tentative programme of the Thirteenth International Lexical Functional Grammar Conference

[Martin Forst]

The following is the tentative programme of the Thirteenth International 
Lexical Functional Grammar Conference. Please visit the conference 
website at 
http://escholarship.library.usyd.edu.au/conferences/index.php/LingFest2008/LFG/ 
for more information.


Friday, July 4, 2008

09.00 REGISTRATION
09.50 WELCOME
10.00 Ash Asudeh (Carleton University), Mary Dalrymple (Oxford 
University) and Ida Toivonen (Carleton University)
Constructions with Lexical Integrity: Templates as the Lexicon–Syntax 
Interface
10.45 Coffee
11.15 Avery Andrews (Australian National University)
The Role of PRED in LFG + Glue
12.00 Dag Haug (University of Oslo)
Information Structure and the Temporal Reference of Participial XADJs
12.45 Lunch
02.00 Rachel Nordlinger (University of Melbourne) and Louisa Sadler 
(University of Essex)
Incorporated Apposition: Incorporation in Part-Whole and 
Generic-Specific Constructions
02.45 Brett Baker (University of New England) and Rachel Nordlinger 
(University of Melbourne)
Incorporated classifiers in Gunwinyguan languages
03.30 Coffee
04.00 Drinks, nibbles and speed papers on 'Empirical Challenges to LFG'

- Claire Bowern
Bardi Complex Predicate Morphology as a Challenge to Monotonicity
- Bill Foley
The Syntactic Status of Topics in Papuan Languages
- Wa'ozisokhi Nazara
A Brief Note on Subjects in Nias
- Justin Spence
Apprehensional Constructions in Australian Languages
- Marie-Elaine Van Egmond
Classifiers in Anindilyakwa


Saturday, July 5, 2008

09.30 Anna Gazdik (Eötvös Loránd University, University of Paris VII)
French Interrogatives in an OT-LFG Analysis (Dissertation Session)
10.15 Syed Muhammad Jafar Rizvi (Pakistan Institute of Engineering and 
Applied Sciences)
Development of Algorithms and Computational Grammar for Urdu 
(Dissertation Session)
11.00 Coffee
11.30 Anette Frank and Sascha Fendrich (University of Heidelberg)
Principle-based C-structure Induction for Cross-linguistically Projected 
F-structures
12.15 Lilja Øvrelid (University of Gothenburg)
Functional Features in Data-driven Parsing
01.00 Lunch
02.00 Gerlof Bouma (University of Potsdam)
Word Order Freezing in Spoken Dutch
02.45 Maia Andréasson (Aarhus University)
Not All Objects Are Born Alike – Accessibility as the Key to Variation 
in Pronominal Object Shift in Scandinavian
03.30 Coffee
04.00 Kersti Börjars and Nigel Vincent (University of Manchester)
Objects
04.45 Özlem Çetinoǧlu (Sabancı University) and Miriam Butt (University 
of Konstanz)
Turkish Non-canonical Objects
05.30 AGM, FOLLOWED BY CONFERENCE DINNER


Sunday, July 6, 2008

09.30 George Aaron Broadwell (State University of New York)
Turkish Suspended Affixation Is Lexical Sharing
10.15 Miriam Butt, Tina Bögel and Sebastian Sulger (University of Konstanz)
Urdu Ezafe and the Morphology-Syntax Interface
11.00 Coffee
11.30 Alex Alsina (Pompeu Fabra University)
A Theory of Structure-sharing: Focusing on Long-distance Dependencies 
and Parasitic Gaps
12.15 Helge Lødrup (University of Oslo)
Local Binding Without Co-argumenthood: Norwegian Noun Phrases
01.00 Poster Session Lunch

- Gerlof Bouma, Jonas Kuhn, Bettina Schrader and Kathrin Spreyer 
(University of Potsdam)
Parallel LFG Grammars on Parallel Corpora: a Base for Practical 
Triangulation
- Anne Tamm (University of Florence)
Variation and the Development of Estonian Parallel Functional Categories
- Marie Fellbaum Korpi (Australian National University)
LFG Architecture, Semantic Definiteness Structures, and Nonverbal 
Syntactic Constructions
- Melanie Seiß (University of Konstanz)
English Embedded Complements: the -ing Form
- Elisabeth Mayer (Australian National University)
Clitics on the Move: from Dependent Marking to Split Marking

02.30 Ingo Mittendorf and Louisa Sadler (University of Essex)
Synchronic, Diachronic and Cross-linguistic Aspects of Welsh `Possessor 
Promotion'
03.15 Gavin Austin (University of New England)
Causativization in Sinhala
04.00 Coffee
04.30 Anna Kibort (University of Surrey)
On the Syntax of Ditransitive Constructions


Kersti Börjars & Martin Forst