LFG-list January 2022

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Particle Assignment in Japanese
by Jay Chin Soto 28 Jan '22

28 Jan '22

Dear LFG List, As per Internet forum custom, I will get straight to the point (niceties will be in the P.S.) I have 2 questions I hope you can help me with. 1) Is there any literature on the treatment of Japanese in LFG? I can locate isolated examples, but nothing extensive. 2) I have two Japanese sentences: "Watashi ga keeki ga hoshii" (I want cake.) and "Watashi ga keeki wo hoshigatteiru." (I appear to want cake." In the first sentence, the particle "ga" marks the object because the function "hoshii" is of a certain word class (called keiyoushi) and in the second sentence, the auxiliary -gatteiru has been added to the morpheme "hoshi" (same as before) to turn it into another world class (a verb) where objects are marked with "wo". It is unclear to me where in LFG you would connect particle assignment of arguments based on word class. This cannot be quirky case because all transitive keiyoushi and verbs work this way. For this second question, because I know it's hefty, all I'm looking for honestly is a nudge in the right direction. Thank you for your time, Jay S. Chin P.S. I am not necessarily "new" to LFG, but I have started to research it more seriously. One of the things that makes LFG attractive to me is that there is no movement at c-structure. A lot of phenomena in Japanese will be accounted for with movement in minimalism and transformational grammars, but LFG's i-structure can account for some of that (e.g. whether it's a topic or a focus), but how arguments get their particles in Japanese is very unclear to me at this point. I really do appreciate everybody's time and attention; and I'm looking forward to learning from you now and in the future.

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Phraseology and Multiword Expressions: call for volume proposals
by Victoria Rosén 24 Jan '22

24 Jan '22

Phraseology and Multiword Expressions <https://langsci-press.org/catalog/series/pmwe> (PMWE) is a book series at Language Science Press, a born-digital scholar-led open access publisher in linguistics. The series publishes high quality books about conventionalized, idiosyncratic combinations of words. Within the field of phraseology such word combinations are sometimes called phrasemes, while the computational linguistics community uses the term multiword expressions for them. Various subtypes of such word combinations are of interest, such as multiword compounds, multiword terms, multiword named entities, light verb constructions, phrasal verbs, idioms, collocations, formulaic speech, proverbs, etc. The series is open to different approaches so as to create a forum for an interdisciplinary and cross-framework exchange of research results, including but not limited to the following subdisciplines: Computational linguistics and natural language processing Computer science Corpus linguistics Lexicography Psycholinguistics Theoretical linguistics We welcome volume proposals addressing all topics related to theoretical, computational, and empirical approaches to phraseology including: Linguistic properties and typologies of multiword expressions, especially in multilingual frameworks Electronic lexical resources including multiword expressions Formal grammatical description of multiword expressions Parsing technologies including multiword expressions Identification and annotation of multiword expressions in corpora and treebanks Multiword expressions in machine translation and other multilingual applications All contributions are welcome in English. To submit a volume proposal, please follow the guidelines at the series home page: https://langsci-press.org/catalog/series/pmwe <https://langsci-press.org/catalog/series/pmwe> Volumes published so far: Aleksandar Trklja, Łukasz Grabowski (eds.) Formulaic language: Theories and methods. <https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/304> 2021 Sabine Schulte im Walde, Eva Smolka (eds.) The role of constituents in multiword expressions: An interdisciplinary, cross-lingual perspective <https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/239>, 2020. Yannick Parmentier, Jakub Waszczuk (eds.) Representation and parsing of multiword expressions: Current trends <https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/202>, 2019. Stella Markantonatou, Carlos Ramisch, Agata Savary, Veronika Vincze (eds.) Multiword expressions at length and in depth: Extended papers from the MWE 2017 workshop <https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/204>, 2018. Manfred Sailer, Stella Markantonatou (eds.) Multiword expressions: Insights from a multi-lingual perspective <https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/184>, 2018.

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re-announcement PhD position in Konstanz, please forward
by Tina Bögel 17 Jan '22

17 Jan '22

Dear colleagues, this is a re-announcement of a 3-year PhD position with a heavy focus on LFG and on the question how frequency effects can be modelled in formal grammars (details below). Please forward this to any of your MA students who might be interested. Application deadline is the 31st of January. Best wishes, Tina Bögel ========================== One PhD position (TVL-13, 65%, 3 years) for work at the interface between prosodic structure and formal/computational LFG grammars at the University of Konstanz, Germany Application Deadline: 31.1.2022 Start of the project: April 2022 (negotiable) We are looking for a PhD student to work with us on the joint DFG/AHRC-project "Prosodic structure at the interface between language and speech" awarded to Tina Bögel (University of Konstanz) and Alice Turk (University of Edinburgh). Both language redundancy and prosodic structure affect characteristics of speech related to acoustic salience and intelligibility. The idea that prosodic structure is the interface between grammar and speech led to proposals that speakers plan the prosodic structure of an utterance in order to make less predictable parts of speech more intelligible via its effects on acoustic saliency. The goals of this project are 1) to test the hypothesis that prosodic structure is the interface between language and speech, and 2) to implement this interface in a (computational) LFG-grammar in order to test and evaluate our architectural assumptions. The PhD student's project will relate to the integration of language redundancy effects into the LFG modules (e.g., to determine an appropriate representation of bigram frequencies and their effects in the lexicon, syntactic structure, and prosodic structure, and to implement them accordingly into a computational LFG grammar). The PhD student will also assist in the design and execution of several speech production experiments in close collaboration with all members of the project. Your profile: - A very good MA-degree in a relevant field - good English language skills - basic knowledge in phonetics and statistics - general knowledge of syntax It is a plus if you have any of these skills: - knowledge of Lexical Functional Grammar (or even its computational implementation) - experience with speech production/perception experiments - rule-based computational or programming skills We do not expect you to be the perfect match, but we expect you to acquire the necessary skills within a year (with support from us and classes offered at the Department of Linguistics at the University of Konstanz) and to be open towards different subfields within linguistics. We offer: - a pleasant and supportive working environment - support for contributions to conferences and general publications - an integration into a very research-oriented department with colleagues from various subfields of linguistics - the possibility of obtaining a PhD Please send your application as one pdf to Tina.Boegel(a)uni-konstanz.de including - your CV - your BA/MA certificates - a motivational letter - and two referees who we could contact The University of Konstanz is committed to ensuring an environment that provides equal opportunities and promotes diversity as well as a good balance between university and family life. As an equal opportunity employer, we strive to increase the number of women working in the ﬁeld advertised (https://www.uni-konstanz.de/en/equalopportunities/equal-opportunity/). Persons with disabilities are explicitly encouraged to apply. They will be given preference if appropriately qualiﬁed (contact + 49 7531 88–4016). -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Tina Bögel FB Sprachwissenschaft Universität Konstanz https://ling.sprachwiss.uni-konstanz.de/pages/home/boegel/ "The accumulating flow of words buries rather than strikes the target. It is this verbosity which is most easily taught and most easily learned, so that words take the place of thoughts, and nothing can be found behind them" William Labov ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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LFG22: Final Call for Papers
by Agnieszka Patejuk 17 Jan '22

