[LFG] LFG Bulletin, July 2015

Louise Mycock louise.mycock at gmail.com
Tue Jul 7 10:43:43 UTC 2015 

July 2015

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Next issue: September 2015

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CONTENTS

1. LFG 2015 Conference, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
2. Workshop on Morphology, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan 
3. Preliminary agenda for the Business Meeting at LFG 2015 in Tokyo
4. Call for bids to host LFG 2017
5. ILFGA Executive Committee election - reminder
6. Drafts for comments 
7. Recent LFG work 
8. Online resources 
9. Boilerplate

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1. LFG 2015 CONFERENCE, WASEDA UNIVERSITY, TOKYO, JAPAN

Conference website: http://www.lfg2015.org

PROGRAM

SATURDAY, 18 JULY

9:20 - 9:30 Opening

9:30 - 10:15 Miriam Butt, Maike Müller and Mark-Matthias Zymla (University of Konstanz) 'Modelling the common ground for discourse particles' 
10:15-11:00 Agnieszka Patejuk and Adam Przepiórkowski (Polish Academy of Sciences) 'Two representations of negation in LFG: evidence from Polish'

11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 - 12:15 I Wayan Arka (ANU / Udayana University) 'On the constructed middle in Marori'
12:15-13:00 Anna Kibort (University of Oxford) and Joan Maling (Brandeis University) 'Modelling the syntactic ambiguity of the active vs passive impersonal in LFG'

13:00 - 14:30 Lunch break

14:30 - 15:15 Oleg Belyaev (Russian Academy of Sciences), Mary Dalrymple (University of Oxford) and John Lowe (University of Oxford) 'Number mismatches in coordination: an LFG analysis'
15:15 - 15:45 Dissertation session talk: Stephen Jones (University of Oxford) 'Number in Meryam Mir'

15:45 - 16:15 Coffee break

16:15 - 17:00 Tibor Laczkó (University of Debrecen) 'On a realistic LFG treatment of the periphrastic irrealis mood in Hungarian'
17:00 - 17:45 Shaimaa ElSadek and Louisa Sadler (University of Essex) 'Egyptian Arabic perceptual reports'


SUNDAY July 19

9:30 - 10:30 Invited talk: Andrew Spencer (University of Essex) 'Individuating Lexemes in LFG'

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 - 11:45 Mary Dalrymple (University of Oxford) 'Morphology in the LFG architecture'
11:45 - 12:30 Marjolein Poortvliet (University of Oxford) 'An LFG approach to nested dependencies in Dutch'

12:30 - 14:30 Lunch followed by poster session:
Tibor Laczkó (University of Debrecen) 'On negative particles and negative polarity in Hungarian'
Agnieszka Patejuk (Polish Academy of Sciences) 'Phraseological information in an XLE/LFG grammar of Polish'
Rickard Ramhöj (University of Gothenburg) 'On clausal subjects and extraposition in the history of English'
John Payne and Kersti Börjars (University of Manchester) 'Features and selection in LFG: the English VP'

14:30 - 15:15 Christin Schätzle (University of Konstanz), Kristina Kotcheva (University of Freiburg) and Miriam Butt (University of Konstanz) 'The diachronic development of dative subjects in Icelandic'
15:15 - 16:00 John Lowe (University of Oxford) 'Gradual degrammaticalization: a lexical-sharing approach to the evolution of the English possessive'

16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break

16:30 - 17:30 ILFGA Business Meeting

18:00 - 20:00 Conference Dinner


MONDAY July 20

10:15 - 11:00 John Lowe (University of Oxford) and Oleg Belyaev (Russian Academy of Sciences) 'Clitic 'movement' in Ossetic'

11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 - 12:15 Tibor Laczkó (University of Debrecen) 'Focusing on the specific features of Hungarian Spec,VP from an LFG perspective'
12:15 - 13:00 Kersti Börjars, Safiah Madkhali and John Payne (University of Manchester) 'Masdars and mixed category constructions'

