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

Keynote Addresses

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

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
  (pdf)
• Elisabet Engdahl
  A multi-dimensional approach to focus-background realisation
  (not submitted)
• Stella Markantonatou
  Complex Predicate Formation as semantic allomorphism: the case of English resultatives
  (not submitted)
• Tara Mohanan
  Word order and locative inversion: implications for argument hierarchy
  (not submitted)
• Jane Simpson
  Preferred word order and grammaticalisation of associated path in some Australian languages
  (not submitted)

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