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Call for Papers: HPSG 2025
by shuichi_yatabe＠yahoo.co.jp 23 Dec '24

23 Dec '24

* { font-size: 13px; font-family: 'MS Pゴシック', sans-serif;}p, ul, ol, blockquote { margin: 0;}a { color: #0064c8; text-decoration: none;}a:hover { color: #0057af; text-decoration: underline;}a:active { color: #004c98;} Full Title: The 32nd International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar Short Title: HPSG 2025 Date: 02-September-2025 - 03-September-2025 Location: Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Contact Person: Jakob Maché Meeting Email: hpsg2025(a)easychair.org Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Linguistic Theories; Syntax Abstract Submission Deadline: 15-March-2025 Meeting Description: HPSG is a well-developed, precisely formalized theory of grammar whose architecture is based on the notion of constraint satisfaction. Linguistic objects are modeled as feature structures organized via a system of types and constraint inheritance, drawing key insights from research in object-oriented paradigms. The HPSG community values explicit, large-scale grammar development and explores psycholinguistic models, as well as the development of efficient computational systems for processing natural languages using HPSG grammars. For more information about HPSG: http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/research/hpsg/ http://www.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/hpsg/ The HPSG 2025 conference will be a two-day main conference (2 September - 3 September), followed by a one-day (4 September) workshop, which will be announced separately. First Call for Papers: Anonymous abstracts are invited that address linguistic, foundational, or computational issues relating to or in the spirit of the framework of Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar. Submissions should be 4 pages long, + 1 page for data, figures & references. They should be submitted in PDF format. The submissions should not include the authors’ names, and authors are asked to avoid self-references. All abstracts should be submitted by 15 March, 2025, via Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=hpsg2025 Deadline for abstracts: 15 March 2025 Notification of acceptance: 30 April 2025 Conference: 2 September - 3 September 2025 (followed by the workshop on 4 September) Invited speakers: TBA Conference proceedings submission: 15 October 2025 All abstracts will be reviewed anonymously by at least two reviewers. Each accepted abstract will be given 30 minutes for presentation. Additionally, 10 minutes will be reserved for discussion. A call for contributions to the proceedings will be issued after the conference. The proceedings are going to be an indexed publication; the contributions will undergo a separate round of reviews. The proceedings of previous conferences are available at: https://proceedings.hpsg.xyz/ --- Shuichi Yatabe Department of Language and Information Sciences University of Tokyo

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Application to Paris Graduate Program in Linguistics
by Anne Abeillé 18 Dec '24

18 Dec '24

>> The Paris Graduate School of Linguistics (PGSL) is a Paris-based graduate program covering all areas of language science. >> >> It offers several comprehensive Master curricula integrating advanced study and research, in close connection with PhD programs as well as with the Empirical Foundations of Linguistics <http://www.labex-efl.com/> consortium. >> >> Research plays a central part in the program, and students also take elective courses to develop an interdisciplinary outlook. Prior knowledge of French is not required. >> >> For more details, please see https://paris-gsl.org/index.html >> >> New funding opportunity: https://mobility.smarts-up.fr/ >> >> deadline for grant applications: January 17th 2025 (for starting September 1st 2025) >> >> PGSL is funded by Smarts-UP (Student-centered iMproved, Active Research-based Training Strategy at Université de Paris) through the ANR SFRI grant « Grandes universités de recherche » (PIA3) 2020-2029 >> >> > Contact Anne Abeillé Aimée Lahaussois

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LFG session at the Eurasian Congress of Linguists
by Oleg Belyaev 10 Dec '24

