September 2025
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Next issue: December 2025
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CONTENTS
1. Recent LFG work
2. LFG resources
2.1. XLFG (computational tool)
2.2. New LFG slides (teaching materials)
3. Online resources
4. Donations to support ILFGA
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1. Recent LFG work
Butt, Miriam. 2025. LLMs and syntactic theory: Lexical Functional Grammar has no fear. In: Italian Journal of Linguistics. Pacini. 2025, 37(1): 45-58. doi: 10.26346/1120-2726-238
https://kops.uni-konstanz.de/entities/publication/4debb9df-4506-4dec-bcb3-efde094edc59
McNally, Louise. 2023. Levels and strata in linguistic modeling: Cross-domain considerations
Zymla, Mark-Matthias, Mary Dalrymple, and Agnieszka Patejuk. 2025a. Computational semantic tools for glue semantics. In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS 2025). Düsseldorf, Germany. To appear.
Zymla, Mark-Matthias, Kascha Kruschwitz, and Paul Zodl. 2025b. An instructive implementation of semantic parsing and reasoning using Lexical Functional Grammar. In Proceedings of the 2nd Bridging the Gap between Human and Automated
Reasoning Workshop (BriGap-2). To appear.
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2. LFG resources
2.1. XLFG (computational tool)
XLFG (https://xlfg.labri.fr/index.php):
XLFG is an online tool developed by Lionel Clément for building small-scale grammars, aimed at teaching and exploring LFG.
2.2. New LFG slides (teaching materials)
https://sites.google.com/view/c-f-lam/materials
Please feel free to use and adapt the materials for teaching LFG lessons, and contact Lawrence (Chit-Fung) Lam with any questions.
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3. 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
Facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/lfgpage
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4. Donations to support ILFGA
Please consider making a donation to support the ILFGA. We use donations almost exclusively to subsidise student attendance at the LFG conference, so it's all about encouraging and developing the future of the community! If you would like to support ILFGA, it is now possible to make a donation online (see here for changes to the ILFGA banking set-up and a link to donate: https://ling.sprachwiss.uni-konstanz.de/pages/home/lfg/ilfga/donations.html). The process is safe, quick, and easy: you can donate any amount by secure card transaction (in AUD, CAD, EUR, GBP, or USD). Even very small donations are gratefully received – they all add up! Donations can be anonymous, and the 'tip' suggested for JustGiving can be skipped.