LFG-list July 2022

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LFG Online Courses
by S.M. Jones 15 Jul '22

15 Jul '22

Dear Colleagues, At the LFG22 Workshop today we discussed how we can encourage people who are “LFG-curious” to learn more about the framework and support them as they start to work in LFG. We’ve decided to build on the range of on-line learning resources that are already out there and put together two formal online courses: an introductory one covering c-structure and f-structure, and a second one that introduces other levels of representation and Glue semantics. We hope that lots of you will want to collaborate on this: it’s not just about giving the lectures, we also need to get good examples from a range of languages, create and typeset materials, proofread, and publicise, to name just some of the tasks. The aim is to have an online meeting before the end of September for people who are interested in collaborating, to agree a plan and timetable, and allocate tasks. If you would like to be involved, please send me an e-mail (s.m.jones(a)rug.nl) and I will include you in the process of finding a date. The date-setting email will be circulated in early August. Looking forward to hearing from you! Stephen ------------------------------------- Dr Stephen Jones FSE Fellow Bernoulli Institute University of Groningen Office location: Room 332, Bernoulliborg Nijenborgh 9 9747AG Groningen -------------------------------------

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*REMINDER*: Call for Papers: Special Issue on Constructional Approaches in Formal Grammar
by Nurit Melnik 13 Jul '22

13 Jul '22

*Call for Papers: Special Issue on Constructional Approaches in Formal Grammar* Following a successful workshop on Constructional Approaches in Formal Grammar <https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/conferences/construction-grammars/scientific-p…> at the 11th International Conference on Construction Grammar (ICCG11) we invite both workshop presenters and other researchers to submit their recent, unpublished work on the topic to a special issue of the Journal of Language Modelling <https://jlm.ipipan.waw.pl/index.php/JLM>. *MOTIVATION* Construction Grammar is based on a holistic view of language. Its main analytical concepts are: a surface-oriented description; the simultaneous presence of form-, meaning- and, sometimes, usage-properties of utterances; non-locality or extended locality of linguistic units; the organization of linguistic knowledge in a hierarchical network (such as a type hierarchy); the rejection of the strict distinction between lexicon and syntax and the assumption of a syntax–lexicon continuum. Analyses within the framework of Construction Grammar range from highly formalized and computationally implemented ones to approaches which reject formalization. The formal vs. non-formal debate extends well beyond the domain of Construction Grammar, and is often accompanied by other dichotomies: functionalist vs. formalist, usage based vs. competence based, holistic vs. analytic, theory-driven vs. data-driven, nativism vs. constructivism, or the acceptance vs. rejection of a core-periphery distinction. The dichotomies that figure in the formal vs. non-formal debate are to a large degree orthogonal to the question of whether a formal account is possible, desirable, and maybe even insightful. The goal of this special issue is to discuss the potentials and limitations of construction-based formal analyses and the issues which formal approaches raise. The Journal of Language Modelling is a free (for readers and authors alike) open-access peer-reviewed journal. All articles are peer-reviewed by at least 3 reviewers, usually including at least one member of the Editorial Board. *TOPICS OF INTEREST* Research questions relevant to the volume topics include but are not limited to: - Which defining properties of a construction grammar can be found in other frameworks and which boundaries are encoded there? (such as the simultaneous presence of form and meaning, non-locality or extended locality of constructions, hierarchical network of constructions, surface orientation) - Which constructional phenomena defy a rigid formalization? - What criteria are there to decide what phenomena count as part of grammar and what is dependent on general cognitive principles? - Formal models of language aim at making predictions, i.e. at identifying impossible/ungrammatical units in addition to describing well-formed ones. Can/should this be made compatible with a description of language that takes usage data, linguistic creativity, and perceived oddness of unusual/non-entrenched patterns into account? *SUBMISSIONS* The submissions should be journal papers, not proceedings papers, totalling 25-50 pages, excluding references. Authors are advised to use the online manuscript submission for the journal. Make sure to select the special issue when asked to provide the article type. More information, including formatting instructions for authors can be found on the journal's webpage at: https://jlm.ipipan.waw.pl/index.php/JLM/about/submissions. *IMPORTANT DATES* Call for papers issued: 28/3/2022 Submissions due: 30/9/2022 Author notification: Early 2023 *GUEST EDITORS* Nurit Melnik (The Open University of Israel) Manfred Sailer (Goethe-University Frankfurt/Main)

