Proceedings of the First LFG Conference

Table of Contents

Papers from the General Session

• Farrell Ackerman and Gert Webelhuth
  The Construct Predicate: Empirical arguments and theoretical status (html).
• Alex Alsina
  Resultatives: A Joint Operation of Semantic and Syntactic Structures (.ps).
• J. Gabriel Amores and Jose F. Quesada
  Lekta: A tool for the development of efficient LFG-based Machine Translation systems (.ps).
• I. Wayan Arka and Stephen Wechsler
  Argument Structure and Linear Order in Balinese Binding (.ps).
• Peter Austin
  Ergativity, Clitics and Grammatical Relations in Sasak
  
• Emily Bender
  On the verbal status of Mandarin ba (no longer available; contact author directly).
• Judith Berman
  Topicalization vs.~Left Dislocation of Sentential Arguments in German (.ps).
• Adams Bodomo
  Complex Verbal Predicates: the case of serial verbs in Dagaare and Akan (.ps).
• Caroline Brun
  Using Priority Union for Non-Constituent Coordination in LFG
  (not submitted to the on-line proceedings).
• Miriam Butt and Tracy Holloway King
  Structural Topic and Focus without Movement (.ps).
• Lian-Cheng Chief
  An LFG Account of Mandarin Reflexive Verbs
  (not submitted to the on-line proceedings).
• Max Copperman and Frederique Segond
  Computational grammars and ambiguity: the bare bones of the situation (.ps).
• Richard Crouch and Josef van Genabith
  Context Change and Underspecification in Glue Language Semantics (.ps).
• Christopher Culy
  Personal Prounouns and systems of pronominal binding
  (not submitted to the on-line proceedings).
• Thierry Declerck
  Modeling Information-Passing with the LFG-Workbench (.ps).
• Anette Frank
  A Note on Complex Predicate Formation: Evidence from Auxiliary Selection, Reflexivization, and Past Participle Agreement in French and Italian (.ps).
• Josef van Genabith and Richard Crouch
  F-structures, QLFs and UDRSs (.ps).
• Esther Koenig and Uwe Reyle
  A General Reasoning Scheme for Underspecified Representations (.ps).
  Note: longer version to appear in Ohlbach and Reyle (eds.), Logic and its Applications, Kluwer.
• Tibor Laczko
  Lexical Mapping Theory and Possessors in Noun Phrases
  (not submitted to the on-line proceedings).
• Helge Lodrup
  Underspecification in Lexical Mapping Theory: the Case of Norwegian Existentials and Resultatives
  (submitted elsewhere, therefore cannot appear here).
• Maria Teresa Lopez and Maria Gabriela Fernandez-Diaz
  Integration of Semantic Patterns and Statistical Information for an LFG-based Parser
  (not submitted to the on-line proceedings).
• Christopher D. Manning
  Argument Structure as a Locus for Binding Theory (.ps -- a4).
  Argument Structure as a Locus for Binding Theory (.ps).
• John T. Maxwell III and Ronald M. Kaplan
  Unification-based Parsers that Automatically Take Advantage of Context Freeness (.ps).
• John T. Maxwell III and Christopher D. Manning
  A Theory of Non-constituent Coordination based on Finite-State Rules (.ps).
• K.P. Mohanan and Tara Mohanan
  Semantic Representation in the Architecture of LFG
  (not submitted to the on-line proceedings).
• Wataru Nakamura
  Case Spreading/Stacking in Korean: Evidence for the Macrorole Tier
  (not submitted to the on-line proceedings).
• Paula S. Newman
  Representing 2P Clitic Placement in LFG (.ps).
• Rachel Nordlinger and Joan Bresnan
  Nonconfigurational Tense in Wambaya (.ps).
• Bjarne Oersnes
  Prominence relations and a-structure: evidence from Danish synthetic compounding (.ps).
• Owen Rambow
  Word Order, Clause Union, and the Formal Machinery of Syntax (.ps).
• Malka Rappaport Hovav and Beth Levin
  Two Types of Derived Accomplishments (.ps)
• Victoria Rosen
  The LFG Architecture and Verbless Syntactic Constructions (html).
• Mariko Saiki
  An Analysis of the Passive in Japanese: where does the Indirect Passive in Japanese come from?
  (not submitted to the on-line proceedings).
• Christoph Schwarze
  The Syntax of Romance Auxiliaries (.ps).
• Ida Toivonen
  Finnish Possessive Suffixes in Lexical-Functional Grammar
  (not submitted to the on-line proceedings).
• Nigel Vincent and Kersti Borjars
  Suppletion and Syntactic Theory (.ps)
  Suppletion and Syntactic Theory (html).

Keynote Addresses

• Joan Bresnan
  LFG in an OT Setting: Modelling Competition and Economy
• Ronald M. Kaplan
  A probabilistic approach to Lexical-Functional analysis

Further Presentations:

These presentations were not submitted as papers either to the original hardcopy proceedings, or to this on-line version. But - you could still try your luck by asking the presenters for a copy of their paper in retrospect (or at least a copy of the handout/slides).

Conference/Workshop Presentations

• Mary Dalrymple, John Lamping and Vijay Saraswat
  Levels of Semantic Representation in LFG
• Elisabet Engdahl
  A multi-dimensional approach to focus-background realisation
• Stella Markantonatou
  Complex Predicate Formation as semantic allomorphism: the case of English resultatives
• Tara Mohanan
  Word order and locative inversion: implications for argument hierarchy
• Jane Simpson
  Preferred word order and grammaticalisation of associated path in some Australian languages