17 Jan '22

Final Call for Papers [Apologies for cross-posting] LFG22: The 27th International Lexical-Functional Grammar Conference 12 July - 14 July 2022 University of Groningen Conference website: https://www.ai.rug.nl/lfg22/ Conference e-mail (NOT for abstract submission): lfgconf2022 'at' gmail.com Abstract submission deadline: 15 February 2022, 23:59 UTC-12 (midnight anywhere on Earth) Abstracts should be submitted using the online submission system at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lfg22 Invited speakers: Miriam Butt (University of Konstanz) and Helge Lødrup (University of Oslo) Workshop: A workshop on Formal Grammars and Cognition is planned for Friday 15 July 2022. A workshop on Formal Grammars and Cognition will be held on Friday 15 July 2022. The workshop aims to promote discussion and collaboration between researchers working on formal theories of grammar (including but not limited to Lexical Functional Grammar) and those in the fields of language and cognition. Please refer to the conference website for more details. Conference mode: We are currently planning a physical conference and hope that speakers will be able to attend in person. A synchronous, online participation option will be available. LFG22 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. SUBMISSIONS: TALKS AND POSTERS The main conference sessions will involve 45-minute talks (30 min + 15 min discussion), and poster presentations. Contributions can focus on results from completed as well as ongoing research, with an emphasis on novel approaches, methods, ideas, and perspectives, whether descriptive, theoretical, formal or computational. Presentations should describe original, unpublished work. DISSERTATION SESSION As in previous years, we are hoping to hold a special session that will give students the chance to present recent PhD dissertations (or other student research dissertations). The dissertations must be completed by the time of the conference, and they should be made publicly accessible (e.g., on the World Wide Web). The talks in this session should provide an overview of the main original points of the dissertation; the talks will be 20 minutes, followed by a 10-minute discussion period. Students should note that the main sessions are certainly also open to student submissions. Students who present papers in either session will receive a small subvention towards their conference costs from the International LFG Association (ILFGA). TIMETABLE Deadline for abstracts: 15 February 2022, 23:59 UTC-12 (midnight anywhere on Earth) Notification of acceptance: 31 March 2022 Conference: 12 July - 14 July 2022 SUBMISSION SPECIFICATIONS The language of the conference is English, and all abstracts must be written in English. All abstracts should be submitted using the online submission system. Submissions should be in the form of abstracts only. Abstracts can be up to three A4 pages, including figures and references. Abstracts should be in 10pt or larger type, with margins of at least 2cm on all four sides, and should include a title. Omit name and affiliation (including in PDF document properties), and avoid obvious self-reference. For dissertation session submissions, please add "Dissertation" to the title of your abstract. Please submit your abstract in .pdf format (or a plain text file). The number of submissions is not restricted. However, in the interests of high participation and broad representation, each author should be involved in a maximum of two oral papers and can only be a single author of one. There are no restrictions on poster presentations. Authors may want to keep this in mind when stating their preferences concerning the mode of presentation of their submissions. All abstracts will be reviewed anonymously by at least three referees. Papers accepted to the conference can be submitted to the refereed proceedings, and will be published, subject to acceptance, online by CSLI Publications. (Please note that papers submitted to the proceedings are no longer automatically accepted for publication in the proceedings.) See http://web.stanford.edu/group/cslipublications/cslipublications/LFG/ for recent proceedings. PRE-CONFERENCE EXCURSION There will be an optional conference excursion on Monday 11 July 2022. ORGANISERS AND THEIR CONTACT ADDRESSES If you have queries about abstract submission or have problems using the EasyChair submission system, please contact the Program Committee. Program Chairs (Email: lfg22 'at' easychair.org) Tina Bögel, University of Konstanz Agnieszka Patejuk, Polish Academy of Sciences and University of Oxford Local conference organizers (Email: lfgconf2022 'at' gmail.com) Stephen Jones, University of Groningen FURTHER INFORMATION Further information about LFG as a framework for linguistic analysis is available at the following site: https://ling.sprachwiss.uni-konstanz.de/pages/home/lfg/

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