10 Dec '24

Dear colleagues, on Wednesday, December 11, we will host a workshop on Non-Transformational approaches to syntax at the Eurasian Congress of linguists, which is about to commence in Moscow. It is a spiritual successor to the inaugural Moscow LFG Meeting we organized back in April. We’d be delighted if you are able to attend! For the Zoom link, please send an email to the organizers at moscow.lfg.meeting(a)gmail.com . We apologize for the late posting! 15:00–15:15 *UTC+3* Opening Remarks 15:15–16:00 Ash Asudeh (University of Rochester). *Distributed Morphology without Movement, Fusional Morphology without Paradigms* In this talk, I present the theory called Lexical-Realizational Functional Grammar, a form of Distributed Morphology built around an LFG syntax. The theory has no movement (neither phrasal nor head), no zero morphs, and no paradigms. I show its application to complex phenomena in English, Ingush, Ojibwe, and Latin. 16:00–16:30 Danil Alekseev (Lomonosov MSU / Institute of Linguistics RAS). *Minimal Phrase Structure and Discourse Configurationality* Minimal Phrase Structure (MPS) is an alternative model of phrase structure proposed for LFG in (Lovestrand, Lowe 2017; Lowe, Lovestrand 2020). While it has been previously successfully applied to English and Barayin (< Chadic) by (Lovestrand 2023), this work seeks to further expand the empirical coverage of the model by testing its applicability to Ossetic (< Iranian < Indo-European) and other discourse configurational languages. A new variant of MPS that allows to capture more diverse phrase structure configurations is also proposed. 16:30–16:45 Coffee Break 16:45–17:15 Oleg Belyaev (Lomonosov MSU / Institute of Linguistics RAS). *Capturing Bartangi clause structure in LFG* The overall clause structure of Bartangi (Shugni-Roshani > Iranian) resembles that of other Iranian languages, including those of the Pamir group (e.g. Shughni, Parker 2023). The internal and final positions of Iranian conjunctions have not been in the focus of any theoretical discussion that I am aware of, even in mainstream generative grammar. For LFG, it merits a systematic description due to the issues it raises with respect to the interplay between discourse configurationality and grammatical-function configurationality (see Snijders 2015), especially in light of broadly similar systems described both for related languages such as Ossetic (Belyaev 2014, 2022) and for typologically similar languages such as Hungarian (Payne & Chisarik 2000; Laczkó 2014). 17:15–17:45 Timofei Dedov (Higher School of Economics). *Reciprocals in Abaza* There are many different ways of expressing reciprocal relations in the Abaza language: reciprocal prefix -aba-, reciprocal pronoun adjv-adjv, combination of a reciprocal prefix -a-/-aj- with a comitative prefix -ts-. This work is dedicated to the mechanism of expressing reciprocity by -aba- prefix, but adjv- adjv will also be briefly discussed. 17:45–18:15 Natalia Serdobolskaya (Institute of Linguistics RAS), Anna Osipova (Lomonosov MSU / Institute of Linguistics RAS) *Genitive Modifiers in Beserman Udmurt* In our talk, we aim to discuss some empirical puzzles posed by possessive constructions of Beserman Udmurt (Permic < Uralic). In this language, the possessor (in a broad sense) is encoded with the genitive case, whereas the possessum typically bears the agreeing possessive suffix, cf. (1). Although the existence of genitive modifiers with different syntactic status was proposed for different Finno-Ugric languages (Jokinen 1991, Christen 2001; Pleshak 2018; Pleshak, Kholodilova 2023), this question in many respects remains open for Beserman Udmurt.

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Request for items: LFG Bulletin, December 2024
by Agnieszka Patejuk 09 Dec '24

09 Dec '24

Dear all, I am now putting together the LFG Bulletin for December 2024. Please take this opportunity to keep the rest of the LFG community up to date with news, details of recent publications and drafts for comments, and anything else that may be of interest. News of recent dissertations and theses is, as always, very welcome. Please send items to: <LFG.bulletin "at" gmail "dot" com> on or before **27th December 2024**. Best wishes, Agnieszka

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LFG’25 Barcelona: First call for papers
by S.M. Jones 08 Nov '24

