LFG Bulletin, July 2013

Mon Jul 8 13:27:44 UTC 2013

LFG BULLETIN
July 2013

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Next issue: September 2013

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http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg/ilfga/

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CONTENTS

1. LFG 2013 Conference, Debrecen University, Hungary
2. ParGram/ParSem, Debrecen University, Hungary
3. Call for bids to host LFG 2015
3. Drafts for comments
4. Recent LFG work
5. Boilerplate

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1. LFG 2013 CONFERENCE, DEBRECEN UNIVERSITY, HUNGARY

The 18th International Lexical Functional Grammar Conference (LFG13) will be held 18 July - 20 July 2013 at Debrecen University, Hungary.

You can find the full program of LFG13 along with useful travel and accommodation information on the conference website: http://lfg13.unideb.hu/

WEDNESDAY, 17 JULY

Pre-conference social events (see the conference website)

THURSDAY, 18 JULY

08:30-09:30  Registration

09:30-09:45  Welcome

09:45-10:30  Bozhil Hristov 'Defacing agreement'

10:30-11:15  Oleg Belyaev 'Optimal agreement at m-structure: Person in Dargwa'

11:15-12:00  Daniele Artoni and Marco Magnani 
'LFG contributions in SLA research: The development of case in Russian L2'

12:00-13:30  Lunch

13:30-15:00  Poster Session
Noriko Koyama 
'The grammaticality of Japanese passives'
Helge Lodrup 
'Complex predicates in Norwegian: New evidence from passive and impersonal sentences'
George Aaron Broadwell and Hilaria Cruz 'The evolution of case in two Otomanguean languages of Mexico'
George Aaron Broadwell 'An emphatic auxiliary construction for emotions in Copala Triqui'
Ansu Berg, Rigardt Pretorius and Laurette Pretorius 
'The representation of Setswana double objects in LFG'
Petr Homola and Matt Coler 
'Causatives as complex predicates without the restriction operator'
Peter Szucs 
'The Hungarian operator raising revisited'
Louise Mycock 
'Discourse functions of question words'
Filip Skwarski 
'Mapping issues in Polish clausal arguments'
Yasir Alotaibi, Muhammad Alzaidi, Maris Camilleri, Shaimaa Elsadek and Louisa Sadler 
'Psychological predicates and verbal complementation in Arabic'
Jonas Kuhn 
'On the ''spirit of LFG'' in current computational linguistics'
Lachlan Duncan 'Non-verbal predicates in K'ichee' Mayan: An LFG approach'

15:00-15:30  Break

15:30-16:15  Adam Przepiorkowski and Agnieszka Patejuk 'A unified LFG analysis of two homonymous distributive elements in Polish'

16:15-17:00  Tibor Laczko 'Hungarian particle verbs revisited: Representational, morphological and implementational issues from an LFG perspective'

17:00-17:45  Ozlem Cetinoglu, Sina Zarriess and Jonas Kuhn 
'Dependency-based sentence simplification for increasing deep LFG parsing coverage'

FRIDAY, 19 JULY

09:00-09:45  Louise Mycock and John Lowe 'The prosodic encoding of discourse functions'

09:45-10:30  Tina Bogel 'A prosodic resolution of German case ambiguities'

10:30-11:00  Break

11:00-11:45  Prerna Nadathur 'Weak crossover and the Direct Association Hypothesis'

11:45-12:30  Doug Arnold and Louisa Sadler 'Displaced dependent constructions'

12:30-14:00  Lunch

14:00-14:45  Annette Hautli 
'Motion verb sequences in Urdu'

14:45-15:30  Dag Haug 'Partial control, exhaustive control and the semantics of anaphoric control'

15:30-16:00  Break

16:00-16:45  Cheikh Bamba Dione 'Valency change and complex predicates in Wolof: An LFG account'

16:45-17:30  Liz Christie and Ida Toivonen 'Result XPs and the argument-adjunct distinction'

18:00-22:00  Conference dinner

SATURDAY, 20 JULY

09:00-09:45  I Wayan Arka 'Constructed nonverbal aspect in Marori'

09:45-10:30  Kersti Borjars and John Payne 
'Dimensions of variation in the expression of functional features: Modelling definiteness in LFG'

10:30-11:00  Break

11:00-12:00  Invited Talk: Mary Dalrymple 
'Economy of expression' (joint work with Ronald M. Kaplan and Tracy Holloway King)

12:00-12:45  John Lowe 
'Transitive and predicated nominals in LFG'

12:45-14:00  Lunch

14:15-15:00  Ida Toivonen 'English benefactive NPs'

15:00-15:45  Anna Kibort 'Objects and Lexical Mapping Theory'

15:45-16:30  Miriam Butt and Ashwini Deo 'A historical perspective on dative subjects in Indo-Aryan'

16:30-16:45  Break

16:45-17:45  ILFGA Business meeting

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2. PARGRAM/PARSEM MEETING, DEBRECEN UNIVERSITY, HUNGARY

The ParGram/ParSem Meeting will be held 22 July - 24 July 2013 at Debrecen University, Hungary.

Further information is available on the meeting website: http://hungram.unideb.hu/ParGram_ParSem_2013/index.php?page=home

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3. CALL FOR BIDS TO HOST LFG 2015

From Aaron Broadwell, Secretary-Treasurer, International Lexical-Functional Grammar Association:

"The International Lexical-Functional Grammar Association is now accepting bids to host LFG 2015. Following our preference to alternate regions of the world, bids from Asian or Pacific hosts will get priority.

If your institution would like to host LFG 2015, please send me an e-mail by August 1. If you could write a paragraph or two about possible dates, facilities available, and any other relevant information, that would help the Executive Committee choose a site in case of multiple bids.

If you plan to be at the annual meeting in Hungary in July, and would like to present a bid to host the conference, please let me know and I will add you to the agenda. If you are unable to be present at the July meeting, but would like someone to present a bid on your behalf, please let me know, and we will make arrangements for this."

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4. 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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5. RECENT LFG WORK

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

5.1 PUBLICATIONS

Hristov, Bozhil P. (2013). ‘Pronominal Case Assignment in English’. Journal of Linguistics. Available on CJO 2013 doi:10.1017/S0022226713000029 http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0022226713000029

5.2 CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

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

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6. 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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