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Program 29th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar
by Elodie Winckel 04 Jul '22

04 Jul '22

Dear colleagues, We cordially invite you to the 29th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (July 29-30, 2022), as well as the Workshop on Computational Linguistics on East Asian Languages (July 31, 2022). The conference and the workshop will be held online. The program is available on the conference website, where you will also find registration information: _https://hpsg2022.github.io/program.html_ Please note that the times are given in Japan Standard Time (in order to transcribe them into your local time: https://savvytime.com/converter/jst). In order to allow the widest possible exchange between participants spread all over the world, the regular presentations will be pre-recorded and only the discussion sessions will take place in real time (on Zoom). The invited talks will take place in real time. The videos of the regular presentations will be available on a Discord server. When you register, you will receive a message that contains an invitation link to the server, as well as the Zoom session URLs. Registration to the conference is free of charge. We look forward to meeting you all for exciting discussions. Elodie Winckel (Program Committee Chair, _hpsg22(a)easychair.org_).

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LFG Bulletin, June 2022
by Agnieszka Patejuk 01 Jul '22

01 Jul '22

June 2022 ** Please send bulletin items to me by email ** ** < LFG.bulletin "at" gmail "dot" com >** Next issue: September 2022 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CONTENTS 1. LFG22: The 27th International Lexical-Functional Grammar Conference, University of Groningen 2. ParGram meeting 2022 3. LrFG website: lrfg.online 4. Drafts for comments 5. Recent LFG work 6. Online resources 7. Boilerplate ------------------------------------------------------------------------ * ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. LFG22: The 27th International Lexical-Functional Grammar Conference, University of Groningen LFG22: The 27th International Lexical-Functional Grammar Conference 12-14 July 2022 plus wraparound University of Groningen Conference website: https://www.ai.rug.nl/lfg22/ PROGRAM Tuesday, 12 July 2022 08:30 - 09:15 Registration – coffee & tea available 09:15 - 09:30 Welcome 09:30 - 10:30 Invited speaker 1: Helge Lødrup 10:30 - 11:15 Mary Dalrymple and Dag Haug: "Reciprocal scope at the syntax-semantics interface" 11:15 - 11:45 Coffee & tea 11:45 - 12:30 Jamie Findlay and Dag Haug: "Managing scope ambiguities in Glue via multistage proving" 12:30 - 13:15 György Rákosi: "Some notes on the contribution of Hungarian anaphors" 13:15 - 14:15 Lunch 14:15 - 15:00 Yanis da Cunha: "Written-spoken variation in French active/passive alternation: an OT-LFG account" 15:00 - 15:45 Tina Bögel: "The prosody-syntax interface: a computational implementation" 15:45 - 16:15 Coffee & tea 16:15 - 17:00 Frances Dowle: "A Lexical Sharing Analysis of Welsh Dependent Pronouns" 17:00 - 17:45 Oleg Belyaev: "Phrase structure and configurationality in Ossetic" 17:45 - Drinks reception on campus Wednesday, 13 July 2022 09:00 - 09:30 Coffee & tea available 09:30 - 10:15 Miriam Butt, Saira Bano and Benazir Mumtaz: "Dative Subjects and Differential Object Marking" 10:15 - 11:00 Saira Bano, Jessica Zipf and Benazir Mumtaz: "The Polysemous Case Marker -ra in Hazaragi" 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee & tea 11:30 - 13:00 Poster session Poster 1 Maris Camilleri: "A comparative account of Semitic existential structures and related developments" Poster 2 Tibor Laczkó: "Arguments for argument structure of Hungarian pronouns" Poster 3 Wilson Lui: "Information structure in Cantonese" Poster 4 Tatiana Nikitina and Izabela Jordanoska: "`When it said: I'm raining...': Aspectual uses of reported speech constructions" Poster 5 Natalia Serdobolskaya and Oleg Belyaev: "Dative external possessors in Ossetic" Poster 6 Peter Szűcs: "Constructions with propositional proforms" Poster 7 Xiulin Yang: "The Ambiguous Binding of Ziji in Mandarin Chinese: An LFG Analysis" Poster 8 Jessica Zipf: "Italian Clitics in a CALL Setting" Poster 9 Mark-Matthias Zymla: "An Alternative Approach to the Lexicon – Implementing the First-phase Syntax in LFG" 13:00 - 14:00 Lunch 14:00 - 14:45 John Lowe and Davide