LFG 2004

Programme

July 10 - 12, 2004







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Day 1  (Saturday July 10)           

Invited talk

9:00-10:00

Jane Simpson

(Univ. of Sydney)

Word order in Australian languages

Session 1A

10:00 -

11:20

Mary Dalrymple,

Ron Kaplan and

Tracy Holloway King

Lexical Structures as Generalizations over Descriptions

Genady Beryozkin and

Nissim Francez

The "lost" reading of control sentences and plural semantics in Glue

Poster/

Demo

Session

and

Coffee

11:20 -

12:30

Dick Crouch,

Tracy Holloway King,

Stefan Riezler and

Annie Zaenen

Exploiting F-structure Input for Sentence Condensation

Mary Dalrymple,

Helge Dyvik, and

Tracy Holloway King

Copular Complements: Closed or Open?

Carol Neidle

 

Syntactic study of a signed language: an annotated ASL corpus and computer-based tools for linguistic analysis of visual language data

Valia Kordoni

Modern Greek ditransitives in LMT

Miriam Butt and Alexandros Tantos

Verbal Semantics via Petri Nets

 

Lunch

Session 1B

14:00 -

16:00

Anette Frank and

Jiri Semecky

Corpus-based Induction of a Frame Semantics Projection for LFG

Michael Burke,

Aoife Cahill,

Ruth O'Donovan,

Josef van Genabith,

and Andy Way

Evaluation of an Automatic F-Structure Algorithm against the Parc 700

Carol Neidle and

Robert G Lee

Unification, competition and optimality in signed languages: aspects of the syntax of American Sign Language (ASL)

 

Break

Session 1C

16:30 -

18:30

Leonoor van der Beek

Object Marking through Word Order

Helge Lødrup

 

The Diversity and Unity of the Accusative with Infinitive Construction: A Norwegian Perspective

Kersti Börjars and

Nigel Vincent

LFG and the typology of complementizer constructions

 

 

Day 2   (Sunday July 11)           

Invited talk

9:00-10:00

Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy

(Univ. of Canterbury)

What morphology reveals about grammar

 

Break

Session 2A

10:30-12:30

Tibor Laczko

Grammatical Functions, LMT, and Control in the Hungarian DP Revisited

Elizabeth Coppock

"Object" Agreement in Hungarian

Louise Mycock

 

The Wh-Expletive Construction

 

Lunch

Session 2B

14:00-16:00

Peter Peterson

 

Non-restrictive relatives and other non-syntagmatic relations in an LF framework

Florian Jaeger

 

Binding theory in LFG and HSPG revisited and refined: The case of exemption

Elisabeth Norcliffe

Anaphoric binding in Jakaltek

 

Break

16:30-18:30

WORKSHOP: Coordination and Agreement
PANEL
: Ron Kaplan, Peter Peterson, Louisa Sadler

19:00

Conference Dinner

 

 

Day 3  (Monday July 12)           

Session 3A

9:00-10:20

Nick Evans and

Rachel Nordlinger      
  

Extreme Morphological Shift: Verbal case in Kayardild

Ana Luis and

Ryo Otoguro

The contexts triggering proclisis in European Portuguese and their effect on clitic placement

 

Break

Session 3B

10:40-12:40

Yehuda Falk

The Hebrew Present-Tense Copula as a Mixed Category

Douglas Ball    

 

Pseudo-Noun Incorporation and Argument Structure in Niuean

Leonoor van der Beek

and Gerlof Bouma

Non-universality and Optimal Theoretic Syntax

 

Lunch

Session 3C

14:00-15:20

Chiharu Uda Kikuta           

 

An Optimality-Theoretic Alternative to the Apparent Wh-Movement in Old Japanese

Hitoshi Horiuchi

 

Lexical Integrity, Head Sharing, and Case Marking in Japanese

 

Break

Session 3D

15:40-17:00

Helen Charters

Taking Functional control: Relative Clauses in Mandarin Second Language Acquisition

Charles O. Marfo and Adams B. Bodomo

Information Processing in Akan Question-word fronting and Focus constructions

17:30-18:30

ILFGA Business Meeting

 

ALTERNATE PAPER:
Cathryn Donohue, Mark Donohue On the special status of instrumentals



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