LFG Bulletin -- March 1998

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			     LFG BULLETIN
  			      MARCH 1998


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			       * NEWS *
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Announcements:
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  - LFG98 PROGRAM:  LFG98 will be held at Emmanuel College, 
    The University of Queensland, Australia, June 30 - July 2, 1998.
    The preliminary program is below.  For registration information,
    see the conference web page at: 

       http://www.sultry.arts.usyd.edu.au/LFG98

    or contact the organizers at:

      lfg98 at sultry.arts.usyd.edu.au
    


  - Changing the Guard: Avery Andrews has taken over the 
    LFG Bibliography from Mary Dalrymple starting January 1998.

  - Proceedings of the LFG97 Conference (CSLI on-line Publications)
    now have an official ISSN 1098-6782.  They are available at:

      http://www-csli.stanford.edu/publications/

    Choose: Proceedings ON-LINE
    (The proceedings of LFG96 are also available here.)


  - The web site LINGUISTIC ENTERPRISES is now available at

     http://web.gc.cuny.edu/linguistics/enter/

     This is a nonprofit site that aims to help academically
     trained linguists find private sector employment. It offers
     down-to-earth advice, how-to information, and an opportunity
     to discuss prospects and problems with others who have found
     work or are seeking it.

     The site is maintained by the Ph.D. Program in Linguistics
     at the Graduate School, City University of New York, in
     conjunction with the Linguistic Society of America.




REMINDERS:
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  - ILFGA: This is a newly created official organization for those
    interested in LFG and related topics: the International Lexical
    Functional Grammar Association.  ILFGA is recognized by the State
    of California as an unincorporated nonprofit organization.

    Membership is free of charge.  We encourage everyone on this list
    to become a member.  To become a member contact Tracy Holloway King
    (thking at parc.xerox.com).


	Executive Committee: Farrell Ackerman
			     Kersti Borjars
			     Joan Bresnan
			     Miriam Butt
 			     Ron Kaplan
			     Tara Mohanan

        Nominating Committee: Mary Dalrymple
			      Nigel Vincent
			      Annie Zaenen

        Secretary-Treasurer: Tracy Holloway King

	LFG List Maintainer: Mary Dalrymple

	Bulletin Maintainer: Miriam Butt

 	Local Conference Committee (Brisbane):
                Chris Manning, Jane Simpson, et al.

	Program Committee: Miriam Butt and Tracy Holloway King

	LFG Webmaster: Doug Arnold


  - LFG99 will be held at the University of Manchester, Manchester,
    England, July 19-21, 1999.  Details will be provided at a later date.
    Local contacts/organizers are Nigel Vincent 
    (nigel.vincent at nessie.mcc.ac.uk) and
    Kersti Borjars (kersti.borjars at man.ac.uk).


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		      * PUBLICITY/INFORMATION *
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Request For Dissertation Announcements
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If you or your students complete an dissertation of interest to the
LFG community, please post an announcement to the LFG list with:

   Title 
   Author
   University 
   Email address or other way to contact the author
   Summary or abstract




Register Yourself
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The Linguist List has a data base of linguists and dissertations.
We strongly encourage you to register yourself via:

	http://linguistlist.org/persop.html

and your dissertation via:

	http://linguistlist.org/dissop.html

(All you have to do to register is to fill out the on-line form.)




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		   * Upcoming Events/Conferences *
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1) LFG98 at The University of Queensland
2) ESSLI-98 Summer School
3) Further Conference Announcements


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1) LFG98

      LFG98: INTERNATIONAL LEXICAL FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR CONFERENCE
			30 June - 2 July 1998
	  The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

Further information: 
    *REGISTRATION*: http://www.cltr.uq.edu.au:8000/ali98/rego2.html
                    We strongly encourage advanced registration!
    
