LFG 2005 -- Program

[Tara Mohanan]

Apologies to those who receive multiple copies of this message.

Attached below is the program for LFG 2005, to be 
held in Bergen, Norway, 18-20 July. The program 
is available online at: http://ling.uib.no/lfg05/

A reminder about accommodation to all attending LFG05:
The local organization committee has reserved a 
number of rooms at hotels and bed and breakfasts 
around the city. The rooms will be held only 
until APRIL 30, so if you haven't already made 
reservations, please do so RIGHT AWAY!

Also, due date for conference registration: JUNE 1.

Tara and Aoife


LFG05 PROGRAM

SATURDAY, 16 JULY /SUNDAY 17 JULY

Pre-conference Activities


MONDAY, 18 JULY

8:30 - 9:00	Registration
9:00 - 9:20	Welcome
9:20 - 10:20	Invited Talk
		Dan Flickenger (Stanford University)  Title to be announced
10:20 - 10:40	Coffee
10:40 - 12:00	Session 1A
		Ingo Mittendorf and Louisa Sadler
			Numerals, Nouns and Number in Welsh NPs
		Alex Alsina, Tara Mohanan, and KP Mohanan
			How to get rid of the COMP
12:00 - 13:20	Lunch
13:20 - 14:50	Student Session
		Jan Strunk
			Pro-Drop in Nominal Possessive Constructions
		Rob O'Connor
			Information Structure in Lexical-Functional Grammar:
			The Discourse-Prosody Correspondence in English
			and Serbo-Croatian
		Miltiadis Kokkonidis
			Why glue your donkey to an f-structure,
			when you can bind it instead?
14:50 - 15:10	Coffee
15:10 - 16:30	Session 1B
  		Michael Burke, Josef van Genabith and Andy Way
			Evaluating Automatically Acquired F-Structures
			against Propbank
		John Judge, Michael Burke, Aoife Cahill, Ruth O' Donovan,
		Josef van Genabith and Andy Way
			Strong Domain Variation 
and Treebank-Induced LFG Resources
16:30 - 18:30	Workshop 1: Agreement and its role in grammar
  		Mary Dalrymple, Louisa Sadler, 
Aline Villavincencio and Irina Nikolaeva

TUESDAY, 19 JULY

9:00 - 10:20	Session 2A
		Miriam Butt and Tracy Holloway King
			Restriction for Morphological Valency Alternations:
			The Urdu Causative
		Andrew Spencer
			Case in Hindi-Urdu
10:20 - 10:40	Coffee
10:40 - 12:40	Session 2B
		Christian Fortmann
			On Parentheticals (in German)
		Stefanie Dipper
			German Quantifiers -- Determiners or Adjectives?
		Leonel Figueiredo de Alencar and Carmen Kelling
			Are Reflexive Constructions Transitive or Intransitive?
			Evidence from German and Romance
12:40 - 14:10	Lunch
14:10 - 15:30	Session 2C
		Louise Mycock	Wh-in-situ in Constituent Questions
		Adam Cooper		A Glue Semantics Approach to Sluicing
15:30 - 16:00	Coffee
16:00 - 18:00	Workshop 2: LFG Approaches to Clitics
		Organizer: Tracy Holloway King

WEDNESDAY, 20 JULY

9:00 - 10:20	Session 3A
		Martin Forst and Jonas Kuhn
			Corpus-based learning of OT constraint rankings
			or large-scale LFG grammars
		Helge Dyvik, Victoria Rosén and Paul Meurer
			LFG, Minimal Recursion Semantics and Translation
10:20 - 10:40	Coffee
10:40 - 12:00	Session 3B
		Bruno Estigarribia
			Direct Object Clitic Doubling in OT-LFG:
			A New Look at Rioplatense Spanish
		Kersti Börjars and Nigel Vincent
			Objects: position vs function
12:00 - 14:00	Poster Session and Lunch
		Dorothee Beermann, Jonathan 
Brindle, Lars Hellan, Solomon Tedla,
		Florence Bayiga, Janicke Furberg, Yvonne Otoo and
		Mary Esther Kropp Dakubu
			Constraints on 
Comparatives in a Lexical-Functional Approach
		George Aaron Broadwell
			It ain't necessarily S(V)O: Two kinds of VSO languages
		Helge Dyvik, Victoria Rosén, Dorothee Beermann, John Carroll,
		Dan Flickinger, Lars Hellan, 
Janne Bondi Johannessen, Jan Tore Lønning,
  		Paul Meurer, Torbjørn Nordgård, Stephan Oepen and Erik Velldal
			LOGON: Towards a Machine Translation System
			Integrating LFG and HPSG
		Yehuda N. Falk
			Open Argument Functions
		Anna Kibort
			The ins and outs of the 
Participle-Adjective Conversion Rule
		Tibor Laczko
			Binding, Control and LMT in a Hungarian:
			Participial Construction Revisited
		Ruth O'Donovan, Aoife Cahill, Josef van Genabith and Andy Way
			Automatic Acquisition of Spanish LFG Resources
			from the CAST3LB Treebank
		Victoria Rosén and Koenraad de Smedt
			Constructing a Parsed Corpus with a Large LFG Grammar
		Gerold Schneider
			A Broad-Coverage, Representationally Minimalist
			LFG-like Parser: Chunks and F-Structures Are Enough
		Thomas Wier
			On Pivots and Subjects in Georgian
		Karene Wong, Tara Mohanan and Wee Lian Hee
			Delimiters in Singapore English
14:00 - 15:20	 Session 3C
		Ryo Otoguro	Agreement Path in Icelandic
		Peter Sells	The Peripherality of the Icelandic Expletive
15:20 - 15:40	Coffee
15:40 - 17:00  Session 3D
		Gyorgy Rakosi and Tibor Laczko
			The Categorial Status of Agreement-Marked Infinitives
			in Hungarian
		Caroline Fery and Sam Mchombo and Yukiko Morimoto
			Partitioning discourse 
information: a case of Chichewa split NPs
17:00 - 18:00	ILFGA Business Meeting

THURSDAY, 21 JULY

9:00-12:00	Tutorial
Josef van Genabith: Treebank-Based Rapid 
Induction of Wide-Coverage Lexical-Functional 
Grammar Resources

INFORMATION about Bergen, as well as 
accommodation and registration details, are 
available on the conference website:
	http://ling.uib.no/lfg05/

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Tara W Mohanan
DELL, FASS, NUS
Tel: (65)-6874-6043
e-mail: elltaram at nus.edu.sg
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