13:00 - 14:30 Lunch break

14:30 - 15:15 Agnieszka Patejuk and Adam Przepiórkowski (Polish Academy of Sciences) 'LFG analysis of SIĘ marker in Polish'
15:15 - 16:00 Marie-Odile Junker and Ida Toivonen (Carleton University) 'East Cree ghost participants'

16:00 - Closing

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2. WORKSHOP ON MORPHOLOGY, WASEDA UNIVERSITY, TOKYO, JAPAN

Workshop website: http://www.lfg2015.org/morphology.html

PROVISIONAL PROGRAM

9:25 - Opening

9:30 - 10:15 Miriam Butt (University of Konstanz) TBA 
10:15-11:00 John Payne and Kersti Börjars (University of Manchester) TBA

11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 - 12:15 Mary Dalrymple (University of Oxford) 'Periphrasis and Morphology in LFG'
12:15 - 13:00 Oleg Belyaev (Russian Academy of Sciences) 'Decomposing word status: Words vs. affixes, heads vs. features'

13:00 - 14:30 Lunch break

14:30 - 15:15 Andrew Spencer (Univeristy of Essex) 'Participial relatives and the lexemic index'
15:15 - 16:00 Yoshio Ueno (Waseda University) 'Honorific prefix in Japanese '
16:00 - 16:45 Ryo Otoguro (Waseda University) 'Generalising functional categories in LFG

16:45 - Closing

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3. PRELIMINARY AGENDA FOR THE BUSINESS MEETING AT LFG2015 IN TOKYO

From Secretary-Treasurer of the ILFGA, Tibor Laczkó:

1. Introduction
2. EC election in progress: ballots close on August 15, 2015
3. ILFGA budget report
4. Plans for the 2016 HPSG-LFG meeting
5. Bids for the 2017 LFG meeting
6. Mailing list issues
7. Report from the Program Committee
8. Constitutional issues
9. Acknowledgments
10. Any Other Business

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4. CALL FOR BIDS TO HOST LFG 2017

The Executive Committee is now inviting bids to host LFG 2017. Given the general principles of ILFGA, the locations of previous conferences from 2011 onwards, and the locations of LFG 2015 and LFG 2016 (see below), bids from Australia and New Zealand should enjoy priority. In case there are no bids from that part of the world, bids from America will be considered to have priority. In addition, if a potential host from a different continent has some specific reasons and arguments for organizing LFG 2017, those can also be taken into consideration.

If you are considering hosting LFG 2017, you are encouraged to make a bid at the Business Meeting in Tokyo. If you cannot attend the meeting, you can ask a colleague to do this for you (or, alternatively, you can contact the Secretary-Treasurer Tibor Laczkó < tibor_laczko "at" yahoo "dot" com > who may be able to help).

2011: Hong Kong, Asia
2012: Bali, Indonesia, Asia
2013: Debrecen, Europe
2014: Ann Arbor, America
2015: Tokyo, Asia
2016: Warsaw, Europe

The Executive Committee will make a decision in September 2015.

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5. ILFGA EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ELECTION - REMINDER

From Secretary-Treasurer of the ILFGA, Tibor Laczkó:

A reminder that ballots for the ILFGA Exceuctive Committee elections are due by August 15, 2015.

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6. 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.

A draft for comment From Avery Andrews: 
http://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/002522
(using hybrid objects to do most of the work of the 'spreading projections' of Andrews and Manning 1999)

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7. RECENT LFG WORK

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

7.1 PUBLICATIONS

Lowe, John J. (2015). 'Clitics: separating syntax and prosody'. Journal of Linguistics. FirstView article, available on CJO, doi: 10.1017/S002222671500002X

Lowe, John J. (2015). 'Participles in Rigvedic Sanskrit: The Syntax and Semantics of Adjectival Verb Forms'. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN: 978-0-19-870136-1.

Wechsler, Stephen (2015). 'Word Meaning and Syntax-- Approaches to the Interface'. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/word-meaning-and-syntax-9780199279883?cc=gb&lang=en&
(Chapter 6 'The lexical-constructional debate' is coauthored by Stefan Müller)

7.2 CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

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

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8. 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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9. 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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