Ackerman, Farrell
Farrell Ackerman is an associate professor in
the Dept. of Linguistics at UC San Diego. In addition to his interest in developing a
correspondence theory for argument selection based on Dowty's proto-role proposal (with
John Moore), he is currently developing a realizational-based model of morphology
("constructional morphology") which addresses the interaction between lexical
representations, paradigms, and periphrasis (with Greg Stump and Gert Webelhuth).
Andrews, Avery
Avery Andrews teaches at the Australian National University in
Canberra, Australia. His main interest lies in developing the capacity of syntactic theory
to engage with problems that arise in language description, especially case-marking,
agreement and serial verb constructions.
Bresnan, Joan
Joan Bresnan, Sadie Dernham Patek Professor of
Humanities and Professor of Linguistics at Stanford University, is a past President of the
Linguistic Society of America and current PI of research in `Optimal Typology' with Judith
Aissen (UCSC). A principal architect of lexical-functional grammar, she contributes to
optimality theoretic syntax, and is currently working on stochastic optimality-theoretic
analyses of syntactic variation.
Chisarik, Erika
Erika Z. Chisarik graduated from Leiden
University, The Netherlands, in 1999 with a Drs degree in English Language and Literature.
Having completed her MA in Linguistics at the University of Manchester in 1998, she is
currently a final-year PhD student. Her research concentrates on the syntactic structure
of Hungarian noun phrases in LFG. Primary research topics include: (i) the distribution
and syntax of determiners; (ii) the syntax and semantics of the possessive construction;
(iii) the syntax and semantics of the subject/object conjugation in Hungarian.
Clement, Lionel
Lionel Clement is a lecturer in computational
linguistics at the University of Paris 7, where he has obtained in 2001 a PhD on
developing and exploiting an annotated corpus for French. Previously, he was a lecturer at
the University of Provence and has also worked for GSI-Erli, developing NLP tools. His
research interests are Lexical-Functional Grammars, parsing, treebanking and French
syntax.
Dalrymple, Mary
Mary Dalrymple is a Senior Member of the Research Staff at the
Xerox Palo Alto Research Center and Consulting Associate Professor in the Linguistics
Department at Stanford University. She received a PhD in 1990 from Stanford University.
Dingare, Shipra
Shipra Dingare is a Masters student in
Linguistics at Stanford University, concentrating in syntax and computational linguistics.
She is presently completing a thesis on modeling the effects of verb classes, person, and
definiteness on syntactic alternations, using stochastic optimality theory.
Falk, Yehuda
Born in New York City and grew up on Long Island. Studied
linguistics at Brandeis University (B.A. 1980) and MIT (Ph.D. 1984). Since 1984, member of
the linguistics faculty in the English Department at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Author of CSLI's forthcoming LFG textbook. Avid Star Trek fan.
Frank, Anette
Anette Frank holds a Magister degree in
linguistics, computer science and Romance languages and literature from the University of
Stuttgart, Germany. 1991 to 1997 she was research assistant at IMS Stuttgart. She obtained
the degree of Dr. phil. from the University of Stuttgart in 1997. 1997 to 2000 she was a
researcher at the Xerox Research Centre Europe in Grenoble, where she was involved in the
Parallel Grammar Project. She joined the Language Technology Group of DFKI as Senior
Researcher in Nov. 2000. Research interests are syntax, semantics and corpus linguistics.
van Genabith, Josef
Josef van Genabith's background is in
electronic engineering,RWTH Aachen, Germany. He then did a Ph.D. at the University of
Essex,U.K. and worked as a researcher at IMS at the University of Stuttgart,Germany. He is
now a senior lecturer in the School of Computer Applications, Dublin City University,
Ireland. His research interests are semantics and automatic annotation of corpora.
Kaplan, Ron
Ronald Kaplan is a Research Fellow at the Xerox
Palo Alto Research Center and leader of the linguistic research group at Xerox. He is also
a Consulting Professor of Linguistics at Stanford University. As a co-creator of the
theory of Lexical Functional Grammar, he was responsible for many of its formal and
conceptual characteristics and has investigated its mathematical and computational
properties. He received a Ph.D. in 1975 from Harvard University.
Kelling, Carmen
Carmen Kelling is Assistant Professor at University of Konstanz,
Germany. She got her Ph.D. in French Linguistics at University of Konstanz in 1998.
She wrote a dissertation on the verbal expression of location in French. Currently, she is
working on the diachronic derivational morphology of French and Spanish: competing
suffixes, the interaction of patterns and rules, and contrastive analysis of
lexicalization patterns in Germanic and Romance.
