LFG Bulletin

Tracy Holloway King thking at parc.xerox.com
Wed Apr 7 22:43:53 UTC 1999


			     LFG BULLETIN
			      MARCH 1999


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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:
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  - LFG99 will be held at the University of Manchester, Manchester,
    England, July 19-21, 1999.  The program is included below.


    There will be two workshops:

    1) Structure and Representation in Native American Languages
       (Organizer: George Aaron Broadwell, University at Albany, SUNY)
    2) Grammar Writing in LFG (Organizer:  Victoria Rosen, Bergen)


    Further Information can be found at:

	       URL: http://lings.ln.man.ac.uk/html/LFG/
		    Enquiries: LFG99 at man.ac.uk




  - As usual, a business meeting will take place as part of the LFG
    conference.  One of the issues that will be discussed is the venue
    of LFG2001.  The continent for that year is Asia, which gives us a
    lot of room.  Adams Bodomo at Hong Kong has already expressed
    an interest and will be putting in a bid (and many thanks go to
    him).

    If anybody else is interested in putting in a suggestion for
    LFG2001, please direct them to the Executive Committe or bring
    them up at the business meeting in Manchester.



  - Two members of the executive committee will have served their
    terms this year:  Miriam Butt and Farrell Ackerman.

    The Nominating Committee is already at work and you will be
    hearing from them soon.



  - 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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Websites
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A searchable archive of the LFG e-mail list is now available at
   http://listserv/linguistlist.org/archives/lfg.html

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A starter bibliography on Leximal Mapping Theory (LMT) can now
be found at:
    http:://www-lfg/stanford.edu/lfg/bresnan/lmtbib.html

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Also check out Joan Bresnan's "Unofficial Links and Notes" page for a
wealth of information.

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

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The LFG Website at Stanford continues to grow and 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

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.

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The archive of LFG papers established earlier this year continues to
to be at:
	
  http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg/archive/



Recent LFG Publications
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Ackerman, Farrell, and Gert Webelhuth.  1998.  A Theory of
Predicates.  Stanford: CSLI Publications.

Bod, Rens. 1998.  Beyond Grammar: An Experience-Based Theory
of Language. Stanford: CSLI Publications.

Dalrymple, Mary. (Ed.). 1999. Semantics and Syntax in Lexical
Functional Grammar: The Resource Logic Approach. Cambridge: The MIT
Press.

Faltz, Leonard M. 1985. Reflexivization : a study in universal
syntax. New York : Garland Pub., 1985.

Schwarze, Christoph.  1998. A Lexical-Functional Analysis of Romance
Auxiliaries. Theoretical Linguistics 24(1):83-105.

I Wayan Arka.  1999. Morphosyntax to Pragmatics in Balinese: A
Lexical-Functional Approach.  Revised version of dissertation which
can be found at:
    http://www.sultry.arts.usyd.edu/ling/papers/arka/




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



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		   * Upcoming Events/Conferences *
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1) LFG99: Manchester, England

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

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


1)
	      LEXICAL FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR ANNUAL MEETING
				LFG99

			   19-21 July, 1999
			Manchester University

	       URL: http://lings.ln.man.ac.uk/html/LFG/
		    Enquiries: LFG99 at man.ac.uk

MONDAY JULY 19

9.00-9.45   Peter AUSTIN
            Argument Coding and Clause Linkage in Australian Aboriginal
            Languages
9.45-10.30  Farrell ACKERMAN and John MOORE
            Telic Object as a Proto-Patient Property of Lexical Predicates
10.30-11.15 Anna SIEWIERSKA
            Reduced Pronominals and Argument Prominence

11.15-11.45 BREAK

11.45-12.30 Yukiko MORIMOTO
            Information Packaging and Argument Reversal: An Optimality
            Theoretic Account of English Locative Inversion
12.30-1.15  Lunella MEREU
            On the Grammatical Realization of Discourse Functions in Somali

