LFG-list September 2023

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LFG Bulletin, September 2023
by Agnieszka Patejuk 30 Sep '23

30 Sep '23

September 2023 ** Please send bulletin items to me by email ** ** < LFG.bulletin "at" gmail "dot" com >** Next issue: December 2023 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CONTENTS 1. LFG Handbook: 8 new chapters published online! 2. LiGER (Linguistic Graph Expansion and Rewriting) 3. Drafts for comments 4. Recent LFG work 5. Online resources 6. Boilerplate ------------------------------------------------------------------------ * ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. LFG Handbook: 8 new chapters published online! The following chapters are now completed and available on the Handbook web page, https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/312: Case Glue Semantics Unbounded Dependencies Raising and Control Anaphora LFG and Tree Adjoining Grammar Morphology in LFG LFG, Optimality Theory and learnability of languages The Handbook is now almost complete, with the remaining 5 chapters in the final stages of the publishing process. The handbook provides in-depth coverage of many areas of LFG research, and we hope that it will be a useful resource for our community! Please take a look at the Handbook webpage if you have not yet done so. If anyone finds any issues, problems, or typos in any of the pre-publication version of the chapters on the website, please notify Mary Dalrymple and/or the author of the chapter -- there is still time for last-minute fixes before the Handbook is officially published. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2. LiGER (Linguistic Graph Expansion and Rewriting) >From Mark-Matthias Zymla (Mark-Matthias.Zymla(a)uni-konstanz.de): "I put some of my description-by-analysis stuff on my homepage: https://ling.sprachwiss.uni-konstanz.de/pages/home/zymla/liger.html At the bottom there is an editor for writing rules including semantic analysis." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3. 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4. Recent LFG work Send details of your recent work to < LFG.bulletin "at" gmail "dot" com > 4.1 Publications Xie, Chen (2023). 'The de-construction in Wenzhounese: how it differs from the bǎ-construction in Mandarin'. Journal of East Asian Linguistics, 32:3. 303-339. [https://doi.org/10.1007/s10831-023-09259-5] 4.2 Conference Proceedings LFG conference papers are available electronically at: https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/lfg/ (2022-) http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/LFG/ (1996-2021) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5. 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6. 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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Inaugural Ivan A. sag Lectures (Center for Language Sciences, University of Rochester)
by Asudeh, Ash 29 Sep '23

29 Sep '23

Hello everyone The Center for Language Sciences at the University of Rochester is proud to announce the inaugural annual Ivan A. Sag Lectures. Here are the main details: 2023 Sag Lectures (inaugural) Prof. John Beavers (UT Austin) Some Concepts and Consequences of a Theory of Word Meaning Bausch & Lomb Hall 109 University of Rochester October 6/13/20 2023 12-2pm Free & open to the public Zoom reg. link: bit.ly/Sag-23<http://bit.ly/Sag-23> Further details can be found here: https://sas.rochester.edu/cls/sag/ Please feel free to distribute this widely and to post the poster in your department if you see fit. Thanks and all the best, Ash Ash Asudeh (he/him) Professor, Department of Linguistics Director, Center for Language Sciences University of Rochester

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f-structure comparison sessions for computational grammar developers
by Mary Dalrymple 29 Sep '23

29 Sep '23

Chit-Fung Lam (Lawrence), Elaine Ui Dhonnchadha, and I are planning to revive the f-structure comparison sessions that were held in the regular meetings of the ParGram consortium (https://pargram.w.uib.no/). These meetings will be held on-line, and anyone who is developing a grammar using the XLE grammar development platform (https://ling.sprachwiss.uni-konstanz.de/pages/xle/) is welcome to attend. We would also welcome participation by anyone using the Grammar Writer's Workbench (https://parc-public.pages-external.parc.com/xle/isl/groups/nltt/medley/). We anticipate that the meetings will be held every two months, but if there is interest in meeting more regularly, we can consider that in the first meeting. In these meetings, we will discuss and compare f-structures for a parallel set of translationally equivalent sentences. We will use the Pargram treebank sentences as a starting point, and in the first meeting we will plan to discuss the first 5 sentences. (We may find that this is too ambitious -- we will discuss the f-structures in the order below, so even if you can produce only the f-structure for the first one or two sentences, please feel free to attend and participate in the discussion.) The Pargram treebank is available at the following link (scroll to the end of the page): https://clarino.uib.no/iness/treebanks?collection=ParGram&reset-all=true The first five sentences are: The driver starts the tractor. The tractor is red. What did the farmer see? Did the farmer sell his tractor? Push the button. All participants will translate these sentences into the language they are working on, and produce and print out the f-structures. You can do this by using the "Print" command to print the f-structures to PDF. It is helpful to circulate the analyses in advance of the meeting, so that people can look at the f-structures ahead of time. There is no need to circulate c-structures. It will probably be a good idea for us to have a repository where people can access the f-structures to prepare for the meeting-- we will look into this and let the participants know, so please let us know if you plan to participate, so we can add you to the repository. The Pargram treebank contains analyses for these sentences, and it will probably be a good idea for grammar writers to try to model their f-structures on the analyses in the treebank to the extent possible. In the Pargram consortium, the idea is that differences in f-structures for translational equivalents should reflect syntactic differences between the languages -- there should be no arbitrary differences to do with spelling of feature names or other linguistically irrelevant details. We propose to hold the first meeting on Tuesday 24 October at 8:00 AM UTC (this is 9:00 AM UK time). The Zoom link is below. If you have any questions, or if you would like to be added to the list of people with access to the f-structure repository, please send email to one of us. We are looking forward to discussing your f-structures! - Mary, Lawrence and Elaine PARGRAM Treebank https://tcd-ie.zoom.us/j/93770084827?pwd=OEpZampzanZMS2VXMDNkcEJyTU9WZz09 Meeting ID: 937 7008 4827 Passcode: 111795

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Request for items: LFG Bulletin, September 2023
by Agnieszka Patejuk 15 Sep '23

15 Sep '23

Dear all, I am now putting together the LFG Bulletin for September 2023. Please take this opportunity to keep the rest of the LFG community up to date with news, details of recent publications and drafts for comments, and anything else that may be of interest. News of recent dissertations and theses is, as always, very welcome. Please send items to: <LFG.bulletin "at" gmail "dot" com> on or before **28th September 2023**. Best wishes, Agnieszka

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