LFG-list June 2025

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LFG Bulletin, June 2025
by Agnieszka Patejuk 30 Jun '25

30 Jun '25

June 2025 ** Please send bulletin items to me by email ** ** < LFG.bulletin "at" gmail "dot" com >** Next issue: September 2025 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CONTENTS 1. LFG25 in Barcelona: program, workshops 2. Donate to ILFGA and support student presenters 3. Drafts for comments 4. Recent LFG work 5. Online resources 6. Boilerplate ------------------------------------------------------------------------ * ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. LFG25 in Barcelona: program, workshops Conference program is available here: https://eventum.upf.edu/128654/section/55341/lfg25-the-30th-international-l… Tuesday, 22 July 2025 08:30–09:15 Registration – coffee & tea 09:15–09:30 Welcome/Opening remarks 09:30–10:30 Invited speaker: Joan Bresnan 10:30–11:00 Coffee break 11:00–11:45 John Lowe: Pāṇinian LFG: argument structure without grammatical functions 11:45–12:30 Miriam Butt: Lexical Semantics vs. Dependent Case: Urdu/Hindi Datives 12:30–14:00 Lunch 14:00–14:45 Bozhil Hristov: Modelling negation in diachronic and cross-linguistic comparison: Negation in the history and structure of English and Bulgarian 14:45–15:30 Sebastian Zawada: Polish and English specificational copular clauses – an LFG approach 15:30–16:15 Tibor Laczkó, György Rákosi, Péter Szűcs: A comprehensive analysis of the multifunctionality of the Hungarian nominal demonstrative 16:15–16:45 Coffee break 16:45–17:30 I Wayan Arka, Emma Keith: Co-Indexing System and the Changing Face of Austronesian Voice: Insights from Sipora Mentawai 17:30–18:15 Akshaya Kirithy Baskar, Ida Toivonen: Animacy effects in Tamil Wednesday, 23 July 2025 09:00–09:30 Coffee & tea 09:30–10:15 Mark-Matthias Zymla, Farai Grenzdörffer, Kascha Kruschwitz, Paul Zodl: Semantic parsing and reasoning in LFG – The case of gradable adjectives 10:15–11:00 John Payne, Kersti Börjars: Adjective licenser in Japanese 11:00–11:30 Coffee break 11:30–12:15 Adam Przepiórkowski: Slightly less flat coordinate structures 12:15–13:00 Danil Alekseev, Anastasia Podgornaia: Do-support in Ossetic 13:00–14:30 Lunch 14:30–15:15 Oleg Belyaev: Making sense of affix and clitic positions in the Bartangi clause 15:15–16:00 Frances Dowle, Ash Asudeh: Categories Take Precedence: Evidence from Welsh 16:00–16:30 Coffee break 16:30–18:00 Poster session (5 posters): – Hasiyatu Abubakari, Alexander Angsongna, Adams Bodomo: Reduplication in Serial Verb Constructions: An LFG Approach to Mabia Languages – Ash Asudeh, Oleg Belyaev, Bronwyn Bjorkman, Frances Dowle, Neil Myler, Nadeem Siddiqi, Lisa Sullivan: Maybe =ʔa is not a type 5 clitic – Mary Dalrymple, Jamie Y. Findlay, Dag T. T. Haug: Constraining scope in Glue Semantics: the linear logic approach – Corinna Langer, Tina Bögel: The prosody of Hungarian complex noun phrases in focus – Nuo Xu, Alex Alsina: Event Structure and Argument Realization in Mandarin V-V compounds 18:00–19:30 ILFGA Business Meeting 20:00 Conference dinner Thursday, 