1.15-2.45 LUNCH

2.45-4.15 WORKSHOP Grammar Writing in LFG - part 1
                   Organizer: Victoria ROSEN
4.15-4.45 BREAK
4.45-6.15 WORKSHOP Grammar Writing in LFG - part 2



TUESDAY JULY 20

9.00-9.45   Tara MOHANAN and KP MOHANAN
            Two Forms of BE in Malayalam
9.45-10.30  Devyani SHARMA
            Nominal Clitics and Constructive Morphology in Hindi

10.30-11.00 BREAK

11.00-11.45 Jonas KUHN
            Towards a Simple Architecture for the Structure-function Mapping
11.45-12.30 Josef VAN GENABITH and Andy WAY
            Semi-Automatic Generation of F-Structures from Treebanks

12.30-2.00 LUNCH

2.00-3.30 WORKSHOP Structure and Representation in Native American
                   Languages - part 1
                   Organizer: George Aaron Broadwell
3.30-4.00 BREAK
4.00-5.30 WORKSHOP Structure and Representation in Native American
                   Languages - part 2

5.30-6.30 BUSINESS MEETING



WEDNESDAY JULY 21

9.00-9.45   Kersti BORJARS, Erika CHISARIK, and John PAYNE
            On the Justification for Functional Categories in LFG
9.45-10.30  Christoph SCHWARZE
            Inflectional Classes in Lexical Functional Morphology -- Latin
            -sk- and its Evolution

10.30-11.00 BREAK

11.00-11.45  Kenji YOKOTA
             Light Verb Constructions in Japanese and Functional Uncertainty
11.45-12.30  Nikolas GISBORNE
             English Light Verbs and the (Non)necessity of Argument
             Structure

12.30-2.00 LUNCH

2.00-2.45    Judith BERMAN
             Does German Satisfy the Subject Condition?
2.45-3.30    Hanjung LEE
             The Domain of Grammatical Case in Lexical-Functional Grammar

3.30-4.00 BREAK

4.00-4.45    John FRY
             Resource-logical Event Semantics for LFG
4.45-5.30    Anette FRANK
             Towards Optimal Linking

5.30-6.00 CLOSING REMARKS


ALTERNATES

Tibor LACZKO
The Anatomy of a Jolly-JokER -- A Comprehensive Analysis of a
Multi-Functional Deverbal Morpheme in Hungarian

Louisa SADLER
Non-Distributive Features and Coordination in Welsh

2) 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
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        - de Hoop: Optimality Theory




3)
                     ESSLLI-99 Workshop on

     LEXICAL SEMANTICS AND LINKING IN CONSTRAINT-BASED THEORIES

                       August 16-20,  1999


ORGANISER: Valia Kordoni (University of Tuebingen)

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Miriam Butt (University of Konstanz)
Anthony Davis (Univ. of California, Santa Barbara)
Dan Flickinger (Stanford University)
Jean-Pierre Koenig (SUNY, Buffalo)

BACKGROUND:

In 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.

Questions related to the workshop should be addressed to:

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

korder at sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de



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		Frequently Asked Questions: FAQs

Information on the following topics is available on the LFG WebPages:

	    http://clwww.essex.ac.uk/LFG/
	    http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/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 or email (see "How to Retrieve LFG Documents" below).

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 listserv.linguistlist.org).  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 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 Listserv "get"
    command.  A list of currently available files can be obtained by
    sending a message to

		  LISTSERV at listserv.linguistlist.org

    (please note: address the message to LISTSERV, not LFG).  The
    message should contain the following command:

			      index lfg

    The following files are available, and there may be additional files
    as well:

    LFG-bulletin.txt	   [the latest version of the LFG Bulletin]
    FAQ.txt		   [the list of Frequently Asked Questions]
    lfgbib.text		   [the LFG bibliography]

    To get a file, send a message to LISTSERV at listserv.linguistlist.org
    containing the following command:

			    get <filename>

    For example, if you want to get the latest version of the FAQ, you
    would send a message to LISTSERV at listserv.linguistlist.org with
    the following command:

			     get FAQ.txt

    You will receive the file in an email message.



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