Bulletin: Dec 1998

Tracy Holloway King thking at parc.xerox.com
Mon Nov 30 15:19:21 UTC 1998


			     LFG BULLETIN
                             DECEMBER 1998
 

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			     * EDITORS *
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Please send updates, suggestions and news for inclusion in the next
LFG Bulletin (March 1999) to:

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

Most importantly, please send information about:

 - your recent publications or papers
 - publically available grammars 
 - current grammar development efforts


Thank you,
   Miriam Butt and Tracy Holloway King


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			       * NEWS *
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Announcements:
--------------

  - The LFG Website at Stanford welcomes proposals for subpages and
    volunteers to create and maintain them.  Current subpages include:
    LFG Morphosyntax, Optimal Syntax, Glue, and DOP-LFG.  These can be
    found at: http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg

    Ideas for further pages include language-oriented sites, such as
    African, Australian, Austronesian, etc.  

    If you would like to volunteer to create such pages or have ideas
    of other kinds of pages, please contact Tracy Holloway King
    (thking at parc.xerox.com) or Miriam Butt
    (miriam.butt at uni-knostanz.de) with your suggestions.

  - LFG99 will be held at the University of Manchester, Manchester,
    England, July 19-21, 1999.  A first call for papers is attached
    below.

  - LFG2000 will be held in Berkeley, CA, USA in the third week of
    July as part of the "Berkeley Formal Grammar Conference 2000".
    This conference will encompass LFG2000 as well as an HPSG
    conference and a day of workshops and talks of common interest. 
    The conference has been scheduled to take place as shown below. 

      LFG 2000:                     July 19-20
      Common sessions:              July 21
      7th Int'l HPSG Conference:    July 22-23

    Authors will be asked to submit to the LFG On-Line Proceedings as
    usual.  In addition, all presenters at the Formal Grammar
    Conference will be invited to submit their work to a volume in
    CSLI's "Studies in Constraint-Based Lexicalism" series (editors
    yet to be determined).



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			   *  INFORMATION *
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More Websites
--------------

Check out Joan Bresnan's "Unofficial Links and Notes" page for a
wealth of information on old, new and on-going work in LFG/OT. 

  http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg/bresnan/unofficial-links.html

				 ---

Also check out the new page on "LFG Morphosyntax" created by Louisa
Sadler as part of the Stanford Web Site.  Although this page is still
in its infancy, it is already looking very good and groups relevant
materials into clearly defined and helpful categories. 

For example, the page includes links to works on argument structure
and lexical mapping theory in LFG, including the new starter
bibliography developed by Joan Bresnan and Farrell Ackerman from the
LFGBIB currently maintained by Avery Andrews.

  http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg/ms/ms.html

				 ---

Joan Bresnan has also begun a page "Optimal Syntax: LFG in an OT
Setting" under Current Research Directions in LFG. Watch this site
for future additions.

  http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg/ot-lfg/ot-lfg.html.  

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A web page focussing on Dissertations and Papers on Modern Greek in
LFG and HPSG has been created by Valia Kordoni. It can be found at:

   http://www.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de/~korder/greek_lfg_hpsg.html


				 ---

The archive of LFG papers established earlier this year continues to
grow steadily and Avery Andrews has redesigned the main archive page
of LFG papers for easier print-out.  Check it out at:
	
  http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg/archive/



Proceedings News
----------------

    Proceedings of the LFG98 Conference (CSLI on-line Publications)
    are now available at:
      http://csli-publications.stanford.edu/publications/

    Choose: Proceedings ON-LINE (The proceedings of LFG96 and LFG97
    are also available here).

    The editors (Miriam Butt and Tracy King) would like to thank all
    the authors not only for the submissions, but also for plenty of
    feedback and discussion on the format of the proceedings. 


Recent LFG Publications
-----------------------

Barron , Julia. 1998. Have contraction: explaining "trace effects" in
a theory without movement.  Linguistics 36: 223-251.