    GENERAL: http://www.sultry.arts.usyd.edu.au/LFG98
             lfg98 at sultry.arts.usyd.edu.au

    WORKSHOPS: http://www.sultry.arts.usyed.edu.au/LFG98/workshops.html

       CORRESPONDENCES Workshop: Nigel Vincent nigel.vincent at man.ac.uk
                                 Kersti Borjars kersti.borjar at man.ac.uk
       AUSTRONESIAN Workshop: Simon Musgrave 
                              s.musgrave at linguistics.unimelb.edu.au
                         Peter Austin p.austin at linguistics.unimelb.edu.au
       CHINESE Workshop: Patrizia Pacioni p.pacioni at asian.unimelb.edu.au

TUESDAY 30 June

8:30-9:00	Coffee

9:00-10:00	Keynote talk
                AVERY ANDREWS

10:00-10:30	Break

10:30-11:00	JOAN BRESNAN
                Pidgin Genesis in OT
11:00-11:30     RENS BOD and RON KAPLAN
                Grammaticality, Robustness, and Specificity in a
                Probabilistic Approach to Lexical Functional Analysis
11:30-12:00     JOSEF VAN GENABITH, ANETTE FRANK, and MICHAEL DORNA 
                Transfer Constructions

12:00-1:30	Lunch

1:30-2:00       KERSTI BO"RJARS
                Clitics, affixes and parallel correspondence
2:00-2:30       YEHUDA N. FALK 
                Case: Interaction Between Syntax and Discourse Grammar
2:30-3:00       RACHEL NORDLINGER 
                The case of subordinate clauses in Australian
                languages: a constructive approach

3:00-3:30	Break

3:30-6:30	CORRESPONDENCES WORKSHOP
                Organizers: Kersti Bo"rjars and Nigel Vincent

                 *If you are interested in participating in this
                 workshop, please see above website for details
                 and contact the organizers.*


WEDNESDAY 1 July

8:30-9:00	Coffee

9:00-9:30       MIRIAM BUTT and TRACY HOLLOWAY KING
                Interfacing Phonology with LFG
9:30-10:00      FARRELL ACKERMAN
                Constructions and Co-headedness: Determining the
                Grammatical Function Status of Person/number Marking

10:00-10:30	Break

10:30-11:00     KUMARA HENADEERAGE
                Anaphoric Binding in Colloquial Sinhala
11:00-11:30     MARIA LAPATA 
                Anaphoric Binding in Modern Greek
11:30-12:00	WAYAN ARKA and CHRISTOPHER D. MANNING 
                On the Three Subjects in Indonesian: Evidence from Binding

12:00-1:30	Lunch

1:30-6:30	AUSTRONESIAN WORKSHOP
                Organizers: Simon Musgrave and Peter Austin

                PETER AUSTIN and SIMON MUSGRAVE
                Introduction: The problem of voice in Austronesian
                languages

                BILL FOLEY
                Symmetrical Voice Systems and Precategoriality in
                Philippine Languages 

                PAUL KROEGER
                Response to Foley

                BILL FOLEY
                Reply to Kroeger

                I WAYAN ARKA and JANE SIMPSON
                Control of Complex Arguments in Balinese

                MIKE DUKES
                Evidence for Grammatical Functions in Tongan


THURSDAY 2 July

8:30-9:00	Coffee

9:00-9:30       ANETTE FRANK, TRACY HOLLOWAY KING, JONAS KUHN, and
                JOHN MAXWELL
                Optimality Theory Style Constraint Ranking in
                Large-scale LFG Grammars
9:30-10:00      CAROLINE BRUN
                Terminology Finite-State Preprocessing for
                Computational LFG 

10:00-10:30	Break

10:30-11:00     YUKIKO MORIMOTO
                Dative Objects in Japanese -sa Nominalization
11:00-11:30     GEORGE AARON BROADWELL
                Directionals as complex predicates in Choctaw
11:30-12:00	YO MATSUMOTO
                A Reexamination of the Cross-linguistic
                Parameterization of Causative Predicates: Japanese
                Perspectives

