LFG 2003 -- Conference Program
Jonas Kuhn
jonask at MAIL.UTEXAS.EDU
Mon May 5 23:09:40 UTC 2003
Lexical Functional Grammar 2003
THE 8TH INTERNATIONAL LEXICAL FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR CONFERENCE
Sponsored by
The Program in Linguistics and Cognitive Science
University at Albany, State University of New York
July 16-18, 2003
Saratoga Springs, New York
For registration information, please refer to the conference website:
http://www.albany.edu/anthro/lfg2003/lfg2003.htm
Tuesday, July 15
12:00 Informal pre-conference gathering
(Picnic lunch, hiking, visits to local museums, and
other activities)
Wednesday, July 16 (FIRST CONFERENCE DAY)
9:00-10:30 SPECIAL SESSION 1
"1978-2003: The 25th Anniversary of the First Course on LFG"
Joan Bresnan
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-12:20 SESSION 1A
Yehuda N. Falk: "The English Auxiliary System Revisited"
Rachel Nordlinger & Louisa Sadler: "The Syntax and Semantics
of Tensed Nominals"
12:20- 2:00 Lunch break
2:00-3:20 SESSION 1B
Maia Andreasson, Kersti Borjars, & Elisabet Engdahl:
"Subject positions in Swedish"
Elizabeth Coppock: "Sometimes it's hard to be Coherent"
3:20- 3:40 Coffee break
3:40- 5:00 SESSION 1C
Aoife Cahill, Mairead McCarthy, Josef Van Genabith, & Andy
Way: "Lexicalisation of Long-Distance Dependencies in a
Treebank-Based, Statistical LFG Grammar"
Anette Frank: "Projecting LFG F-Structures from Chunks"
5:30- 7:00 POSTER/DEMO SESSION
Miriam Butt, Tracy King & John Maxwell: "Complex Predication
via Restriction" (POSTER/DEMO)
Aoife Cahill, Mairead McCarthy, Josef Van Genabith, & Andy
Way: "Extracting Large-Scale Lexical Resources for LFG
from the Penn-II Treebank" (DEMO)
Aoife Cahill, Mairead McCarthy, Josef Van Genabith, & Andy
Way: "A Suite of Linguistic Tools for Use with the Penn-II
Treebank" (POSTER)
Anette Frank: "Projecting LFG F-Structures from Chunks"
(accompanying DEMO to the talk at 4:20)
Martin Frost: "Treebank Conversion - Creating a German
f-structure bank from the TIGER corpus" (POSTER)
Ron Kaplan & Tracy King: "Integration of low-level mark-up
with large-scale LFG grammatical analysis" (POSTER)
Thursday, July 17 (SECOND CONFERENCE DAY)
9:00-10:30 SPECIAL SESSION 2
"1978-2003: The 25th Anniversary of the First Course on LFG"
Ron Kaplan
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-12:20 SESSION 2A
Ryo Otoguro: "Focus clitics and discourse information
spreading"
Leonoor van der Beek: "The Dutch cleft constructions"
12:20- 1:45 Lunch break
1:45- 5:00 WORKSHOP "THE SYNTAX OF NATIVE AMERICAN LANGUAGES:
LEXICALIST PERSPECTIVES"
George Aaron Broadwell: "Optimality, complex predication, and
parallel structures in Zapotec"
Matthew Beach: "Asymmetries between passivization and
antipassivization in Inuktitut"
Amy Dahlstrom: "Focus constructions in Meskwaki (Fox)"
Lachlan Duncan: "Tz'utujil (Maya) clause structure"
Mary Catherine O'Connor: "Pronominal incorporation and
agreement inside the noun phrase"
5:30- 7:30 ILFGA business meeting
Friday, July 18 (THIRD CONFERENCE DAY)
9:00- 11:00 SESSION 3A
Sam Mchombo & Yukiko Morimoto: "Local constraints in
Chichewa discontinuous constituents"
KP & Tara Mohanan: "Universal and language-particular
constraints in OT-LFG"
Tara & KP Mohanan: "Inputs and Candidates in OT-LFG"
11:00-11:20 Coffee break
11:20-12:40 SESSION 3B
Valia Kordoni: "Valence Alternations: at the Syntax-Semantics
Interface"
Cholthicha Sudmuk: "The thuuk Construction in Thai"
12:40- 2:00 Lunch break
2:00-3:20 SESSION 3C
Juergen Wedekind & Bjarne Orsnes: "Restriction and Verbal
Complexes in LFG -- A Case Study for Danish"
Jonas Kuhn: "Generalized Tree Descriptions for LFG"
3:20- 3:40 Coffee break
3:40- 5:00 SESSION 3D
Lionel Clement & Alexandra Kinyon:
"Generating LFGs with a MetaGrammar"
Andrew Spencer: "A Realization Approach to Case"
ALTERNATE PAPER
Adams B. Bodomo, Olivia Lam & Natalie Yu: "Expressing the Benefactive in
Hong Kong Chinese"
(If the alternate paper is not picked to replace a talk, it will be
presented in the POSTER SESSION on Wednesday July 16.)
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