LFG Bulletin, July 2010

Tue Jul 6 08:09:02 UTC 2010

LFG BULLETIN
JULY 2010

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Next issue: September 2010

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LFG website:
http://www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/external/LFG/

International Lexical Functional Grammar Association:
http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg/ilfga/

More about LFG:
http://www.carleton.ca/~asudeh/LFG/more.txt

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CONTENTS

1. LFG 2010 Conference report
2. LFG 2010 Conference proceedings
3. ParGram/ParSem project meeting
4. Drafts for comments
5. Recent LFG work
6. Kim loves Sandy. Or maybe not.
7. Boilerplate

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1. LFG 2010 CONFERENCE REPORT

From Ash Asudeh:

The Fifteenth International Lexical Functional Grammar Conference was held at Carleton University, Ottawa, on June 18th to June 20th. There were about 45 attendees from all over the world at LFG 2010, including Australia, France, Germany, Hungary, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Norway, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. There were twenty refereed talks, six refereed posters, and three invited talks. The invited speakers were Joan Bresnan (Stanford University), Mary Dalrymple (University of Oxford), and Ray Jackendoff (Tufts University). The day before the conference began, we took a group of delegates to the MacKenzie King Estate in Gatineau Park for a walk and lunch. The poster session was held in conjunction with a BBQ lunch in the quad. The conference dinner was held at the Château Laurier Hotel. 

The local organizers for the conference were Ash Asudeh and Ida Toivonen. We also had a number of student volunteers who were indispensable and kept things running extremely smoothly. A very big thank you to the students: Crystal Bruce, Jessica Danforth, Michael Hamilton, Jessica Lynch, Emily McMurtry, Stephanie Needham, Shannon Pertl, and Dan Sachs. We also thank Dean John Osborne for providing financial support for the conference.

For anyone who's curious, the conference website is still up at:
http://www.carleton.ca/lfg2010/

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2. LFG 2010 CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 

The proceedings of the LFG 2010 Conference will be available by the end of the year. If anyone has questions about the proceedings, please contact Miriam Butt and Tracy Holloway King.

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3. PARGRAM/PARSEM PROJECT MEETING

The fall Parallel Grammar and Parallel Semantics (ParGram/ParSem) project meeting will be held October 4-8 at PARC. Information about ParGram and ParSem is available at http://pargram.b.uib.no/. Those interested in attending this fall's project meeting should contact Annie Zaenen or Tracy Holloway King.

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4. DRAFTS FOR COMMENTS

'Quirky Case and 'Co-generative' LFG+Glue'
http://arts.anu.edu.au/linguistics/People/AveryAndrews/Papers/, drafts section, or
http://lingbuzz.auf.net/lingbuzz/@sVYpkFhqgsSYcICe/nvsTyvjS?2

[The Andrews 1982/90 analysis of Quirky Case in Icelandic, updated with a version of glue semantics.]

'Semantic Interpretation by CC Functors for LFG+Glue'
http://arts.anu.edu.au/linguistics/People/AveryAndrews/Papers/, drafts section, or
http://semanticsarchive.net/Archive/mIzODhmY/

[A way to make model-theoretic interpretation of glue proofs more principled by using a bit of category theory.]

'Drafts for comments' offers bulletin readers the opportunity to submit information about drafts or projects on which they would like to receive comments from the community. This brings work in progress to the attention of the community and plays some of the role that previous incarnations of the archive played.

Please submit basic article/project information and a) a URL if the item is available online or else b) your contact email.

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5. RECENT LFG WORK

Send details of your recent work to Louise.Mycock /at/ ling-phil.ox.ac.uk

5.1 CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

2010. Malik, Muhammad.K., Tafseer Ahmed, Sebastian Sulger, Tina Bögel, Atif Gulzar, Miriam Butt and Sarmad Hussain. 'Transliterating Urdu for a Broad-Coverage Urdu/Hindi LFG Grammar'. In Proceedings of LREC2010, Malta.

2010. Mayer, Thomas, Christian Rohrdantz, Frans Plank, Peter Bak, Miriam Butt and Daniel A. Keim. 'Consonant co-occurrence in stems across languages: Automatic analysis and visualization of a phonotactic constraint'. In Proceedings of the ACL 2010 Workshop on NLP and Linguistics: Finding the Common Ground, 67-75. Uppsala, Sweden.

2010. Rohrdantz, Christian, Thomas Mayer, Miriam Butt, Frans Plank and Daniel A. Keim. 'Comparative visual analysis of cross-linguistic features'. In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (EuroVAST 2010), 27-32. Bordeaux, France.

2010. Özlem Cetinoglu, Miriam Butt and Kemal Oflazer. 'Mono/Bi-clausality of Turkish Causatives'. In S. Ay et al. (eds.) Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Turkish Linguistics, August 6-8, 2008. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag.

LFG conference papers are available electronically at:
http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/LFG/

5.2 PUBLICATIONS

2010. Butt, Miriam and Tafseer Ahmed. 'The Redevelopment of Indo-Aryan Case Systems from a Lexical Semantic Perspective'. Morphology, in press.

2010. Butt, Miriam. 'The Light Verb Jungle: Still Hacking Away'. In M. Amberber, M. Harvey and B. Baker (eds.) Complex Predicates in Cross-Linguistic Perspective, 48-78. Cambridge University Press.

2010. Sadler, Louisa and Rachel Nordlinger. 'Nominal Juxtaposition in Australian languages: an LFG analysis'. Journal of Linguistics 46, 415-452.

5.3 DOWNLOADABLE LFG PAPERS

A list of web-pages where people post downloadable LFG papers:
http://arts.anu.edu.au/linguistics/LFG/

Additional suggestions welcome.

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6. KIM LOVES SANDY. OR MAYBE NOT.

From Doug Arnold:

The LFG website http://www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/external/LFG/ suggests trying "Kim loves Sandy" with the XLE grammar of English http://decentius.aksis.uib.no/logon/xle.xml. This is not in itself newsworthy. What *is* interesting is that, as Helge Dyvik tells me, you can try the same sentence with the Norwegian grammar and get a sensible result:

'kim' or 'kime' means 'embryo cell', while 'loves' is the passive form of 'love'='promise'; hence you get the reading - with a topicalized object - "An embryo cell Sandy is promised."

I thought this was too good/weird not to share.

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7. BOILERPLATE

The boilerplate (standard text) which previously appeared at the end of every bulletin can be accessed at:

http://www.carleton.ca/~asudeh/LFG/more.txt

The LFG website also serves much of the same function as the boilerplate section.

http://www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/external/LFG/

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