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LINGUIST List: Vol-7-426. Fri Mar 22 1996. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 352
Subject: 7.426, Confs: Women & Language, LFG
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Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 11:26:45 PST
From: bwlg at garnet.berkeley.edu (Women 'n Language)
Subject: Berkeley Women and Language Conference
2)
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 11:57:03 PST
From: thking at parc.xerox.com (Tracy Holloway King)
Subject: LFG conference program (preliminary)
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Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 11:26:45 PST
From: bwlg at garnet.berkeley.edu (Women 'n Language)
Subject: Berkeley Women and Language Conference
Conference announcement: Fourth Berkeley Women and Language Conference
Gender and Belief Systems
Berkeley Conference Center, April 19-21, 1996
Invited speakers:
Suzanne Fleischman, Department of French, UC Berkeley
"Writing a woman's profession: Women's relationship to the scientific
voice"
John McWhorter, Departments of Linguistics and African-American Studies,
UC Berkeley
"Introducing Gender into Creole Studies"
Niko Besnier, Department of Anthropology, Victoria University of Wellington
"Talking on the margin and negotiating identity in Tonga, South Pacific"
Robin Lakoff, Department of Linguistics, UC Berkeley
"(The rise and fall)n of Hillary Rodham Clinton"
Janet Holmes, Department of Linguistics, Victoria University of
Wellington
"Setting standards? Women's role in language change in New Zealand"
Special Panel: A retrospective on progress in the field since the
1983 publication of Langauge, Gender, and Society
Nancy Henley, Department of Psychology, UCLA
Cheris Kramarae, Department of Women's Studies, University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign
Sally McConnell-Ginet, Department of Linguistics, Cornell University
Barrie Thorne, Departments of Sociology and Women's Studies,
UC Berkeley
For a complete program and hotel and transportation information, please
contact us at bwlg at garnet.berkeley.edu.
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1996 Conference Registration and Prepublication Order Form
The 1996 Berkeley Women & Language Conference will be held April 19-21,
1996 at the Berkeley Conference Center. Before April 1, 1996,
registration is $20 for students, $30 for non-students. After April 1,
1996, registration is $30 for students and $40 for non-students. All
registration fees will be used to fund the conference. Special
prepublication price is valid only until April 21. Make checks
payable to:
Berkeley Women and Language Group
2337 Dwinelle Hall, UCB
Berkeley, CA 94720-2650
USA
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Conference is wheelchair accessible.
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Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 11:57:03 PST
From: thking at parc.xerox.com (Tracy Holloway King)
Subject: LFG conference program (preliminary)
LFG-WORKSHOP
Preliminary Schedule
August 26 (Monday)
9:30 - 10:30 KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Joan Bresnan, Stanford University
TBA
10:30 - 11:00 BREAK
General Session
11:00 - 11:30 Another view on complex predicate formation in French
and Italian: Evidence from auxiliary selection,
reflexivization, and past participle agreement
Anette Frank, University of Stuttgart
11:30 - 12:00 The syntax of Romance auxiliaries
Christophe Schwarze, University of Konstanz
12:00 - 12:30 A PREDICATE function: Empirical arguments and
theoretical status
Farrell Ackerman, Univ. of California, San Diego
Gert Webelhuth, Stanford University
12:30 - 1:00 POSTERS/DEMOS
Note: posters will be available throughout the conference.
LektaII: A tool for the development of efficient
LFG-based machine translation systems
J. Gabriel Amores, Universidad de Sevilla and
Jose F. Quesada, Centro Informatico Cientifico de Andalucia
Using priority union for non-constituent
coordination in LFG
Caroline Brun, Rank Xerox Research Centre
Generating a lexicon for syntactic LFG-processor
from a French generic electronic dictionary encoded
in the GENELEX model
Sylvie Flores and Je'ro^me Vachey, GSI-Erli
Computational approaches to P2 clitic placement
Paula S. Newman, Xerox PARC
1:00 - 3:00 LUNCH
Workshop 1 Semantic representations and LFG
3:00 - 7:00 Organizers: Tara Mohanan and K. P. Mohanan,
National University of Singapore
Participants:
Session 1:
Speakers: Esther Koenig, University of Stuttgart
Mary Dalrymple, Xerox PARC
Commentator: Alex Alsina, National University of Singapore
Session 2:
Speakers: Elisabet Engdahl, Univ. of Edinburgh
K. P. Mohanan and Tara Mohanan, National
University of Singapore
Commentator: Chris Manning, Carnegie Mellon Univ.
