LFG bulletin

Tracy Holloway King thking at parc.xerox.com
Wed Jul 7 21:05:06 UTC 1999


			     LFG BULLETIN
			      JUNE 1999


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			     * PREFACE *
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The editors would like to apologize for the delay in getting out
this bulletin (people who are paying attention will have noted
that it's not June anymore but July).

We have good excuses.

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			       * NEWS *
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Announcements:
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  - ESSLLI99 will be held in Utrecht this August.  Details
    are given below.

  - The LSA summer school held this year at the University of Illinois at
    Urbana-Champaign from June 21 to July 30 includes the following
    course:

	Morphosyntax in LFG/OT, LING 495 section BN
	Joan Bresnan (Stanford University)
	Rachel Nordlinger (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
	                   in Nijmegen)


  - LFG99 is upon us --- July 19-21, 1999 at the University of
    Manchester, Manchester, England.

    All the participants who haven't yet done their handouts/slides
    are presumably engaged in doing so as this bulletin goes out.
    Good luck to you all.

    The final program is included below.

    Further Information can be found at:

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


  - A BUSINESS MEETING will take place as part of the LFG conference.

    One of the issues that will be discussed are future venues of the
    conference.

	1) Adams Bodomo at Hong Kong has put in a bid for
	   LFG2001, which is to be held in Asia.

        2) Stella Markantonatou at the National Technical University
	   of Athens has expressed interested in hosting LFG2002 (to
	   be held in Europe).

    If anybody else is interested in putting in a suggestion for
    LFG2001 or LFG2002, please direct them to the Executive Committe
    or bring them up at the business meeting in Manchester.

  - Voting to replace Miriam Butt and Farrell Ackerman on the
    executive committee is currently underway, as is approval for
    Yehuda Falk to replace Mary Dalrymple as the LFG list maintainer.
    All ILFGA members should have received their ballots
    electronically.

    So far, the voting has been quite close, so your vote does
    make a difference.  If you haven't voted as yet, you still can
    as the ballots are due back August 15, 1999.


  - 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).

  - Series in Constraint Based Lexicalism, CSLI Publications

    Miriam Butt and Tracy King have joined the editorial board of the
    Series in Constraint Based Lexicalism produced by CSLI
    Publications.

    There are two books out in this series already:

	  1) Lexical and Constructional Aspects of Linguistic
	     Explanation, edited by Gert Webelhuth, Jean-Pierre Koenig
	     and Andreas Kathol

	  2) Slavic in HPSG, edited by Robert Borsley and Adam
             Przepiorkowski.

    We currently have 4 LFG books in production which are based on
    papers arising out of presentations of the last three LFG
    conferences.   These books will appear as part of the series.


Recent LFG Publications
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Butt, Miriam, Tracy Holloway King, Maria-Eugenia Nino, and Frederique
Segond. 1999.  A Grammar Writer's Cookbook.  Stanford: CSLI
Publications.

Dalrymple, Mary. (Ed.). 1999. Semantics and Syntax in Lexical
Functional Grammar: The Resource Logic Approach. Cambridge: The MIT
Press. Includes:
    	Richard Crouch, Mary Dalrymple, John Fry, Vineet Gupta, Mark
	Johnson, Andrew Kehler, John Lamping, Dick Oehrle, Fernando
	Pereira, Vijay Saraswat, Josef van Genabith.

Mohahan, Tara, and Lionel Wee (Eds.).  1999.  Grammatical Semantics:
Evidence of Structure in Meaning.  Stanford: CSLI Publications and
National University of Singapore.  Includes:
	"Introduction." by K. P. Mohanan, Tara Mohanan, and Lionel Wee
	"On Representations in Grammatical Semantics." by Tara Mohanan
                   and K. P. Mohanan
	"On the Representation of Event Structure." by Alex Alsina
   	Comments on Alsina by Vivienne Fong
	"Explaining Grammatical Polysemy." by Lionel Wee
	"Representing the Semantics of BA in Mandarin." by Geraint Wong
    	Comments on Wong by Mary Dalrymple
	"Representing Presuppositions." by K. P. Mohanan and Tara Mohanan
         Comments on K. P. Mohanan and T. Mohanan by Jane Simpson

Sag, Ivan, and Thomas Wasow.  1999.  Syntactic Theory: A Formal
Introduction. Stanford: CSLI Publications.  (Instructor's Manual
currently being written.)

