Thirteenth International Lexical Functional Grammar Conference

PROGRAM   03/7/08

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FRIDAY 4th JULY
Sessions in Education Building lecture theatre 424 unless otherwise stated
0800 onwards
REGISTRATION

Education Building room 459
09.50 WELCOME
10.00 Ash Asudeh (Carleton University), Mary Dalrymple (Oxford
University) and Ida Toivonen (Carleton University)
Constructions with Lexical Integrity: Templates as the Lexicon–Syntax Interface
10.45 COFFEE

Education Building room 459
11.15 Avery Andrews (Australian National University) The Role of PRED in LFG + Glue
12.00 Dag Haug (University of Oslo) Information Structure and the Temporal Reference of Participial XADJs
12.45 LUNCH
Education Building room 459
02.00 Rachel Nordlinger (University of Melbourne) and Louisa Sadler
(University of Essex)
Incorporated Apposition: Incorporation in Part-Whole and  Generic-Specific Constructions
02.45 Brett Baker (University of New England) and Rachel Nordlinger  (University of Melbourne) Incorporated classifiers in Gunwinyguan languages
03.30 COFFEE Education Building room 459
04.00 Kersti Börjars and Nigel Vincent (University of Manchester) Objects
04.45 Özlem Çetino?lu (Sabancı University) and Miriam Butt (University
of Konstanz)
Turkish Non-canonical Objects
05.30 AGM, FOLLOWED BY CONFERENCE DINNER

Conference dinner
Chedi Thai, 74-78 King St, Newtown $35/head

SATURDAY 5th JULY
09.30
Anna Gazdik (Eötvös Loránd University, University of Paris VII)

French Interrogatives in an OT-LFG Analysis (Dissertation Session)
10.15
Syed Muhammad Jafar Rizvi (Pakistan Institute of Engineering and
Applied Sciences)
Development of Algorithms and Computational Grammar for Urdu
(Dissertation Session)
11.00
COFFEE Staff tea-room, Education Building
11.30
Anna Kibort (University of Surrey) On the Syntax of Ditransitive Constructions
12.15
Lilja Øvrelid (University of Gothenburg) Functional Features in Data-driven Parsing
01.00  LUNCH Staff tea-room, Education Building
02.00 Gerlof Bouma (University of Potsdam) Word Order Freezing in Spoken Dutch
02.45 Maia Andréasson (Aarhus University) Not All Objects Are Born Alike – Accessibility as the Key to Variation in Pronominal Object Shift in Scandinavian
03.30
COFFEE Staff tea-room, Education Building
04.00 Drinks, nibbles and speed papers
'Empirical Challenges to LFG'
Education Building room 459

Claire Bowern Bardi Complex Predicate Morphology as a Challenge to Monotonicity

Bill Foley The Syntactic Status of Topics in Papuan Languages

Wa'ozisokhi Nazara A Brief Note on Subjects in Nias

Justin Spence Apprehensional Constructions in Australian Languages

Marie-Elaine Van Egmond Classifiers in Anindilyakwa




Sunday, July 6, 2008
09.30 George Aaron Broadwell (State University of New York) Turkish Suspended Affixation Is Lexical Sharing
10.15 Miriam Butt, Tina Bögel and Sebastian Sulger (University of Konstanz) Urdu Ezafe and the Morphology-Syntax Interface
11.00
COFFEE Staff tea-room, Education Building
11.30
Alex Alsina (Pompeu Fabra University) A Theory of Structure-sharing: Focusing on Long-distance Dependencies and Parasitic Gaps
12.15 Helge Lødrup (University of Oslo) Local Binding Without Co-argumenthood: Norwegian Noun Phrases
01.00
LUNCH
Staff tea-room, Education Building

POSTER SESSION
Education Building room 459


Gerlof Bouma, Jonas Kuhn, Bettina Schrader and Kathrin Spreyer
(University of Potsdam)
Parallel LFG Grammars on Parallel Corpora: a Base for Practical Triangulation

Anne Tamm (University of Florence) Variation and the Development of Estonian Parallel Functional Categories

Marie Fellbaum Korpi (University of Western Sydney) LFG Architecture, Semantic Definiteness Structures, and Nonverbal Syntactic Constructions

Melanie Seiß (University of Konstanz)
English Embedded Complements: the -ing Form

Elisabeth Mayer (Australian National University) Clitics on the Move: from Dependent Marking to Split Marking
02.30 Ingo Mittendorf and Louisa Sadler (University of Essex)
Synchronic, Diachronic and Cross-linguistic Aspects of Welsh `Possessor Promotion'
03.15 Gavin Austin (University of New England) Causativization in Sinhala
04.00 COFFEE
Staff tea-room, Education Building

FINISH