LFG Bulletin, July 2009

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LFG BULLETIN
JULY 2009

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Next issue: September 2009

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http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg/ilfga/

More about LFG:
http://www.carleton.ca/~asudeh/LFG/more.txt

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CONTENTS

1. LFG 2009 Conference, Cambridge, UK
2. Third Grammar Engineering Across Frameworks Workshop
3. Computational Linguistics Fall School
4. Drafts for comments
5. Recent LFG work
6. Boilerplate

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1. LFG 2009 Conference, Cambridge, UK

The 14th International LFG Conference will be held between 13-16 July  
2009, at Trinity College, Cambridge, UK.

Website: http://www.lfg09.net/

Local conference organiser - Anna Kibort, University of Surrey and  
Cambridge University, United Kingdom

Information about pre-conference activities can be found here:
http://www.lfg09.net/preconference.html

PROGRAMME

MONDAY 13 July 2009

8:30 - 10:05 	REGISTRATION

10:05 - 10:15 	WELCOME

10:15 - 11:00 	'A treatment of clitics via prosodic phonology in LFG'
Tina Bögel, Miriam Butt, Ron Kaplan, Tracy Holloway King & John  
Maxwell III

11:00 - 11:30 	TEA/COFFEE

11:30 - 12:15 	'Looking out for number one: Greek word order'
Eirik Welo

12:15 - 13:00 	'Irish clefting and information-structure'
Sebastian Sulger

13:00 - 14:00 	LUNCH

14:00 - 14:30 	Dissertation talk: 'Object functions and the syntax of  
double object constructions in Lexical Functional Grammar'
Olivia Lam

14:30 - 15:15 	'OBJθ without OBJ: a typology of Meskwaki objects'
Amy Dahlstrom

15:15 - 16:00 	'The prepositional passive as structure-sharing'
Alex Alsina

16:00 - 16:30 	TEA/COFFEE

16:30 - 18:00 	'SPEED PAPER' SESSION: 'Empirical challenges to LFG'
This session, including 5-minute presentations followed by discussion  
among circulating participants, will feature local non-LFG linguists  
offering empirical challenges to LFG theory.

'Addressee agreement in Siwi demonstratives'
Lameen Souag

'Opacity and optionality in the morphology-syntax-phonology mapping:  
the case of ni-insertion and lla-displacement in Quechua'
Neil Myler

'On the origin of adjective dualism in Germanic'
Arturas Ratkus

'Word order and functional features in West Flemish verb clusters'
George Walkden

'The Final-Over-Final Constraint'
Theresa Biberauer, Anders Holmberg, Ian Roberts & Michelle Sheehan

TUESDAY 14 July 2009

9:00 - 9:45 	'Negation in Modern Standard Arabic'
Ahmad Alsharif & Louisa Sadler

9:45 - 10:30 	'The adjectival construct in Arabic'
Budour Al Sharifi & Louisa Sadler

10:30 - 11:00 	Dissertation talk: 'Hebrew floating quantifiers: two  
different constructions'
Ilona Spector

11:00 - 11:30 	TEA/COFFEE

11:30 - 12:15 	'F-structure transfer-based statistical machine  
translation'
Yvette Graham, Anton Bryl & Joseph van Genabith

12:15 - 13:00 	'Cross-lingual projection of LFG f-structures:  
resource induction for Polish'
Alina Tokarczyk & Anette Frank

13:00 - 14:00 	LUNCH

14:00 - 16:45 	THEMATIC SESSION: 'LFG perspectives on Scandinavian'

14:00 - 14:45 	'med - the syntax and semantics of concomitance in  
Norwegian'
Dag Haug

14:45 - 15:30 	'Looking possessor raising in the mouth: Norwegian  
possessor raising with unergatives'
Helge Lødrup

15:30 - 16:00 	TEA/COFFEE

16:00 - 16:45 	'Outside-in binding of reflexives in Insular  
Scandinavian'
Tania Strahan

16:45 - 17:45 	INVITED TALK
'Affix ordering and the morphosyntax of object marking in Moro'
Farrell Ackerman (UCSD)

18:00 - 19:30 	EVENING EVENT
Wine reception at Cambridge University Press bookshop (1 Trinity  
Street, Cambridge), the oldest bookshop site in the UK. This event is  
sponsored by CUP.