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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

NOTE: Housing and registration information is available at the above
      web site.


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
                   Organizer: Victoria ROSEN

                   Victoria ROSEN
                   Introduction

                   Annie ZAENEN
                   From theory to practice: a rocky road

                   Miriam BUTT, Stefanie DIPPER, Anette FRANK,
                   Tracy KING, and Jonas KUHN
                   ParGram Project: Introduction
                                    How a Grammar is Written
                                    Theoretical Implications

4.15-4.45 BREAK
4.45-6.15 WORKSHOP Grammar Writing in LFG

                   Miriam BUTT, Stefanie DIPPER, Anette FRANK,
                   Tracy KING, and Jonas KUHN
                   ParGram Project cont.

                   Helge DYVIK
                   The universality of f-structure: discovery or
                   stipulation? The case of modals

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, Andy WAY and Louisa SADLER
            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 Organizer: George Aaron BROADWELL

                   Jack MARTIN
		   Optimal possession in Creek

	           Mary Catherine O'CONNOR
		   The interaction of syntax and pragmatics in
                   Northern Pomo: Towards an optimal solution


3.30-4.00 BREAK
4.00-5.30 WORKSHOP Structure and Representation in Native American
                   Languages

                   George Aaron BROADWELL
		   Optimal order and focus alignment in Two
                   Otomanguean languages

                   Amy DAHLSTROM
		   Non-thematic objects in Fox


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    Louisa SADLER
             Non-Distributive Features and Coordination in Welsh

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


ALTERNATE

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


2) ESSLII-99, the Eleventh European Summer School in Logic, Language
and Information will be held in 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
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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


ORGANISOR: Valia Kordoni (University of Tuebingen)


			  TENTATIVE SCHEDULE


Monday, August 16, 1999

17:00-17:45
	Anthony R. Davis (Santa Barbara, and Cycorp, Inc., Austin)
        Linking and the Hierarchical Lexicon

17:45-18:30
        Jean-Pierre Koenig (SUNY at Buffalo):
        The architecture of lexical semantics


Tuesday, August 17, 1999

17:00-17:45
        Dan Flickinger (CSLI, Stanford):
        On using a hierarchy of lexical types for cross-categorial
        regularities in subcategorization

17:45-18:30
        Mike Calcagno (Ohio-State University and Universitaet Tuebingen):
        The role of argument structure in an account of the
        interaction between reflexives and causatives in French


Wednesday, August 18, 1999

17:00-17:45
         Miriam Butt (Universitaet Konstanz):
         The Development of Linking Theory in LFG

17:45-18:30
         Mayumi Masuko (Waseda University, Tokyo)
         Conditions for Argument Suppression


Thursday, August 19, 1999

17:00-17:45
         Jose Castano (Brandeis University):
         Spanish Clitics and Event Structure


17:45-18:30
         Christof Rumpf and Barbara Stiebels (Duesseldorf):
         Representing LDG in a Constraint-based framework


Friday, August 20, 1999

17:00-17:45
         Claudia Kunze (Universitaet Tuebingen):
         Semantics of Verbs within GermaNet and EuroWordNet


17:45-18:30
         Natalia Brines-Moya (University of Essex):
         Romance Grammatical Markers


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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/


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			     * EDITORS *
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Please send updates, suggestions and news for inclusion in the next
LFG Bulletin (September 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
 - recent dissertations

Thank you,
   Miriam Butt and Tracy Holloway King


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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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