19.1528, Confs: Computational Ling, Semantics, Syntax/Australia

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Date: 07-May-2008
From: Martin Forst < mforst at parc.com >
Subject: 13th International Lexical Functional Grammar Conference

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13th International Lexical Functional Grammar Conference 
Short Title: LFG 2008 

Date: 04-Jul-2008 - 06-Jul-2008 
Location: Sydney, Australia 
Contact: Jane Simpson 
Contact Email: lfg08 at arts.usyd.edu.au 
Meeting URL:
http://escholarship.library.usyd.edu.au/conferences/index.php/LingFest2008/LFG/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Linguistic Theories; Semantics;
Syntax 

Meeting Description: 

Thirteenth International Lexical Functional Grammar Conference
July 4-6, 2008
University of Sydney, Australia

The 13th International Lexical Functional Grammar Conference will be hosted by
the University of Sydney from July 4th to 6th 2008. This LFG conference is one
in a series of linguistics conferences, and will be followed by the Australian
Linguistics Institute (http://www.lingfest.arts.usyd.edu.au/).

LFG 2008 welcomes work within the formal architecture of Lexical-Functional
Grammar as well as typological, formal, and computational work within the
'spirit of LFG' as a lexicalist approach to language employing a parallel,
constraint-based framework. The conference aims to promote interaction and
collaboration among researchers interested in non-derivational approaches to
grammar, where grammar is seen as the interaction of (perhaps violable)
constraints from multiple levels of structuring, including those of syntactic
categories, grammatical relations, semantics and discourse.

Further information about LFG as a syntactic theory is available at the
following sites:
http://www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/LFG/
http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg/ 

The following is the tentative programme of the Thirteenth International Lexical
Functional Grammar Conference. Please visit the conference website at:
http://escholarship.library.usyd.edu.au/conferences/index.php/LingFest2008/LFG/
for more information.

Friday, July 4, 2008

09.00 
Registration

09.50 
Welcome

10.00 
Ash Asudeh (Carleton University), Mary Dalrymple (Oxford University) and Ida
Toivonen (Carleton University)
Constructions with Lexical Integrity: Templates as the Lexicon-Syntax Interface

10.45 
Coffee

11.15 
Avery Andrews (Australian National University)
The Role of PRED in LFG + Glue

12.00 
Dag Haug (University of Oslo)
Information Structure and the Temporal Reference of Participial XADJs

12.45 
Lunch

02.00 
Rachel Nordlinger (University of Melbourne) and Louisa Sadler (University of Essex)
Incorporated Apposition: Incorporation in Part-Whole and Generic-Specific
Constructions

02.45 
Brett Baker (University of New England) and Rachel Nordlinger (University of
Melbourne)
Incorporated classifiers in Gunwinyguan languages

03.30 
Coffee

04.00 
Drinks, nibbles and speed papers on 'Empirical Challenges to LFG'

Claire Bowern
Bardi Complex Predicate Morphology as a Challenge to Monotonicity

Bill Foley
The Syntactic Status of Topics in Papuan Languages

Wa'ozisokhi Nazara
A Brief Note on Subjects in Nias

Justin Spence
Apprehensional Constructions in Australian Languages

Marie-Elaine Van Egmond
Classifiers in Anindilyakwa

Saturday, July 5, 2008

09.30 
Anna Gazdik (Eötvös Loránd University, University of Paris VII)
French Interrogatives in an OT-LFG Analysis (Dissertation Session)

10.15
Syed Muhammad Jafar Rizvi (Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences)
Development of Algorithms and Computational Grammar for Urdu 

(Dissertation Session)

11.00 
Coffee

11.30 
Anette Frank and Sascha Fendrich (University of Heidelberg)
Principle-based C-structure Induction for Cross-linguistically Projected
F-structures

12.15
Lilja Øvrelid (University of Gothenburg)
Functional Features in Data-driven Parsing

01.00 
Lunch

02.00 
Gerlof Bouma (University of Potsdam)
Word Order Freezing in Spoken Dutch

02.45 
Maia Andréasson (Aarhus University)
Not All Objects Are Born Alike - Accessibility as the Key to Variation in
Pronominal Object Shift in Scandinavian

03.30 
Coffee

04.00 
Kersti Börjars and Nigel Vincent (University of Manchester)
Objects

04.45 
Özlem Çetinoglu (Sabanci University) and Miriam Butt (University of Konstanz)
Turkish Non-canonical Objects

05.30 AGM, followed by conference dinner

Sunday, July 6, 2008

09.30 
George Aaron Broadwell (State University of New York)
Turkish Suspended Affixation Is Lexical Sharing

10.15 
Miriam Butt, Tina Bögel and Sebastian Sulger (University of Konstanz)
Urdu Ezafe and the Morphology-Syntax Interface

11.00 
Coffee

11.30 
Alex Alsina (Pompeu Fabra University)
A Theory of Structure-sharing: Focusing on Long-distance Dependencies and
Parasitic Gaps

12.15 
Helge Lødrup (University of Oslo)
Local Binding Without Co-argumenthood: Norwegian Noun Phrases

01.00 
Poster Session Lunch

Gerlof Bouma, Jonas Kuhn, Bettina Schrader and Kathrin Spreyer (University of
Potsdam)
Parallel LFG Grammars on Parallel Corpora: a Base for Practical Triangulation

Anne Tamm (University of Florence)
Variation and the Development of Estonian Parallel Functional Categories

Marie Fellbaum Korpi (Australian National University)
LFG Architecture, Semantic Definiteness Structures, and Nonverbal Syntactic
Constructions

Melanie Seiß (University of Konstanz)
English Embedded Complements: the -ing Form

Elisabeth Mayer (Australian National University)
Clitics on the Move: from Dependent Marking to Split Marking

02.30 
Ingo Mittendorf and Louisa Sadler (University of Essex)
Synchronic, Diachronic and Cross-linguistic Aspects of Welsh `Possessor Promotion'

03.15 
Gavin Austin (University of New England)
Causativization in Sinhala

04.00 
Coffee

04.30 
Anna Kibort (University of Surrey)
On the Syntax of Ditransitive Constructions

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