[LFG] LFG Bulletin, July 2018
Agnieszka Patejuk
agnieszka.patejuk at googlemail.com
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July 2018
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CONTENTS
1. LFG18: The 23rd International Lexical-Functional Grammar
Conference, University of Vienna, Austria
2. Drafts for comments
3. Recent LFG work
4. Online resources
5. Boilerplate
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1. LFG18: The 23rd International Lexical-Functional Grammar
Conference, University of Vienna, Austria
LFG18: The 23rd International Lexical-Functional Grammar Conference
17-19 July 2018
University of Vienna, Austria
Conference website: http://lfg2018.univie.ac.at/
PROGRAM
Tuesday, 17 July
09:00 - 09:30 Registration
09:30 - 09:45 Introduction
09:45 - 10:30 Adam Przepiórkowski and Agnieszka Patejuk: "From LFG
to Enhanced Universal Dependencies"
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 11:45 Matthew Gotham and Dag Haug: "Glue semantics for
Universal Dependencies"
11:45 - 12:30 Moritz Meßmer and Mark-Matthias Zymla: "The Glue
Semantics Work Bench: A Modular Toolkit for Exploring Linear Logic and
Glue Semantics"
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch (and late registration)
14:00 – 14:45 Andrew Morrison: "Displaced adjectival focus: an LFG analysis"
14:45 – 15:30 Shatha Alruwaili and Louisa Sadler: "Emphatic
Negative Coordination in Turaif Arabic"
15:30 – 16:15 Kersti Borjars, Christopher Hicks and John Payne:
"Interdependencies in Chinese noun phrases"
Wednesday, 18 July
09:30 - 10:30 Invited talk: Joan Bresnan: "Lexical Sharing in LFG
Meets Usage-based Linguistics: on English Tensed Auxiliary
Contraction"
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 11:45 Kersti Börjars and John Payne: "Licensing attributive
adjective marking"
11:45 - 12:30 Jamie Findlay and Hannah Senior: "Lexical and
grammatical meaning: attributive adjectives in French"
12:30 – 15:00 Lunch and poster sessions
Poster 1 Agnieszka Patejuk: "Incorporating conjunctions in Polish"
Poster 2 Péter Szűcs: "Complement clauses without the COMP
functions - The case of Hungarian"
Poster 3 Adam Przepiórkowski: "Simplifying c-structure node labels"
Poster 4 Stephen Jones: "Linking LFG to tiered models of processing"
Poster 5 Dewei Che and Adams Bodomo: "A Constraint-Based Analysis
of the Objects of VO Compounds and Idioms in Chinese"
Poster 6 Hasiyatu Abubakari: "Aspects of Kusaal Grammar: The Syntax
Information Structure Interface"
Poster 7 Jessica Zipf: "A Deep Linguistic Computer-Assisted
Language Learning System for Italian"
Poster 8 Chow Pui Lun: "Topic Role of Subject in Cantonese Indirect Passives"
Poster 9 Heete Sahkai and Anne Tamm: "Estonian V2 is prosodic"
Poster 10 Paloma Carretero García: "Expletive negation in Spanish"
15:00 - 15:45 Helge Lødrup: "Prominent internal possessors and
backward possessor raising: Norwegian ryggen på ham 'the back on him'"
15:45 - 16:30 Tibor Laczkó: "Modelling possession, agreement, and
“anti-agreement” in Hungarian DPs: A paradigmatic approach"
16:30 - 17:00 Break
17:00 - 18:30 ILFGA Business Meeting
19:00 Conference Dinner at Heuriger
Thursday, 19 July
10:00 - 10:45 Roxana-Maria Barbu and Ida Toivonen: "Romanian
object clitics: Grammaticalization, agreement and lexical splits"
10:45 - 11:30 Maris Camilleri and Louisa Sadler: "Schematicising
(morphology)syntactic change in LFG: Insights from Arabic
(de)grammaticalisation"
11:30 - 12:00 Peter Szűcs: "Operator Fronting in Hungarian and the
typology of control from an LFG perspective"
12:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 14:45 Alex Alsina and Fengrong Yang: "Catalan intransitive
verbs and argument realization"
14:45 - 15:30 Paloma Carretero García: "Dative arguments in
psychological predicates in Spanish"
15:30 - 16:00 Break
16:00 - 16:45 Agnieszka Patejuk and Adam Przepiórkowski:
"Predicative constructions with infinitival and clausal subjects"
16:45 - 17:30 Tina Bögel, Saeed Yousefi and Mahinnaz Mirdehghan:
"Vafsi oblique pronouns: stress-related placement patterns"
17:30 - 18:00 Closing
Friday, 20 July (Workshop on Information Structure: Form and Interpretation)
09:30 - 10:30 Invited talk: Ad Neeleman: "Extraposition and the
ban on derived marked orders"
10:35 - 11:10 Svitlana Antonyuk: "Information Structure - QP
Scope Interaction patterns:some novel insights into IS-driven movement
and the mechanisms of scope freezing"
11:10 - 11:25 Break
11:25 – 12:00 Hasyiatu Abubakari: "Focus marking strategies in Kusaal"
12:05 - 12:40 Alexandra Navarrete-González: "Contrast in Catalan
Sign Language (LSC): a unifying semantic-pragmatic analysis"
12:40 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 15:05 Miriam Butt and Farhat Jabeen: "Word order variation
in Urdu/Hindi Wh-Constituent questions"
15:10 - 15:45 Steffen Heidinger: "Focus interpretation and the
syntax-prosody filter in Spanish"
15:50 – 16:25 Flora Lili Donati: "A non-unified account of
obligatory ‘focused’ expressions in Hungarian"
16:25 - 16:35 Closing
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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 < LFG.bulletin "at" gmail "dot" com >
3.1 Publications
Markantonatou, Stella and Samaridi, Niki (2018). 'Revisiting the
grammatical function "object" (OBJ and OBJ_θ)'. In Sailer, Manfred and
Markantonatou, Stella (eds.), Multiword expressions: Insights from a
multi-lingual perspective. Berlin: Language Science Press. 187–213.
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.1182599.
3.2 Conference Proceedings
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://users.ox.ac.uk/~cpgl0036/LFG/more.txt
Facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/lfgpage
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of every bulletin can be accessed at:
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~cpgl0036/LFG/more.txt
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