LFG Bulletin, September 2011

Fri Sep 9 09:30:56 UTC 2011

LFG BULLETIN
September 2011

** Please send bulletin items to me by email  **
** < Louise.Mycock "at" gmail "dot" com >**

Next issue: December 2011

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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 2012 conference, Bali
2. Conference report: LFG 2011, Hong Kong
3. Drafts for comments
4. Recent LFG work
5. Boilerplate

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1. LFG 2012 CONFERENCE, BALI

The 17th International LFG Conference will be held  28th-30th June 2012 at Udayana University in Bali.

There will be a ParGram meeting before LFG 2012, and the 12th International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics (12-ICAL) will take place afterwards, 2-6 July 2012 http://email.eva.mpg.de/~gil/12ICAL/

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2. CONFERENCE REPORT: LFG 2011, UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG

From Olivia Lam:

LFG2011 was held at the University of Hong Kong, China, from July 16 to July 19, 2011. There were 35 registered participants, and we were very happy to have 2 invited talks, 1 workshop, 20 regular paper presentations and 5 poster presentations.

The opening speech was given by the organizer, Adams Bodomo, who welcomed the conference participants and announced that the conference was a contribution of the School of Humanities (Linguistics) to events in celebration of the Centenary Anniversary of the University of Hong Kong. One of the two invited talks was given by One-Soon Her (National Chengchi University, Taiwan) on the first day, and the title of his talk was ‘Structure of Classifiers and Measure Words: A Lexical Functional Account’. The other invited talk was delivered by Rachel Nordlinger (University of Melbourne, Australia) on July 18 on ‘LFG and Language Documentation’. The thematic workshop on ‘LFG & Other Lexicalist Analyses of Binding’, organized by Adams Bodomo, was held on July 16. There was also the annual ILFGA meeting, which was chaired by George Aaron Broadwell and was conducted on July 17. The conference ended successfully on July 19, after some closing remarks from the organizer.

The full program and the abstracts of all of the presentations can be viewed online on the conference webpage at:http://www0.hku.hk/linguist/lfg2011/lfg2011.html. 

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3. 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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4. RECENT LFG WORK

Send details of your recent work to < Louise.Mycock "at" gmail "dot" com >

4.1 PUBLICATIONS

Butt, Miriam (2011). 'The redevelopment of Indo-Aryan case systems from a lexical semantic perspective'. Morphology 21 (3): 545-572.

4.2 PHD/MASTERS

Those interested in Yuxiu Hu's PhD dissertation, which was included in the last bulletin, can now access the abstract at:
http://www0.hku.hk/linguist/staff/Hu_Yuxiu_PhD_Thesis_Abstract.doc
Hu, Yuxiu (2011). 'The acquisition of English articles by Mandarin-speaking learners: An optimality theoretic syntax account'. PhD dissertation, University of Hong Kong.

4.3 CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

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

4.4 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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5. 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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