10.1044, Confs: Lexical Functional Grammar 99

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-10-1044. Wed Jul 7 1999. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 10.1044, Confs: Lexical Functional Grammar 99

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Date:  Wed, 7 Jul 1999 14:08:14 PDT
From:  Tracy Holloway King <thking at parc.xerox.com>
Subject:  LFG99 program

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Date:  Wed, 7 Jul 1999 14:08:14 PDT
From:  Tracy Holloway King <thking at parc.xerox.com>
Subject:  LFG99 program


	      LEXICAL FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR ANNUAL MEETING
				LFG99

			   19-21 July, 1999
			Manchester University

	       URL: http://lings.ln.man.ac.uk/html/LFG/
		    Enquiries: LFG99 at man.ac.uk

NOTE: Housing and registration information is available at the above
      web site.


MONDAY JULY 19

9.00-9.45   Peter AUSTIN
            Argument Coding and Clause Linkage in Australian Aboriginal
            Languages
9.45-10.30  Farrell ACKERMAN and John MOORE
            Telic Object as a Proto-Patient Property of Lexical Predicates
10.30-11.15 Anna SIEWIERSKA
            Reduced Pronominals and Argument Prominence

11.15-11.45 BREAK

11.45-12.30 Yukiko MORIMOTO
            Information Packaging and Argument Reversal: An Optimality
            Theoretic Account of English Locative Inversion
12.30-1.15  Lunella MEREU
            On the Grammatical Realization of Discourse Functions in Somali

1.15-2.45 LUNCH

2.45-4.15 WORKSHOP Grammar Writing in LFG
                   Organizer: Victoria ROSEN

                   Victoria ROSEN
                   Introduction

                   Annie ZAENEN
                   From theory to practice: a rocky road

                   Miriam BUTT, Stefanie DIPPER, Anette FRANK,
                   Tracy KING, and Jonas KUHN
                   ParGram Project: Introduction
                                    How a Grammar is Written
                                    Theoretical Implications
                                    Demo

4.15-4.45 BREAK
4.45-6.15 WORKSHOP Grammar Writing in LFG

                   Miriam BUTT, Stefanie DIPPER, Anette FRANK,
                   Tracy KING, and Jonas KUHN
                   ParGram Project cont.

                   Helge DYVIK
                   The universality of f-structure: discovery or
                   stipulation? The case of modals

TUESDAY JULY 20

9.00-9.45   Tara MOHANAN and KP MOHANAN
            Two Forms of BE in Malayalam
9.45-10.30  Devyani SHARMA
            Nominal Clitics and Constructive Morphology in Hindi

10.30-11.00 BREAK

11.00-11.45 Jonas KUHN
            Towards a Simple Architecture for the Structure-function Mapping
11.45-12.30 Josef VAN GENABITH, Andy WAY and Louisa SADLER
            Semi-Automatic Generation of F-Structures from Treebanks

12.30-2.00 LUNCH

2.00-3.30 WORKSHOP Structure and Representation in Native American
                   Languages Organizer: George Aaron BROADWELL

                   Jack MARTIN
		   Optimal possession in Creek

	           Mary Catherine O'CONNOR
		   The interaction of syntax and pragmatics in
                   Northern Pomo: Towards an optimal solution


3.30-4.00 BREAK
4.00-5.30 WORKSHOP Structure and Representation in Native American
                   Languages

                   George Aaron BROADWELL
		   Optimal order and focus alignment in Two
                   Otomanguean languages

                   Amy DAHLSTROM
		   Non-thematic objects in Fox


5.30-6.30 BUSINESS MEETING

WEDNESDAY JULY 21

9.00-9.45   Kersti BORJARS, Erika CHISARIK, and John PAYNE
            On the Justification for Functional Categories in LFG
9.45-10.30  Christoph SCHWARZE
            Inflectional Classes in Lexical Functional Morphology -- Latin
            -sk- and its Evolution

10.30-11.00 BREAK

11.00-11.45  Kenji YOKOTA
             Light Verb Constructions in Japanese and Functional Uncertainty
11.45-12.30  Nikolas GISBORNE
             English Light Verbs and the (Non)necessity of Argument
             Structure

12.30-2.00 LUNCH

2.00-2.45    Judith BERMAN
             Does German Satisfy the Subject Condition?
2.45-3.30    Louisa SADLER
             Non-Distributive Features and Coordination in Welsh

3.30-4.00 BREAK

4.00-4.45    John FRY
             Resource-logical Event Semantics for LFG
4.45-5.30    Anette FRANK
             Towards Optimal Linking

5.30-6.00 CLOSING REMARKS


ALTERNATE

Tibor LACZKO
The Anatomy of a Jolly-JokER -- A Comprehensive Analysis of a
Multi-Functional Deverbal Morpheme in Hungarian

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