LFG-2000 Program Announcement

Sat Apr 15 04:28:04 UTC 2000

	2000 LEXICAL FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR CONFERENCE
	   (as part of the Berkeley Formal Grammar Conference 2000)

			 19 July - 20 July 2000

			      Alumni House
		            UC Berkeley, Berkeley CA

                     URLs:  http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg/lfg2000/
                                  http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/~bfg2000/

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM:

Wednesday July 19, 2000

9.00-9.40 JOAN BRESNAN and JOHN MUGANE 'Mixed categories in Gikuyu'
9.40-10.20 YUKIKO MORIMOTO 'Lexical Projection of functional features: the view
from Bantu relatives'

10.20-10.40 BREAK

10.40-11.20 MARK JOHNSON 'Stochastic lexical-functional grammar'
11.20-12.00 ANETTE FRANK, LOUISA SADLER, JOSEF VAN GENABITH, ANDY WAY 
'Automatic F-structure Annotation of Treebank Trees and CFGs 
extracted from
Treebanks'

12.00-1.30 LUNCH

1.30-2.10 PETER SELLS 'Negation in Swedish: where it's not at'
2.10-2.50 GEORGE AARON BROADWELL 'The emergence of the unmarked in Mayan
word order'
2.50-3.30 HANJUNG LEE 'Word order and ambiguity in an extended model of
optimization'

3.30-3.50 BREAK

3.50-4.30 VEIT REUER 'Error-recognition and parsing of syntactically
mildly ill-formed Natural Language'
4.30-5.10 JONAS KUHN 'Faithfulness violations and bidirectional optimization'
5.10-5.50 ASH ASUDEH 'Functional identity and resource sensitivity in control'

5.50-6.00 BREAK

6.00-7.00 ILFGA Annual General Meeting.

Friday July 20, 2000

9.00-9.40 MARY DALRYMPLE and TRACY KING 'Missing-object constructions:
lexical and constructional variation'
9.40-10.20 CHRIS CULY 'An incorporated object marker in Takelma'

10.20-10.40 BREAK

10.40-11.20 YEHUDA FALK 'Pivots and the theory of grammatical functions'
11.20-12.00 MARY DALRYMPLE and HELGE LØDRUP 'The grammatical functions of
complement clauses'

12.00-1.30 LUNCH

1.30-2.10 NIGEL VINCENT and KERSTI BÖRJARS 'Feature resolution and the
content of features'
2.10-2.50 MIRIAM BUTT 'A re-examination of the accusative to ergative shift in
Indo-Aryan'

2.50-3.10 BREAK

3.10-6.00 Workshop: 'MORPHOSYNTAX in LFG'  (Organisers: LOUISA SADLER and
ANDREW SPENCER)

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ALTERNATES:

JULIA BARRON 'Tense and agreement morphology -- the irrelevance of finiteness'
TIBOR LACZKO 'On oblique arguments and adjuncts of Hungarian event
nominals -- a comprehensive LFG account'
RACHEL NORDLINGER and LOUISA SADLER 'Tense as a nominal category'

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REGISTRATION AND ACCOMMODATION INFORMATION

General Information

Please fill out the on-line registration form at:

      http://www.linguistics.berkeley.edu/~bfg2000/online-reg.html

and submit it by clicking the "submit registration" button at the
bottom of the form. We will email you an invoice for your registration
fee and, if accommodation in the Residence Halls is requested, a
$25.00 deposit. The invoice will include a credit card form and
information about paying by check.

There is a uniform registration fee for the entire conference. During
early registration (until 31 May), the registration fees are $25.00
for students, $45.00 for nonstudent participants. After 31 May,
regular registration fees apply: $35.00 for students, $55.00 for
nonstudent participants.

Accommodation

A limited number of spaces have been reserved in the University
Residence Halls. These spaces have been reserved on a "package" basis,
which means that you will have to pay for 6 nights (July 18 through
24) including breakfast, regardless of whether you leave early or
arrive late. (However, if you intend to arrive earlier than 18 July or
leave later than July 24, we can be accommodate you on a per-night
basis).

There are two types of room available, single occupancy and double
occupancy. The daily rate (room only) for single occupancy is $45.00
and the daily rate (room only) for double occupancy is $29.00 per
person. Breakfast is $5.75 per day. In order to make a reservation, we
need to receive a nonrefundable deposit of $25.00.

If you are booking accommodation, note that we only have limited
numbers of each kind of room and we may have to email you to discuss
alternatives.

Further enquiries: bfg2000 at linguistics.berkeley.edu

ORGANISERS AND THEIR CONTACT ADDRESSES

Program Committee Chairs:
                  Chris Manning manning at csli.stanford.edu
                  Rachel Nordlinger r.nordlinger at linguistics.unimelb.edu.au

Local Conference Organiser: Andreas Kathol bfg2000 at linguistics.berkeley.edu

PRE-CONFERENCE HIKE AND PICNIC:
Following recent LFG tradition, there will be a pre-conference social event
on Tuesday July 18.  This will involve a hike and picnic lunch in Tilden
Park, a beautiful area not too far from the Berkeley campus.  Other
activities apart from hiking are also available (e.g. botanical garden,
swimming in the lake) see http://www.ebparks.org/parks/tilden.htm for
further details, and http://www.ebparks.org/parks/wildcat.htm for 
information about
longer hikes nearby.  Transportation from Berkeley and a picnic lunch will be
arranged for a modest fee.  This event is not restricted to the LFG
community, but is open to anyone attending the Berkeley Formal Grammar
conference.  Please contact Mary Dalrymple (dalrymple at parc.xerox.com) as
soon as possible if you are interested in attending.

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Dr. Rachel Nordlinger
Dept. of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
University of Melbourne
Victoria 3010
AUSTRALIA
ph. +61-(0)3-8344-4215, fax. +61-(0)3-8344-8990
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