LFG Bulletin, March 2010

Sat Mar 13 10:18:02 UTC 2010

LFG BULLETIN
MARCH 2010

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Next issue: June 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 2009 Conference Proceedings
2. LFG 2010 Conference, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
3. South of England LFG Meetings
4. Infrastructure for the Exploration of Syntax and Semantics project
5. Drafts for comments
6. Recent LFG work
7. Boilerplate

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1. LFG 2009 Conference Proceedings

The Proceedings from last year's LFG conference are now available online from CSLI Publications at:
http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/LFG/

CONTENTS

Ahmad Alsharif and Louisa Sadler
Negation in Modern Standard Arabic: An LFG Approach
Pages 5-25

Budour Al Sharifi and Louisa Sadler
The adjectival construct in Arabic
Pages 26-43

Alex Alsina
The prepositional passive as structure-sharing
Pages 44-64

Raúl Aranovich
Animacy effects and locative marking in Shona applicatives
Pages 65-84

I Wayan Arka, Avery Andrews, Mary Dalrymple, Meladel Mistica and Jane Simpson
A linguistic and computational morphosyntactic analysis for the applicative -i in Indonesian
Pages 85-105

Ash Asudeh
Adjacency and locality: A constraint-based analysis of complementizer-adjacent extraction
Pages 106-126

Eleftherios Avramidis and Jonas Kuhn
Exploiting XLE's finite state interface in LFG-based statistical machine translation
Pages 127-145

Tina Bögel, Miriam Butt, Ronald M. Kaplan, Tracy Holloway King and John Maxwell III
Prosodic phonology in LFG: A new proposal
Pages 146-166

Gerlof Bouma and Jonas Kuhn
On the split nature of the Dutch laten-causative
Pages 167-187

Miriam Bouzouita and Stergios Chatzikyriakidis
Clitics as calcified processing strategies
Pages 188-207

Aoife Cahill, Uli Heid, Christian Rohrer and Marion Weller
Using tri-lexical dependencies in LFG parse disambiguation
Pages 208-221

Amy Dahlstrom
OBJ( without OBJ: A typology of Meskwaki objects
Pages 222-239

Lachlan Duncan
A tale of two taqs: An OT-LFG account of plurals and distributives in K'ichee' Mayan
Pages 240-260

Yehuda Falk
Islands: A mixed analysis
Pages 261-281

Maria Flouraki and Despina Kazana
Constraining disjunctive constructions in Modern Greek
Pages 282-296

Martin Forst and Christian Rohrer
Problems of German VP coordination
Pages 297-316

Yvette Graham, Anton Bryl and Josef van Genabith
F-structure transfer-based statistical machine translation
Pages 317-337

Dag Haug
med - the syntax and semantics of concomitance in Norwegian
Pages 338-356

Annette Hautli and Tracy Holloway King
Adapting stochastic LFG input for semantics
Pages 357-377

Anna Kibort
Intermediary agents and unexpressed pronouns
Pages 378-398

Tibor Laczkó
Relational nouns and argument structure - evidence from Hungarian
Pages 399-419

Helge Lødrup
Looking possessor raising in the mouth: Norwegian possessor raising with unergatives
Pages 420-440

Maja Mili_evi_
On the status of clitic reflexives and reciprocals in Italian and Serbian
Pages 441-458

Gy_örgy Rákosi
Beyond identity: The case of a complex Hungarian reflexive
Pages 459-479

Ines Rehbein and Josef van Genabith
Automatic acquisition of LFG resources for German - as good as it gets
Pages 480-500

Melanie Seiss
On the difference between auxiliaries, serial verbs and light verbs
Pages 501-519

Ilona Spector
Hebrew floating quantifiers
Pages 520-540

Tania E. Strahan
Outside-in binding of reflexives in Insular Scandinavian
Pages 541-561

Sebastian Sulger
Irish clefting and information-structure
Pages 562-582

Lamia Tounsi, Mohammed Attia and Josef van Genabith
Parsing Arabic using treebank-based LFG resources
Pages 583-586

Nigel Vincent
LFG and Dynamic Syntax: Two non-derivational theories
Pages 587-603

