LFG bulletin

Tracy Holloway King thking at parc.com
Thu Apr 3 16:29:49 UTC 2003


                              LFG BULLETIN
                               MARCH 2003


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                   * LINGUISTICS IN THE LITERATURE  *
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Q: As far as grammar, what is the difference between "bring" and
"take"?

A: "Bring is a prehensile imprecation that must be used in the
vindictive tense:

   EXAMPLE: "Earl should never of brung Silly String to the viewing."

Whereas "take" is used in fraternal exhortations:

   EXAMPLE: "Take a gander at THEM headlamps!"

Dave Barry, "You, like, better watch your language, mister", Miami
Herald, 2002.

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                             * OTHER NEWS *
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LFG 2003:
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     Local Organizer: Prof. G. Aaron Broadwell
     Email contact: g.broadwell at albany.edu

                              LFG 2003

                         2003 INTERNATIONAL
                LEXICAL FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR CONFERENCE

                        DATES 16-18 July 2003

                        Saratoga Springs, NY


Please book your hotel rooms early since they are filling up rapidly.
More information is available at:

http://www.albany.edu/anthro/lfg2003/lfg2003.htm

ATTENTION:  Pre-conference activities for LFG 2003

Those attending LFG 2003 are encouraged to participate in an afternoon of
low-key pre-conference activities.

We'll meet each other at 12:00 noon in front of the Canfield Casino, in
Congress Park, Broadway, Saratoga Springs. (This is in the middle of
downtown
Saratoga Springs.  Your hotel can give you directions.)

We'll have a picnic lunch there, and then split up for activities of various
energy levels:
-- walking tour of downtown, with frequent stops for ice-cream, drinks,
pommes frites, and/or chocolate
-- hiking at Lake George
-- visits to local museums
-- other fun things

If you think you'll be coming to the pre-conference day, send an e-mail to
the organizers at g.broadwell at albany.edu.  That will help us figure out how
many to expect and give us a clearer idea of our transportation needs.


Tuesday, July 15

12:00        Informal pre-conference gathering
              (Picnic lunch, hiking, visits to local museums, and
              other activities)


Wednesday, July 16 (FIRST CONFERENCE DAY)

9:00-10:30   SPECIAL SESSION 1
              "1978-2003: The 25th Anniversary of the First Course on LFG"
              Joan Bresnan

10:30-11:00  Coffee break

11:00-12:20 SESSION 1A

              Yehuda N. Falk: "The English Auxiliary System Revisited"
              Rachel Nordlinger & Louisa Sadler: "The Syntax and Semantics
                  of Tensed Nominals"

12:20-2:00  Lunch break

2:00-3:20    SESSION 1B

              Maia Androasson, Kersti Borjars, & Elisabet Engdahl:
                  "Subject positions in Swedish"
              Elizabeth Coppock: "Sometimes it's hard to be Coherent"

  3:20- 3:40  Coffee break

  3:40- 5:00  SESSION 1C

              Aoife Cahill, Mairead McCarthy, Josef Van Genabith, & Andy
                  Way: "Lexicalisation of Long-Distance Dependencies in a
                  Treebank-Based, Statistical LFG Grammar"
              Anette Frank: "Projecting LFG F-Structures from Chunks"

  5:30- 7:00  POSTER/DEMO SESSION
              Miriam Butt, Tracy King & John Maxwell: "Complex Predication
                  via Restriction" (POSTER/DEMO)
              Aoife Cahill, Mairead McCarthy, Josef Van Genabith, & Andy
                  Way: "Extracting Large-Scale Lexical Resources for LFG
                  from the Penn-II Treebank" (DEMO)
              Aoife Cahill, Mairead McCarthy, Josef Van Genabith, & Andy
                  Way: "A Suite of Linguistic Tools for Use with the Penn-II
                  Treebank" (POSTER)
              Anette Frank: "Projecting LFG F-Structures from Chunks"
                  (accompanying DEMO to the talk at 4:20)
              Martin Frost: "Treebank Conversion - Creating a German
                  f-structure bank from the TIGER corpus" (POSTER)
              Ron Kaplan & Tracy King: "Integration of low-level mark-up
                  with large-scale LFG grammatical analysis" (POSTER)


Thursday, July 17 (SECOND CONFERENCE DAY)