24 July 2025 09:00–09:30 Coffee & tea 09:30–10:15 Chen Xie: Evidence for the parallel architecture from the syntax-phonology interface 10:15–11:00 Agnieszka Patejuk, Adam Przepiórkowski: Polish ZAMIAST 'instead': overt NOM alternating with controlled PRO 11:00–11:30 Coffee break 11:30–12:30 Invited speaker: Stefan Müller 12:30–12:45 Closing remarks and Main conference close 12:45–14:15 Lunch Thursday, 24 July 2025: Workshop: Arguments and Challenges for Lexicalism 14:15–15:45 Panel (Moderator: Dan Siddiqi; Participants: Alex Alsina, Ash Asudeh, Oleg Belyaev, Frances Dowle, Rachel Nordlinger, Géraldine Walther, Steve Wechsler) 15:45–16:15 Coffee break 16:15–17:00 Workshop Presentation: Géraldine Walther 17:00–17:45 Oleg Belyaev, Danil Alekseev, Ash Asudeh, Bronwyn Bjorkman, Frances Dowle, Nadeem Siddiqi, Lisa Sullivan: Ossetic nominal inflection: Between morphology and syntax 17:45–18:15 Discussion Friday, 25 July 2025: Glue Workshops 10:00–12:30 Glue for Beginners: Mary Dalrymple This workshop is an introductory course for those who are interested in Glue and want to know more about how it works. It is aimed at beginners, and will assume no background in Glue. 12:30–14:00 Lunch break 14:00–16:30 Glue semantics and computation – first steps: Mark-Matthias Zymla This workshop introduces different tools for exploring Glue semantics computationally, building on examples from Workshop 1. Thus, the tools will be used to model natural language semantics and to explore challenging aspects of working with Glue semantics computationally. The workshop is targeted primarily at participants of the first workshop, but may also be of interest to people who have a background in Glue semantics and are interested in its implementations. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2. Donate to ILFGA and support student presenters Please consider making a donation to support the ILFGA! We use donations almost exclusively to subsidize student attendance at the LFG conference, so it's all about encouraging and developing the future of the community! If you would like to support ILFGA, it is now possible to make a donation online (see here for changes to the ILFGA banking set-up and a link to donate: https://ling.sprachwiss.uni-konstanz.de/pages/home/lfg/ilfga/donations.html). The process is safe, quick and easy: you can donate any amount by secure card transaction (in AUD, CAD, EUR, GBP, or USD). Even very small donations are gratefully received – they all add up! Donations can be anonymous, and the 'tip' suggested for JustGiving can be skipped. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 Lam, Chit-Fung (2025). 'Revisiting Two Finiteness Phenomena for Mandarin Chinese Complementation Structures: An Empirically Oriented Approach via Systematic Hypothesis Testing'. Transactions of the Philological Society. [ https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-968X.12317] 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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The HPSG 2025 conference: Main conference program
by Shuichi Yatabe 27 Jun '25

