Program


The 6th International
Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG) Conference

25 June - 27 June 2001

The Department of Linguistics, University of Hong Kong
URL: http://www.hku.hk/linguist/research/LFG2001.html

<lfg2001@hkusua.hku.hk>

 


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Program

Conference Venue:
ALL
sessions (including paper presentations and workshops) will be held in the
Council Chamber, 8/F Meng Wah Complex, HKU

24/6/2001
Sunday

08:30–17:00

Arrival/ Pre-LFG event
Activity: Hiking: a 3 kilometre walk up Victoria Peak, led by Joan Bresnan and staff at HKU
Venue: From Robert Black College, HKU

Meeting Time: 08:30 am
Meeting Place: 1/F, Meng Wah Complex, University of Hong Kong

18:00

Registration and wine party
Venue: Main Building of University of Hong Kong

25/6/2001
Monday

08:30 – 09:00

Registration

09:00 – 09:30

Opening Ceremony

09:30 – 10:30

Invited speaker:
Sam MCHOMBO
University of California, Berkeley
Effects of Head-marking on Constituent Order in Chichewa

10:30 – 11:00

Coffee break

Day 1 - Session 1
Chairperson:

11:00 – 11:45

FALK, Yehuda (The Hebrew Univeristy of Jerusalem, Israel)
Constituent Structure and Grammatical Functions in the Hebrew Action Nominal

11:45 – 12:30

PAYNE, John (University of Manchester, UK)
CHISARIK, Erika (University of Manchester, UK)
Modelling Possessor Constructions in LFG: Hungarian and English

12:30 – 14:00

Lunch

Day 1 - Session 2:
Chairperson:

14:00 – 14:45

ANDREWS, Avery ( Australian National University, Australia)
Iofu and Spreading Architecture in LFG

14:45 – 15:30

WAY, Andy (Dublin City University, Ireland)
LFG-DOT: Translation via c-structures with monolingual f-structure filtering

15:30 – 16:00

Coffee break

16:00 – 19:00

WORKSHOP 1
Chairperson:
Workshop on The Treatment of Tense in LFG, led by Miriam Butt
(University of Konstanz, Germany)

19:30

Dinner

26/6/2001
Tuesday

Day2 - Session 1
Chairperson:

09:00 – 09:45

BRESNAN, Joan(Stanford University)
DINGARE, Shipra (Stanford University)
MANNING, Chris (Stanford University)
Soft Constraints Mirror Hard Constraints: Voice and Person in English and Lummi

09:45 – 10:30

MORIMOTO, Yukiko (Stanford University)
Deriving the Directionality Parameter in OT-LFG

10:30 – 11:00

Coffee break

Day2 - Session 2
Chairperson:

11:00 –11:45

VAN GENABITH, Josef (Dublin City University, Ireland)
FRANK, Anette (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence GmbH, Germany)
WAY, Andy (Dublin City University, Ireland)
Treebank vs. X-BAR based Automatic F-structure Annotation

11:45 – 12:30

CLEMENT, Lionel (Universite Paris 7, France)
KINYON, Alexandra. (University of Pennsylvania)

XLFG – an LFG Parsing Scheme for French

12:30 – 14:00

Lunch

Day2 - Session 3
Chairperson:

14:00 – 14:45

DALRYMPLE, Mary (Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, USA)
KAPLAN, Ron (Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, USA)
KING, Tracy Holloway (Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, USA)
Weak Crossover and the Absence of Traces

14:45 – 15:30

KORDONI, Valia (Universitaet des Saarlandes, Germany)
Semantic Underspecification and “Optimal” Linking

15:30 – 16:00

Coffee break

Day 2 - Session 4
Chairperson:

16:00 – 16:45

FRANK, Anette (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence GmbH, Germany)
VAN GENABITH, Josef (Dublin City University, Ireland)
LL-based Semantics Construction for LTAG – and what it teaches us about the relation between LFG and LTAG

16:45 – 17:30

MUSKENS, Reinhard (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
Categorial Grammar and Lexical-Functional Grammar

17:30 – 18:30

ILFGA BUSINESS MEETING

19:00

Conference Dinner

27/6/2001
Wednesday

09:00 – 10:00

Invited Speaker:
Nigel VINCENT
University of Manchester, UK
LFG as a Model of Syntactic Change

10:00 – 10:15

Coffee break

Day 3 - Session 1
Chairperson:

10:15 – 11:00

ACKERMAN, Farrell (University of California, San Diego)
MOORE, John (University of California, San Diego)
Dowtyian Proto-properties and Lexical Mapping Theory

11:00 – 11:45

KELLING, Carmen (University of Konstanz, Germany)
Agentivity and Suffix Selection

11:45 – 12:30

SCHWARZE, Christoph (University of Konstanz, Germany)
On Representing French and Italian Clitics

12:30 –14:00

Lunch/ posters

14:00 – 17:00

WORKSHOP 2
Chairperson:
Workshop on LFG analysis of Chinese, led by Adams Bodomo and Luke Kang Kwong
(University of Hong Kong)

17:00 – 17:30

Coffee break

Day 3 - Session 2
Chairperson:

17:30 – 18:15

L2 DRUP, Helge (University of Oslo, Norway)
Pseudocoordinations in Norwegian and Control Theory

18:15 – 19:00

YOKOTA, Kenji (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Complex-Predicate Formation and Some Consequences in Japanese

19:00 – 19:15

Closing Remarks

19:30

Dinner

28/6/2001
Thursday

Shopping/ Sightseeing/ Departure

 

Invited speakers:

Effects of Head-marking on
Constituent Order in Chichewa

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Professor Sam Mchombo
University of California, Berkeley

LFG as a model of syntactic change

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Professor Nigel Vincent,
University of Manchester

 

 

ORGANISERS AND THEIR CONTACT ADDRESSES

Program Committee Chairs:
Chris Manning <manning@csli.stanford.edu>
Rachel Nordlinger <r.nordlinger@linguistics.unimelb.edu.au>

LFG2001
c/- Chris Manning
Linguistics Department
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-2150
USA
Contact the local conference organisers at:

email: lfg2001@hkusua.hku.hk

Adams Bodomo
Department of Linguistics
The University of Hong Kong
Pokfulam Road,
Hong Kong

 

Last updated: 11thMay 2001