Butt, Miriam.  1998.  Constraining argument merger through aspect.  In
E. Hinrichs, A. Kathol, and T. Nakazawa, editors, Syntax and Semantics
No. 30: Complex Predicates in Nonderivational Syntax. Academic Press.

Bod, Rens. 1998.  An Experience-Based Theory of Language: Data
Oriented Parsing. Stanford: CSLI Publications. 

B"orjars, Kersti and Carol Chapman.  1998. Agreement and pro-drop in
some dialects of English. Linguistics 36.1: 71-9.

Her, One-Soon. 1997.  Interaction and Variation in the Chinese VO
Construction. Taipei: Crane Publishing

Nordlinger, Rachel. 1998. Constructive Case.  Evidence from Australian
Languages.  Stanford: CSLI Publications.

Nordlinger, Rachel. 1998. A Grammar of Wambaya.  Canberra: Pacific
Linguistics.




Request For Dissertation Announcements
---------------------------------------

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



		   -------------------------------
		   * Upcoming Events/Conferences *
		   -------------------------------

1) LFG99 at the University of Manchester

2) CSLI/Stanford Workshop: "Is syntax different? Common cognitive
   structures for syntax and phonology in Optimality Theory"

3) ESSLLI-99: Eleventh European Summer School in Logic, Language and
   Information at Utrecht, The Netherlands

4) ESSLLI-99 Workshop on "Lexical Semantics and Linking in
   Constraint-Based Theories" 

5) Further Conference Announcements



1)
			   CALL FOR PAPERS
				LFG99

		1999 INTERNATIONAL LEXICAL FUNCTIONAL
			  GRAMMAR CONFERENCE

                        19 July - 21 July 1999

		     The University of Manchester

	    Submission receipt deadline: 15 February 1999

	       URL: http://lings.ln.man.ac.uk/html/LFG/

		    Enquiries: LFG99 at man.ac.uk

The University of Manchester is pleased to invite you to participate
in LFG99 which will take place from Monday, July 19 till Wednesday,
July 21 1999 at the University of Manchester, UK.

The conference welcomes work both within the formal architecture of
Lexical-Functional Grammar and typological, formal, and computational
work within the 'spirit of LFG', as a lexicalist approach to language
employing a parallel, constraint-based framework. The conference aims
to promote interaction and collaboration among researchers interested
in nonderivational approaches to grammar, where grammar is seen as the
interaction of constraints from multiple dimensions of linguistic
substance, including category information, grammatical relations, and
semantic information. Further information about the syntactic theory
LFG can be obtained from:

                   http://clwww.essex.ac.uk/LFG/


SUBMISSIONS

The conference will involve 30-minute talks, poster/system
presentations, and workshops.  Talks and poster presentations will
focus on results from completed as well as ongoing research, with an
emphasis on novel approaches, methods, ideas, and perspectives,
whether descriptive, theoretical, formal or computational. We
particularly welcome papers and suggestions for workshops on a given
language area. Presentations should describe original, unpublished
work.

Abstracts and papers must be received by February 15, 1999, and should
be submitted to the program committee chairs at the address given
below. For further information or offers of organisational help,
contact the local organisers at the address below.


POSTER/SYSTEM PRESENTATIONS

A scheduled session for posters and the demonstration of systems is
planned as part of the conference, with the posters also available for
viewing at other times throughout the conferece.


WORKSHOPS

Workshops are a small group of talks (2-4) on a coherent topic that
can be expected to generate opposing views and discussion with the
broader audience. Participants to workshops are usually
invited. Workshop papers should be distributed in advance among
participants and participants should refer to each others approaches.

At this point in time, we welcome suggestions for workshops from
potential organisers or people with certain interests.  Suggestions
for workshops should be sent to the local organizers at
LFG99 at man.ac.uk.

Topics that have been mentioned for potential workshops include:
 - phenomena within a given language area (such as Amerindian)
 - field work and linguistic theory
 - event conceptualization and lexical semantics
 - constructions/construction grammar and LFG

Actual workshop topics and participants will be announced later.



