June 2025
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Next issue: September 2025
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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
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1. LFG25 in Barcelona: program, workshops
Conference program is available here: https://eventum.upf.edu/128654/section/55341/lfg25-the-30th-international-le...
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.
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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.
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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
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)
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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.