08 Nov '24

[apologies for cross-posting] LFG25: The 30th International Lexical-Functional Grammar Conference 22 July - 24 July 2025 Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain Abstract submission deadline: 15 February 2025, 23:59 UTC-12 (midnight anywhere on Earth) Abstract submission link: https://openreview.net/group?id=LFG/2025/Conference (Please make sure to create an account early on) Conference website: TBA Conference e-mail (NOT for abstract submission): LFG25 'at' upf.edu Invited speakers: TBA Associated Workshop: "Arguments and Challenges for lexicalism", organized by Alex Alsina, Ash Asudeh, and Daniel Siddiqi Conference mode: In person. Online participation will be possible in exceptional circumstances. LFG25 welcomes 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. SUBMISSIONS: TALKS AND POSTERS The main conference sessions will involve 45-minute talks (30 min + 15 min discussion), and poster presentations. Contributions can focus on results from completed as well as ongoing research, with an emphasis on novel approaches, methods, ideas, and perspectives, whether descriptive, theoretical, formal or computational. Presentations should describe original, unpublished work. DISSERTATION SESSION As in previous years, we are hoping to hold a special session that will give students the chance to present recent PhD dissertations (or other student research dissertations). The dissertations must be completed by the time of the conference, and they should be made publicly accessible (e.g., on the World Wide Web). The talks in this session should provide an overview of the main original points of the dissertation; the talks will be 20 minutes, followed by a 10-minute discussion period. Students should note that the main sessions are certainly also open to student submissions. Students who present papers in either session will receive a small subvention towards their conference costs from the International LFG Association (ILFGA). TIMETABLE Deadline for abstracts: 15 February 2025, 23:59 UTC-12 (midnight anywhere on Earth) Notification of acceptance: 31 March 2025 Conference: 22 July - 24 July 2025 SUBMISSION SPECIFICATIONS The language of the conference is English, and all abstracts must be written in English. All abstracts should be submitted using the online submission system. Submissions should be in the form of abstracts only. Abstracts can be up to three A4 pages, including figures and references. Abstracts should be in 11pt or larger type, with margins of at least 2cm on all four sides, and should include a title. Omit name and affiliation (including in PDF document properties), and avoid obvious self-reference. For dissertation session submissions, please add "Dissertation" to the title of your abstract. Please submit your abstract in .pdf format (or a plain text file). The number of submissions is not restricted. However, in the interests of high participation and broad representation, each author should be involved in a maximum of two oral papers and can only be a single author of one. There are no restrictions on poster presentations. Authors may want to keep this in mind when stating their preferences concerning the mode of presentation of their submissions. All abstracts will be reviewed anonymously by at least three referees. Papers accepted to the conference can be submitted to the refereed proceedings, and will be published, subject to acceptance, online by PubliKon at the University of Konstanz. (Please note that papers submitted to the proceedings are no longer automatically accepted for publication in the proceedings.) See https://lfg-proceedings.org/lfg/index.php/main/issue/archive and http://web.stanford.edu/group/cslipublications/cslipublications/LFG/ for recent proceedings. PRE-CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES There will be a day of pre-conference activities on the 21st of July. ORGANISERS AND THEIR CONTACT ADDRESSES If you have queries about abstract submission or have problems submitting your paper, please contact the Program Committee. Program Chairs (Email: lfg.progcom 'at' gmail.com) Tina Bögel, University of Konstanz and Goethe University Frankfurt Stephen Jones, University of Groningen Local conference organizers (Email: LFG25 'at' upf.edu) Alex Alsina, Universitat Pompeu Fabra FURTHER INFORMATION Further information about LFG as a framework for linguistic analysis is available at the following site: https://ling.sprachwiss.uni-konstanz.de/pages/home/lfg/ ————————————————————————— Dr Stephen Jones Assistant Professor, Modelling Language and Cognition Bernoulli Institute University of Groningen Office location: Room 332, Bernoulliborg Nijenborgh 9 9747AG Groningen —————————————————————————

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XLE/F-structure workshop: Tuesday 12 November, 5:00 PM UTC
by Mary Dalrymple 02 Nov '24

