December 2025 Please send bulletin items to me by email LFG.bulletin@gmail.com Next issue: March 2026 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CONTENTS 1. Proceedings of the LFG'25 Conference 2. Recent LFG work 3. Online resources 4. Donations to support ILFGA ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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=10.1111/14... 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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.