December 2025

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CONTENTS

1. Proceedings of the LFG'25 Conference

2. Recent LFG work

3. Online resources

4. Donations to support ILFGA

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1. Proceedings of the LFG'25 Conference

The Proceedings of the LFG'25 Conference are now accessible on https://lfg-proceedings.org/lfg/index.php/main.

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2. Recent LFG work

Chen, Xie. 2025. Word order variation as differential object marking: Evidence from Wenzhounese. Transactions of the Philological Society. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-968X.70004. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/GNAPJSVJMPJBPHWKIPUW?target=10.1111/1467-968X.70004

O’Shannessy, C., Gray, J., & Angelo, D. (Eds.). (2025). Projecting Voices: Studies in Language and Linguistics in Honour of Jane Simpson. ANU Press.

Zaenen, Annie, Stephen Pulman, Aikaterini-Lida Kalouli, Tracy Holloway King. (2025). Semantics at the Crossroads. From Theoretical Explorations to Implementations. PubliKon. https://omp.kim.uni-konstanz.de/main/index.php/publikon/catalog/book/2

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Annie Zaenen

Part I Formal Computation

Conservation as a Principle of Grammar: Ronald M. Kaplan
Computational Challenges from Theoretical Semantic Modeling in LFG: Mark-Matthias Zymla
Morphological Exponence and Morphosemantics: Ash Asudeh
Glue Semantics for Hopf-Algebraic Minimalism: Avery Andrews

Part II Reasoning and Discourse

The Linguistic Discourse Model at 40: Livia Polanyi & Martin H. van den Berg
From Network Theory to Linguistic Insights: Alexandros Tantos & Kosmas Kosmidis
Modal and Higher Order Logical Reasoning with SUMO: Adam Pease
Variation in Natural Reasoning: Robin Cooper

Part III Lexicon

Out-Applicatives are Concealed Comparatives: Cleo Condoravdi & Paul Kiparsky
Revisiting the Light Verb Jungle: How Good Is GPT at Hacking Away? Annette Hautli-Janisz, Erisa Bytyqi, Pranshu Gupta & Miriam Butt
Poking at GPT’s NL Generalizations: Annie Zaenen, Alexis Cooper, Felix Zheng, Susan W. Brown & Martha Palmer

Part IV Applications

Semantic Representation in Biomedical Text Mining: David Milward
An Information Theoretic Evaluation of AI Cooperation: Marisa Ferrara Boston
Multi-modal Search: To Embed or not to Embed: Tracy Holloway King

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3. Online resources

LFG website:

https://ling.sprachwiss.uni-konstanz.de/pages/home/lfg/

LFG resources:

https://ling.sprachwiss.uni-konstanz.de/pages/home/lfg/resources.html

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.