LFG Bulletin, June 2005

Ash Asudeh asudeh at csli.stanford.edu
Thu Jun 30 10:25:48 UTC 2005


LFG BULLETIN
JUNE 2005

* SPECIAL PLEA  *
  Please update your ILFGA database entries!
  See items 2.3 and 5.2 below.
* * * * * * * * *

CONTENTS

1. LFG 2005 (Bergen, Norway)
     1.1 General Information
     1.2 Program
2. ILFGA News
     2.1 ILFGA Program Committee
     2.2 ILFGA Executive Committee
     2.3 ILFGA Database Maintainer
3. Recent LFG Work
     3.1 Recent LFG Dissertation
4. Job News
     4.1 University of Sydney Postdoctoral Fellowships
     4.2 Carleton University

Boilerplate:
5. ILFGA
6. LFG Bulletin
7. FAQ
8. How to Retrieve LFG Documents

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1. LFG 2005

1.1 General Information

The 10th LFG conference will be held in Bergen, Norway.

Web: http://lfg05.uib.no/
Email: lfg05 at uib.no

Dates: July 18-20, 2005
Local organizers:
Helge Dyvik, Victoria Rosén, Koenraad de Smedt and Helge Lødrup

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1.2 Program

Saturday, July 16

Optional pre-conference mountain hike.

Sunday, July 17

Optional pre-conference excursion with organized transportation.

Monday, July 18

8:30 - 9:00    Registration

9:00 - 9:20    Welcome

9:20 - 10:20    Invited talk
             Dan Flickinger:
             Weighing the Utility of Types in Grammatical Description

10:20 - 10:40    Coffee

10:40 - 12:00    Session 1A (Chair: Kersti Börjars)
             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 (Chair: Peter Sells)
             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
             constrain and bind it instead?

14:50 - 15:10    Coffee

15:10 - 16:30    Session 1B (Chair: Jonas Kuhn)
             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    Workshop1
             Mary Dalrymple, Stephen Wechsler, Louisa Sadler, Aline
             Villavincencio and Irina Nikolaeva:
             Agreement and its role in grammar


Tuesday, July 19

9:00 - 10:20    Session 2A (Chair: Andrew Spencer)
             Ryo Otoguro:
             Agreement Path in Icelandic

             Peter Sells:
             The Peripherality of the Icelandic Expletive

10:20 - 10:40    Coffee

10:40 - 12:40    Session 2B (Chair: Miriam Butt)
             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 (Chair: Louisa Sadler)
             Louise Mycock:
             Wh-in-situ in Constituent Questions

             Kersti Börjars and Nigel Vincent:
             Objects: Position vs function

15:30 - 16:00    Coffee

16:00 - 18:00    Workshop 2
             Tracy Holloway King:
             LFG Approaches to Clitics: Introduction

             Michael Wescoat:
             English nonsyllabic auxiliary contractions:
             An analysis in LFG with lexical sharing

             Ana Luis and Ryo Otoguru:
             Morphological and syntactic well-formedness:
             The case of European Portuguese proclitics

             Rob O'Connor:
             Clitics in LFG - Prosodic Structure and Phrasal Affixation

19:00 - 23:00    Banquet at Lyststedet Bellevue


Wednesday, July 20

9:00 - 10:20    Session 3A (Chair: Josef van Genabith)
             Martin Forst, Jonas Kuhn and Christian Rohrer:
             Corpus-based learning of OT constraint rankings for
             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 (Chair: Alex Alsina)
             Bruno Estigarribia:
             Direct Object Clitic Doubling in OT-LFG: A New Look at
             Rioplatense Spanish

             Ruth O'Donovan, Aoife Cahill, Josef van Genabith and Andy
             Way:
             Automatic Acquisition of Spanish LFG Resources from the
             CAST3LB Treebank

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

             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

             Karene Wong, Wee Lian Hee, Tara Mohanan, and Chin Seok Koon:
             Delimiters in Singapore English

14:00 - 15:20    Session 3C (Chair: Nigel Vincent)
             Miriam Butt and Tracy Holloway King:
             Restriction for Morphological Valency Alternations: The
	     Urdu Causative

             Andrew Spencer:
             Case in Hindi-Urdu

15:20 - 15:40    Coffee

15:40 - 17:00    Session 3D (Chair: Carmen Kelling)
             György Rákosi and Tibor Laczkó:
             The Categorial Status of Agreement-Marked Infinitives in
             Hungarian

             Caroline Féry and Sam Mchombo and Yukiko Morimoto:
             Partitioning discourse information: a case of Chichewa
	     split NPs

17:00 - 18:00    ILFGA business meeting


Thursday, July 21

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

             The room for the tutorial is to be announced.

