[LFG] LFG Bulletin, July 2016

Tue Jul 19 08:31:58 UTC 2016

July 2016 

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Next issue: September 2016

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CONTENTS

1. HEADLEX16: Warsaw Joint Conference on LFG & HPSG programme
2. Drafts for comments 
3. Recent LFG work 
4. Online resources 
5. Boilerplate

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1. HEADLEX16: Warsaw Joint Conference on LFG & HPSG programme

HEADLEX16: Warsaw Joint Conference on LFG & HPSG
25 July - 29 July 2016
Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

Conference website: http://headlex16.ipipan.waw.pl

Conference e-mail: < headlex16-chairs "at" nlp.ipipan.waw.pl >

Monday (25 July 2016)

09:00 REGISTRATION

09:40-10:00 OPENING AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

10:00-11:00 INVITED TALK
Manfred Sailer: 'Definite meaning and definite marking'

11:00-11:30 COFFEE

11:30-13:00
Dag Haug and David Goldstein: 'Second-position clitics and the syntax-prosody interface: The case of Ancient Greek'
Stephen Jones: 'The syntax-prosody interface in Korean: resolving ambiguity in questions'

13:00-14:00 LUNCH

14:00-15:30
Takafumi Maekawa: 'Seminumerals, determiners and nouns in English'
John Lowe: 'Mixed Categories and Participles: syntax and morphology'

15:30-16:00 COFFEE

16:00-17:30
Tina Bögel: 'The Swabian first person singular pronoun at the syntax-prosody interface'
Frank Richter: 'Integrating Categorematic Unreducible Polyadic Quantifiers in LRS'

Tuesday (26 July 2016)

09:30-11:00
Helge Lødrup: 'Verbal present participles in Norwegian: Controlled complements or parts of complex predicates'
Tali Arad Greshler, Livnat Herzig Sheinfux, Nurit Melnik and Shuly Wintner: 'Seeking control in Modern Standard Arabic'

11:00-11:30 COFFEE

11:30-13:00
Dorothee Beermann and Lars Hellan: 'Switched Control and other 'uncontrolled' cases of obligatory control'
Oleg Belyaev: 'Ergative gender agreement in Dargwa: "Backward Control" or feature sharing?'

13:00-14:00 LUNCH

14:00-15:30 POSTER SESSION
Kersti Börjars and John Payne: 'Adjectival definiteness marking and noun-phrase internal functions'
Luis Chiruzzo and Dina Wonsever: 'Transforming the AnCora corpus to HPSG'
Alexandra Fiotaki and Katerina Tzortzi: 'Obligatory Object Control constructions in Greek: an LFG/XLE treatment'
Lachlan Duncan: 'On the Perfect Tense-Aspect in K'ichee'an Mayan: An LFG Approach'
David Moeljadi, Francis Bond and Lu’s Morgado Da Costa: 'Basic Copula Clauses in Indonesian'
Stefan Müller: Template-based constructionist approaches or f-structures?'
David Lahm: 'Refining the Semantics of Lexical Rules'
Lionel Clément and Sekou Diao: 'For a unified treatment of particle verbs'
Anna Kibort: 'The argument structure of causatives'
Hyun Jong Hahm: 'Politeness and Number in Chuukese'

15:30-16:00 COFFEE

16:00-17:30
I Wayan Arka: 'Externally and internally headed relative clauses in Marori'
Berthold Crysmann: 'An underspecification approach to Hausa resumption'

18:30 CONFERENCE DINNER

Wednesday (27 July 2016)

10:00-11:00 INVITED TALK
Tracy Holloway King: 'Theoretical linguistics and grammar engineering as mutually constraining disciplines'

11:00-11:30 COFFEE

11:30-13:00
Anne Abeillé and Aoi Shiraishi: 'Verbal mismatch in Right-Node Raising'
Tibor Laczkó: 'Fully Syntactic, Fully Lexical, or In-Between? Remarks on the Architectures of Generative Grammars'

13:00-14:00 LUNCH

14:00-15:30
Andreas Pankau: 'Quirky Subjects in Icelandic, Faroese, and German - A Relational Account'
Agnieszka Patejuk and Adam Przepiórkowski: 'Grammatical functions: a problematic fundamental concept of LFG?'

