LFG bulletin

Tracy Holloway King thking at PARC.XEROX.COM
Wed Jul 2 16:51:22 UTC 2003


			     LFG BULLETIN
			      JUNE 2003


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		  * LINGUISTICS IN THE LITERATURE  *
		    ------------------------------
			     Iris Murdoch
		      The Agamemnon Class, 1939

		      Do you remember Professor
		      Eduard Fraenkel's endless
		       Class on the Agamemnon?
	    Between line eighty three and line a thousand
		    It seemed to us our innocence
		   Was lost, our youth laid waste,
		  In that pellucid unforgiving air,
		  The aftermath experienced before,
		Focused by dread into a lurid flicker,
	      A most uncanny composite of sun and rain.
	       Did we expect the war? What did we fear?
	      First love's incinerating crippling flame,
		       Or that it would appear
		  in  public that we could not name
		  the Aorist of some familiar verb.
				 ...

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			    * OTHER NEWS *
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ILFGA 2003 Business Meeting:
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The ILFGA business meeting will be held at LFG03 on Thursday, July 17
from 5.30 to 7.30.  Everyone is welcome to attend.

Please send Tracy Holloway King (thking at parc.com) topics for the agenda.

One item that will be covered is the location of LFG05 which will be
held somewhere in Europe/Middle East/Africa.  If you plan to put in a
bid to host LFG05, please contact me so that I can put your bid on the
agenda.  You can either make the bid yourself at the business meeting
or, if you are unable to attend, you can appoint a proxy to make the bid
for you.  [NOTE: LFG04 will be in New Zealand; LFG06 will be in the
Americas.]

If you are not a member of ILFGA, please consider joining.
Membership is free of charge. To join ILFGA, send mail to:

    majordomo at lists.stanford.edu

with the following message:

    subscribe ilfga-members


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

	   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 Orsnes: "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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NOTE: Please send Miriam Butt (mutt at ccl.umist.ac.uk) or Tracy Holloway
King (thking at parc.com) email to have your publications included.  The
LFG03 proceedings will be published this fall as a CSLI On-Line
Publication, as usual.

Ken Beesley and Lauri Karttunen. 2003.  Finite State Morphology.  CSLI
Publications.

Ronald M. Kaplan and Annie Zaenen. 2003. Things are not always
equal. In A. Gelbukh (ed.), Computational Linguistics and Intelligent
Text Processing. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 2588, pages
205-216. Hidelberg: Springer Verlag.

Ronald M. Kaplan. 2003. Syntax. In R. Mitkov (ed.), Handbook of
computational linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 70-90.

ParGram Papers:

	The Feature Space in Parallel Grammar Writing (M. Butt,
	M. Forst, T.H. King, and J. Kuhn) 2003. ESSLLI 2003 Workshop
	on Ideas and Strategies for Multilingual Grammar Development.
	http://www.parc.com/istl/groups/nltt/papers/esslli03feat.pdf

	Multilingual Grammar Development via Grammar Porting (R. Kim,
	M. Dalrymple, R. Kaplan, T.H. King, H. Masuichi, and
	T. Ohkuma) 2003. ESSLLI 2003 Workshop on Ideas and Strategies
	for Multilingual Grammar Development.
	http://www.parc.com/istl/groups/nltt/papers/esslli03kor.pdf

	Productive encoding of Urdu complex predicates in the ParGram
	Project (Miriam Butt, Tracy Holloway King, and John
	Maxwell) 2003. In Proceedings of the EACL03: Workshop on
	Computational Linguistics for South Asian Languages: Expanding
	Synergies with Europe.


Baby Glue:
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Avery Andrews's newest BabyGlue implementation is now available.
BabyGlue 2.0 is a simple implementation of glue-logic-based semantic
assembly.

http://arts.anu.edu.au/\Linguistics\People\AveryAndrews\Software

This implementation does the full implicational fragment, so the two
readings of 'seek' work out without special fiddles.


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

 - 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 fxpal.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 (September 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 mutt at ccl.umist.ac.uk 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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