LFG-list September 2025

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LFG Bulletin, September 2025
by LFG Bulletin Maintainer 30 Sep '25

30 Sep '25

September 2025 Please send bulletin items to me by email LFG.bulletin(a)gmail.com Next issue: December 2025 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CONTENTS 1. Recent LFG work 2. LFG resources 2.1. XLFG (computational tool) 2.2. New LFG slides (teaching materials) 3. Online resources 4. Donations to support ILFGA ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. Recent LFG work Butt, Miriam. 2025. LLMs and syntactic theory: Lexical Functional Grammar has no fear. In: Italian Journal of Linguistics. Pacini. 2025, 37(1): 45-58. doi: 10.26346/1120-2726-238 https://kops.uni-konstanz.de/entities/publication/4debb9df-4506-4dec-bcb3-e… McNally, Louise. 2023. Levels and strata in linguistic modeling: Cross-domain considerations https://www.upf.edu/documents/2979964/2986140/McNally2023-LevelsStrata.pdf/… Zymla, Mark-Matthias, Mary Dalrymple, and Agnieszka Patejuk. 2025a. Computational semantic tools for glue semantics. In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS 2025). Düsseldorf, Germany. To appear. Zymla, Mark-Matthias, Kascha Kruschwitz, and Paul Zodl. 2025b. An instructive implementation of semantic parsing and reasoning using Lexical Functional Grammar. In Proceedings of the 2nd Bridging the Gap between Human and Automated Reasoning Workshop (BriGap-2). To appear. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2. LFG resources 2.1. XLFG (computational tool) XLFG (https://xlfg.labri.fr/index.php): XLFG is an online tool developed by Lionel Clément for building small-scale grammars, aimed at teaching and exploring LFG. 2.2. New LFG slides (teaching materials) https://sites.google.com/view/c-f-lam/materials Please feel free to use and adapt the materials for teaching LFG lessons, and contact Lawrence (Chit-Fung) Lam with any questions. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/lfgpage ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4. Donations to support ILFGA Please consider making a donation to support the ILFGA. We use donations almost exclusively to subsidise 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.

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Open call for volume proposals - Phraseology and Multiword Expressions
by Victoria Rosén 17 Sep '25

17 Sep '25

Phraseology and Multiword Expressions<https://langsci-press.org/catalog/series/pmwe> (PMWE) is a book series at Language Science Press, a born-digital scholar-led open access publisher in linguistics. The series publishes high-quality books about conventionalized, idiosyncratic combinations of words. Within the field of phraseology such word combinations are sometimes called phrasemes, while the computational linguistics community uses the term multiword expressions for them. Various subtypes of such word combinations are of interest, such as multiword compounds, multiword terms, multiword named entities, light-verb constructions, phrasal verbs, idioms, collocations, formulaic speech, proverbs, etc. The series is open to different approaches to create a forum for an interdisciplinary and cross-framework exchange of research results, including but not limited to the following subdisciplines: * Computational linguistics and natural language processing * Computer science * Corpus linguistics * Lexicography * Psycholinguistics * Theoretical linguistics We welcome volume proposals addressing all topics related to theoretical, computational, and empirical approaches to phraseology including: * Linguistic properties and typologies of multiword expressions, especially in multilingual frameworks * Digital lexical resources including multiword expressions * Description and processing of multiword expressions in syntactic and semantic frameworks (e.g., CCG, CxG, HPSG, LFG, TAG, UD) * Identification and annotation of multiword expressions in corpora and treebanks * Multiword expressions in machine translation and other end-user applications * Multiword expressions and lexical innovation * Diachronic studies and semantic change in multiword expressions * Representation and evaluation of multiword expressions in language models (e.g., LLMs) and text generation systems All contributions should be in English. To submit a volume proposal, please follow the guidelines at the series home page: https://langsci-press.org/catalog/series/pmwe Volumes published so far: * Voula Giouli, Verginica Barbu Mititelu (eds.) Multiword expressions in lexical resources: Linguistic, lexicographic, and computational perspectives<https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/440>. 2024. * Victoria Beatrix Fendel (ed.) Support-verb constructions in the corpora of Greek: Between lexicon and grammar?<https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/461>. 2024. * Aleksandar Trklja, Łukasz Grabowski (eds.) Formulaic language: Theories and methods.<https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/304> 2021 * Sabine Schulte im Walde, Eva Smolka (eds.) The role of constituents in multiword expressions: An interdisciplinary, cross-lingual perspective<https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/239>. 2020. * Yannick Parmentier, Jakub Waszczuk (eds.) Representation and parsing of multiword expressions: Current trends<https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/202>. 2019. * Stella Markantonatou, Carlos Ramisch, Agata Savary, Veronika Vincze (eds.) Multiword expressions at length and in depth: Extended papers from the MWE 2017 workshop<https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/204>. 2018. * Manfred Sailer, Stella Markantonatou (eds.) Multiword expressions: Insights from a multi-lingual perspective<https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/184>. 2018.

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Request for items: LFG Bulletin, September 2025
by LFG Bulletin Maintainer 12 Sep '25

12 Sep '25

Dear all, I am pleased to introduce myself as the new LFG Bulletin Maintainer, following Agnieszka Patejuk, who has done an excellent job maintaining the Bulletin over the past eight years. I am now preparing the September 2025 issue. This is a great opportunity to share updates with the LFG community, including: - News and announcements - Recent publications and drafts for comments - New LFG dissertations and theses - Any other items of interest Please send your contributions to: *LFG.bulletin(a)gmail.com <LFG.bulletin(a)gmail.com>* by *26 September 2025*. Thank you for your kind attention. Best regards, Lawrence Lam

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ParGram (f-structure) meeting and XLFG demo: Friday 5 September
by Mary Dalrymple 01 Sep '25

01 Sep '25

Dear Colleagues, Our next LFG f-structure workshop will be held online on Friday, 5 September 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). In the first part of the meeting, we will have a presentation by Lionel Clément (University of Bordeaux) on XLFG, a parser for LFG which is freely available for pedagogical use. If anyone wants to read the grammars or XLFG before the meeting, here is the link: https://xlfg.labri.fr/index.php The workshop in which examples will be shared is 'XLFG Demo – Friday 5 September 2005, 4:00–6:00 PM UTC’. The grammars will be available soon. The presentation will center on the following topics: - Coordination & Ellipsis (Lucie gave a book to Mary on Monday and a record to Peter on Tuesday.) - Control (Equi) vs. Raising (Ingrid tried to buy olives / Ingrid seemed to buy olives) - Phraseology & Light Verbs (John made a joke to his friends / John made a presentation to the commission / John made a cake to the commission) In the second part of the meeting, 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 third part, depending on how much time is remaining, we will continue the comparison of f-structures for translational equivalents of the following sentences: 40 The boy swept up the broken wine bottle. 41 The red wine bottle broke. 42 There are great green globs of greasy grimy gopher guts. The f-structures for the English versions of these sentences are available on the INESS page (see below) for this meeting series. Even if your grammar cannot analyse the translational equivalents of these sentences, you are welcome to attend the first part of the meeting and receive comments on your computational grammar and the structures that it produces, and you are also welcome to attend the rest of the meeting to participate in the 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 a 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 an 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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