27 Jun '25

The 32nd International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar will be held in a hybrid format on 2 September - 4 September 2025 at Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal. The conference addresses linguistic, foundational, or computational issues relating to or in the spirit of the framework of Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar. The conference will consist of a two-day main conference (2 September - 3 September) and a one-day (4 September) workshop, entitled "Minor sentence types–––their form and its impact on grammar," whose program will be announced separately. Conference Website: https://dkaramasov.github.io/hpsg2025/ Program: **Schedule for the Main Conference** (The program is subject to last-minute changes, please consult https://dkaramasov.github.io/hpsg2025/) Venue: Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Letras, Biblioteca sala B112.C. September 2nd 9:15–9:30 Welcome and Opening 9:30–10:30 Plenary talk: Stefan Müller (HU Berlin) Virtual lexical items and the Danish impersonal passive 10:30–11:00 Coffee break 11:00–11:40 Frank Van Eynde (KU Leuven) The absolute PP-construction 11:40–12:20 Antonio Machicao Y Priemer, Pauline Reiß and Giuseppe Varaschin (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin) Genitive vs. PP Arguments in German NPs: Grammatical and Usage Conditions 12:20–13:00 Mona Sinha Mahapatra (The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad) Bangla N-V conjunct verbs: Case, Compositionality and Phrasal category 13:00–14:30 Lunchbreak 14:30–15:10 Jimin Kim and Eun-jung Yoo (Seoul National University) A Direct Interpretation Approach to English Multiple Sluicing Constructions 15:10–15:50 Edgar David Martinez (University of Nicosia) Having at least an iota of talent: a Gradable HPSG Analysis of the Syntactic Distribution and Semantics of the minimizer an iota 15:50–16:30 Joanna Ut-Seong Sio and Francis Bond (Palacký University Olomouc) Inner and outer aspect in Cantonese 16:30–17:00 Coffee break 17:00–18:00 Business meeting September 3rd 9:30–10:30 Plenary talk: Ana Luís (Universidade de Coimbra) and Berthold Crysmann (LLF, Université Paris Cité) tba 10:30–11:00 Coffee break 11:00–11:40 Berthold Crysmann (LLF, Université Paris Cité) and Ana Luís (Universidade de Coimbra) Mixed clitics in Udi: the lexical verb as interface 11:40–12:20 Bruno Estigarribia (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) An SBCG analysis of ‘middle’ je- in Paraguayan Guarani 12:20–13:00 Jieun Oh (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) A typological analysis of the Korean verb ha- with verbal nouns and psych verbs 13:00–14:30 Lunchbreak 14:30–15:10 Felix Bildhauer (IDS Mannheim) An HPSG approach to the German am-progressive 15:10–15:50 Frank Van Eynde (KU Leuven) On the Head-Complement combination 15:50–16:30 Mona Sinha Mahapatra (The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad) Reverse Constructions of Bangla Compound verbs: Light verb fronting phenomenon 16:30–17:00 Coffee break 17:00–17:40 Hyeonjoon Park (Seoul National University) English NPN Constructions: A ConstraintBased Analysis 17:40–18:20 Manfred Sailer (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Universität Frankfurt) A phrasal construction for an ‘ex quolibet falsum’ inference 20:00–22:30 Conference Dinner: The Food Temple (registration required) https://www.thefoodtemple.com/ **Registration** https://dkaramasov.github.io/hpsg2025/ Conference fee: 80€ (faculty)/50€ (student) Registration Deadline: 20th August Virtual attendance is free, but please register so we have an idea of numbers. In order to register for the conference dinner and social activities (coastal hike on 5th September, guided city tour on 6th September), please contact Jakob (hpsg2025(a)easychair.org). **Contact information** hpsg2025(a)easychair.org Local Organizing Committee Chair: Jakob Maché (University of Lisbon)

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ParGram (f-structure) meeting Thurs 17 July
by Elaine Ui Dhonnchadha 25 Jun '25

25 Jun '25

Dear Colleagues, Our next LFG f-structure workshop will be held online on Thursday, 17 July 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: 36. It is raining. 37. There is a problem with the tractor. 38. The book cover depicted a tractor. The f-structures for the English versions of these sentences are available on the INESS page (see below) 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 Irish, Mandarin, Norwegian, Polish, Welsh, etc. 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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Glue workshops at LFG25
by Mary Dalrymple 23 Jun '25

23 Jun '25

Mark-Matthias Zymla and Mary Dalrymple are planning to conduct two workshops on the Glue theory of the syntax-semantics interface in connection with the upcoming LFG25 conference (https://eventum.upf.edu/128654/detail/lfg25-the-30th-international-lexical-…). The workshops will be held on Friday, 25 July, the day after the conference. You are welcome to attend either or both of the workshops. Workshop 1, Glue for Beginners, Mary Dalrymple, 10:00-12:30. This workshop is an introductory course for those who are interested in Glue and want to know more about how it works. It is aimed at beginners, and will assume no background in Glue. Workshop 2: Glue semantics and computation -- first steps, Mark-Matthias Zymla, 2:00-4:30. This workshop introduces different tools for exploring Glue semantics computationally, building on examples from Workshop 1. Thus, the tools will be used to model natural language semantics and to explore challenging aspects of working with Glue semantics computationally. The workshop is targeted primarily at participants of the first workshop, but may also be of interest to people who have a background in Glue semantics and are interested in its implementations. If you are interested in attending one or both of these workshops, it would be very helpful to the organizers if you could fill in a short survey (https://tinyurl.com/lfg-workshop), which will give us an idea of your background and what you want to get out of the workshop. This will help us to pitch the workshops at an appropriate level.

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Request for items: LFG Bulletin, June 2025
by Agnieszka Patejuk 05 Jun '25

05 Jun '25

Dear all, I am now putting together the LFG Bulletin for June 2025. 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 **25th June 2025**. Best wishes, Agnieszka

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