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2. ILFGA NEWS

2.1 ILFGA Program Committee

(Submitted by George Aaron Broadwell)

The ILFGA Program Committee has the responsibility of soliciting the
abstracts for our annual conference, getting these abstracts
reviewed, and organizing the program for the meeting.  This is one of
the more demanding jobs within ILFGA, and we would like to extend our
deepest appreciation to Tara Mohanan and Aiofe Cahill for their work
on this and previous conference programs.  Tara will be stepping down
this year, after two years of excellent service, and ILFGA is pleased
to announce that the Executive Committee has named Kersti Börjars to
the Program Committee for a two-year term.

Many thanks are due to Tara for her hard work, and to Kersti for
agreeing to take on this important service for the LFG community!


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2.2 ILFGA Executive Committee

(From an email by George Aaron Broadwell to the ILFGA membership)

This year two members of the ILFGA Executive Committee will be coming
to the end of their terms.  We'd like to extend our deep thanks to
Andy Way and Peter Sells for their years of service to our association!

ILFGA is now conducting elections to fill these two positions on the
Executive Committee.  The nominating committee and members of ILFGA
have come up with the following candidates:


Ash Asudeh

Helge Lødrup

Josef van Genabith


Information on the candidates is available from the ILFGA database at:
http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg/ilfga/member-database/ilfga-
namelist.html

Voting is open to all ILFGA members and the procedure was outlined in
Aaron Broadwell's email. Contact Aaron if you have queries.

All ballots must be received by August 15, 2005.

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2.3 ILFGA Database Maintainer

Tracy Holloway King returns to being the maintainer of the ILFGA
database of linguists working in LFG. Many thanks to Chris Culy, the
outgoing maintainer. To add yourself to the database or update your
entry, send relevant information to Tracy via email: thking at parc.com.
See item 5.2 below for further details.

* IMPORTANT: Please update your entries! *

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3. RECENT LFG WORK

3.1 Recent LFG Dissertation

Anna Kibort. 2004. Passive and passive-like constructions in English and
Polish. PhD thesis. University of Cambridge.
Supervisor: Jim Blevins.
Reviewers: Andrew Spencer, Greville Corbett.

Available through http://www.surrey.ac.uk/LIS/SMG/group_members.htm


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4. JOB NEWS

4.1 University of Sydney Postdoctoral Research Fellowships

(From an email by Jane Simpson to the LFG list)

The University of Sydney will be offering up to ten new Postdoctoral
Fellowships in 2006. The Fellowships are extremely prestigious and
highly competitive internationally in line with equivalent externally
funded fellowships. Successful applicants are expected to be based
full-time at the University for the duration of the Fellowship.

Applicants seeking to join the University from another organisation
in Australia or from overseas are particularly encouraged to apply.
Applicants currently employed at the University of Sydney who
commenced employment on or after 1 July 2004 are eligible to apply.

The application form and related information is available from the
Research Office website at: http://www.usyd.edu.au/su/reschols/

Please contact the Research Office for further assistance on
+61 2 9351 4469 or via email: research at usyd.edu.au.

Please contact staff at the Department of Linguistics if you are
considering an application, as we would be happy to work with you on
an application.  Check the website for staff with similar interests:
http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/linguistics/

The closing date: Friday, 16 September 2005.

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4.2 Carleton University

Ida Toivonen and I have accepted tenure-track positions at Carleton
University in Ottawa, Canada. The positions are joint appointments in
cognitive science and linguistics. My position starts in January,
2006 and Ida's starts in July, 2006.


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5. ILFGA

5.1 Donate to ILFGA

There are three ways to make a donation:

1. Donate at the conference! ILFGA will be accepting donations at LFG05.

2. Send a check made out to "Intl. Lexical Functional Grammar
    Assc." in US dollars to:

      George Aaron Broadwell
      Department of Anthropology
      Arts & Sciences Building, Room 237
      University at Albany, SUNY
      1400 Washington Ave., Albany, NY 12222
      USA

This is the simplest (and cheapest) method if you have access to US
dollars.

3. Have money transfered directly into the account.  For this you
    need the account number and the ABA number (this number
    identifies the bank).

    Contact Aaron Broadwell (g.broadwell  at  albany.edu)
    for the required information.

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 Aaron Broadwell 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.

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5.2 BE IN THE ILFGA DATABASE:

    Please add yourself to the ILFGA linguist database.
    To do so, send email to Tracy Holloway King (thking at parc.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

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5.3 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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6. LFG BULLETIN

Please send updates, suggestions and news for inclusion in the next
LFG Bulletin (September 2005) to: asudeh at csli.stanford.edu

Most importantly, please send information about:

- pithy quotes
- recent publications or papers
- recent dissertations
- teaching materials
- publicly available grammars
- current grammar development efforts
- job news


Thank you,
Ash Asudeh


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7. 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 Arnold:
     doug at essex.ac.uk

Send updates, suggestions and news for inclusion in the LFG Bulletin to
Ash Asudeh:

     asudeh at csli.stanford.edu

or post them on the LFG list (LFG at listserv.linguistlist.org).

Most importantly, please send Ash information about:

- recent publications or papers
- recent dissertations
- teaching materials
- publically available grammars
- current grammar development efforts


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8. 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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