Proceedings of the LFG97 Conference

Table of Contents

Papers from the General Session

• Avery Andrews
  Predicate Combination in Nuclear Serial Verb Constructions (ps, pdf).
• Julia Barron
  LFG and the History of Raising Verbs (ps, html).
• Judith Berman
  Empty Categories in LFG (ps, pdf).
• Adams Bodomo
  A Conceptual Mapping Theory for Serial Verbs (html, rtf).
• Kersti Borjars and Nigel Vincent
  Double Case and the "Wimpishness" of Morphology (not submitted; contact authors directly).
• Xavier Briffault, Karim Chibout, Gerard Sabah, and Jerome Vapillon
  A Linguistic Engineering Framework for the Conception, Management, and Exploitation of Linguistic Data Based on LFG (ps, rtf, html).
• Miriam Butt, Mary Dalrymple, and Anette Frank
  The Nature of Argument Structure (to appear).
• Berthold Crysmann
  Cliticization in European Portuguese Using Parallel Morpho-syntactic Constraints (ps, pdf).
• Mary Dalrymple and Ron Kaplan
  A Set-based Approach to Feature Resolution (to appear).
• Thierry Declerck
  Investigation on the Reusability of LFG-Based Grammar Resources (ps).
• Cathryn Donohue
  Chickasaw External Possession: a Lexical Functional Approach (to appear).
• Nissim Francez and Ian Pratt
  Deductive Derivation on Temporal Prepositions Meanings in LFG-s Glue Language Approach (ps, pdf).
• John Fry
  Polarity Sensitivity and Scope in `Glue Language' Semantics (ps, pdf).
• Josef van Genabith and Richard Crouch
  On Comparing Dynamic and Underspecified Semantics for LFG (ps, pdf).
• One-Soon Her
  The Lexical Mapping Theory and Mandarin Resultative Compounds (not submitted; contact author directly).
• Mark Johnson
  F-Structure Constraints as Resource Dependencies (ps, pdf).
• Jonas Kuhn
  The Syntax and Semantics of Split NPs and Floating Quantifiers (not submitted; abstract available (ps)).
• Tibor Laczko
  An Analysis of Hungarian -U Adjectives: The Case of Another Morphologically Bound Predicate (rtf-a4, rtf-us).
• Helge Lodrup
  Inalienables in Norwegian and Binding Theory.
• Lunella Mereu
  For a Lexical-Functional Representation of Agreement Affixes and Clitics (pdf, rtf).
• Liina Pylkkanen
  The Linking of Event Structure and Grammatical Functions in Finnish (ps, rtf)
  Appendix (ps, rtf, pdf).
• Siamak Rezaei Durroei
  A Dynamic Representation of Grammatical Relations (ps, html).
• Louisa Sadler
  Welsh Clitics, XP Adjunction and the Structure-Function Mapping (ps, pdf).

Workshop Presentations

Discourse and Phrase Structure

• Maria Polinsky
  Organizer's commentary.
• Hye-Won Choi
  Information Structure, Phrase Structure, and Their Interface (ps, pdf).
• Tracy Holloway King
  Focus Domains and Information Structure (ps, html, pdf).
• Knud Lambrecht
  A Conceptual Framework for the Mapping of Phrase Structure and Information Structure (not submitted; contact author directly).

Grammaticalization and Linguistic Theory

• Alice Harris
  Organizer's commentary (html, txt).
• Farrell Ackerman and Irina Nikolaeva
  Similar Forms and Different Functions: The Person/Number Paradigm in Western Armenian and North Ostyak (rtf).
• Miriam Butt
  Interfaces as the Locus of Historical Change (to appear).
• John Hawkins
  The Grammaticalization of Processing Efficiency Across Languages (rtf).
• Nigel Vincent
  The Evolution of C-Structure: PPs from Indo-European to Romance (not submitted; contact author directly).

Morphology and Linguistic Theory

• Phil LeSourd
  Organizer's commentary.
• Joan Bresnan
  Mixed Categories as Head Sharing Constructions (ps, pdf).
• Amy Dahlstrom
  Discontinuity in Morphology and Syntax: Separable Preverbs in Fox (Mesquakie).
• Rachel Nordlinger
  Morphology Building Syntax: Constructive Case in Australian Languages (ps, pdf).
• Andrew Spencer
  On the Redundancy of Lexical Categories (not submitted; contact author directly).