LFG 2003 conference program -- updated version

[Jonas Kuhn]

The following updated version of the LFG 2003 contains a number of changes
(mainly on the third conference day).  For information on the conference
venue etc., please check the conference website.



                             LFG 2003

                        2003 INTERNATIONAL
               LEXICAL FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR CONFERENCE

                       DATES 16-18 July 2003

                       Saratoga Springs, NY

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


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 Andreasson, 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, Ruth O'Donovan,
                 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,  Ruth O'Donovan,
                 Josef Van Genabith, & Andy Way: "Extracting Large-Scale
                 Lexical Resources for LFG from the Penn-II Treebank"
                 (DEMO)
             Aoife Cahill, Mairead McCarthy, Ruth O'Donovan,
                 Josef Van Genabith, & Andy Way: "A Suite of Linguistic
                 Tools for Use with the Penn-II Treebank" (POSTER)
             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

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

10:20-10:40  Coffee break

10:40-12:40  SESSION 3B

             Valia Kordoni: "Valence Alternations: at the Syntax-Semantics
                 Interface"
             Cholthicha Sudmuk: "The thuuk Construction in Thai"
             Adams B. Bodomo, Olivia Lam & Natalie Yu: "Expressing the
                 Benefactive in Hong Kong Chinese"

12:40- 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

             Lionel Clement & Alexandra Kinyon: "Generating LFGs with
                 a MetaGrammar"
             Andrew Spencer: "A Realization Approach to Case"