LFG-list January 2025

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LFG’25 - Final call for papers
by S.M. Jones 15 Jan '25

15 Jan '25

[apologies for cross-posting] LFG'25: The 30th International Lexical-Functional Grammar Conference 22 July - 24 July 2025 Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain Abstract submission deadline: 15 February 2025, 23:59 UTC-12 (midnight anywhere on Earth) Abstract submission link: https://openreview.net/group?id=LFG/2025/Conference (Please make sure to create an account early on) Conference website: https://eventum.upf.edu/128654/detail/lfg25-the-30th-international-lexical-… Conference e-mail (NOT for abstract submission): LFG25 'at' upf.edu Invited speakers: TBA Core conference: 22-24 July 2025 Pre-conference activities: 21 July 2025 Workshop: 25 July 2025 Associated Workshop: "Arguments and Challenges for lexicalism", organized by Alex Alsina, Ash Asudeh, and Daniel Siddiqi Conference mode: In person. Online participation will be possible in exceptional circumstances. LFG25 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 Presentations should describe original, unpublished work.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 FOR SUBMISSIONS Deadline for abstracts: 15 February 2025, 23:59 UTC-12 (midnight anywhere on Earth) Notification of acceptance: 31 March 2025 Conference: 22 July - 24 July 2025 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 11pt 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 PubliKon at the University of Konstanz. (Please note that papers submitted to the proceedings are no longer automatically accepted for publication in the proceedings.) See https://lfg-proceedings.org/lfg/index.php/main/issue/archive and http://web.stanford.edu/group/cslipublications/cslipublications/LFG/ for recent proceedings. PRE-CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES There will be a day of pre-conference activities on 21 July. ORGANISERS AND THEIR CONTACT ADDRESSES If you have queries about abstract submission or have problems submitting your paper, please contact the Program Committee. Program Chairs (Email: lfg.progcom 'at' gmail.com) Tina Bögel, University of Konstanz and Goethe University Frankfurt Stephen Jones, University of Groningen Local conference organizers (Email: LFG25 'at' upf.edu) Alex Alsina, Universitat Pompeu Fabra 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/ ————————————————————————— Dr Stephen Jones Assistant Professor, Modelling Language and Cognition Bernoulli Institute University of Groningen Office location: Room 332, Bernoulliborg Nijenborgh 9 9747AG Groningen —————————————————————————

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LFG f-structure workshop meeting Fri 17 Jan 2025 4pm - 6pm (UTC +0)
by Elaine Ui Dhonnchadha 09 Jan '25

09 Jan '25

Dear colleagues, We wish all of you a very Happy New Year! Our next LFG f-structure workshop will be held online on Friday 17 January from 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm (UTC+0). The meeting will consist of two parts. In the first half, we will discuss any issues of linguistic analysis and/or technical XLE issues in relation to computational grammars under development by participants. If you are developing an XLE grammar and are having any issues with XLE or your grammar, you can discuss these issues in the first half of the meeting. In the second half, depending on how much time is remaining, we will continue the comparison of f-structures for translational equivalents of the following sentences: 26. The farmer let her son buy the tractor. 27. The farmer bought his son a tractor. 28. The woman bought the tractor for her husband. The f-structures for the English versions of these sentences are available on the INESS page (see below) and in the Google Drive folder for this meeting series; please get in touch with one of us for access to this folder. Even if your grammar cannot analyse the translational equivalents of these sentences, you are welcome to attend the first half of the meeting and receive comments on your computational grammar and the structures that it produces, and you are also welcome to attend the second half to participate in discussion of these sentences for those grammars which can analyse them. Best, Mary, Lawrence, Elaine *Zoom Meeting* Join Zoom Meeting https://tcd-ie.zoom.us/j/92690283651?pwd=VXdOWjczaWtUYXM3cklvZC8rVlFuZz09 Meeting ID: 926 9028 3651 Passcode: 801772 >From Beginners to Experts, all are Welcome! We look forward to seeing you online soon. - Mary Dalrymple, Lawrence (Chit-Fung) Lam, and Elaine Ui Dhonnchadha Please refer to the message below for further details about the f-structure comparison meetings. Thank you! --------------------------------------- As we announced in an earlier message, Chit-Fung Lam (Lawrence), Elaine Ui Dhonnchadha, and Mary Dalrymple have revived the f-structure comparison sessions that were held in the regular meetings of the ParGram consortium (https://pargram.w.uib.no/). These meetings are 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/). The first half of these meetings will consist of discussion of general issues in grammar development and specific issues in the grammars and analyses that participants are working on. Please bring your questions and issues with your grammar and the XLE to this part of the meeting. In the second half of these meetings, we will discuss and compare f-structures for a parallel set of translationally equivalent sentences, using the Pargram treebank sentences as a starting point. 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 We will discuss the f-structures for the current sentences (we may not have time for a discussion of all of them). You are welcome to attend the second half of the meeting even if your grammar does not parse the translational equivalent of these sentences. In preparation for the discussion in the second half of the meeting, participants will translate these sentences into the language they are working on, and produce and print out the f-structures to PDF. There is no need to print out c-structures. We have created a Google Drive directory for the f-structures, which currently contains f-structures for English, Irish, Mandarin, Norwegian, Polish and Welsh. In advance of the meeting, meeting participants should plan to deposit their f-structures there for as many of the sentences as you can parse. Please contact one of us if you would like to have access to this repository. 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 Dalrymple, Lawrence (Chit-Fung) Lam, and Elaine Ui Dhonnchadha

