[LFG] LFG Bulletin, September/October 2020

[Agnieszka Patejuk]

September/October 2020

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Next issue: December 2020

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CONTENTS

1. New book: "Enriched Meanings" by Ash Asudeh and Gianluca Giorgolo
2. Drafts for comments
3. Recent LFG work
4. Online resources
5. Boilerplate

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1. New book: "Enriched Meanings" by Ash Asudeh and Gianluca Giorgolo

>From Ash Asudeh:

Website: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/enriched-meanings-9780198847861?cc=ca&lang=en&#

Blurb: "This book develops a theory of enriched meanings for natural
language interpretation that uses the concept of monads and related
ideas from category theory, a branch of mathematics that has been
influential in theoretical computer science and elsewhere. Certain
expressions that exhibit complex effects at the semantics/pragmatics
boundary live in an enriched meaning space, while others live in a
more basic meaning space. These basic meanings are mapped to enriched
meanings only when required compositionally, which avoids generalizing
meanings to the worst case. Ash Asudeh and Gianluca Giorgolo show that
the monadic theory of enriched meanings offers a formally and
computationally well-defined way to tackle important challenges at the
semantics/pragmatics boundary. In particular, they develop innovative
monadic analyses of three phenomena - conventional implicature,
substitution puzzles, and conjunction fallacies - and demonstrate that
the compositional properties of monads model linguistic intuitions
about these cases particularly well. The analyses are accompanied by
exercises to aid understanding, and the computational tools used are
available on the book's companion website. The book also contains
background chapters on enriched meanings and category theory. The
volume is interdisciplinary in nature, with insights from semantics,
pragmatics, philosophy of language, psychology, and computer science,
and will appeal to graduate students and researchers from a wide range
of disciplines with an interest in natural language understanding and
representation."

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2. Drafts for comments

'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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3. Recent LFG work

Send details of your recent work to < LFG.bulletin "at" gmail "dot" com >

3.1 Conference Proceedings

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

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4. Online resources

LFG website:
https://ling.sprachwiss.uni-konstanz.de/pages/home/lfg/

International Lexical Functional Grammar Association:
https://ling.sprachwiss.uni-konstanz.de/pages/home/lfg/ilfga/index.html

More about LFG:
http://www.sas.rochester.edu/lin/sites/asudeh/LFG/more.txt

Facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/lfgpage

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5. Boilerplate

The boilerplate (standard text) which previously appeared at the end
of every bulletin can be accessed at:
http://www.sas.rochester.edu/lin/sites/asudeh/LFG/more.txt

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