LFG-list April 2025

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ParGram f-structure comparison meeting (8 May 2025)
by Chit Fung LAM (Lawrence) 24 Apr '25

24 Apr '25

Dear Colleagues, Our next LFG f-structure workshop will be held online on *Thursday, 8 May 2025, from 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM UTC+0 (5 PM to 7 PM in the UK, 6 PM to 8 PM in Central Europe, 9 AM to 11 AM in California*). 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: 32. The brothers bought the tractor for each other. 33. My sister is a great teacher. 34. The child is in the house. 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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CSSP Deadline extension
by Anne Abeillé 12 Apr '25

12 Apr '25

> The 16th Syntax and Semantics Conference in Paris <http://www.cssp.cnrs.fr/index_en.html> (CSSP 2025) will take place on November 12-14, 2025 in Paris, and will be organized by Université Paris 8 <https://www.univ-paris8.fr/en/> & SFL <https://www.sfl.cnrs.fr/en>. > CSSP invites papers combining empirical inquiry and formal explicitness, and favours comparisons between different theoretical frameworks. > > We welcome submissions using theoretical, experimental or computational methods in: > > syntax, > semantics, > pragmatics, > the syntax-semantics interface, > the semantics-pragmatics interface, > language acquisition: syntax-semantics-pragmatics. > Invited Speakers: > > Corien Bary (Radboud University Nijmegen) > Patricia Cabredo Hofherr (Université Paris 8 & SFL, CNRS) > Rui Chaves (University at Buffalo, SUNY) > Submission: We invite submissions for 40 minute presentations (including 10 minutes for discussion). Submissions are expected to describe substantial, original, completed and unpublished work, hence submissions should be up to 5 pages plus an extra page for references. The submission must be anonymous. The same person can submit one abstract as author, and one as co-author, or two with different co-authors. > > Instructions for submissions, style templates for abstracts, and details on the selection procedure are available here: https://conf.llf-paris.fr/cssp2025/?submission. > > Please make sure you use the new instructions and style files for LaTeX <https://conf.llf-paris.fr/cssp2025/assets/cssp-latex.zip> and Word/LibreOffice <https://conf.llf-paris.fr/cssp2025/assets/cssp-word.zip>. > > Abstracts will be refereed anonymously by an international selection committee. This page <https://conf.llf-paris.fr/cssp2025/?selection> outlines the selection process. > > In order to submit your paper, please go to the conference's page on easychair.org <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cssp2025>. > > Important dates > > Submission deadline: April 28, 2025 > Selected papers will be published in a Language Science Press volume

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LFG Bulletin, March 2025
by Agnieszka Patejuk 01 Apr '25

01 Apr '25

March 2025 ** Please send bulletin items to me by email ** ** < LFG.bulletin "at" gmail "dot" com >** Next issue: June 2025 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CONTENTS 1. Drafts for comments 2. Recent LFG work 3. Online resources 4. Boilerplate ------------------------------------------------------------------------ * ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2. Recent LFG work Send details of your recent work to < LFG.bulletin "at" gmail "dot" com > 2.1 Publications Bögel, Tina and Tianyi Zhao (2025). 'From speech signal to syntactic structure: A computational implementation'. Journal of Language Modelling, 13:1. 1–42. [https://doi.org/10.15398/jlm.v13i1.397] Dahlstrom, Amy (2023). 'Ditransitive licensing of Long Distance Agreement in Meskwaki'. Papers of the Fifty-second Algonquian Conference. 19–35. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press. [ https://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/adahlstrom/files/2025/02/Dahlstrom-2023b-… ] 2.2 Conference Proceedings LFG conference papers are available electronically at: https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/lfg/ (2022-) http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/LFG/ (1996-2021) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3. 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4. 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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