TIMETABLE

 Deadline for workshop proposals:		   30 November 1998

 Deadline for receipt of submissions:              15 February 1999

 Acceptances sent out:                             31 March 1999

 Conference:                                       19 July - 21 July 1999



SUBMISSION SPECIFICATIONS

People may submit either abstracts or full length papers for
refereeing. The advantages of full paper submission are that it allows
better assessment of your work and that (at least for some people)
accepted refereed full papers count as a higher status
publication. The program chairs may decide that certain submissions
are better as poster presentations than as read papers.  Submitters
may also indicate if they wish a submission to be considered as a
poster/system presentation.

Full length papers. Papers should be no more than 15 pages, including
figures and references, in 11 or 12pt type, on A4/US Letter paper. The
printed text area must not exceed 165x230mm (6.5x9 inches), and should
be centred horizontally and vertically on the page.  Omit name and
affiliation, and obvious self reference from the version for
review. Papers should include a roughly 100-200 word abstract at the
beginning.

Abstracts. Abstracts should be one A4 page in 10pt or larger type and
include a title. Omit name and affiliation, and obvious self
reference. A second page may be used for data, c-/f- and related
structures, and references.

Papers/abstracts may be submitted by email or by regular mail (or by
both means as a safety measure). Email submission is preferred.

Regular Mail
Include:
- Five copies of the abstract/paper.
- A card or cover sheet with the paper title, name(s) of the
author(s), affiliation, address, phone/fax number, e-mail address, and
whether the author(s) are students.

Email.
Include or attach your paper as either a plain ASCII text, HTML, or
postscript file.  Include the paper title, name(s) of the author(s),
address, phone/fax number, email address, and whether the author(s)
are students in the body of your email message.

All papers/abstracts will be reviewed by at least two people.
papers will appear in the proceedings which will be published online
by CSLI Publications. Selected papers may also appear in a printed
volume published by CSLI Publications.

ORGANISERS AND THEIR CONTACT ADDRESSES

Send paper/abstract/poster submissions and inquiries about submissions to:
Program Committee Chairs:
                               Tracy King <thking at parc.xerox.com>
                               Miriam Butt <miriam.butt at uni-konstanz.de>
Mail:
                               Tracy Holloway King
                               Information Sciences and Technologies Laboratory
                               Xerox PARC
                               3333 Coyote Hill Road
                               Palo Alto CA 94304
                               USA


Contact the conference organisers at:

Email:				  LFG99 at man.ac.uk

Mail:				  Kersti Borjars or Nigel Vincent
				  Department of Linguistics
				  University of Manchester
				  Manchester M13 9PL
				  UK



ASSOCIATED EVENTS

Given the great success of the pre-conference bushwalk organized as
part of LFG98, we are planning an organised walk in the Peak District
for the weekend preceding the conference. Details and information on
how to sign up for it will be provided in a subsequent call for
papers.

On the last evening of the conference there will be a conference
dinner in a stately home on the outskirts of Manchester.


LOCATION

The conference will be held at Hulme Hall, a Hall of Residence near the
main University buildings. Different types of B&B accommodation will be
available in Hulme Hall, where all lectures, book displays etc will also
take place. Details of this and registration form will be provided at a
later stage.



2)  CSLI/Stanford Workshop: "Is Syntax Different? Common cognitive
    structures for syntax and phonology in Optimality Theory"

    Organizers: Peter Sells, Joan Bresnan
    Dates: 12-13 December, 1998
    Venue:  CSLI, Stanford University  

    The workshop is open to anyone interested.  

    Speakers will include: 

            Judith Aissen (UCSC)
            Joan Bresnan (Stanford)
            Jane Grimshaw (Rutgers and RUCCS)
            Petra Hendriks (Groningen) and Helen de Hoop (Utrecht)
            Hanjung Lee (Stanford)
            Giraldine Legendre (Johns Hopkins)
            Peter Sells (Stanford)
            Paul Smolensky (Johns Hopkins)
            Anne Vainikka (Johns Hopkins)
            Nigel Vincent (Manchester)

   OT/LFG related papers will be presented by the following speakers:
          Joan Bresnan, Hanjung Lee, Peter Sells, and Nigel Vincent.

