30-2.00 LUNCH

2.00-5.00 WORKSHOP: Grammaticalization and Linguistic Theory
          Organizer/discussant: Alice Harris (Vanderbilt University)
          Participants: Nigel Vincent (University of Manchester),
          Miriam Butt (Universitaet Konstanz), Judith Aissen (UC Santa Cruz)

5.30-6.30 BREAK

5.30-6.30 POSTERS
5.30-5.40 Liina Pylkkanen (University of Pittsburgh)
          The linking of event structure and argument structure for
          12 Finnish verb classes
5.40-5.50 Grammar Workshop Demos
5.50-6.00 Thierry Declerck (DFKI, University of Saarbruecken)
          Investigation on the reusability of LFG-based grammar
          resources
6.00-6.30 general viewing and questions

7.00 PARTY: drinks and dinner at faculty club

SATURDAY

9.00-9.30 Helge Lodrup (University of Oslo)
          Inalienables in Norwegian and Binding Theory
9.30-10.00 Cathryn Donohue (UCLA)
           Chickasaw external possession: a lexical functional approach
10.00-10.30 Judith Berman (IMS, University of Stuttgart)
            Empty categories in LFG

10.30-11.00 BREAK

11.00-11.30 Berthold Crysmann (Universitaet des Saarlandes)
            Cliticization in European Portuguese using parallel
            morpho-syntactic constraints
11.30-12.00 Lunella Mereu (Universita' degli Studi di Roma III)
            For a lexical-functional representation of agreement
            affixes and clitics
12.00-12.30 Louisa Sadler (University of Essex)
            Welsh clitics, XP adjunction and the structure-function mapping

12.30-2.00 LUNCH

2.00-5.00 WORKSHOP: Morphology and Linguistic Theory
          Organizer/discussant: Phil LeSourd (Indiana University)
          Participants: Joan Bresnan (Stanford University), Rachel
          Nordlinger (Stanford University), Andrew Spencer (University
          of Essex), Amy Dahlstrom (University of Chicago)

ALTERNATES:
Avery Andrews (Australia National University)
     Predicate Combination in Nuclear Serial Verb Constructions
One-Soon Her (National Chengchi University)
    The Lexical Mapping Theory and Mandarin resultative compounds

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