Conf: LFG'99

[Philippe Blache]

From:  Tracy Holloway King <thking at parc.xerox.com>


	      LEXICAL FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR ANNUAL MEETING
				LFG99

			   19-21 July, 1999
			Manchester University

	 URL: http://lings.ln.man.ac.uk/Html/LFG/default.html
		    Enquiries: LFG99 at man.ac.uk

NOTE: details concerning registration and accomodation will be
      available shortly.

MONDAY JULY 19

9.00-9.45   Peter AUSTIN
            Argument Coding and Clause Linkage in Australian Aboriginal
            Languages
9.45-10.30  Farrell ACKERMAN and John MOORE
            Telic Object as a Proto-Patient Property of Lexical Predicates
10.30-11.15 Anna SIEWIERSKA
            Reduced Pronominals and Argument Prominence

11.15-11.45 BREAK

11.45-12.30 Yukiko MORIMOTO
            Information Packaging and Argument Reversal: An Optimality
            Theoretic Account of English Locative Inversion
12.30-1.15  Lunella MEREU
            On the Grammatical Realization of Discourse Functions in Somali

1.15-2.45 LUNCH

2.45-4.15 WORKSHOP Grammar Writing in LFG - part 1
                   Organizer: Victoria ROSEN
4.15-4.45 BREAK
4.45-6.15 WORKSHOP Grammar Writing in LFG - part 2



TUESDAY JULY 20

9.00-9.45   Tara MOHANAN and KP MOHANAN
            Two Forms of BE in Malayalam
9.45-10.30  Devyani SHARMA
            Nominal Clitics and Constructive Morphology in Hindi

10.30-11.00 BREAK

11.00-11.45 Jonas KUHN
            Towards a Simple Architecture for the Structure-function Mapping
11.45-12.30 Josef VAN GENABITH and Andy WAY
            Semi-Automatic Generation of F-Structures from Treebanks

12.30-2.00 LUNCH

2.00-3.30 WORKSHOP Structure and Representation in Native American
                   Languages - part 1
                   Organizer: George Aaron Broadwell
3.30-4.00 BREAK
4.00-5.30 WORKSHOP Structure and Representation in Native American
                   Languages - part 2

5.30-6.30 BUSINESS MEETING



WEDNESDAY JULY 21

9.00-9.45   Kersti BORJARS, Erika CHISARIK, and John PAYNE
            On the Justification for Functional Categories in LFG
9.45-10.30  Christoph SCHWARZE
            Inflectional Classes in Lexical Functional Morphology -- Latin
            -sk- and its Evolution

10.30-11.00 BREAK

11.00-11.45  Kenji YOKOTA
             Light Verb Constructions in Japanese and Functional Uncertainty
11.45-12.30  Nikolas GISBORNE
             English Light Verbs and the (Non)necessity of Argument
             Structure

12.30-2.00 LUNCH

2.00-2.45    Judith BERMAN
             Does German Satisfy the Subject Condition?
2.45-3.30    Hanjung LEE
             The Domain of Grammatical Case in Lexical-Functional Grammar

3.30-4.00 BREAK

4.00-4.45    John FRY
             Resource-logical Event Semantics for LFG
4.45-5.30    Anette FRANK
             Towards Optimal Linking

5.30-6.00 CLOSING REMARKS


ALTERNATES

Tibor LACZKO
The Anatomy of a Jolly-JokER -- A Comprehensive Analysis of a
Multi-Functional Deverbal Morpheme in Hungarian

Louisa SADLER
Non-Distributive Features and Coordination in Welsh