   Details can be found at:

       http://hypatia.stanford.edu/linguistics/colloq/ot98.html



3) ESSLII-99, the Eleventh European Summer School in Logic, Language
and Information will be held next year during the month of August
at Utrecht in The Netherlands.  More information and a list of courses
and lectures can be found at:  
      http://esslli.let.uu.nl/

Some courses of LFG-related interest are:

Language and Computation
========================

Introductory:
        - Bod/Kaplan: Data-oriented Parsing Models of Natural Language
        - Butt/Frank/Kuhn: Development of Large Scale LFG Grammars

Language
========
        - de Hoop: Optimality Theory



4)
                       ESSLLI-99 Workshop on 

     LEXICAL SEMANTICS AND LINKING IN CONSTRAINT-BASED THEORIES

                       August 16-20,  1999

                  A workshop held as part of the  
     11th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information 
                         (ESSLLI-99) 
              August 9 - 20, 1999, Utrecht, The Netherlands

                   ** FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS **

ORGANISER: Valia Kordoni (University of Tuebingen)

BACKGROUND:
In recent years, there has been an increasing interest among
syntacticians in the interface between syntax and word meaning. In n
recent years, there has been an increasing interest among
syntacticians in the interface between syntax and word meaning. In
constraint-based theories like LFG and HPSG, this interest has led to
the development of the Lexical Mapping Theory (LMT) and the
Hierarchical Lexicon models, respectively.

Having as a common starting point their recognition for the importance
of word classes for the interface between syntax and lexical semantics,
LMT and the Hierarchical Lexicon models vary both ontologically, and in
the range of linguistic phenomena they attempt to explain, some of which
include, but in no way are they limited to, the following:

- Split Intransitivity phenomena (unaccusative vs. unergative verbs)
- Variation among verbs of emotion and location
- Subcategorization alternations and the linking of indirect arguments
- Morpholexical Processes, including causative verbs
- Complex predicates
- Symmetric predicates

The aim of the workshop is to provide a forum for researchers and
advanced Ph.D. students to present and discuss approaches on empirical
and formal issues related to the Syntax-Lexical Semantics Interface in
the frameworks of LFG and HPSG. The workshop intends to continue the
series of courses and workshops on lexical semantics and on the
interactions between morphology, syntax and semantics held at previous
summer schools. It is also dedicated to support inter-framework
discussions, since it is focussing on the lexical semantics and
linking components of both LFG and HPSG.  

WORKSHOP FORMAT:
The workshop will consist of five sessions with two 30+10-minute
presentations in each session. 

SUBMISSIONS:
All researchers in the area, but especially Ph.D. students and young
researchers, are encouraged to submit a two-page abstract either as
hardcopy or electronically (postscript only).

Submissions should be sent until February 15, 1999. Notification of
acceptance will be given to contributors around April 15, 1999.
Contributors of accepted papers will be asked to provide an extended
abstract (10 pages) in LaTeX format to be included in a Summer School
reader. The deadline for the submission of the extended abstracts is May
31, 1999.

Submissions should be sent to the following address:

Valia Kordoni
Universitaet Tuebingen
Seminar fuer Sprachwissenschaft
Kleine Wilhelmstr. 113
D-72074 Tuebingen
GERMANY

korder at sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de

REGISTRATION:
Workshop contributors will be required to register for ESSLLI-99, but
will be eligible for a reduced registration fee.

IMPORTANT DATES:
        Feb 15, 99: Deadline for submissions
        Apr 15, 99: Notification of acceptance
        May 31, 99: Deadline for final copy
        Aug 16, 99: Start of workshop

FURTHER INFORMATION:
The workshop will take place in association with the 11th European
Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) to be held in
Utrecht, the Netherlands (9-20 August 1999).


