LFG2000 program

           2000 INTERNATIONAL LEXICAL FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR CONFERENCE

			 19 July - 20 July 2000
		            370 Dwinelle Hall
                  The University of California at Berkeley
		            Berkeley CA, USA
                        
                 URL: http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg/lfg2000/


	    As part of the Berkeley Formal Grammar Conference 2000
                URL: http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/~bfg2000/
                                
(Go to this site for information about registration, getting there,
accomodation, etc.)


PRELIMINARY PROGRAM:
                           	
Wednesday July 19, 2000

8:00 REGISTRATION OPENS

8:50-9:00 Opening remarks
        LARRY HYMAN, Chair, Department of Linguistics, UC Berkeley

Session Chair: Farrell Ackerman
9.00-9.40 JOAN BRESNAN and JOHN MUGANE 'Mixed categories in Gikuyu'
9.40-10.20 JULIA BARRON 'Tense and agreement morphology -- the
irrelevance of finiteness'

10.20-10.40 BREAK

Session chair: Louisa Sadler
10.40-11.20 MARK JOHNSON 'Stochastic lexical-functional grammar'
11.20-12.00 ANETTE FRANK, LOUISA SADLER, JOSEF VAN GENABITH, ANDY WAY
'Automatic F-structure Annotation of Treebank Trees and CFGs extracted
from Treebanks'

12.00-1.30 LUNCH

Session Chair: Helge Lødrup
1.30-2.10 PETER SELLS 'Negation in Swedish: where it's not at'
2.10-2.50 GEORGE AARON BROADWELL 'Word order and markedness in
Kaqchikel' 
2.50-3.30 HANJUNG LEE 'Word order and ambiguity in an extended model
of optimization'

3.30-3.50 BREAK

Session Chair: Kersti Börjars
3.50-4.30 VEIT REUER 'Error-recognition and parsing of syntactically
mildly ill-formed Natural Language'
4.30-5.10 JONAS KUHN 'Faithfulness violations and bidirectional
optimization'
5.10-5.50 ASH ASUDEH 'Functional identity and resource sensitivity in
control'

5.50-6.00 BREAK

6.00-7.00 ILFGA Annual General Meeting.


Thursday July 20, 2000

Session Chair: Aaron Broadwell
9.00-9.40 MARY DALRYMPLE and TRACY KING 'Missing-object constructions:
lexical and constructional variation'
9.40-10.20 CHRIS CULY 'An incorporated topic marker in Takelma'

10.20-10.40 BREAK

Session Chair: Peter Sells
10.40-11.20 YEHUDA FALK 'Pivots and the theory of grammatical
functions'
11.20-12.00 MARY DALRYMPLE and HELGE LĜDRUP 'The grammatical functions
of complement clauses'

12.00-1.30 LUNCH

Session Chair: Jonas Kuhn
1.30-2.10 NIGEL VINCENT and KERSTI BÖRJARS 'Feature resolution and the
content of features'
2.10-2.50 MIRIAM BUTT 'A re-examination of the accusative to ergative
shift in Indo-Aryan'

2.50-3.10 BREAK

3.10-6.00 Workshop: 'MORPHOSYNTAX in LFG' (Organisers: LOUISA SADLER
and ANDREW SPENCER)

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ALTERNATES:

TIBOR LACZKO 'On oblique arguments and adjuncts of Hungarian event
nominals -- a comprehensive LFG account'
RACHEL NORDLINGER and LOUISA SADLER 'Tense as a nominal category'

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REGISTRATION AND ACCOMMODATION INFORMATION

General Information

Please fill out the on-line registration form by going to the Berkeley
Formal Grammar website above, or directly to:

     http://www.linguistics.berkeley.edu/~bfg2000/online-reg.html

and submit it by clicking the "submit registration" button at the
bottom of the form. We will email you an invoice for your registration
fee and, if accommodation in the Residence Halls is requested, a
$25.00 deposit. The invoice will include a credit card form and
information about paying by check.

There is a uniform registration fee for the entire conference. During
early registration (until 31 May), the registration fees are $25.00
for students, $45.00 for nonstudent participants. After 31 May,
regular registration fees apply: $35.00 for students, $55.00 for
nonstudent participants.

Accommodation

A limited number of spaces have been reserved in the University
Residence Halls. These spaces have been reserved on a "package" basis,
which means that you will have to pay for 6 nights (July 18 through
24) including breakfast, regardless of whether you leave early or
arrive late. (However, if you intend to arrive earlier than 18 July or
leave later than July 24, we can be accommodate you on a per-night
basis).

There are two types of room available, single occupancy and double
occupancy. The daily rate (room only) for single occupancy is $45.00
and the daily rate (room only) for double occupancy is $29.00 per
person. Breakfast is $5.75 per day. In order to make a reservation, we
need to receive a nonrefundable deposit of $25.00.

If you are booking accommodation, note that we only have limited
numbers of each kind of room and we may have to email you to discuss
alternatives.

Further enquiries: bfg2000@linguistics.berkeley.edu


ORGANISERS AND THEIR CONTACT ADDRESSES

Program Committee Chairs:
                 Chris Manning manning@csli.stanford.edu
                 Rachel Nordlinger r.nordlinger@linguistics.unimelb.edu.au

Local Conference Organiser: Andreas Kathol
bfg2000@linguistics.berkeley.edu


PRE-CONFERENCE HIKE AND PICNIC:
Following recent LFG tradition, there will be a pre-conference social event
on Tuesday July 18.  This will involve a hike and picnic lunch in Tilden
Park, a beautiful area not too far from the Berkeley campus.  Other
activities apart from hiking are also available (e.g. botanical garden,
swimming in the lake) see http://www.ebparks.org/parks/tilden.htm for
further details, and http://www.ebparks.org/parks/wildcat.htm for
information about longer hikes nearby.  Transportation from Berkeley
and a picnic lunch will be arranged for a modest fee.  This event is
not restricted to the LFG community, but is open to anyone attending
the Berkeley Formal Grammar conference.  Please contact Mary Dalrymple
(dalrymple@parc.xerox.com) as soon as possible if you are interested
in attending. 
  
LFG2001

Will be in Hong Kong.  See http://www.hku.hk/linguist/