Mocci: "The syntax of Sanskrit bahuvrīhis" 14:45 - 15:30 Setayesh Dashti: "The Old Avestan Correlative Construction: An Alternative Analysis of Correlatives Within Lexical-Functional Grammar" 15:30 - 16:00 Coffee & tea 16:00 - 17:30 Business meeting 19:30 - Conference dinner (city centre) Thursday, 14 July 2022 09:00 - 09:30 Coffee & tea available 09:30 - 10:30 Invited speaker 2: Miriam Butt 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee & tea 11:00 - 11:45 Chit Fung Lam: "Control Complements in Parallel Constraint-based Architecture: Re-analysis of Two “Restructuring” Phenomena in Mandarin Chinese" 11:45 - 12:30 Chihiro Taguchi: "Mermaid Construction in Lexical-Functional Grammar" 12:30 - 13:30 Lunch 13:30 - 14:15 Adam Przepiórkowski, Julia Łukasiewicz-Pater, Bartosz Maćkiewicz and Katarzyna Kuś: "Heterofunctional Coordination in German" 14:15 - 15:00 Berke Sensekerci: "LRFG Analysis of Turkish Suspended Affixation in Nonverbal Coordination" 15:00 - 15:30 Coffee & tea 15:30 - 16:15 Ash Asudeh and Daniel Siddiqi: "Realizational Morphosemantics in LrFG" 16:15 - 17:00 Alex Alsina: "Partitivity in Romance and the syntax-morphology connection" 17:00 - Thanks and main conference close Friday, 15 July 2022 morning - Workshop: "Coordinating future activities in the LFG Community" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2. ParGram meeting 2022 >From Mark-Matthias Zymla: "Thanks to the feedback from everyone, we were able to finalize the plans for this year's ParGram meeting. It will take place on the 11th of July, 2022, from 9.30 am to 12.00 am at the venue of the LFG2022 conference. We will also provide a possibility for online participation next week. The official schedule is posted here: https://cloud.uni-konstanz.de/index.php/s/AXZqZHxedsgAMZe We will add information about the online access and the exact room there as well as the information becomes available." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3. LrFG website: lrfg.online This is the homepage of Lexical-Realizational Functional Grammar (LRFG), a project started by Ash Asudeh and Dan Siddiqi. Here you can download papers and presentations about the theory, as well as find out about the group of collaborators and students who are or have been involved with the project. LRFG is the result of an unlikely marriage between Distributed Morphology (DM) and Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG). It shares traits of both its parent frameworks. Like LFG, it is a declarative, representational and constraint-based theory that is well-suited to modelling nonconfigurationality. Like DM, it provides a realizational, morphemic view of word-formation and is good at modelling complex morphological structures including those found in polysynthetic languages and other languages that display significant morphological complexity. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4. Drafts for comments 'Drafts for comments' offers bulletin readers the opportunity to submit information about drafts or projects on which they would like to receive comments from the community. This brings work in progress to the attention of the community and plays some of the role that previous incarnations of the archive played. Please submit basic article/project information and (a) a URL if the item is available online or else (b) your contact email. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5. Recent LFG work Send details of your recent work to < LFG.bulletin "at" gmail "dot" com > 5.1 Conference Proceedings LFG conference papers are available electronically at: http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/LFG/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6. Online resources LFG website: https://ling.sprachwiss.uni-konstanz.de/pages/home/lfg/ International Lexical Functional Grammar Association: https://ling.sprachwiss.uni-konstanz.de/pages/home/lfg/ilfga/index.html More about LFG: http://www.sas.rochester.edu/lin/sites/asudeh/LFG/more.txt Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/lfgpage ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 7. Boilerplate The boilerplate (standard text) which previously appeared at the end of every bulletin can be accessed at: http://www.sas.rochester.edu/lin/sites/asudeh/LFG/more.txt The LFG website also serves much of the same function as the boilerplate section.

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