15:30-16:00 COFFEE

16:00-17:30
Adam Przepiórkowski: 'How not to distinguish arguments from adjuncts in LFG'
Sandy Ritchie: 'Two cases of prominent internal possessor constructions'

Thursday (28 July 2016)

09:30-11:00
Frank Van Eynde: 'How regular a pattern in these labyrinths of constructions!'
Doug Arnold and Christopher Lucas: 'One of Those Constructions that Really Needs a Proper Analysis'

11:00-11:30 COFFEE

11:30-13:00
Ryo Otoguro and Liselotte Snijders: 'Syntactic, Semantic and Information Structures of Floating Quantifiers'
Shuichi Yatabe: 'Medial left-node raising in Japanese'

13:00-14:00 LUNCH

14:00-15:30
Miriam Butt, Sebastian Sulger, Mutee U Rahman and Tafseer Ahmed: 'Adverb Agreement in Urdu and Sindhi'
Nigel Vincent and Kersti Börjars: 'Heads and history'

15:30-16:00 COFFEE

16:00-16:45 HPSG BUSINESS MEETING

16:45-17:30 ILFGA BUSINESS MEETING

Friday (29 July 2016)

09:30-11:00
Agnieszka Patejuk: 'Integrating a rich external valence dictionary with an implemented XLE/LFG grammar'
Damir Ćavar, Lwin Moe, Joshua Herring, Hai Hu and Kenneth Steimel: 'Preliminary Results from the Free Linguistic Environment Project'

11:00-11:30 COFFEE

11:30-13:00
Rickard Ramhöj: 'The Argument Structure of Passive Raising in Swedish'
Liesbeth Augustinus: 'Word order variation in Dutch and German verb clusters'

13:00-14:00 LUNCH

14:00-15:30
Olivier Bonami, Robert D. Borsley and Maggie Tallerman: 'On pseudo-non-finite clauses in Welsh'
Jamie Y. Findlay: 'The Prepositional Passive in Lexical Functional Grammar'

15:30-16:00 COFFEE

16:00-17:30 
Kersti Börjars, Khawla Ghadgoud and John Payne: 'Aspectual object marking in Libyan Arabic'
Pegah Faghiri and Pollet Samvelian: 'How much structure is needed: The case of the Persian VP'

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2. 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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3. Recent LFG work

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

3.1 Publications

Börjars, Kersti, Pauline Harries & Nigel Vincent (2016). 'Growing syntax: the development of a DP in North Germanic'. Language 92: e1-e37.

Haug, Dag "Backward control in Ancient Greek and Latin participial adjuncts". Natural Language and Linguistic Theory.
Online first: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11049-016-9339-7

Schwarze, Christoph & Leonel F. de Alencar (2016). 'Lexikalisch-funktionale Grammatik. Eine Einführung am Beispiel des  Französischen mit computerlinguistischer Implementierung' [Lexical- Functional Grammar: A French-based Introduction with Computational Implementation]. Stauffenburg Einführungen, 30. Tübingen: Stauffenburg. ISBN 978-3-95809-411-6.
http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:352-0-318774
http://lfg-book.blogspot.ch/

3.2 PhD/Masters

Findlay, Jamie Y. (2014). 'The prepositional passive: a Lexical Functional account'. MPhil thesis, University of Oxford.
http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:86913330-8690-4f22-bc30-3df64f4cf740

Sulger, Sebastian (2015). 'Modeling Nominal Predications in Hindi/Urdu'. PhD thesis. University of Konstanz.
http://ling.uni-konstanz.de/pages/home/sulger/theses/phd-thesis-sulger-15.pdf
(Thesis draft. Comments welcome.)

3.3 Conference Proceedings

Sulger, Sebastian (2016). 'Discontinuous Genitives in Hindi/Urdu'. Proceedings of the NAACL-HLT 2016 Workshop on Discontinuous Structures in Natural Language Processing, San Diego, US. Association for Computational Linguistics. 37-46.
http://aclweb.org/anthology/W/W16/W16-0905.pdf

Sulger, Sebastian & Ashwini Vaidya (2014). 'Towards Identifying Hindi/Urdu Noun Templates in Support of a Large-Scale LFG Grammar'. Proceedings of the COLING 2014 Workshop on South and Southeast Asian NLP, Dublin, Ireland. Association for Computational Linguistics. 1-10.
http://aclweb.org/anthology/W/W14/W14-5501.pdf

Sulger, Sebastian, Miriam Butt, Tracy Holloway King, Paul Meurer, Tibor Laczkó, György Rákosi, Cheikh Bamba Dione, Helge Dyvik, Victoria Rosén, Koenraad De Smedt, Agnieszka Patejuk, Özlem Çetinoğlu, I Wayan Arka and Meladel Mistica (2013). 'ParGramBank: The ParGram Parallel Treebank'. Proceedings of ACL 2013 (Long Papers), Sofia, Bulgaria. Association for Computational Linguistics. 550-560.
http://aclweb.org/anthology/P/P13/P13-1054.pdf

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

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4. 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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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.

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