12:00-1:30	Lunch

1:30-2:00       PETER SELLS
                Scandinavian Clause Structure and Object Shift
2:00-2:30       JUDITH BERMAN, STEFANIE DIPPER, CHRISTIAN FORTMANN,
                and JONAS KUHN 
                Argument Clauses and Correlative `es' in German --
                Deriving Discourse Properties in a Unification Analysis
2:30-3:00       LOUISA SADLER
                On the Analysis of Celtic Noun Phrases

3:00-3:30	Break

3:30-6:30	CHINESE WORKSHOP
                Organizers: PATRIZIA PACIONI

                ONE-SOON HER
                Lexical Mapping in Chinese Inversion Constructions

                CHU-REN HUANG
                Classifying Event Structure Attributes: A Verbal
                Semantic Perspective from Chinese.

                HAIHUA PAN
                An LFG Account of Chinese Passive Construction.

                DISCUSSANTS: *please contact the organizer if you
                              wish to be a discussant.*


ALTERNATES:

    NORBERT BRO"KER 
    A Projection Architecture for Dependency Grammar and
    How it Compares to LFG

    LIAN-CHENG CHIEF, CHU-REN HUANG, KEH-JIANN CHEN, MEI-CHIH TSAI,
    and LILI CHANG 
    What Can Near Synonyms Tell Us


REGISTRATION AND ACCOMMODATION

Despite this being the first call for papers, you can already register
for the conference!  Registration is joint with ALS and ALI.  Simply
send your browser to:

        http://www.cltr.uq.edu.au:8000/ali98/rego2.html

and print, fill in, and return the registration form there.
Registration for the LFG conference is (in Australian dollars) $60
regular registration, $40 for students.  From overseas, payment by
credit card is usually cheapest and most convenient for you.  If you are
not attending other events, simply tick the LFG conference box, enter
any required accommodation, and fill in your personal details and
payment information, and return to the address given.

We recommend staying at Emmanuel College, the student dormitory where
the conference will take place.  Single rooms at Emmanuel College (with
shared facilities) cost $37 a night including breakfast and supply of
linens (but no room service).  Rooms have telephones, desks, lights, and
supposedly also internet connections!  There are, of course, many hotels
in Brisbane, which you can find out about from tourist guides or web
sites such as:

        http://www.maxlink.com.au/bcl/accom.htm

All conference registration and university accommodation is to be
arranged through the ALI office at the University of Queensland.
Arranging other accommodation is your responsibility.  Please do not
send registration forms or accommodation requests to the LFG conference
organisers.  If you cannot get the registration form from the web, you
may contact the LFG conference organisers to get them to send you a
copy.  You must pre-register.  Supplementary registrations for LFG98
will be available at the door to participants at other associated
linguistic events (ALAA, ALI, and ALS), but you must be pre-registered
for some event.


PRE-CONFERENCE BUSHWALK

We are planning on arranging a pre-conference trip into national parks
within an easy drive of Brisbane.  We are envisaging a two day trip,
which will involve moderate day walks, but staying overnight in
accommodation (i.e., decent shoes but no camping equipment required).
To participate, you should plan on arriving by June 27.  If you would be
interested in going on such a trip, please let us know at
<lfg98 at sultry.arts.usyd.edu.au>.


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2) ESSLI-98 Summer School

This year's ESSLI will be held in Saarbruecken, Germany from August
17-28, 1998 (http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~esslli98/). 


Of interest for the LFG-community in particular will be a course held
by Joan Bresnan and Louisa Sadler on `Modelling Dynamic Interactions
between Morphology and Syntax' to be held during the second week
(week2). 

Course Abstract:

Morphology appears to interact with syntax dynamically.
Typologically, richer morphology is associated with weaker syntactic
word order restrictions and reduction of hierarchical syntactic
structure (witness the nonconfigurationality of Australian languages).
Under historical language change, syntactic constituents often cross
the syntax-morphology boundary to become morphologically bound, while
preserving their interactions with other syntactic constituents (as in
cliticization).  Synchronically, words may preempt or block syntactic
phrases, and conversely.

