[LFG] LFG Bulletin, July 2019

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July 2019

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Next issue: September 2019

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CONTENTS

1. LFG19: The 24th International Lexical-Functional Grammar
Conference, Australian National University, Canberra
2. ILFGA NEWS
3. "(↑TOPIC NUM) = 60": Festschrift for Tibor Laczkó
4. New LFG textbook: "Lexical-Functional Grammar: An Introduction"
5. Forthcoming: "The Oxford Reference Guide to Lexical Functional Grammar"
6. Drafts for comments
7. Recent LFG work
8. Online resources
9. Boilerplate

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1. LFG19: The 24th International Lexical-Functional Grammar
Conference, Australian National University, Canberra

LFG19: The 24th International Lexical-Functional Grammar Conference
8 July - 10 July 2019
Australian National University, Canberra

Conference website: http://www.dynamicsoflanguage.edu.au/lfg-2019/

PROGRAM

Monday, 8 July

08.45 - 09.15 Registration
09.15 - 09.30 Introduction
09.30 - 10.30 Invited talk: Kersti  Börjars: "Noun Phrases in LFG"
10.30 - 11.00 Break
11.00 - 11.45 Rachel Nordlinger, Evan Kidd and Gabriela Garrido
Rodríguez: "An experimental study of free word order in Murrinhpatha
(Australia)"
11.45 - 12.30 I Wayan Arka: "Number and comitative-inclusory
constructions in Marori"
12:30 - 14.00 Lunch (and late registration)
14.00 - 14.45 Matthew Gotham: "Constraining scope ambiguity in LFG+Glue"
14.45 – 15.30 Mark-Matthias Zymla: "Aspectual Reasoning in LFG -- A
Computational Approach to Grammatical and Lexical Aspect"
15.30 - 16.00 Break
16.00 – 16.45 Péter Szűcs: "Integrated and non-integrated
left-dislocation in Hungarian"
16.45 – 17.30 John Lowe and Ali Birahimani: "The argument structure of
Siraiki causatives"
17:30 - 18:30 BOOK LAUNCH

Tuesday, 9 July

09.00 - 09.45 Mary Dalrymple and Tracy Holloway King: "A beautiful
five days in Canberra"
09.45 - 10.30 Ryo Otoguro: "Locality and non-locality in cross-clausal
agreement"
10.30 - 11.00 Break
11.00 - 11.45 Joan Bresnan: "On Weak Pronouns in English"
11.45 - 12.30 Avery Andrews: "A One-level Analysis of Icelandic Quirky Case"
12:30 – 15.00 Lunch and Poster Session
Poster 1 Alex Alsina and Fengrong Yang: "Constraining expletives in English"
Poster 2 Alexander Biswas: "The passé composé and passé surcomposé
tenses in French: An LFG implementation of the collocational approach
to inflectional periphrasis"
Poster 3 Miriam Butt and K Sarveswaran: "Computational Challenges with
Tamil Complex Predicates"
Poster 4 Tibor Laczko: "In defence of the complex event vs. simple
event distinction in Russian, Hungarian and English nominals"
Poster 5 Tibor Laczko: "On the case of argument realization in
Russian, Hungarian and English nominals"
Poster 6 John Lowe, Adriana Molina Munoz and Antonia Ruppel:
"Causatives and their passives in Sanskrit"
Poster 7 Rigardt Pretorius and Ansu Berg: "An LFG analysis of Setswana
auxiliary verb phrases indicating tense"
Poster 8 Eleanor Ridge: "Effects of semantic role on constituent
order: the negative clitic and object noun phrase in Vatlongos
(Vanuatu, Oceanic)"
Poster 9 Pori Saikia and Maris Camilleri: "Assamese case alignment
shifts in progress: Perspectives from adult and child language data"
Poster 10 Amanda Thomas: "Grammatical features in the history of
pronouns: an LFG account"
Poster 11 Glenn Windschuttel: "Non-agreeing verbs of two types,
agreement auxiliaries and their implications for spoken and signed
languages"
Poster 12 Mark-Matthias Zymla and Gloria Sigwarth: "On the
Syntax/Semantics Interface in Computational Glue Semantics: A Case
Study"
15.00 - 15.45 Hannah Booth and Christin Schätzle: "Verb-first and
verb-second in the history of Icelandic: the gradual development of
syntactic structure"
15.45 - 16.30 Maris Camilleri and Louisa Sadler: "A non-canonical
diachronic formation of raising predicates"
16.30 - 17.00 Break
17.00 - 18.30 ILFGA Business Meeting
19.00 - 00.00 Conference Dinner

