Program for LFG 2001

[Adams Bodomo]

PROGRAM for the 6th International Lexical Grammar Conference (LFG2001)

Conference Venue: ALL sessions (including paper presentations and
workshops) will be held in the Council Chamber, 8/F Meng Wah Complex,
University of Hong Kong, HONG KONG.

Website: http://www.hku.hk/linguist/research/LFG2001.html
(Please, consult the conference website for up-to-date information about
registration, accommodation, and other arrangements for the conference.)


24/6/2001-SUNDAY

10:00 - 17:00
Arrival/ Pre-LFG event
Hiking: a 3 kilometre walk up Victoria Peak, led by Joan Bresnan and staff
at HKU
Venue: From Robert Black College, HKU (More information on this later)

18:00
Registration and wine party
Venue: Main Building of University of Hong Kong

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25/6/2001 - MONDAY

08:30 - 09:00
Registration

09:00 - 09:30
Opening Ceremony

09:30 - 10:30
Invited speaker:
Sam MCHOMBO (University of California, Berkeley)
Effects of Head-marking on Constituent Order in Chichewa

10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break

**Day 1 - Session 1**

11:00 - 11:45
FALK, Yehuda (The Hebrew Univeristy of Jerusalem, Israel)
Constituent Structure and Grammatical Functions in the Hebrew Action Nominal

11:45 - 12:30
PAYNE, John (University of Manchester, UK), CHISARIK, Erika (University of
Manchester, UK)
Modelling Possessor Constructions in LFG: Hungarian and English

12:30 - 14:00
Lunch

**Day 1 - Session 2**

14:00 - 14:45
ANDREWS, Avery ( Australian National University, Australia)
Iofu and Spreading Architecture in LFG

14:45 - 15:30
WAY, Andy (Dublin City University, Ireland)
LFG-DOT: Translation via c-structures with monolingual f-structure filtering

15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break

16:00 - 19:00
WORKSHOP 1
Workshop on Tense, led by Miriam Butt (University of Konstanz, Germany)

19:30
Dinner

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26/6/2001 - TUESDAY

**Day2 - Session 1**

09:00 - 09:45
BRESNAN, Joan(Stanford University), DINGARE, Shipra (Stanford University),
MANNING, Chris (Stanford University)
Soft Constraints Mirror Hard Constraints: Voice and Person in English and
Lummi

09:45 - 10:30
MORIMOTO, Yukiko (Stanford University)
Deriving the Directionality Parameter in OT-LFG

10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break

**Day2 - Session 2**

11:00 - 11:45
VAN GENABITH, Josef (Dublin City University, Ireland), FRANK, Anette
(German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence GmbH, Germany), WAY,
Andy (Dublin City University, Ireland)
Treebank vs. X-BAR based Automatic F-structure Annotation

11:45 - 12:30
CLEMENT, Lionel (Universite Paris 7, France), KINYON, Alexandra.
(University of Pennsylvania)
XLFG - an LFG Parsing Scheme for French

12:30 - 14:00
Lunch

**Day2 - Session 3**

14:00 - 14:45
DALRYMPLE, Mary (Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, USA), KAPLAN, Ron (Xerox
Palo Alto Research Center, USA), KING, Tracy Holloway (Xerox Palo Alto
Research Center, USA)
Weak Crossover and the Absence of Traces

14:45 - 15:30
KORDONI, Valia (Universitaet des Saarlandes, Germany)
Semantic Underspecification and ¡§Optimal¡¨ Linking

15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break

16:00 - 16:45
FRANK, Anette (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence GmbH,
Germany),VAN GENABITH, Josef (Dublin City University, Ireland)
LL-based Semantics Construction for LTAG - and what it teaches us about the
relation between LFG and LTAG

16:45 - 17:30
MUSKENS, Reinhard (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
Categorial Grammar and Lexical-Functional Grammar

17:30 - 18:30
ILFGA BUSINESS MEETING

19:00
Conference Dinner

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7/6/2001 - WEDNESDAY

09:00 - 10:00
Invited Speaker:
Nigel VINCENT (University of Manchester, UK)
LFG as a Model of Syntactic Change

10:00 - 10:15
Coffee break

**Day 3 - Session 1**

10:15 - 11:00
ACKERMAN, Farrell (University of California, San Diego), MOORE, John
(University of California, San Diego)
Dowtyian Proto-properties and Lexical Mapping Theory

11:00 - 11:45
KELLING, Carmen (University of Konstanz, Germany)
Agentivity and Suffix Selection

11:45 - 12:30
KIBORT, Anna (Cambridge University)
The Polish Passive and Impersonal in Lexical Mapping Theory

12:30 - 14:00
Lunch

14:00 - 17:00
WORKSHOP 2
Workshop on LFG analysis of Chinese, led by Adams Bodomo and Luke Kang Kwong
(University of Hong Kong)

17:00 - 17:30
Coffee break

**Day 3 - Session 2**

17:30 - 18:15
LOEDRUP, Helge (University of Oslo, Norway)
Pseudocoordinations in Norwegian and Control Theory

18:15 - 19:00
YOKOTA, Kenji (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Complex-Predicate Formation and Some Consequences in Japanese

19:00 - 19:15
Closing Remarks

19:30
Dinner

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28/6/2001- THURSDAY
Shopping/ Sightseeing/ Departure


Alternates:
SCHWARZE, Christophe (University of Konstanz, Germany) On representing
French and Italian Clitics

LACZKO, Tibor (University of Debrecen, Hungary) Participles and Adjectives
in Hungarian and English