Michael T. Wescoat
Udi person markers and lexical integrity
Pages 604-622

Beatriz Willgohs and Patrick Farrell
Case and grammatical functions in Imbabura Quechua: An LFG approach
Pages 623-643

Annie Zaenen and Dick Crouch
OBLs hobble computations
Pages 644-654

Sina Zarrieß and Jonas Kuhn
Paraphrases in LFG-based broad-coverage semantics
Pages 655-675

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2. LFG 2010 Conference, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada 

The deadline for abstract submission has now passed. Acceptances will be sent out after 31st March 2010 and the conference will take place 18-20 June 2010.

More information about this year's LFG conference can be found on the conference website:
http://www.carleton.ca/lfg2010/

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3. South of England LFG Meetings

Prompted by the relatively high concentration of people in the area working within the LFG framework, the first South of England LFG meeting was held on 6th February 2010 at SOAS, London. The hope is that this will be the first of a series of student-oriented termly meetings.

These meetings aim to bring together students, researchers and academic staff working on or interested in LFG, and to provide a forum for presentations and discussion of various topics from an LFG perspective.

The next meeting is scheduled for Saturday, 8th May 2010 at SOAS, London.

More information can be found at:
http://se-lfg.tk/

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4. Infrastructure for the Exploration of Syntax and Semantics project

From Victoria Rosén:

The research group LaMoRe (Language Models and Resources) in Bergen, Norway will begin work on a new treebanking infrastructure project on April 1, 2010. The project "Infrastructure for the Exploration of Syntax and Semantics (INESS)" has received a grant of 19 million Norwegian kroner from the Research Council of Norway. The primary objective of the project is to build a "deep", high-quality, dynamic treebank for Norwegian, for use in innovative linguistic research and the development of advanced language technology applications. The treebank will be created using the computational LFG grammar NorGram, XLE, and the LFG Parsebanker. The INESS infrastructure will also host treebanks for other languages. The TIGER LFG and dependency treebanks of German, a parsebank for English developed at Powerset, and a dependency treebank for Sami will be the first to be included. Senior researchers on the project are Helge Dyvik, Paul Meurer, Koenraad De Smedt and Victoria Rosén. The project will run for five years and will be led by Victoria Rosén.

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5. DRAFTS FOR COMMENTS

'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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6. RECENT LFG WORK

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

6.1 CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

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

6.2 PHD/MASTERS

Ines Rehbein. 2009. 'Treebank-Based Grammar Acquisition for German'. National Centre for Language Technology (NCLT), School of Computing, Dublin City University.

Yuqing Guo. 2009. 'Treebank-Based Acquisition of Chinese LFG Resources for Parsing and Generation'. National Centre for Language Technology (NCLT), School of Computing, Dublin City University.

6.3 PUBLICATIONS

Avery Andrews. 2010. Grammatical vs. Lexical Constructors for Glue Semantics. To appear in 'Selected Papers from the 2009 Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society', edited by Yvonne Treis & Rik de Busser. http://www.als.asn.au

Yvette Graham and Josef van Genabith. 2009. An Open Source Rule Induction Tool for Transfer-Based SMT. In 'The Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics, Special Issue: Open Source Tools for Machine Translation', 91, ISSN 0032-6585, pages 37-46.

Anton Bryl, Josef van Genabith and Yvette Graham. 2009. Guessing the Grammatical Function of a Non-Root F-Structure in LFG. In 'Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Parsing Technologies', IWPT, Paris, 2009, pages 146-149.

Lamia Tounsi, Mohammed Attia and Josef van Genabith. 2009. Automatic Treebank-Based Acquisition of Arabic LFG Dependency Structures. 'Proceedings of the EACL-Workshop on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages', March 31, 2009, Athens, Greece, pages 45-52.

Natalie Schluter and Josef van Genabith. 2009. Dependency Parsing Resources for French: Converting Acquired Lexical Functional Grammar F-Structure Annotations and Parsing F-Structures Directly. In 'Nodalida 2009 Conference Proceedings', (eds.) Kristiina Jokinen and Eckhard  Bick, pages 166-173. 

6.4 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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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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