Wednesday, 10 July

09.30 - 10.15 Ronald Kaplan and Jürgen Wedekind: "Tractability and
Discontinuity"
10.15 - 11.00 Stephen Jones: "A cognitive model of incremental
structure-building during language processing using an LFG-based
representation"
11.00 - 11.30 Break
11.30 - 12.15 Tibor Laczko and György Rákosi: "Pronominal possessors
and syntactic functions in the Hungarian possessive noun phrase"
12.15 - 13:00 Helge Lødrup, Raj Singh and Ida Toivonen: "Distributive
possessors in Swedish and Norwegian: binding, agreement, and
quantification"
13:00 - 14.00 Lunch
14.00 - Workshop

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2. ILFGA NEWS

>From Tibor Laczkó, ILFGA Secretary-Treasurer:

"Two quick reminders before LFG19 from the secretary-treasurer of the ILFGA:
1. The EC calls for presentations of bids for hosting LFG20 at the
Business Meeting at LFG19. Please, let me know beforehand if you are
planning to present.
2. If you are willing to donate to the ILFGA (to support student
presenters), I will be available during the coffee breaks at the
conference."

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3. "(↑TOPIC NUM) = 60": Festschrift for Tibor Laczkó

>From György Rákosi:

Tibor Laczkó turned 60 this March, and the Festschrift (↑TOPIC NUM) =
60 was published to celebrate the occasion. The volume includes
contributions by authors from the LFG community, and it is available
online as a special issue of the journal Argumentum. I attach the
contents below, and you can access the papers at this link:
http://argumentum.unideb.hu/angol/contents.html

Editors' foreword
Gábor ALBERTI & Judit FARKAS: Scope inversion under the fall–rise contour?
Attila CSERÉP: Variability of kick the bucket
Mary DALRYMPLE & Tracy Holloway KING: An amazing four doctoral dissertations
Marcel den DIKKEN: ‘Not’: not non-projecting
Edit DOBI: A konstringencia lexiko-szemantikai vonatkozása
Zsuzsanna GÉCSEG: The syntactic position of the subject in Hungarian
existential constructions
Helge LØDRUP: The accusative external possessor with Norwegian unergatives
Louise MYCOCK: Analysing ‘wh’ Echo Questions: a typological
perspective with special reference to Hungarian
Péter PELYVÁS: The modal and the temporal in will
György RÁKOSI: Something inside myself does not agree: on the Anaphor
Agreement Effect in Hungarian
Louisa SADLER: Multiple controllers in nominal modification
Martina Katalin SZABÓ & Károly BIBOK: Értékvesztésre és értékváltásra
képes lexémák újabb vizsgálata
Péter SZŰCS: Remarks on binding an control data in Hungarian Complex
Event Nominals
Anita VISZKET & Mónika DÓLA: A névelő hasznáról

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4. New LFG textbook: "Lexical-Functional Grammar: An Introduction"

Börjars, Kersti, Rachel Nordlinger and Louisa Sadler (2019).
Lexical-Functional Grammar. An introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/lexicalfunctional-grammar/F20A58D9BFCA15DDD1066BB31B28511A

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5. Forthcoming: "The Oxford Reference Guide to Lexical Functional Grammar"

Dalrymple, Mary, John J. Lowe and Louise Mycock (2019). The Oxford
Reference Guide to Lexical Functional Grammar. Oxford: Oxford
University Press.

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-reference-guide-to-lexical-functional-grammar-9780198733300

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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.

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7. Recent LFG work

Send details of your recent work to < LFG.bulletin "at" gmail "dot" com >

7.1 Publications

Dyvik, Helge, Gyri Smørdal Losnegaard and Victoria Rosén (2019).
'Multiword expressions in an LFG grammar for Norwegian'. In:
Parmentier, Yannick and Jakub Waszczuk, Representation and parsing of
multiword expressions: Current trends. Berlin: Language Science Press,
pp. 69–108. http://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/202

7.2 PhD/Masters

Findlay, Jamie Y. (2019). 'Multiword expressions and the lexicon'. PhD
thesis, University of Oxford.
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~sjoh2787/findlay-thesis.pdf

7.3 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.sas.rochester.edu/lin/sites/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.sas.rochester.edu/lin/sites/asudeh/LFG/more.txt

The LFG website also serves much of the same function as the
boilerplate section.