02 Nov '24

Dear colleagues, Our next LFG f-structure workshop will be held online on Tuesday 12 November from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm (UTC). The meeting will consist of two parts. In the first half, we will discuss any issues of linguistic analysis and/or technical XLE issues in relation to computational grammars under development by participants. If you are developing an XLE grammar and are having any issues with XLE or your grammar, you can discuss these issues in the first half of the meeting. In the second half, depending on how much time is remaining, we will continue the comparison of f-structures for translational equivalents of the following sentences: 23. The farmer made his son clean the tractor. 24. The farmer made his son leave. 25. The farmer made her son buy the tractor. The f-structures for the English versions of these sentences are available on the INESS page (see below) and in the Google Drive folder for this meeting series; please get in touch with one of us for access to this folder. Even if your grammar cannot analyse the translational equivalents of these sentences, you are welcome to attend the first half of the meeting and receive comments on your computational grammar and the structures that it produces, and you are also welcome to attend the second half to participate in discussion of these sentences for those grammars which can analyse them. Best, Mary, Lawrence, Elaine *Zoom Meeting* Join Zoom Meeting https://tcd-ie.zoom.us/j/92690283651?pwd=VXdOWjczaWtUYXM3cklvZC8rVlFuZz09 Meeting ID: 926 9028 3651 Passcode: 801772 >From Beginners to Experts, all are Welcome! We look forward to seeing you online soon. - Mary Dalrymple, Lawrence (Chit-Fung) Lam, and Elaine Ui Dhonnchadha Please refer to the message below for further details about the f-structure comparison meetings. Thank you! --------------------------------------- As we announced in an earlier message, Chit-Fung Lam (Lawrence), Elaine Ui Dhonnchadha, and Mary Dalrymple have revived the f-structure comparison sessions that were held in the regular meetings of the ParGram consortium (https://pargram.w.uib.no/). These meetings are held on-line, and anyone who is developing a grammar using the XLE grammar development platform (https://ling.sprachwiss.uni-konstanz.de/pages/xle/) is welcome to attend. We would also welcome participation by anyone using the Grammar Writer's Workbench ( https://parc-public.pages-external.parc.com/xle/isl/groups/nltt/medley/). The first half of these meetings will consist of discussion of general issues in grammar development and specific issues in the grammars and analyses that participants are working on. Please bring your questions and issues with your grammar and the XLE to this part of the meeting. In the second half of these meetings, we will discuss and compare f-structures for a parallel set of translationally equivalent sentences, using the Pargram treebank sentences as a starting point. The Pargram treebank is available at the following link (scroll to the end of the page): https://clarino.uib.no/iness/treebanks?collection=ParGram&reset-all=true We will discuss the f-structures for the current sentences (we may not have time for a discussion of all of them). You are welcome to attend the second half of the meeting even if your grammar does not parse the translational equivalent of these sentences. In preparation for the discussion in the second half of the meeting, participants will translate these sentences into the language they are working on, and produce and print out the f-structures to PDF. There is no need to print out c-structures. We have created a Google Drive directory for the f-structures, which currently contains f-structures for English, Irish, Mandarin, Norwegian, Polish and Welsh. In advance of the meeting, meeting participants should plan to deposit their f-structures there for as many of the sentences as you can parse. Please contact one of us if you would like to have access to this repository. If you have any questions, or if you would like to be added to the list of people with access to the f-structure repository, please send email to one of us. We are looking forward to discussing your f-structures! - Mary Dalrymple, Lawrence (Chit-Fung) Lam, and Elaine Ui Dhonnchadha

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Annie Zaenen Honorary Doctorate
by Miriam Butt 17 Oct '24

17 Oct '24

The Department of Linguistics at the University of Konstanz is very proud to announce that Annie Zaenen was awarded an honorary doctorate for her contributions to linguistics on October 14th, 2024. More information on the event can be found here: https://typo.uni-konstanz.de/conferences/zaenen24/ Best, Miriam Butt **************************************************************** Miriam Butt Department of Linguistics University of Konstanz Fach 184 Tel: +49 7531 88 5109 78457 Konstanz Fax: +49 7531 88 4865 Germany +49 7531 88 5115 miriam.butt(a)uni-konstanz.de https://www.ling.uni-konstanz.de/butt/ “Here Miss Marple contributed a singularly eloquent pause.” Agatha Christie, Murder at the Vicarage (p. 65) ****************************************************************

