LFG bulletin

Tracy Holloway King thking at parc.xerox.com
Wed Jun 12 17:05:43 UTC 2002


			     LFG BULLETIN
			      JUNE 2002


		    ------------------------------
		     * LINGUISTICS IN THE NEWS  *
		  ---------------------------------

Q: I am a top business executive writing an important memo, and I wish
to know if the following wording is correct: "As far as sale, your
figures do not jive with our parameters."

A: You have made the common grammatical error of using the fricative
infundibular tense following a third-person corpuscular imprecation.
the correct wording is: "You're fired."

Dave Barry, "Mr. Language Person", Miami Herald, 2001.


			   ----------------
			    * OTHER NEWS *
			   ----------------


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

Alsina, Alex. 2001. Is Case Another Name for Grammatical Function?
Evidence from Object Asymmetries. In Objects and other Subjects.
Grammatical Functions, Functional Categories and Configurationality, ed.
William D. Davies and Stanley Dubinsky, 77-102. Dordrecht: Kluwer
Academic Publishers.

Asudeh, Ash. 2002. A resource-sensitive semantics for equi and raising.
In David Beaver, Stefan Kaufmann, Brady Clark, and Luis Casillas (eds.),
The construction of meaning. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications.

Asudeh, Ash and Richard Crouch. 2002. Glue semantics for HPSG. In Frank
van Eynde, Lars Hellan and Dorothee Beermann (eds.), Proceedings of the
HPSG '01 Conference. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications.

Crouch, Richard, Ron Kaplan, Tracy Holloway King, and Stefan
Riezler. 2002.  A Comparison of Evaluation Metrics for a
Broad-coverage Stochastic Parser".  Workshop Proceedings "Beyond
Parseval - Towards Improved Evaluation Measures for Parsing
Systems. LREC 2002. pp 67-74.

Recent Dissertations:

Ida Toivonen, Stanford University, 2001
The Phrase Structure of Non-Projecting Words

This dissertation concerns the syntactic realization of `small words',
by which I mean words that are not morphologically bound morphemes,
although they are also not fully projecting words.  These elements are
problematic for three reasons: first, they are difficult to categorize
structurally; second, they do not form a uniform class; and third,
they do not fit neatly into most theories of phrase structure.  The
empirical focus is on Swedish verbal particles, but I also discuss
Danish, German and English particles (or words that are traditionally
called particles), as well as clitics from a variety of languages.
Most example sentences are drawn from published sources, mainly the
Swedish PAROLE corpus, available on the WWW at
http://www.spraakdata.gu.se/lb/parole.  Some examples are also
elicited from native speakers. The formal analysis is cast in Lexical
Functional Grammar.

Available electronically at: http://www-cmll.concordia.ca/linguistics/toivonen/


(Please send us the citation for your recent publications to include
in the next issue; announcements of publicly available theses are
encouraged.)


Upcoming LFG Conferences:
-------------------------

 - LFG 2004: Proposals now being accepted.  Contact Tracy Holloway
   King at thking at parc.com if you are interested in hosting LFG04.


 -  LFG2003, State University of New York, Albany	

    local Organizer: Prof. G. Aaron Broadwell
    email contact: g.broadwell at albany.edu

    Exact dates are yet to be determined.


 -  LFG2002, Athens, 3-5 July 2002

     Now accepting pre-registration.
     Program below.

       organizers: Dr. Yanis Maistros
                   Dr. Stella Markantonatou
       email: marks at ilsp.gr
       web page: http://thais.cs.ece.ntua.gr/LFG2002/

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME (subject to change)

Tuesday July 2, 2002

 19.00 - 20.00 Registration
 20.00 - 21.30 informal gathering event

Wednesday July 3, 2002

 8.00 - all day Registration
 9.00 -10.00 opening session

 10.00-10.15 BREAK

 10.15-12.30 SESSION A
 10.15-11.00 Tracy Holloway King and Mary Dalrymple
       Agreement inside and outside the noun phrase
 11.00-11.45 Anette Frank
       A (discourse) functional analysis of asymmetric coordination
 11.45-12.30 Ash Asudeh and Richard Crouch
       Coordination and parallelism in Glue Semantics:
       integrating discourse cohesion and the element constraint

 12.30-14.00 LUNCH

 14.00-15.30 RECENT PhD SESSION
 14.00-14.30 Hyun-Ju Park
       Object Asymmetry in Korean
 14.30-15.00 Henk Vanhoe
       Aspects of the syntax of psychological verbs in Spanish:
       a lexical functional analysis
 15.00-15.30 Ida Toivonen
       The phrase structure of non-projecting words

 15.30-15.45 BREAK

 15.45-17.15 SESSION B
 15.45-16.30 Mark Johnson
       Dynamic programming for Stochastic Lexical-Functional Grammars
 16.30-17.15 Jonas Kuhn
       Corpus-based learning in Stochastic OT-LFG - Experiments
       with a bidirectional bootstrapping approach

 17.15-17.30 BREAK

 17.30-19.00 POSTER SESSION

 Posters/Alternate Papers (in alphabetical order)

 Farrell Ackerman
 The Morphology of Periphrasis: arguments from Tundra Nenets

 Carmen Kelling
 Argument Realization: French Psych Verb Nominalizations

 Posters (in alphabetical order)

 J. Gabriel Amores and J. F. Quesada
 Delfos2: A Dialogue System inspired in LFG

 Erika Chisarik
 The syntax of partitive noun phrases in Hungarian: An LFG approach

