16.1697, Confs: Syntax/Bergen, Norway

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LINGUIST List: Vol-16-1697. Sat May 28 2005. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.

Subject: 16.1697, Confs: Syntax/Bergen, Norway

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Date: 26-May-2005
From: Aoife Cahill < acahill at computing.dcu.ie >
Subject: 10th International Lexical Functional Grammar Conference 

	
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Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 16:06:59
From: Aoife Cahill < acahill at computing.dcu.ie >
Subject: 10th International Lexical Functional Grammar Conference 
 

10th International Lexical Functional Grammar Conference 
Short Title: LFG 2005 

Date: 18-Jul-2005 - 21-Jul-2005 
Location: Bergen, Norway 
Contact: Aoife Cahill 
Contact Email: acahill at computing.dcu.ie 
Meeting URL: http://ling.uib.no/lfg05/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Syntax 

Meeting Description: 

Attached below is the program for LFG 2005, to be held in Bergen, Norway, 18-21
July. The program is available online at: http://ling.uib.no/lfg05/

A reminder that the due date for conference registration is June 1st. 

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





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