Most contemporary lexicalist theories of syntax encapsulate word
structure and phrase structure to such an extent that explaining these
dynamic interactions is difficult.  However, the architecture of LFG
is distinctive in postulating a strict separation of morphology from
syntax ONLY in the structural domain, while allowing both words and
hierarchical phrases to have functions of the same types (represented
by complex feature structures).  This provides a useful formal tool
for investigating dynamic linguistic interactions between morphology
and syntax within a well-defined feature-logic based theory.  We will
use this framework to model several types of dynamic morphosyntactic
interactions in a number of languages, developing ideas from
morphological blocking theory, economy principles, and optimality
theory.

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3) Further Conference Announcements 

Brief summary of conference calls and announcements posted to this
list:

10th conference on Nordic and General Linguistics: OT workshop on
     Nordic languages
6 to 8 June 1998
Reykjavi'k, Iceland
Kersti Bo"rjars: k.borjars at man.ac.uk

WLSS98: II Workshop on Lexical Semantics Systems
6-7 April 1998
Pisa, Italy
wlss98 at celi.sns.it
http://celi.sns.it/~wlss98

FHCG-98: Joint Conference on Formal Grammar, Head-Driven Phrase
         Structure Grammar, and Categorial Grammar
August 14-16, 1998
Saarbruecken,  Germany
http://www.dfki.de/events/hpsg98/

Twendial'98: 13th Twente Workshop on Language Technology is the 2nd
             workshop on Formal Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue
May 13-15, 1998
University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands
Joris Hulstijn: joris at cs.utwente.nl

KONVENS 98: Computers, Linguistics, and Phonetics between Language and
            Speech 
Oct. 5-7,  1998
University of Bonn, Germany
konvens98 at uni-bonn.de
http://www.ikp.uni-bonn.de/Konvens98
Submission deadline: April 15, 1998

International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems
    FOIS'98
June 6-8, 1998
Trento, Italy
http://mnemosyne.itc.it:1024/fois98/

A Workshop on Minimizing the Effort for Language Resource Acquisition
26 May, 1998
Granada, Spain
Svetlana Sheremetyeva: lana at crl.nmsu.edu

Adapting Lexical and Corpus Resources to Sublanguages and Applications
May 26, 1998
Granada, Spain
Paola Velardi: velardi at dsi.uniroma1.it
http://www.icp.inpg.fr/ELRA/conflre.html

Distributing and Accessing Linguistic Resources
May 27 1998
Granada, Spain
http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/conflre.html

Linguistic Coreference Workshop 
26 May 1998
Granada, Spain
Dr. Victor Raskin: vraskin at purdue.edu

The Evaluation of Parsing Systems
26 May 1998
Granada, Spain
john.carroll at cogs.susx.ac.uk
http://www.icp.inpg.fr/ELRA/conflre.html

ECML-98 Workshop: Towards adaptive NLP-driven systems: linguistic
        information, learning methods and applications
Roberto Basili: basili at info.utovrm.it

FroCoS'98: Frontiers of Combining Systems
October 2-4, 1998 
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
frocos98 at wins.uva.nl
http://www.wins.uva.nl/~mdr/FroCoS98
Submission deadline: May 15, 1998

COLING-ACL '98 Workshop: Processing of Dependency-based Grammars
August 15, 1998
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
http://tornade.ere.umontreal.ca/~polguera/Eng/DGworkshop.html
http://coling-acl98.iro.umontreal.ca

COLING-ACL '98 Workshop: First Workshop on Computational Terminology
August 15, 1998 
Montreal, Quebec, Canada 
db at lli.univ-paris13.fr,Christian.Jacquemin at iut-nantes.univ-nantes.fr,
lhommem at ere.umontreal.ca 
http://coling-acl98.iro.umontreal.ca