 Frederick Hoyt
 Topic, Subject and Syntactic Predication in Arabic

 Valia Kordoni
 Participle-Adjective Formation in Modern Greek

 Tibor Laczko
 Control and complex event nominals in Hungarian

 Rob O'Connor
 Clitics in LFG -- Prosodic Structure and Phrasal Affixation

 Johannes Thomann
 LFG as a pedagogical grammar

 Nicholas Yates
 French Causatives: a bi-clausal account

 Heike Zinsmeister, Jonas Kuhn and Stefanie Dipper
 Utilizing LFG Parses for Treebank Annotation

Thursday July 4, 2002

 9.00-10.30 SESSION A
 9.00-9.45 Yehuda Falk
      Resumptive Pronouns in LFG
 9.45-10.30 Dorothee Beermann and Lars Hellan
       VP-Chaining in Oriya

 10.30-11.00 BREAK

 11.00-12.30 SESSION B
 11.00-11.45 Ash Asudeh
        The syntax of preverbal particles and adjunction in Irish
 11.45-12.30 T. Florian Jaeger and Veronica Gerassimova
        Bulgarian word order and the role of the direct object
        clitic in LFG

 12.30-14.00 LUNCH

 14.00-15.30 SESSION C
 14.00-14.45 Lionel Clement, Kim Gerdes and Sylvain Kahane
       A Topological Grammar for German implemented in XLFG
 14.45-15.30 Aoife Cahill, Mairead McCarthy, Josef Van Genabith and Andy Way
       Parsing with a PCFG and Automatic F-Structure Annotation

 15.30-15.45 BREAK

 15.45-17.15 ParGram Demo

 17.30-18.30 ILFGA business meeting

Friday July 5, 2002

 9.00-10.30 SESSION A

 9.00-9.45 George Aaron Broadwell
      Constraint symmetry and branching order
 9.45-10.30 Yukiko Morimoto
       Prominence mismatches and differential object marking in Bantu

 10.30-11.00 BREAK

 11.00-12.30 SESSION B
 11.00-11.45 Bjarne Oersnes
       Subject extraction, case marking and empty categories in Danish
 11.45-12.30 Helge Lodrup
       Infinitival complements and the form-function relation

 12.30-14.00 LUNCH

 14.00-15.30 MORPHOLOGY SESSION I
 14.00-14.45 Rachel Nordlinger and Louisa Sadler
       'Revisiting Morphological Composition'
 14.45-15.30 Dan Brassil
       Maintaining the Strong Lexicalist Hypothesis: A
       Morphological Approach to Periphrasis

 15.30-16.00 BREAK

 16.00-17.30 MORPHOLOGY SESSION II
 16.00-16.45 Ana Luis, Louisa Sadler and Andrew Spencer
       Phrasal affixation and the syntax/morphology interface

 16.45-17.30 Miriam Butt and Ron Kaplan
       The Morphology Syntax interface in LFG

Saturday July 6, 2002

8am TOUR OF THE ACROPOLIS


 			     -----------
			     * ILFGA *
			     -----------

VOTING: There will be a vote to replace two of the executive committee
members coming up this summer.  In order to vote you must be an ILFGA
member.  There is no fee to belong.  All you have to do is send mail
to:
      majordomo at lists.stanford.edu
with the message:
      subscribe ilfga-members

Ballots will be sent out June 14.
	

DONATE TO ILFGA:  There are three ways to make a donation:

0. *Donate at the conference!*

   ILFGA will be accepting donations in euros at Athens.

1. Send a check made out to "Intl. Lexical Functional Grammar
Assc." in US dollars to:

   Tracy Holloway King
   NLTT/ISTL
   PARC
   3333 Coyote Hill Rd
   Palo Alto, CA 94304
   USA

This is the simplest (and cheapest) method if you have access to US
dollars.

2. Have money transfered directly into the account.  For this you
   need the account number and the ABA number (this number
   identifies the bank):

   Acct number: 01185-04085
   ABA number: 121000358

   Acct name: Intl. Lexical Functional Grammar Assc.
   Bank name: Bank of America

Note that there is usually a fee for transferring money this way and
so several people from the same institution/country may wish to
combine their donations into a single transfer.

Please let Tracy Holloway King (thking at parc.com) know once you
have made the deposit to get your receipt.

ILFGA is a 501(3)c organization (i.e. a non-profit) and as such
contributions are tax deductible in the US (and perhaps elsewhere; if
you are not in the US, check your home country for tax status). A
receipt will be issued for each donation.


BE IN THE ILFGA DATABASE:

   Please add yourself to the ILFGA linguist database.
   To do so, send email to Chris Culy (culy at ai.sri.com) with the
   following information:

	NAME
	AFFILIATION
	OFFICIAL ADDRESS
	EMAIL ADDRESS
	WEB PAGE
	RESEARCH INTERESTS
	RESEARCH LANGUAGES

   The database can be accessed at:

    http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg/ilfga/member-database/ilfga-namelist.html


JOIN ILFGA:

   If you haven't yet, you can still join ILFGA, the International
   Lexical Functional Grammar Association by sending mail to:
   majordomo at lists.stanford.edu with the message:

                     subscribe ilfga-members

 			     -----------
			     * EDITORS *
			     -----------

Please send updates, suggestions and news for inclusion in the next
LFG Bulletin (September 2002) to:

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


-----------------------------------------------------------------------

		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.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

				 ---

                  * 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.



More information about the LFG mailing list