WEDNESDAY 15 July 2009

9:00 - 9:45 	'Paraphrases in LFG-based broad-coverage semantics'
Sina Zarrieß & Jonas Kuhn

9:45 - 10:30 	'A computational morphosyntactic analysis for the  
applicative -i in Indonesian'
I Wayan Arka, Avery Andrews, Mary Dalrymple, Meladel Mistica & Jane  
Simpson

10:30 - 12:30 	POSTER/SYSTEM SESSION
10:30 - 11:00 	TEA/COFFEE

'A hybrid filtering approach for question answering'
Sisay Fissaha Adafre & Josef van Genabith

'Differential marking in Shona applicatives: a Bidirectional OT  
approach'
Raúl Aranovich

'Adjacency and locality: a constraint-based analysis of  
complementizer-adjacent extraction'
Ash Asudeh

'Exploiting XLE's finite state interface in LFG-based statistical  
machine translation'
Eleftherios Avramidis & Jonas Kuhn

'Using tri-lexical dependencies in LFG parse disambiguation'
Aoife Cahill, Uli Heid, Christian Rohrer & Marion Weller

'A tale of two taqs: an OT-LFG account of plurals and distributives  
in K'ichee' Mayan'
Lachlan Duncan

'Islands: a mixed analysis'
Yehuda Falk

'Constraining disjunctive constructions in Modern Greek'
Maria Flouraki & Despina Kazana

'Problems of German VP coordination'
Martin Forst & Christian Rohrer

'The Old Irish 'passive' verb, its realisations and development'
Jenny Graver

'Converting dependency graphs to f-structures'
Dag Haug & Marius Jøhndal

'Adapting stochastic LFG input for semantics'
Annette Hautli & Tracy Holloway King

'Intermediary agents and unexpressed pronouns'
Anna Kibort

'Relational nouns and argument structure - evidence from Hungarian'
Tibor Laczkó

'On the status of reflexive and reciprocal clitics in Italian and  
Serbian'
Maja Miličević

'Automatic acquisition of LFG resources for German - as good as it gets'
Ines Rehbein & Josef van Genabith

'On the difference between auxiliaries, serial verbs and light verbs'
Melanie Seiss

'Parsing Arabic using treebank-based LFG resources'
Lamia Tounsi, Mohammed Attia & Josef van Genabith

'Case and grammatical functions in Imbabura: a Lexical Mapping Theory  
approach'
Beatriz Willgohs & Patrick Farrell

'OBLs hobble computations'
Annie Zaenen & Dick Crouch

12:30 - 13:30 	LUNCH

13:30 - 14:15 	'Complex and even more complex reflexives: the case of  
the Hungarian önmaga 'himself''
Györgi Rákosi

14:15 - 15:00 	'On the split nature of the Dutch laten-causative'
Gerlof Bouma & Jonas Kuhn

15:00 - 15:30 	TEA/COFFEE

15:30 - 16:15 	'Adnominal clauses with genitive subjects across Asia'
Peter Sells

16:15 - 17:00 	'Udi person markers and lexical integrity'
Michael Wescoat

17:30 - 19:00 	PUBLIC LECTURE: 'Deep natural language processing for  
web-scale search'
Ron Kaplan (Stanford University & Powerset Inc./Microsoft)
Keynote public lecture on the applications of cutting-edge natural  
language processing technology, which has LFG as its theoretical  
basis, to semantic search processes over the world wide web, as  
illustrated at powerset.com and in the semantic features included in  
the new Microsoft search engine at bing.com. This event is sponsored  
by Microsoft Corporation.

19:30 - 23:00 	EVENING EVENT
Conference dinner at Queens' College, Cambridge (the Old Hall).

THURSDAY 16 July 2009

9:00 - 12:30 	WORKSHOP: 'Blurring Component Boundaries: levels of  
analysis or growth of information?'
Chair: Nigel Vincent
Workshop and public debate on Dynamic Syntax and Lexical-Functional  
Grammar, with keynote contributions by the original developers of  
both formalisms: Ruth Kempson (King's College London) and Joan  
Bresnan (Stanford University). The Workshop is partially funded by  
the Mont Follick Fund, University of Manchester.

9:00 - 9:10 	Introduction by Nigel Vincent

9:10 - 9:50 	'"What do you do?" Variation in interrogative predicates'
Louise Mycock

9:50 - 10:30 	'Narrowing the competence-performance gap: syntax as  
time-linear growth of semantic representation'
Ruth Kempson & Jieun Kiaer

10:30 - 10:50 	TEA/COFFEE

10:50 - 11:30 	'Clitics as calcified processing strategies: the case  
study of Spanish clitic placement and the PCC as a tree-logic  
restriction'
Miriam Bouzouita & Stergios Chatzikyriakidis

11:30 - 12:10 	'The dynamics of syntax: implications for LFG'
Joan Bresnan

12:10 - 12:30 	General discussion

12:30 - 13:00 	ILFGA Business Meeting

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2. Third Grammar Engineering Across Frameworks Workshop

The 3rd "Grammar Engineering Across Frameworks" workshop will be held  
in Singapore on August 6th in conjunction with ACL.  The workshop  
website, including program, is available at:

http://www.issco.unige.ch/en/events/workshop/GEAF09/

and includes several LFG and LFG-related presentations and demos.

