17.1501, Confs: Syntax/Konstanz, Germany

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Subject: 17.1501, Confs: Syntax/Konstanz, Germany

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Date: 15-May-2006
From: Aoife Cahill < aoife.cahill at computing.dcu.ie >
Subject: 11th International Lexical Functional Grammar Conference 

	
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Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 12:43:18
From: Aoife Cahill < aoife.cahill at computing.dcu.ie >
Subject: 11th International Lexical Functional Grammar Conference 
 



11th International Lexical Functional Grammar Conference 
Short Title: LFG 2006 

Date: 10-Jul-2006 - 13-Jul-2006 
Location: Konstanz, Germany 
Contact: Miriam Butt 
Contact Email: lfg06 at uni-konstanz.de 
Meeting URL: http://ling.uni-konstanz.de/pages/conferences/lfg06/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Syntax 

Meeting Description: 

ELEVENTH INTERNATIONAL LEXICAL FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR CONFERENCE

DATES 10 - 13 July 2006
Konstanz, Germany
Conference website: http://ling.uni-konstanz.de/pages/conferences/lfg06/ 

LFG06 Programme
Saturday 8.7.06 and Sunday 9.07.06

Pre-conference activities

Monday, 10.7.06

9:30-9:45  
Welcome

9:45- 11:15  
Session 1A  (Two Talks)
             - Louisa Sadler and Rachel Nordlinger        
                Apposition as Coordination: Evidence from Australian languages
             - Christian Fortmann        
                verba dicendi Parentheticals

11:15-11:45  
Break

11:45-12:45  
Student Session 1B (2 Presentations of Recent PhDs)
             - Elisabeth Mayer        
                Optional direct object clitic doubling in Limeño Spanish
             - Anne Tamm        
                Relations between Estonian verbs, aspect, and case

12:45-13:45  
Lunch

13:45-15:15  
Session 1C (Two Talks)
             - Grzegorz Chrupala and Josef van Genabith
                Improving Treebank-Based Automatic LFG Induction for Spanish
             - Aoife Cahill and Josef van Genabith        
                Robust Stochastic LFG Generation using Automatically Acquired  
                Treebank Resources

15:15-15:45  
Break

15:45-18:00  
Workshop on Case and Aspect in South Asian Languages (Part I)

15:45-16:15  
Miriam Butt and Aditi Lahiri (Universitaet Konstanz)
                Introduction and Overview of Synchronic and Diachronic Issues

16:15-17:00  
Ashwini Deo (Stanford University)
                Comparative Diachrony of Aspect in Indo-Aryan

17:00-17:15  
Break

17:15-18:00  
Rajesh Bhatt (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
                Aspectual Restriction in when-clauses in Hindi, Bhojpuri and Maithili



Tuesday, 11.7.06

9:00-10:30   
Session 2A (Two Talks)
             - Martin Forst        
                COMP in (parallel) grammar writing
             - Bruce Mayo        
                A computational architecture for lexical insertion of complex nonce words

10:30-11:00  
Break

11:00-12:30  
Session 2B (Two Talks)
             - Nigel Vincent and Kersti Börjars        
                Paradigms periphrases and change
             - Anna Kibort        
                On three different types of subjectlessness and how to model it in LFG


12:30-13:30  
Lunch

13:30-15:45  
Session 2C (Three Talks)
             - Helge Lødrup        
                Raising to object in Norwegian and the Derived Object Constraint
             - Bjarne Ørsnes        
                Creating raising verbs: the Complex Passive in Danish
             - Ash Asudeh and Ida Toivonen        
                Expletives and the syntax and semantics of copy raising

15:45-16:15  
Break

16:15-17:45  
Workshop on Case and Aspect in South Asian Languages (Part II)

16:15-17:00  
Veneeta Dayal (Rutgers University)
                Semantics of Case and Incorporation

17:00-17:45  
Gillian Ramchand (University of Tromso)
                Case, Aspect and Morphological Causatives

18:15             
Plenary Talk (Aditi Lahiri), TBA



Wednesday, 12.7.06

9:00-10:30   
Session 3A (Two Talks)
             - Pascal Denis and Jonas Kuhn        
                Applying an LFG Parser in Coreference Resolution -- Experiments  
                and Analysis
             - Ríona Finn, Mary Hearne and Andy Way        
                Extending the Tree-DOP Model with Grammatical Function 
                Information

10:30-11:00 
Break

11:00-12:30  
Session 3B (Two Talks)
             - Louise MYCOCK        
                Hungarian Questions in Focus
             - Philippa Cook and John Payne        
                Quantifier Scope and Information Structure in German

12:30-14:30  
Lunch and Poster Session
             - Aikaterini Chatsiou        
                On the status of resumptive pronouns in modern greek restrictive  
                relative clauses
             - Lionel Clément and Kim Gerdes        
                Analyzing Zeugmas in XLFG
             - Philippa Cook        
                The German Infinitival Passive - a case for oblique functional
                controllers ?
             - Dick Crouch and Tracy Holloway King        
                Semantics via F-Structure Rewriting
             - Mary Dalrymple, Tracy Holloway King and Louisa Sadler        
                Indeterminacy by Underspecification
             - Yehuda N. Falk        
                On the Representation of Case and Agreement
             - Carmen Kelling        
                Spanish se-constructions: the passive and the impersonal 
                construction
             - Judith Meinschaefer        
                The argument structure of deverbal nouns in Germanic and 
                Romance. An LMT account
             - Ingo Mittendorf and Louisa Sadler        
                A Treatment of Welsh Initial Mutations
             - Jeeyoung Peck and Peter Sells        
                Preposition Incorporation in Modern Mandarin:  Economy within 
                VP
             - Rakosi, Gyorgy        
                On the need for a more refined approach to the argument-
                adjunct distinction
             - Nola M. Stephens        
                Norwegian 'When'-Clauses
             - Reeli Torn        
                Estonian indirect objects revisited: An LFG perspective
             
14:30-16:00  
Session 3C (Two Talks)
             - George Aaron Broadwell        
                Alignment, precedence, and pied-piping with inversion
             - Maia Andréasson        
                The ADJ function: Evidence from Swedish
     
16:00-16:30  Break

16:30-18:00  
Session 3D (Two Talks)
             - Peter Hurst        
                The syntax of the Malagasy reciprocal construction: An LFG 
                account
             - Peter Sells        
                Using Subsumption rather than Equality in Functional Control

18:00-19:00  
ILFGA Business Meeting


Thursday, 13.7.06

9:00-15:00   
Workshop on Case and Aspect in South Asian Languages (Part III)

10:00-10:45  
Elena Bashir (The University of Chicago)
                Evidentiality in Khowar

10:45-11:30  
Annie Montaut (INALCO, Paris)
                Diachrony of Aspect in Hindi

11:30-12:15  
Tatiana Oranskaia (Universitaet Hamburg)
                Grammatical aspect, lexical aspect and Aktionsart in Hindi-Urdu: An analysis taking Russian correspondences into consideration

12:15-13:30  
Lunch

13:30-14:15  
Tafseer Ahmed (Universitaet Konstanz)
                Aspect and Case in Punjabi/Sindhi

14:15-14:45  
John Peterson (Universitaet Osnabrueck)
                Aspect and Case in Kharia

14:45-15:00  
Break

15:00-15:45  
Josef Bayer (Universitaet Konstanz)
                Case in Bengali

15:45-16:00  
Final Discussion





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