4) Further Conference Announcements

Here is a brief summary of conference calls and announcements posted to this
list:

HPSG-99
6th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar. 
submission deadline: February 15, 1999
hpsg99 at cogsci.ed.ac.uk
http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~hpsg99/

Deixis, demonstration and deictic belief in multimedia contexts
submission deadline: Feb 15, 1999
pkuehnle at lili.uni-bielefeld.de (Peter Kuehnlein)

Foundations of intensional logic and natural language semantics
submission deadline: March 15, 1999
orilia at unimc.it (Francesco Orilia)

The Generation of Nominal Expressions
submission deadline: March 1, 1999
Rodger.Kibble at itri.brighton.ac.uk Kees.van.Deemter at itri.brighton.ac.uk
http://www.itri.brighton.ac.uk/projects/gnome/esslli99.html

The ESSLLI'99 student session
submission deadline: March 15, 1999
amalia at liia.u-strasbg.fr amalia at thor.infoiasi.ro
http://www-ensais.u-strasbg.fr/todirascu/esslli-fr.html

Resource logics and minimalist grammars
submission deadline: March 15, 1999
rlmg at irisa.fr
http://www.irisa.fr/RLMG

Israeli Association for Theoretical Linguistics (IATL 15)
June 16-17 1999
Haifa University, Haifa
submission deadline: Feb 8, 1999
msjihad at mscc.huji.ac.il

9th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for
Computational Linguistics (EACL 99)
June 8-12, 199
Bergen, Norway
submission deadline: Jan 18, 1999
eacl99 at cogsci.ed.ac.uk

Venezia per il Trattamento Automatico delle Lingue (VExTAL)
Sept 20-22, 1999
submission deadline: Mar 6, 1999
vextal at byron.cgm.unive.it
http://byron.cgm.unive.it/eventi/VEXTAL

7. International BOBCATSSS Symposium
25-27 January 1999
Bratislava, Slovakia
BOBCATSSS at hbi-stuttgart.de

First International Workshop on Practical Aspects of Declarative
      Languages (PADL'99)
Jan. 18-19, 1999
Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA
complog at cs.nmsu.edu
http://www.cs.nmsu.edu/~complog/conferences/padl99

Traitement Automatique du Langage Naturel (TALN'99)
July 12-17, 1999
Institut d'Etudes Scientifiques de Cargese (Corse)
submission deadline: Jan 31, 1999
taln99 at linguist.jussieu.fr
http://talana.linguist.jussieu.fr/taln99

37th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
June 22--27 1999
University of Maryland
submission deadline: Jan 25, 1999
kwc at research.att.com                    Robert.Dale at mq.edu.au




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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

				 ---

                  * HOW TO RETRIEVE LFG DOCUMENTS *

Some LFG documents are available on the web, by FTP, or by email.
There are three ways to get them.

(1) Most of the documents are accessible via the WWW:


The current version of the list of Frequently Asked Questions about LFG:
 http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg/lfg-information.html

Introductions to LFG:
 http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg/clwww.essex.ac.uk/LFG/Introductions.html
 http://clwww.essex.ac.uk/LFG/Introductions.html

The LFG bibliography:
 http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg/bibliography.html
 http://clwww.essex.ac.uk/LFG/Bibliography.html

The bibliography is also available 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/

(2) You can get the documents by anonymous FTP from:

                         ftp-lfg.stanford.edu

   All of the documents are in subdirectories of the directory
   /pub/lfg. Here is a list of some of the files in that directory that
   are relevant for LFG researchers:

    in the directory /pub/lfg/bibliography:
      The LFG Bibliography in various versions and formats.

    in the directory /pub/lfg/lfg-information:
      FAQ                  [the latest version of the list of

                            Frequently Asked Questions about LFG]

    in the directory /pub/lfg/lfg-introductions:
      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]
      sadler.ps              [a paper on recent developments in LFG by
                              Louisa Sadler]

    in the directory /pub/lfg/lfg-presentations:
      Slides and handouts from LFG conferences and courses.

    in the directory /pub/lfg/papers:
      Papers that have been submitted to the LFG Archive.

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

(3) You can get some files by email, via the Majordomo "get"
    command.  A list of currently 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, and there may be additional files
    as well:

    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 in (2) above.






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