Call for Participation
The 18th International Lexical Functional Grammar Conference (LFG13)
18 July - 20 July 2013
Debrecen University, Hungary
Conference website: http://lfg13.unideb.hu
Conference e-mail: hungram (at) unideb (dot) hu
Early-bird registration deadline: 10 June 2013
LFG 2013 presents work within the formal architecture of
Lexical-Functional Grammar as well as typological, formal, and
computational work within the 'spirit of LFG' as a lexicalist approach
to language employing a parallel, constraint-based framework. The
conference aims to promote interaction and collaboration among
researchers interested in non-derivational approaches to grammar, where
grammar is seen as the interaction of (perhaps violable) constraints
from multiple levels of structuring, including those of syntactic
categories, grammatical relations, semantics and discourse.
Further information about LFG as a syntactic theory is available at the
following sites:
http://www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/external/LFG/
http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg/
PROGRAMME
Wednesday, 17 July
Pre-conference social events (see the conference website)
Thursday, 18 July
08:30-09:30
Registration
09:30-09:45
Welcome
Day 1, Session 1
09:45-10:30
Bozhil Hristov
Defacing agreement
10:30-11:15
Oleg Belyaev
Optimal agreement at m-structure: person in Dargwa
11:15-12:00
Daniele Artoni and Marco Magnani
LFG contributions in SLA research: the development of case in Russian L2
12:00-13:30
Lunch
Day 1, Session 2 - Poster Session
13:30-15:00
Noriko Koyama
The grammaticality of Japanese passives
Helge Lodrup
Complex predicates in Norwegian: new evidence from passive and impersonal sentences
George Aaron Broadwell and Hilaria Cruz
The evolution of case in two Otomanguean languages of Mexico
George Aaron Broadwell
An emphatic auxiliary construction for emotions in Copala Triqui
Ansu Berg, Rigardt Pretorius and Laurette Pretorius
The representation of Setswana double objects in LFG
Petr Homola and Matt Coler
Causatives as complex predicates without the restriction operator
Peter Szucs
The Hungarian operator raising revisited
Louise Mycock
Discourse functions of question words
Filip Skwarski
Mapping issues in Polish clausal arguments
Yasir Alotaibi, Muhammad Alzaidi, Maris Camilleri, Shaimaa Elsadek and Louisa Sadler
Psychological predicates and verbal complementation in Arabic
Jonas Kuhn
On the 'spirit of LFG' in current computational linguistics
Lachlan Duncan
Non-verbal predicates in K'ichee' Mayan: an LFG approach
15:00-15:30
Break
Day 1, Session 3
15:30-16:15
Adam Przepiorkowski and Agnieszka Patejuk
A unified LFG analysis of two homonymous distributive elements in Polish
16:15-17:00
Tibor Laczko
Hungarian particle verbs revisited: representational, morphological and implementational
issues from an LFG perspective
17:00-17:45
Ozlem Cetinoglu, Sina Zarriess and Jonas Kuhn
Dependency-based sentence simplification for increasing deep LFG parsing coverage
Friday, 19 July
Day 2, Session 1
09:00-09:45
Louise Mycock and John Lowe
The prosodic encoding of discourse functions
09:45-10:30
Tina Bogel
A prosodic resolution of German case ambiguities
10:30-11:00
Break
Day 2, Session 2
11:00-11:45
Prerna Nadathur
Weak crossover and the Direct Association Hypothesis
11:45-12:30
Doug Arnold and Louisa Sadler
Displaced dependent constructions
12:30-14:00
Lunch
Day 2, Session 3
14:00-14:45
Annette Hautli
Motion verb sequences in Urdu
14:45-15:30
Dag Haug
Partial control, exhaustive control and the semantics of anaphoric control
15:30-16:00
Break
Day 2, Session 4
16:00-16:45
Cheikh Bamba Dione
Valency change and complex predicates in Wolof: an LFG account
16:45-17:30
Liz Christie and Ida Toivonen
Result XPs and the argument-adjunct distinction
18:00-22:00
Conference dinner
Saturday, 20 July
Day 3, Session 1
09:00-09:45
I Wayan Arka
Constructed nonverbal aspect in Marori
09:45-10:30
Kersti Borjars and John Payne
Dimensions of variation in the expression of functional features: modelling definiteness in
LFG
10:30-11:00
Break
Day 3, Session 2
11:00-12:00
Invited Talk
Mary Dalrymple
Economy of expression (joint work with Ronald M. Kaplan and Tracy Holloway King)
12:00-12:45
John Lowe
Transitive and predicated nominals in LFG
12:45-14:00
Lunch
Day 3, Session 3
14:15-15:00
Ida Toivonen
English benefactive NPs
15:00-15:45
Anna Kibort
Objects and Lexical Mapping Theory
15:45-16:30
Miriam Butt and Ashwini Deo
A historical perspective on dative subjects in Indo-Aryan
16:30-16:45
Break
16:45-17:45
ILFGA Business meeting
Program Committee (email: lfg13[@]easychair.org)
Dag Haug, University of Oslo, Norway
Anna Kibort, University of Oxford, UK
Local conference organizers (email: hungram[@]unideb.hu)
Tibor Laczko (co-chair)
Gyuri Rakosi (co-chair)
Eva Kardos
Gabor Csernyi