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TOC: Journal of Language Modelling 12(1)
by Adam Przepiórkowski 02 Oct '24

02 Oct '24

It is our pleasure to announce the publication of issue 12(1) of the Journal of Language Modelling (JLM), a free open-access peer-reviewed journal aiming to bridge the gap between theoretical, formal and computational linguistics: http://jlm.ipipan.waw.pl/ (see “CURRENT” or “ALL ISSUES”). The direct persistent link to this issue is: http://jlm.ipipan.waw.pl/index.php/JLM/issue/view/31. JLM is indexed by SCOPUS, ERIH PLUS, DBLP, DOAJ, etc., and it is a member of OASPA. TABLE OF CONTENTS: Articles: “The expected sum of edge lengths in planar linearizations of trees” Lluís Alemany-Puig, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho 1–42 “Detecting inflectional patterns for Croatian verb stems using class activation mappings” Domagoj Ševerdija, Rebeka Čorić, Marko Orešković, Lucian Šošić 43–68 “Control, inner topicalisation, and focus fronting in Mandarin Chinese: modelling in parallel constraint-based grammatical architecture” Chit-Fung Lam 69–153 “On German verb sense disambiguation: A three-part approach based on linking a sense inventory (GermaNet) to a corpus through annotation (TGVCorp) and using the corpus to train a VSD classifier (TTvSense)” Dominik Mattern, Wahed Hemati, Andy Lücking, Alexander Mehler 155–212 Tools and Resources: QRGS – Question Responses Generation via crowdsourcing Paweł Łupkowski, Jonathan Ginzbug, Ewelina Chmurska, Adrianna Płatosz, Aleksandra Kwiecień, Barbara Adamska, Magdalena Szkalej 213–270 The current make-up of the JLM Editorial Board is enclosed below. Best regards, Adam Przepiórkowski (JLM Editor-in-Chief) ====================================================================== EDITORIAL BOARD: Steven Abney (University of Michigan, USA) Ash Asudeh (University of Rochester, USA) Igor Boguslavsky (Technical University of Madrid, SPAIN) Paul Boersma (University of Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS) Olivier Bonami (Université Paris Cité, Laboratoire de linguistique formelle, CNRS, France) Robert D. Borsley (Professor Emeritus, University of Essex, UNITED KINGDOM; Honorary Professor, Bangor University, UNITED KINGDOM) António Branco (University of Lisbon, PORTUGAL) David Chiang (University of Notre Dame, USA) Dan Cristea (University of Iași, ROMANIA) Berthold Crysmann (Université Paris Cité, Laboratoire de linguistique formelle, CNRS, FRANCE) Jan Daciuk (Gdańsk University of Technology, POLAND) Łukasz Dębowski (Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences, POLAND) Mary Dalrymple (Professor Emerita, University of Oxford, UNITED KINGDOM) Anette Frank (Universität Heidelberg, GERMANY) Claire Gardent (LORIA, CNRS and Université de Lorraine, FRANCE) Jonathan Ginzburg (Université Paris Cité, Laboratoire de linguistique formelle, CNRS, FRANCE; Laboratoire d’Excellence LabEx-EFLt, FRANCE) Thomas Graf (Stony Brook University, UNITED STATES) Stefan Th. Gries (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA; Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany) Adam Jardine (Rutgers Department of Linguistics, UNITED STATES) Heiki-Jaan Kaalep (University of Tartu, ESTONIA) Laura Kallmeyer (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, GERMANY) Jong-Bok Kim (Kyung Hee University, Seoul, KOREA) Kimmo Koskenniemi (Professor Emeritus, University of Helsinki, FINLAND) Jonas Kuhn (Universität Stuttgart, GERMANY) Alessandro Lenci (University of Pisa, ITALY) John J. Lowe (University of Oxford, UNITED KINGDOM) Ján Mačutek (Comenius University, Bratislava, SLOVAKIA) Igor Meľčuk (Professor Emeritus, University of Montreal, CANADA) Richard Moot (CNRS, LIRMM, University of Montpellier, FRANCE) Glyn Morrill (Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, SPAIN) Stefan Müller (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, GERMANY) Mark-Jan Nederhof (University of St Andrews, UNITED KINGDOM) Petya Osenova (Sofia University, BULGARIA) David Pesetsky (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) Maciej Piasecki (Wrocław University of Science and Technology, POLAND) Christopher Potts (Stanford University, USA) Agata Savary (University of Paris-Saclay, FRANCE) Sabine Schulte im Walde (Universität Stuttgart, GERMANY) Stuart M. Shieber (Harvard University, USA) Mark Steedman (University of Edinburgh, UNITED KINGDOM) Stan Szpakowicz (Professor Emeritus, University of Ottawa, CANADA) Shravan Vasishth (Universität Potsdam, GERMANY) Aline Villavicencio (Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence University of Exeter, UNITED KINGDOM; University of Sheffield, UNITED KINGDOM) Veronika Vincze (University of Szeged, HUNGARY) Shuly Wintner (University of Haifa, ISRAEL) Zdeněk Žabokrtský (Charles University in Prague, CZECH REPUBLIC) ====================================================================== Adam Przepiórkowski ˈadam ˌpʃɛpjurˈkɔfskʲi http://clip.ipipan.waw.pl/ ____ Computational Linguistics in Poland http://jlm.ipipan.waw.pl/ ___________ Journal of Language Modelling http://zil.ipipan.waw.pl/ ____________ Linguistic Engineering Group http://nkjp.pl/ _________________________ National Corpus of Polish

