LFG Bulletin, March 2014

Tue Mar 25 10:49:55 UTC 2014

LFG BULLETIN
March 2014

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** < Louise.Mycock "at" gmail "dot" com >**

Next issue: June 2014

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CONTENTS

1. LFG 2014 Conference: conference website and information update
2. Workshop on Unbounded Dependencies
3. New ILFGA website location
4. Officers of the ILFGA
5. Drafts for comments
6. Recent LFG work
7. Online resources
8. Boilerplate

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1. LFG 2014 CONFERENCE: CONFERENCE WEBSITE AND INFORMATION UPDATE

From Damir Cavar:

Please note that we just updated the LFG conference site with new relevant information related to accommodation and venue:
http://lfg-conference.org/

If you intend to participate in the LFG 2014 conference in Ann Arbor in July 2014, please do try to identify the right accommodation and make a reservation soon. The summer is very busy here with a lot of events, and the hotels in walking distance or close to the University of Michigan will be most likely booked out soon.

If you have any questions wrt. the conference and the local arrangements, contact us at the email address on the web-site above, or Malgosia and me directly.
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2. WORKSHOP ON UNBOUNDED DEPENDENCIES

From Alex Alsina:

The LFG 2014 conference will be followed by the Workshop ‘The Syntax and Information Structure of Unbounded Dependencies’ in the same venue.

More information at: http://lfg-conference.org/program/workshop/

The Syntax and Information Structure of Unbounded Dependencies
The University of Michigan
Sunday, July 20, 2014

9:30 Introduction: Ron Kaplan, Nuance
10:10 Discussion

10:20 Simplifying the syntactic representation of unbounded dependencies in LFG: Alex Alsina, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
11:00 Response: Dag Haug, University of Oslo
11:20 Discussion

11:30 break

11:50 Psycholinguistics: Philip Hofmeister, University of Essex
12:30 Response: Mary Dalrymple, University of Oxford
12:50 Discussion

1:00 lunch

2:00 A view from Minimalism: Rajesh Bhatt, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
2:40 Response: Ash Asudeh, University of Oxford/Carleton University
3:00 Discussion

3:10 break

3:30 Issues in the Representation of Information Structure: John Lowe and Louise Mycock, University of Oxford
4:10 Response: Tracy Holloway King, eBay
4:30 Discussion

4:40 General discussion

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3. NEW ILFGA WEBSITE LOCATION

From Tracy Holloway King:

We have moved the ILFGA website to:

https://sites.google.com/site/ilfgalfg/home

This includes all the information from the old site, including the membership database. Many thanks to Mary Dalrymple for setting this up.

Please check your entry in the membership database: https://sites.google.com/site/ilfgalfg/membership-database

If you would like revisions, please send them to me. If you would like to add an entry, please send me the following information:
- Affiliation
- Email
- WWW
- Research interests
- Research languages

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4. OFFICERS OF THE ILFGA

The new Chair of the ILFGA Executive Committee is I Wayan Arka.

Stephen Wechsler’s term on the Nominating Committee has come to an end. Stephen has been replaced by One-Soon Her.

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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" gmail "dot" com >

6.1 PUBLICATIONS

John J. Lowe (2014) ‘Accented Clitics in the Ṛgveda’. Transactions of the Philological Society 112: 5–43.

6.2 CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

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

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7. ONLINE RESOURCES

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

International Lexical Functional Grammar Association:
https://sites.google.com/site/ilfgalfg/home

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

Facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/lfgpage

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8. 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.

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