LFG 2003 -- Conference Program

Jonas Kuhn jonask at MAIL.UTEXAS.EDU
Mon May 5 23:09:40 UTC 2003


                      Lexical Functional Grammar 2003

        THE 8TH INTERNATIONAL LEXICAL FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR CONFERENCE

                               Sponsored by
              The Program in Linguistics and Cognitive Science
             University at Albany, State University of New York

                             July 16-18, 2003
                         Saratoga Springs, New York

   For registration information, please refer to the conference website:
             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, 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- 11:00 SESSION 3A

	     Sam Mchombo & Yukiko Morimoto: "Local constraints in
                 Chichewa discontinuous constituents"
	     KP & Tara Mohanan: "Universal and language-particular
                 constraints in OT-LFG"
	     Tara & KP Mohanan: "Inputs and Candidates in OT-LFG"

11:00-11:20  Coffee break

11:20-12:40  SESSION 3B

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

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"



ALTERNATE PAPER

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

(If the alternate paper is not picked to replace a talk, it will be
presented in the POSTER SESSION on Wednesday July 16.)



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