Hi,
in a subsequent message, I will send out the ParGram meeting notes from the spring meeting at Nuance. I apologize for only getting to this now, but there were things... (there always are things).
Overall, the ParGram meeting in Nuance was lightly attended in terms of international groups. Urdu was heavily represented, Norwegian and Wolof were represented by Bamba, German by Christian Rohrer. Meladel Mistica was able to make the meetings, but due to the fact that she had just moved to the USA (job at Intel), she was not able to contribute f-structures for Indonesian.
Nevertheless, we did some f-str comparison and the results are noted in the meeting notes. All grammar writers, please take heed.
We also had an in-depth discussion about where we are with XLE and its open source status. Again, see the meeting notes.
Damir Cavar (organizer of LFG14) has informed me that there have been inquiries about a ParGram meeting back-to-back with LFG. We have done this in the last couple of years because there were no spring/fall meetings planned (because the California home of XLE had turned uncertain). At the ParGram meeting in Debrecen in 2013, the decision was made that we would go back to having a spring and a fall meeting, with the spring meeting in California at Nuance and the fall meeting in Europe (as per the old tradition). Bergen has offered to host the fall meeting.
As such, I had not anticipated having a ParGram meeting at LFG14. I personally also cannot stay much beyond the 20th and neither can Tracy (she can't stay at all beyond the 20th) At this point, we have several options:
1) No ParGram meeting at all with LFG14 (but those of us interested could get together for dinner and exachange notes and do some grammar debugging on the side).
2) A one-day or half-day ParGram meeting on the 21st.
3) A longer ParGram meeting as of the 21st (but this would be without me).
For those of you planning to be in Ann Arbor in July, could you send your preferences to Sebastian (aka Jani) at: sebastian.sulger@uni-konstanz.de.
Then we need to decide what to do about the planned fall meeting in Bergen. Could people please also write in to Jani stating whether they would attend a meeting in Bergen in the fall?
Thanks,
Miriam