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LFG Bulletin, December 2024
by Agnieszka Patejuk 01 Jan '25

01 Jan '25

December 2024 ** Please send bulletin items to me by email ** ** < LFG.bulletin "at" gmail "dot" com >** Next issue: March 2025 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CONTENTS 1. LFG24 Proceedings available! 2. Evolutionary Lexical Functional Grammar at the 2025 LSA Linguistic Institute 3. Annie Zaenen awarded honorary doctorate from the University of Konstanz 4. Drafts for comments 5. Recent LFG work 6. Online resources 7. Boilerplate ------------------------------------------------------------------------ * ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. LFG24 Proceedings available! The Proceedings of the 2024 Lexical Functional Grammar Conference have been published: https://lfg-proceedings.org/lfg/index.php/main/issue/current Table of contents: Kusaal interrogatives: discourse functionand focus distinction (Hasiyatu Abubakari, Adams Bodomo) Unagreement and how morphology sees syntax (Alex Alsina) Fusional morphology, metasyncretism, and secondary exponence: A morphemic, realizational approach to Latin declension (Ash Asudeh, Bronwyn Bjorkman, Frances Dowle, Neil Myler, Daniel Siddiqi, Lisa Sullivan) The story of 'er' (Ash Asudeh, Daniel Siddiqi) Language redundancy and acoustic salience: an account in LFG (Tina Bögel, Mila Freiseis, Romi Hill, Daniel Wambach, Tianyi Zhao) Iranian perception predicates revisited: Evidence from Hazaragi (Miriam Butt, Saira Bano) Alternative questions in Urdu: from the speech signal to semantics (Miriam Butt, Tina Bögel, Mark-Matthias Zymla, Benazir Mumtaz) Mutation in Welsh: Syntactic mutation without empty categories (Frances Dowle) The syntax-prosody interface in LFG: Revisiting Korean question focus (Stephen Jones, Yoolim Kim, Cong Zhang) Coordination of unlikes in Turkish (Berke Şenşekerci, Adam Przepiórkowski) An OT-LFG account of the syntax of the Determiner Phrase in Kafire (Songfolo Lacina Silué) In defense of a COMP-less approach to Hungarian finite clauses (Péter Szűcs) Demonstrative TO in Polish – an LrFG analysis (Sebastian Zawada) Ambiguity management in computational Glue semantics (Mark-Matthias Zymla) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2. Evolutionary Lexical Functional Grammar at the 2025 LSA Linguistic Institute Steve Wechsler will be offering a course on Evolutionary Lexical Functional Grammar at the 2025 LSA Linguistic Institute in Eugene, Oregon, from July 8 to August 8, 2025. The course description can be found here: https://center.uoregon.edu/LSA/2025/program/search/detail_session.php?id=13… If you have questions or suggestions about the course, or more generally about evolutionary approaches to the study of grammar, you can contact Steve at wechsler(a)austin.utexas.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3. Annie Zaenen awarded honorary doctorate from the University of Konstanz https://typo.uni-konstanz.de/conferences/zaenen24/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/lfg/ (2022-) http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/LFG/ (1996-2021) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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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