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Lexical Functional Grammar Conference

Udayana University, Bali, Indonesia — 28 June - 1 July, 2012



Social Activity

There will be a joint tour and bush walk with ICAL. Please click here for more information.



Program

Wednesday, 27 June

09:00 - 14:00 Bush walk (Sanur Beach; Kertalangu Cultural Village)
15:00 - 17:00 Registration/Reception

Thursday, 28 June

08:30 - 09:00 Registration
09:00 - 09:30 WELCOME
09:30 - 10:15 Melanie Seiss
Lexical Semantics of Murrinh-Patha Complex Predicates: Qualia Structure and Beyond
10:15 - 11:00 Mark Dras, François Lareau, Benjamin Börschinger, Robert Dale, Yasaman Motazedi,
Owen Rambow, Myfany Turpin and Morgan Ulinski
Complex Predicates in Arrernte
11:00 - 11:30 BREAK

Day 1, Session 2 - Chair: Kersti Börjars
11:30 - 12:15 Adam Przepiórkowski and Agnieszka Patejuk
On case assignment and the coordination of unlikes: The limits of distributive features
12:15 - 13:00 Adam Przepiórkowski and Agnieszka Patejuk
The puzzle of case agreement between numeral phrases and predicative adjectives in Polish
13:00 - 14:00 LUNCH
14:00 - 15:00 Invited Talk - Miriam Butt
Questions in Urdu/Hindi: Moving beyond Movement
15:00 - 15:30 BREAK

Day 1, Session 3 - Chair: Ash Asudeh
15:30 - 16:15 Louisa Sadler and Maris Camilleri
On the Analysis of Extra-Argumental Datives in Maltese
16:15 - 17:00 György Rákosi
Non-core PPs are adjuncts
17:00 - 17:45 Stefano Quaglia
On Apparently Argument-Structure-Changing Spatial Particles in Italian

Friday, 29 June


Day 2, Session 1 - Chair: Dag Haug
09:00 - 09:45 Yehuda Falk
Superiority Effects
09:45 - 10:30 Maia Andréasson
Constraints on full NP object shift and pronominal object shift in Scandinavian
10:30 - 11:00 BREAK

Day 2, Session 2 - Chair: Alex Alsina
11:00 - 11:45 Doug Arnold and Louisa Sadler
Affected Experiencers and Mixed Semantics in LFG/Glue
11:45 - 12:30 Sebastian Sulger
Differential Subject Marking and the Stage/Individual Contrast in Hindi/Urdu
12:30 - 14:00 LUNCH

Day 2, Session 3 - Chair: Mary Dalrymple
14:00 - 14:45 Ash Asudeh and Gianluca Giorgolo
Flexible Composition for Optional and Derived Arguments
14:45 - 15:30 Gianluca Giorgolo and Ash Asudeh
Missing Resources in a Resource-Sensitive Semantics
15:30 - 16:00 BREAK

Day 2, Session 4 (Dissertation Session) - Chair: Louisa Sadler
16:00 - 16:30 Yvette Graham
Deep Syntax in Statistical Machine Translation
16:30 - 17:00 Liselotte Snijders
Constraints on the discontinuity of prepositional phrases in Latin:
an exception to Economy of Expression
17:00 - 17:30 Karen Park
The Selective Properties of Verbs in Reflexive Constructions
17:30 - 18:30 ILFGA BUSINESS MEETING
18:30 - 21:00 CONFERENCE DINNER

Saturday, 30 June


Day 3, Session 1 - Chair: Anna Kibort
09:00 - 09:45 Kersti Börjars, Pauline Harries and Nigel Vincent
Grammaticalising by growing syntactic structure: the history of North Germanic
nominal morphosyntax
09:45 - 10:30 Nadine Theiler and Gerlof Bouma
Two for the Price of One: An LFG treatment of sentence initial object es in German
10:30 - 11:00 BREAK

Day 3, Session 2 - Chair: Miriam Butt
11:00 - 11:45 François Lareau, Mark Dras and Benjamin Börschingerr
The implementation of lexical functions in XLE
11:45 - 12:30 Agnieszka Patejuk and Adam Przepiórkowski
Agreement in an XLE grammar of Polish
12:30 - 14:00 LUNCH

Day 3, Session 3 - Chair: Paul Meurer
14:00 - 14:45 Yvette Graham and Josef van Genabith
Exploring the Parameter Space in Statistical Machine Translation via F-structure Transfer
14:45 - 15:30 Dag Haug
From dependency grammar to LFG representations
15:30 - 16:00 BREAK

Day 2, Session 4 - Poster Session
16:00 - 17:30 Paul Meurer
INESS-Search: A search system for LFG (and other) treebanks

Hyun Jong Hahm
Word Order and Agreement in American Sign Language (ASL)

One-Soon Her and Dun-Hong Deng
Lexical Mapping in Yami Verbs

Helge Lodrup
Is there a 'third object'? Searching a nominal counterpart to COMP

Petr Homola and Matt Coler
Machine Translation Using Dependency Representation

Tina Bögel
Further investigations into the role of prosody in the parallel architecture

Owen Edwards
Non-Subject Participants in Tolaki

Cheikh Bamba Dione
An LFG Approach To Wolof Cleft Constructions

Anna Kibort
Participles, adjectives, and the role of argument structure

Ansu Berg, Rigardt Pretorius and Laurette Pretorius
Exploring the treatment of selected typological characteristics of Tswana in LFG and XLE

Sunday, 1 July


Day 4, Session 1 - Chair: Rachel Nordlinger
09:00 - 09:45 Dag Haug and Tatiana Nikitina
The many cases of non-finite subjects: The challenge of "dominant" participles
09:45 - 10:30 Tibor Laczko
On the (Un)Bearable Lightness of Being an LFG Style Copula in Hungarian
10:30 - 11:00 BREAK

Day 4, Session 2 - Chair: Helge Lodrup
11:00 - 11:45 Alex Alsina and Boban Arsenijevic
Hierarchies and competing generalizations in Serbo-Croatian hybrid agreement
11:45 - 12:30 Agnieszka Patejuk and Adam Przepiórkowski
Lexico-semantic coordination in Polish
12:30 - 14:00 LUNCH

Day 4, Session 3 - Workshop on Number and Plurals
14:00 - 17:00 Mary Dalrymple
T.B.A.

I Wayan Arka
Verbal number, argument number and plural events in Marori

Rachel Nordlinger
Number marking in the Daly River languages

Bill Palmer
Plural in Meso-Melanesian
17:30 - 17:30 CLOSING

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