COLING-ACL '98 Workshop: Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages
August 15, 1998 
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Michael Rosner: mros at cs.um.edu.mt
http://www.cs.um.edu.mt/~mros/casl
Submission deadline: April 6, 1998

COLING-ACL '98 Workshop: Discourse Relations and Discourse Markers
August 15, 1998 
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Eduard Hovy: hovy at isi.edu 
http://www.cs.tu-berlin.de/~marker/aclcolingws.html
Submission deadline: April 7, 1998

TANLPS: Towards adaptive NLP-driven systems: linguistic information,
        learning methods and applications
24 April 1998
Chemnitz, Germany
Roberto Basili: basili at info.utovrm.it

TALN 1998: Le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles
10-11-12 juin 1998
Paris, France
taln at biomath.jussieu.fr
http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/taln1998/



			     * EDITORS *
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Please send any items you wish to include in the next bulletin (June
1998) to: 

      miriam.butt at uni-konstanz.de
      thking at parc.xerox.com


Thank you,
   Miriam Butt and Tracy Holloway King



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		Frequently Asked Questions: FAQs

Information on the following topics (FAQs) is available on the
LFG WebPage:
		    http://clwww.essex.ac.uk/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 (see "How to Retrieve LFG Documents" below). If you
have neither ftp nor Web access, but have email, send a mail
requesting a copy of the FAQ to doug at essex.ac.uk.

Please help keep this document and the FAQ up to date!

Send updates and suggestions for improvements to the FAQ to
doug at essex.ac.uk.

Send updates, suggestions and news for inclusion in the LFG Bulletin
to miriam.butt at uni-konstanz.de or thking at parc.xerox.com, or post them
on the LFG list (lfg at list.stanford.edu).  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 by FTP or email.  There are two ways
to get them.

(1) First, you can get some files by email, via the Majordomo "get"
    command.  A list of available files can be obtained by sending a
    message to

		     majordomo at list.stanford.edu

    containing the following command:

			      index lfg

    The following files are available. There may be additional files
    as well.  Send the command "index lfg" to see what is currently
    available:


    FAQ			   [the list of Frequently Asked Questions]
    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]
    lfg.bib		   [the LFG bibliography in BibTeX format]
    lfgbib.text		   [the LFG bibliography in plain text format]
    lfgbib.ps		   [the LFG bibliography in Postscript format]
    lfgbib.rtf		   [the LFG bibliography in RTF format]

    To get a file, send a message to majordomo at list.stanford.edu
    containing the following command:

		       get lfg <filename>

    For example, if you want to get the latest version of the FAQ, you
    would send a message to majordomo at list.stanford.edu with the
    following command:

			  get lfg FAQ

    You will receive the file in an email message.

    CAUTION: Some of the files that are available by this method are
    Postscript files, which can be VERY LARGE.  Postscript files end in
    the extension .ps (for example, the file "neidle.ps" is a Postscript
    file).  If your mailer cannot handle EXTREMELY LARGE messages, don't
    try to get these files by email.  Instead, use the FTP option,
    described below.

(2) Second, you can get the documents by anonymous FTP from
    parcftp.xerox.com.  All of the documents are in the directory /pub/nl.
    Here is a list of some of the files in that directory that are
    relevant for LFG researchers:

    LFG-FAQ		   [the latest version of the FAQ]
    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]
    lfg.bib		   [the LFG bibliography in BibTeX format]
    lfgbib.text		   [the LFG bibliography in plain text format]
    lfgbib.ps		   [the LFG bibliography in Postscript format]
    lfgbib.rtf		   [the LFG bibliography in RTF format]

    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 will probably be other
    LFG-related files in that directory as well, which you are welcome
    to retrieve.

(3) The LFG bibliography is also accessible via the WWW, 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/

If you have difficulty with any of these methods, contact
dalrymple at parc.xerox.com for assistance.






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