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F-structure comparison meeting (Tuesday 8 Oct 5:00 pm-7:00 pm (UTC+1))
by Chit Fung LAM (Lawrence) 02 Oct '24

02 Oct '24

Dear colleagues, Our next LFG f-structure comparison meeting will be held online on *Tuesday 8 Oct from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm (UTC+1)*. The meeting will follow a new structure, and will consist of two parts. In the first half, we will discuss any issues of linguistic analysis and/or technical XLE issues in relation to computational grammars under development by participants. If you are developing an XLE grammar and are having any issues with XLE or your grammar, you can discuss these issues in the first half of the meeting. In the second half, depending on how much time is remaining, we will continue the comparison of f-structures for translational equivalents of the following sentences: 19. The tractor that the farmer bought is red. 20. The man who bought the tractor left. 21. The store the farmer bought the tractor from closed. The f-structures for the English versions of these sentences are available on the INESS page (see below) and in the Google Drive folder for this meeting series; please get in touch with one of us for access to this folder. Even if your grammar cannot analyse the translational equivalents of these sentences, you are welcome to attend the first half of the meeting and receive comments on your computational grammar and the structures that it produces, and you are also welcome to attend the second half to participate in discussion of these sentences for those grammars which can analyse them. Best, Mary, Lawrence, Elaine *Zoom Meeting* Join Zoom Meeting https://tcd-ie.zoom.us/j/92690283651?pwd=VXdOWjczaWtUYXM3cklvZC8rVlFuZz09 Meeting ID: 926 9028 3651 Passcode: 801772 >From Beginners to Experts, all are Welcome! We look forward to seeing you online soon. - Mary Dalrymple, Lawrence (Chit-Fung) Lam, and Elaine Ui Dhonnchadha Please refer to the message below for further details about the f-structure comparison meetings. Thank you! --------------------------------------- As we announced in an earlier message, Chit-Fung Lam (Lawrence), Elaine Ui Dhonnchadha, and Mary Dalrymple have revived the f-structure comparison sessions that were held in the regular meetings of the ParGram consortium ( https://pargram.w.uib.no/). These meetings are held on-line, and anyone who is developing a grammar using the XLE grammar development platform ( https://ling.sprachwiss.uni-konstanz.de/pages/xle/) is welcome to attend. We would also welcome participation by anyone using the Grammar Writer's Workbench ( https://parc-public.pages-external.parc.com/xle/isl/groups/nltt/medley/). The first half of these meetings will consist of discussion of general issues in grammar development and specific issues in the grammars and analyses that participants are working on. Please bring your questions and issues with your grammar and the XLE to this part of the meeting. In the second half of these meetings, we will discuss and compare f-structures for a parallel set of translationally equivalent sentences, using the Pargram treebank sentences as a starting point. The Pargram treebank is available at the following link (scroll to the end of the page): https://clarino.uib.no/iness/treebanks?collection=ParGram&reset-all=true We will discuss the f-structures for the current sentences (we may not have time for a discussion of all of them). It is fine to attend the second half of the meeting even if your grammar does not parse the translational equivalent of these sentences. In preparation for the discussion in the second half of the meeting, participants will translate these sentences into the language they