Formal Grammar conference and ESSLLI-98

[bresnan at stanford.edu]

Hi. I'd like to second Mary Dalrymple's message encouraging
submissions to the Formal Grammar conference, and to note that Louisa
Sadler and I will be co-teaching an LFG-related course at the
ESSLLI-98 which follows the conference (in week 2).  Here is a (very
brief and general) course description.  We will be preparing a set of
the latest readings for this course, and we would love to have your
feedback and discussion on these new developments in LFG:

ESSLLI-98

Names: Joan Bresnan and Louisa Sadler

Title: Modelling Dynamic Interactions between
Morphology and Syntax 
  
Type: advanced course (1 week)

Section: Language

Description:  

Morphology appears to interact with syntax dynamically.
Typologically, richer morphology is associated with weaker syntactic
word order restrictions and reduction of hierarchical syntactic
structure (witness the nonconfigurationality of Australian languages).
Under historical language change, syntactic constituents often cross
the syntax-morphology boundary to become morphologically bound, while
preserving their interactions with other syntactic constituents (as in
cliticization).  Synchronically, words may preempt or block syntactic
phrases, and conversely.

Most contemporary lexicalist theories of syntax encapsulate word
structure and phrase structure to such an extent that explaining these
dynamic interactions is difficult.  However, the architecture of LFG
is distinctive in postulating a strict separation of morphology from
syntax ONLY in the structural domain, while allowing both words and
hierarchical phrases to have functions of the same types (represented
by complex feature structures).  This provides a useful formal tool
for investigating dynamic linguistic interactions between morphology
and syntax within a well-defined feature-logic based theory.  We will
use this framework to model several types of dynamic morphosyntactic
interactions in a number of languages, developing ideas from
morphological blocking theory, economy principles, and optimality
theory.

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Date:    Mon, 08 Dec 1997 08:35:37 -0800
From:    Mary Dalrymple <dalrympl at parc.xerox.com>
To:      lfg at lists.Stanford.EDU
Subject: FHCG-98

Hi -- I'd like to encourage everyone on the LFG List to consider
submitting an abstract to this conference.  I've been on the program
committee for the Formal Grammar conference for the last several
years, and I have always been disappointed at the small number of
LFG-related abstracts I've seen.  This is a really good forum for
LFG-oriented work, so please think about submitting to this
conference!  Some of the information from the announcement circulated
earlier is repeated below.

 - Mary



FHCG-98 FHCG-98 FHCG-98 FHCG-98 FHCG-98 FHCG-98 FHCG-98 FHCG-98 FHCG-98 
  

		   JOINT CONFERENCE  ON FORMAL GRAMMAR, 
	HEAD-DRIVEN PHRASE STRUCTURE GRAMMAR, AND CATEGORIAL GRAMMAR 

            		 August 14-16, 1998, 
			Saarbrueken,  Germany

			
			FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

FHCG-98 combines the 4th conference on Formal Grammar and the 5th conference 
on Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar. It precedes the 10th European 
Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information (ESSLLI X).

AIMS and SCOPE 

FHCG-98 hopes to provide a platform for presentation of new and original 
research on formal grammar, head-driven phrase structure grammar, and
categorial grammar. 

Themes of interest include, but are not limited to,

* formal and computational syntax, semantics, and pragmatics; 
* head-driven phrase structure grammar and categorial grammar; 
* model-theoretic and proof-theoretic methods in linguistics; 
* constraint-based and resource-sensitive approaches to grammar;
* foundational, methodological and architectural issues in grammar.

SPECIAL SESSIONS and INVITED SPEAKERS

The conference will feature a number of special sessions and invited speakers.
The second call for papers will provide details on how to submit for the
special sessions. 

SUBMISSION DETAILS

We invite E-MAIL submissions of abstracts for 30-minute papers (including
questions and comments).

A submission should consist of two parts: 

- - an information sheet (in ascii), containing the name of the author(s), 
  affiliation(s), e-mail and postal address(es) and a title; 

- - an abstract, consisting of a description of not more than 5 pages 
  (including figures and references). Abstracts may be either in plain 
  ASCII or in (unix-compatible encoded) postscript, PDF, or DVI. 

Abstracts can be sent to 
	
	fg at ufal.mff.cuni.cz (Geert-Jan M. Kruijff)



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