December 2023
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Next issue: March 2024
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CONTENTS
1. LFG Handbook published! 2. LFG23 Proceedings available! 3. Drafts for comments 4. Recent LFG work 5. Online resources 6. Boilerplate
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1. LFG Handbook published!
The LFG Handbook has been published, it is available open source from Language Science Press:
https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/312
This monumental publication edited by Mary Dalrymple consists of over 40 chapters, grouped into 4 parts, covering a wide range of topics. Synopsis:
"Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) is a nontransformational theory of linguistic structure, first developed in the 1970s by Joan Bresnan and Ronald M. Kaplan, which assumes that language is best described and modeled by parallel structures representing different facets of linguistic organization and information, related by means of functional correspondences. This volume has five parts. Part I, Overview and Introduction, provides an introduction to core syntactic concepts and representations. Part II, Grammatical Phenomena, reviews LFG work on a range of grammatical phenomena or constructions. Part III, Grammatical modules and interfaces, provides an overview of LFG work on semantics, argument structure, prosody, information structure, and morphology. Part IV, Linguistic disciplines, reviews LFG work in the disciplines of historical linguistics, learnability, psycholinguistics, and second language learning. Part V, Formal and computational issues and applications, provides an overview of computational and formal properties of the theory, implementations, and computational work on parsing, translation, grammar induction, and treebanks. Part VI, Language families and regions, reviews LFG work on languages spoken in particular geographical areas or in particular language families. The final section, Comparing LFG with other linguistic theories, discusses LFG work in relation to other theoretical approaches."
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2. LFG23 Proceedings available!
The Proceedings of the 2023 Lexical Functional Grammar Conference have been published:
https://lfg-proceedings.org/lfg/index.php/main/issue/current
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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.
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4. Recent LFG work
Send details of your recent work to < LFG.bulletin "at" gmail "dot" com >
4.1 Publications
Dalrymple, Mary and Ida Toivonen (2023). 'Word classes in Lexical Functional Grammar.' In Eva van Lier (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Word Classes. Oxford University Press. 281–302. [ https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198852889.013.52]
Findlay, Jamie Y. (2023). 'Lexical Functional Grammar as a Construction Grammar'. Journal of Language Modelling, 11:2. 197–266. [ https://doi.org/10.15398/jlm.v11i2.338]
Öztürk, Seda (2023). 'Is Instrumental Causee Available in Azerbaijani?'. Proceedings of the Workshop on Turkic and Languages in Contact with Turkic 8. 201–210. [https://doi.org/10.3765/ha0k9e13]
4.2 PhD/Masters
Lam, Chit-Fung (2023). 'Control and Complementation in Parallel Constraint-Based Architecture: An Empirically Oriented Investigation of Mandarin Chinese'. PhD Thesis, University of Manchester. [ https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/control-and-complementati... ]
4.3 Conference Proceedings
LFG conference papers are available electronically at: https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/lfg/ (2022-) http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/LFG/ (1996-2021)
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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
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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.