18th International Lexical Functional Grammar Conference (LFG13)

[Anna Kibort]

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The 18th International Lexical Functional Grammar Conference (LFG13)
            18 July - 20 July 2013
        Debrecen University, Hungary

Conference website:  http://lfg13.unideb.hu
Conference e-mail:  hungram (at) unideb (dot) hu

Early-bird registration deadline:  10 June 2013

LFG 2013 presents work within the formal architecture of
Lexical-Functional Grammar as well as typological, formal, and
computational work within the 'spirit of LFG' as a lexicalist approach
to language employing a parallel, constraint-based framework. The
conference aims to promote interaction and collaboration among
researchers interested in non-derivational approaches to grammar, where
grammar is seen as the interaction of (perhaps violable) constraints
from multiple levels of structuring, including those of syntactic
categories, grammatical relations, semantics and discourse.

Further information about LFG as a syntactic theory is available at the
following sites:
  http://www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/external/LFG/
  http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg/


PROGRAMME

Wednesday, 17 July

Pre-conference social events (see the conference website)

Thursday, 18 July

08:30-09:30
Registration

09:30-09:45
Welcome

Day 1, Session 1

09:45-10:30
Bozhil Hristov
Defacing agreement

10:30-11:15
Oleg Belyaev
Optimal agreement at m-structure: Person in Dargwa

11:15-12:00
Daniele Artoni and Marco Magnani
LFG contributions in SLA research: The development of case in Russian L2

12:00-13:30
Lunch

Day 1, Session 2 - Poster Session

13:30-15:00
Noriko Koyama
The grammaticality of Japanese passives

Helge Lodrup
Complex predicates in Norwegian: New evidence from passive and impersonal 
sentences

George Aaron Broadwell and Hilaria Cruz
The evolution of case in two Otomanguean languages of Mexico

George Aaron Broadwell
An emphatic auxiliary construction for emotions in Copala Triqui

Ansu Berg, Rigardt Pretorius and Laurette Pretorius
The representation of Setswana double objects in LFG

Petr Homola and Matt Coler
Causatives as complex predicates without the restriction operator

Peter Szucs
The Hungarian operator raising revisited

Louise Mycock
Discourse functions of question words

Filip Skwarski
Mapping issues in Polish clausal arguments

Yasir Alotaibi, Muhammad Alzaidi, Maris Camilleri, Shaimaa Elsadek and Louisa 
Sadler
Psychological predicates and verbal complementation in Arabic

Jonas Kuhn
On the 'spirit of LFG' in current computational linguistics

Lachlan Duncan
Non-verbal predicates in K'ichee' Mayan: An LFG approach

15:00-15:30
Break

Day 1, Session 3

15:30-16:15
Adam Przepiorkowski and Agnieszka Patejuk
A unified LFG analysis of two homonymous distributive elements in Polish

16:15-17:00
Tibor Laczko
Hungarian particle verbs revisited: representational, morphological and 
implementational issues from an LFG perspective

17:00-17:45
Ozlem Cetinoglu, Sina Zarriess and Jonas Kuhn
Dependency-based sentence simplification for increasing deep LFG parsing 
coverage

Friday, 19 July

Day 2, Session 1

09:00-09:45
Louise Mycock and John Lowe
The prosodic encoding of discourse functions

09:45-10:30
Tina Bogel
A prosodic resolution of German case ambiguities

10:30-11:00
Break

Day 2, Session 2

11:00-11:45
Prerna Nadathur
Weak crossover and the Direct Association Hypothesis

11:45-12:30
Doug Arnold and Louisa Sadler
Displaced dependent constructions

12:30-14:00
Lunch

Day 2, Session 3

14:00-14:45
Annette Hautli
Motion verb sequences in Urdu

14:45-15:30
Dag Haug
Partial control, exhaustive control and the semantics of anaphoric control

15:30-16:00
Break

Day 2, Session 4

16:00-16:45
Cheikh Bamba Dione
Valency change and complex predicates in Wolof: An LFG account

16:45-17:30
Liz Christie and Ida Toivonen
Result XPs and the argument-adjunct distinction

18:00-22:00
Conference dinner

Saturday, 20 July

Day 3, Session 1

09:00-09:45
I Wayan Arka
Constructed nonverbal aspect in Marori

09:45-10:30
Kersti Borjars and John Payne
Dimensions of variation in the expression of functional features: Modelling 
definiteness in LFG

10:30-11:00
Break

Day 3, Session 2

11:00-12:00
Invited Talk
Mary Dalrymple
Economy of expression (joint work with Ronald M. Kaplan and Tracy Holloway 
King)

12:00-12:45
John Lowe
Transitive and predicated nominals in LFG

12:45-14:00
Lunch

Day 3, Session 3

14:15-15:00
Ida Toivonen
English benefactive NPs

15:00-15:45
Anna Kibort
Objects and Lexical Mapping Theory

15:45-16:30
Miriam Butt and Ashwini Deo
A historical perspective on dative subjects in Indo-Aryan

16:30-16:45
Break

16:45-17:45
ILFGA Business meeting


Program Committee (email: lfg13[@]easychair.org)

Dag Haug, University of Oslo, Norway
Anna Kibort, University of Oxford, UK

Local conference organizers (email: hungram[@]unideb.hu)

Tibor Laczko (co-chair)
Gyuri Rakosi (co-chair)
Eva Kardos
Gabor Csernyi