The proceedings will be available on-line with the rest of the ACL  
and ACL workshop proceedings.

For questions, see the website or contact Tracy Holloway King (Tracy  
dot King at microsoft dot com).

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3. Computational Linguistics Fall School

September 7-19, 2009, Konstanz, Germany

The Computational Linguistics Fall School was established by the  
German Linguistics Association as a biennial event for students who  
wish to broaden their knowledge of techniques and methods used in  
natural language processing. The motivation is to give interested  
students an understanding of innovative and emerging fields in  
computational linguistics, including fields not traditionally taught  
in standard degree programs. All lectures will be in English. In 2009  
the Fall School will be held at the University of Konstanz, Germany.

Further information can be found here:
http://ling.uni-konstanz.de/pages/conferences/fallschool2009/index.html

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4. DRAFTS FOR COMMENTS

Andrews, Avery. 2009. 'Lexical' vs. ' Grammatical' Meaning- 
constructors for Glue Semantics, talk to be delivered at Australian  
LInguistics Society meeting in July 09.
http://arts.anu.edu.au/linguistics/people/AveryAndrews/papers (see  
Drafts section)

Dalrymple, Mary and Bozhil Hristov. 2009. Agreement patterns and  
coordination in Lexical Functional Grammar. Ms, Oxford.  http:// 
users.ox.ac.uk/~cpgl0015/closestconjunct.pdf

'Drafts for comments' offers bulletin readers the opportunity to  
submit information about drafts or projects on which they would like  
to receive comments from the community. This brings work in progress  
to the attention of the community and plays some of the role that  
previous incarnations of the archive played.

Please submit basic article/project information and a) a URL if the  
item is available online or else b) your contact email.

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5. RECENT LFG WORK

Send details of your recent work to Louise.Mycock /at/ ling- 
phil.ox.ac.uk

5.1 CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

LFG conference papers are available electronically at:
http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/site/ONLN.html

5.2 PUBLICATIONS

Briem, Daniela, Britta Balliel, Brigitte Rockstroh, Miriam Butt,  
Sabine Schulte im Walde  and Ramin Assadollahi 2009. `Distinct  
processing of function verb categories in the human brain'. Brain  
Research 1249:173--180.

Butt, M. and M. Steinbach (eds.), 2008. Vernaeht und Zugeﬂixt: Von  
Versprechern, Fluechen, Dialekten & Co.. Mannheim: Dudenverlag.

Butt, M. 2008 ’Modern Approaches to case: an overview’, In Andrej  
Malchukov and Andrew Spencer (eds.) The Handbook of Case, 27–43.   
Oxford University Press.

Butt, M. 2008 ’Case in Lexical-Functional Grammar’, In Andrej  
Malchukov and Andrew Spencer (eds.) The Handbook of Case, 59–71.   
Oxford University Press.

Butt, M., T. Boegel, A. Hautli and S. Sulger 2009. ‘Urdu and the  
Modular Architecture of ParGram’. Proceedings of the Conference on  
Language and Technology 2009 (CLT09), 1–7.  Center for Research in  
Urdu Language Processing (CRULP), Lahore.

Butt, Miriam and Melanie Seiss. 2009. 'Complex predicates: An  
overview'. Language and Linguistics Compass (Blackwell)
URL: http://www.blackwellcompass.com/subject/linguistics

Delmonte, Rodolfo. 2007. Computational Linguistic Text Processing:  
Logical Form, Semantic Interpretation, Discourse Relations and  
Question Answering. Nova Publishers.
https://www.novapublishers.com/catalog/product_info.php? 
products_id=6678&osCsid=bdf2894aa970f3c4a2f2dc239c92dcb3

Delmonte, Rodolfo. 2008. Computational Linguistic Text Processing:  
Lexicon, Grammar, Parsing and Anaphora Resolution. Nova Publishers.
https://www.novapublishers.com/catalog/product_info.php? 
products_id=7409&osCsid=bdf2894aa970f3c4a2f2dc239c92dcb3

Mycock, L. J. 2007. 'The Role of Prosody in Constituent Question  
Formation: a comparison of Hungarian and Japanese'.  The Phonetician  
95:7-18.
http://www.isphs.org/Phonetician/phonetician95i.pdf

5.3 DOWNLOADABLE LFG PAPERS

A list of web-pages where people post downloadable LFG papers:

http://arts.anu.edu.au/linguistics/LFG/

Additional suggestions welcome.

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6. BOILERPLATE

The boilerplate (standard text) which previously appeared at the end  
of every bulletin can be accessed at:

http://www.carleton.ca/~asudeh/LFG/more.txt

The LFG website also serves much of the same function as the  
boilerplate section.

http://www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/LFG/

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