are working on, and produce and print out the f-structures to PDF. There is no need to print out c-structures. We have created a Google Drive directory for the f-structures, which currently contains f-structures for English, Irish, Mandarin, Norwegian, Polish and Welsh. In advance of the meeting, meeting participants should plan to deposit their f-structures there for as many of the sentences as you can parse. Please contact one of us if you would like to have access to this repository. Please try to model your f-structures on the analyses in the treebank to the extent possible. In the Pargram consortium, the idea is that differences in f-structures for translational equivalents should reflect syntactic differences between the languages -- there should be no arbitrary differences to do with spelling of feature names or other linguistically irrelevant details. If you have any questions, or if you would like to be added to the list of people with access to the f-structure repository, please send email to one of us. We are looking forward to discussing your f-structures! - Mary Dalrymple, Lawrence (Chit-Fung) Lam, and Elaine Ui Dhonnchadha

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LFG Bulletin, September 2024
by Agnieszka Patejuk 30 Sep '24

30 Sep '24

September 2024 ** Please send bulletin items to me by email ** ** < LFG.bulletin "at" gmail "dot" com >** Next issue: December 2024 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CONTENTS 1. LFG24: report from local organisers 2. Drafts for comments 3. Recent LFG work 4. Online resources 5. Boilerplate ------------------------------------------------------------------------ * ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. LFG24: report from local organisers >From Hasiyatu Abubakari (attached as PDF) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2. Drafts for comments 'Drafts for comments' offers bulletin readers the opportunity to submit information about drafts or projects on which they would like to receive comments from the community. This brings work in progress to the attention of the community and plays some of the role that previous incarnations of the archive played. Please submit basic article/project information and (a) a URL if the item is available online or else (b) your contact email. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3. Recent LFG work Send details of your recent work to < LFG.bulletin "at" gmail "dot" com > 3.1 PhD/Masters Xie, Chen (2024). 'Syntax-phonology (mis)matches in Wenzhounese: an LFG perspective'. PhD Thesis, University of Oxford. [abstract: https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:526036c3-4322-4661-af36-72c93980b237; for full text, contact: xiechen527(a)gmail.com] 3.2 Conference Proceedings LFG conference papers are available electronically at: https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/lfg/ (2022-) http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/LFG/ (1996-2021) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4. Online resources LFG website: https://ling.sprachwiss.uni-konstanz.de/pages/home/lfg/ International Lexical Functional Grammar Association: https://ling.sprachwiss.uni-konstanz.de/pages/home/lfg/ilfga/index.html More about LFG: http://www.sas.rochester.edu/lin/sites/asudeh/LFG/more.txt Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/lfgpage ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5. Boilerplate The boilerplate (standard text) which previously appeared at the end of every bulletin can be accessed at: http://www.sas.rochester.edu/lin/sites/asudeh/LFG/more.txt The LFG website also serves much of the same function as the boilerplate section.

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