Workshop 2 Computational Aspects
3:00 - 7:00 Organizer: Annie Zaenen, Rank Xerox Research Centre
Participants:
Thierry Declerk, University of Stuttgart
Modeling information-passing with the LFG Workbench
Josef van Genabith, University of Stuttgart and Richard
Crouch, SRI International
Direct and indirect interpretation of LFG f-structures
as underspecified semantic representations
Teresa Lopez Soto and Gabriela Fernandez Diaz, Universidad
de Sevilla
Integration of semantic patterns and statistical
information for an LFG-based parser
John Maxwell, Xerox PARC
An efficient parser for LFG
Frederique Segond and Max Cooperman, Rank Xerox
Research Centre
The scope of ambiguity in a computational LFG
August 27 (Tuesday)
General Session
9:30 -10:00 Ergativity, clitics and grammatical relations in Sasak
Peter Austin, ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign
Studies
10:00 - 10:30 "Case spreading/doubling" in Korean: Evidence for the
Macrorole tier
Wataru Nakamura, SUNY, Buffalo
10:30 - 11:00 Suppletion and syntactic theory
Kersti Bo"jars and Nigel Vincent, Univ. of Manchester
11:00 - 11:30 BREAK
11:30 -12:00 Lexical Mapping Theory and possessors in NPs
Tibor Laczko', Lajos Kossuth University
12:00-12:30 An analysis of the passive in Japanese: A preliminary
study towards the clarification of the thematic role
Theme
Mariko Saiki, Kanazawa University
12:30 - 1:00 Underspecification in Lexical Mapping Theory: The case
of Norwegian existentials and resultatives
Helge Lo/drup, Univ. of Oslo
1:00 - 3:00 LUNCH
Workshop 3 Argument Structure?: How syntactic? How lexical?
Organizers: Bjarne Oersnes, Copenhagen University
Joan Bresnan, Stanford University
3:00 - 5:00
5:00 - 5:30 BREAK
5:50 - 7:00
Workshop 4 Word Order
3:00-7:00 Organizers: Miriam Butt, University of Stuttgart
Tracy Holloway King, Stanford University
Participants:
Judith Berman, University of Stuttgart
Configurational and nonconfigurational aspects of
German sentence structure
Miriam Butt, University of Stuttgart and Tracy Holloway
King, Stanford University
Exploring structural topic and focus
Tara Mohanan, National University of Singapore
TBA
Owen Ranbow
TBA
Jane Simpson, University of Sydney
Preferred word order and grammaticalisation of
associated path in some Australian languages
August 28 (Wednesday)
General Session
9:30 - 10:00 Nonconfigurational tense in Wambaya
Rachel Nordlinger and Joan Bresnan, Stanford
University
10:00 - 10:30 On the verbal status of Mandarin ba
Emily Bender, Stanford University
10:30 - 11:00 An LFG account of Mandarin reflexive verbs
Lian-Cheng Chief, National Chengchi University and
Academia Sinica
11:00 - 11:30 BREAK
11:30 - 12:00 Personal pronouns and pronominal binding systems
Chris Culy, Univ. of Iowa
12:00 - 12:30 Possessive pronouns and suffixes in Finnish
Ida Toivonen, Stanford University
12:30 - 1:00 A-structure and linear order in Balinese binding
I Wayan Arka, University of Sydney and Stephen
Wechsler, Univ. of Texas, Austin
1:00 - 3:00 LUNCH
3:00 - 3:30 A theory of non-constituent coordination based on
finite-state rules
John Maxwell, Xerox PARC
3:30 - 4:00 Aspects of merging Lexical Functional Grammar with
Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammar
Tore Burheim, Univ. of Bergen
4:00 - 4:30 BREAK
4:30 -5:00 Context change and underspecification in Glue
language semantics
Richard Crouch, SRI International and Josef
van Genabith, University of Stuttgart
5:00 - 5:30 Proofs in the landscape of underspecified
representations
Esther Ko"nig and Uwe Reyle, University of Stuttgart
5:30 - 6:00 BREAK
6:00 - 7:00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Ron Kaplan, Xerox PARC
TBA
ALTERNATE:
The LFG architecture and "verbless" syntactic constructions
Victoria Rose'n, University of Bergen
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