9:00-10:30   SPECIAL SESSION 2
              "1978-2003: The 25th Anniversary of the First Course on LFG"
              Ron Kaplan

10:30-11:00  Coffee break

11:00-12:20  SESSION 2A

              Ryo Otoguro: "Focus clitics and discourse information
                  spreading"
              Leonoor van der Beek: "The Dutch cleft constructions"

12:20- 1:45  Lunch break

1:45- 5:00   WORKSHOP "THE SYNTAX OF NATIVE AMERICAN LANGUAGES:
                  LEXICALIST PERSPECTIVES"
              George Aaron Broadwell: "Optimality, complex predication, and
                 parallel structures in Zapotec"
              Matthew Beach:  "Asymmetries between passivization and
                 antipassivization in Inuktitut"
              Amy Dahlstrom: "Focus constructions in Meskwaki (Fox)"
              Lachlan Duncan: "Tz'utujil (Maya) clause structure"
              Mary Catherine O'Connor: "Pronominal incorporation and
                 agreement inside the noun phrase"

  5:30- 7:30  ILFGA business meeting


Friday, July 18 (THIRD CONFERENCE DAY)

  9:00- 10:20 SESSION 3A

              Sam Mchombo & Yukiko Morimoto: "Local constraints in
                  Chichewa discontinuous constituents"
              Hanjung Lee: "Quantitative Variation in Object Marking
                  in Korean: An Experimental Study"


10:20-10:40  Coffee break

10:40-11:10  STUDENT DISSERTATION SESSION
              Lee Yat Mei Sophia: "Complement Functions in Cantonese:
                  A Lexical-Functional Grammar Approach"

11:10-12:30 SESSION 3B

              Valia Kordoni: "Valence Alternations: at the Syntax-Semantics
                  Interface"
              Cholthicha Sudmuk: "The thuuk Construction in Thai"

12:30- 2:00  Lunch break

2:00-3:20 SESSION 3C

              Juergen Wedekind & Bjarne Ørsnes: "Restriction and Verbal
                  Complexes in LFG -- A Case Study for Danish"
              Jonas Kuhn: "Generalized Tree Descriptions for LFG"

  3:20- 3:40  Coffee break

  3:40- 5:00 SESSION 3D

              KP & Tara Mohanan: "Universal and language-particular
                  constraints in OT-LFG"
              Tara & KP Mohanan: "Inputs and Candidates in OT-LFG"


ALTERNATE PAPERS (in alphabetical order)

   Adams B. Bodomo, Olivia Lam & Natalie Yu: "Expressing the Benefactive in
                   Hong Kong Chinese"

   Lionel Clement & Alexandra Kinyon: "Generating LFGs with a MetaGrammar"

   Andrew Spencer: "A Realization Approach to Case"

(The alternate papers that are not picked to replace a talk will be
presented in the POSTER SESSION on Wednesday July 16.)



Recent LFG Publications:
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Butt, Miriam, Tracy Holloway King, and John T. Maxwell III. 2003.
Productive Encoding of Urdu Complex Predicates in the ParGram
Project.  Proceedings of EACL03, Workshop on Computational Linguistics
for South Asian Languages: Expanding Synergies with Europe.

King, Tracy Holloway, Richard Crouch, Stefan Riezler, Mary Dalrymple,
and Ronald Kaplan.  2003.  The PARC 700 Dependency Bank. Proceedings
of EACL03: 4th International Workshop on Linguistically Interpreted
Corpora (LINC-03).



Upcoming LFG Conferences:
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  - LFG 2004: University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
              Hosted by Ida Toivonen and Ash Asudeh
              Dates are to be determined.

  - LFG 2005: Will be held somewhere in Europe/Africa.  Bids will
              be considered at the LFG2003 conference business
              meeting.  Please send a message to Tracy Holloway
              King (thking at parc.com) if you intend to put in a bid.
              Note that you may put in a bid even if you cannot
              attend the conference.



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

0. *Donate at the conference!*

    ILFGA will be accepting donations at LFG03 in Saratoga Springs.

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


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                              * EDITORS *
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Please send updates, suggestions and news for inclusion in the next
LFG Bulletin (June 2003) to:

       mutt at ccl.umist.ac.uk
       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


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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.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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