Kibort, Anna
Anna Kibort graduated from the University of Gdansk,
Poland, in 1993 with a Masters degree in English Studies and TEFL Methodology. She was an
EFL teacher, translator, and TEFL lecturer in Poland before coming to Cambridge in 1996 to
take an MPhil course at the Research Centre for English & Applied Linguistics (RCEAL).
In 1999 she began her PhD research at the RCEAL, focusing on the morphosyntax of passive
and passive-like constructions in Polish and English.
King, Tracy Holloway
Tracy Holloway King is a researcher in the
Natural Language Theory and Technology group at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center where she
works on a large-scale English grammar for the Parallel Grammar project. She did her
graduate work at Stanford University, with a dissertation on Russian word order and
discourse functions.
Kinyon, Alexandra
Alexandra Kinyon is finishing a PhD in linguistics at the
University of Paris 7, where she has been a lecturer for 2 years, and in parallel
preparing a PhD in computer science at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research
interests are robust parsing, disambiguation, treebanking, Tree-Adjoining Grammars and the
link between existing syntactic frameworks (e.g. TAGs and LFG).
Kordoni, Valia
Valia Kordoni is a lecturer of
Linguistics at the Department of Computational Linguistics and Phonetics of the University
of Saarland in Germany. Her main research interests are lexicalist theories (particularly
LFG and HPSG), argument structure and the syntax-lexical semantics interface,
Computational Linguistics, and Modern Greek
Laczko, Tibor
Tibor Laczko is an associate professor at the Department
of English Linguistics, University of Debrecen, Hungary. He teaches generative syntax and
morphology. His research focuses on derivational morphosyntactic phenomena in the
Hungarian and English DP: nominalization, participle formation and the realization of the
arguments of deverbal nouns.
Lødrup, Helge
Helge Lodrup is a professor of general
linguistics at the University of Oslo, Norway. His main interest is the syntax of
Norwegian and related languages within LFG.
Manning, Chris
Christopher Manning is Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Linguistics. He works
primarily on systems that can intelligently process and produce human languages.
Particular research interests include probabilistic models of language and statistical
natural language processing, constraint-based theories of grammar (HPSG and LFG),
computational lexicography, information extraction, and topics in linguistic typology,
including argument structure, serial verbs, causatives, and ergativity.
Moore, John
John Moore (Ph.D., UC Santa Cruz 1991) is an
Associate Professor of linguistics at UC San Diego. His research interests are primarily
in syntactic theory, but has also worked on lexical semantics and the syntax/semantics
interface. A long-standing focus has been Spanish syntax, in particular, infinitival
complements (causatives and clause reduction). Work in this area has examined causatives
from syntactic, lexical semantic, and judgement-type perspectives. More recent work
includes a monograph on Dowtian proto-properties and argument encoding (with Farrell
Ackerman) and work on Russian impersonal constructions (with David Perlmutter).
Morimoto, Yukiko
Yukiko Morimoto, Ph.D. (Stanford University,
August 2000); Currently (until May 2001) a lecturer at CSU Fresno. My research interests
include Bantu syntax, phrase structure variation, both from the typological perspective
and formal modeling within the non-derivational framework of OT-LFG.
Muskens, Reinhard
Reinhard Muskens' main research interest is in
applications of logic to linguistic theory, especially to the syntax-semantics interface.
Reinhard took his PhD at the University of Amsterdam in 1989 and since then Tiburg
University has been his principal affiliation. He also worked in Saarbruecken one year, in
Stuttgart one semester, and in Stanford two terms.
Payne, John
John Payne was educated at Jesus College,
Cambridge, and holds the post of Senior Lecturer in Linguistics in the Department of
Linguistics at the University of Manchester. He is currently Head of the School of English
and Linguistics. His research interests include typology and syntactic theory, and he has
published widely in both these areas. He has recently completed, with Rodney Huddleston,
the chapter on noun-phrase structure for the forthcoming Cambridge Grammar of the English
Language.
Schwarze, Christoph
Christoph Schwarze is professor of Romance linguistics in the
Department of Linguistics at University of Konstanz. His main interests are lexical
semantics, morphology, and syntax.
Way, Andy
Andy Way has been a lecturer in Computational
Linguistics at Dublin >City University for 10 years, having previously worked on the
Eurotra project at the University of Essex. He has a BA in French, German &
Linguistics, an MSc in Computer Science and a PhD in Language & Linguistics, all from
the University of Essex. His research is in Computational Linguistics and NLP, especially
in >the area of Machine Translation.
Yokota, Kenji
Kenji Yokota, currently a Ph.D.
candidate at University of Tokyo. His research interests include the grammar of arguments
and adjuncts, complex predicates in Japanese. His recent publications include "Light
Verb Constructions in Japanese and Functional Uncertainty" (LFG-99).
