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Directory         1.     Berthold Crysmann , Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar Message 1: Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar Date: 15-Jun-2011 From: Berthold Crysmann <crysmannuni-bonn.de> Subject: Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar E-mail this message to a friend Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar Short Title: HPSG 2011 Date: 22-Aug-2011 - 25-Aug-2011 Location: Seattle, WA, USA Contact: Berthold Crysmann Contact Email: < click here to access email > Meeting URL: http://depts.washington.edu/hpsg2011/ Linguistic Field(s): Morphology; Semantics; Syntax Meeting Description: The 18th International Conference on Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar Venue and Related Events: The HPSG Conference will take place in at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA on 24-25 August 2011. It will be preceded by a day of tutorials on 22 August, and a workshop on Information Structure and Formal Grammar on 23 August. There will be a separate call for papers for the workshop. Invited Speakers: Olivier Bonami (Paris) Tom Wasow (Stanford) Tutorials: There will be two tutorials on 22 August, featuring: Nicholas Asher (Toulouse) The Semantics/Pragmatics Interface: Implicatures and Discourse Structure Johanna Nichols (UC Berkeley) Argument Structure Cross-Linguistically Main conference: August 24 9:00-9:10 Welcome 9:10-10:10 Olivier Bonami (invited talk): ‘Reconstructing HPSG Morphology’ 10:10-10:30 Coffee break 10:30-11:10 Rui Chaves: ‘Extraposition and Additive Right Node Raising’ 11:10-11:50 Robert Levine: ‘Linearization and its Discontents' 11:50-12:30 Robert Borsley: ‘Apparent Filler-Gap Mismatches in Welsh' 12:30-14:30 Lunch break 14:30-15:10 Doug Ball: ‘Morphology in the `Wrong' Place: The Curious Case of Coast Tsimshian Connectives' 15:10-15:50 Juliette Thuilier: ‘Cases Suffixes and Postposition in Hungarian' 15:50-17:10 Coffee Break & Poster Session 17:10-17:50 Jong-Bok Kim and Peter Sells: ‘The English Binominal NP Construction: A Construction-Based Perspective' 17:50-18:30 Joanna Nykiel and Ivan Sag: ‘Sluicing and Stranding' 20:00 Conference dinner August 25 9:00- 9:40 Heike Walker: ‘Adjuncts and the HPSG Binding Theory' 9:40-10:20 Tibor Kiss: ‘On Adverbial Complements in German' 10:20-11:00 Janna Lipenkova: ‘Reanalysis of Semantically Required Adjuncts as Complements in the Chinese Ba-construction' 11:00-11:20 Coffee break 11:20-12:00 Robert Borsley and Mohamed Krer: ‘An Approach to Negation in Libyan Arabic' 12:00-12:40 Michael Hahn: ‘Pronominal Null Conjuncts in Arabic' 12:20-14:30 Lunch break 14:30-15:10 Stefan Müller and Bjarne Ørsnes: ‘Wh-Extraction and Expletives in Danish and Yiddish - an HPSG Approach' 15:10-15:50 Andrew Wetta: ‘A Construction-based Cross-linguistic Analysis of V2 Word Order' 15:50-16:30 Akio Hasegawa and Jean-Pierre Koenig: ‘Focus Particles, Secondary Meanings, and Lexical Resource Semantics: The Case of Japanese Shika' 16:30-16:50 Coffee Break 16:50-17:30 Katya Alahverdzhieva and Alex Lascarides. `An HPSG Approach to Synchronous Deixis and Speech' 17:30-18:30 Thomas Wasow (invited talk): TBA Alternates/Posters: Hans-Ulrich Krieger and Bernd Kiefer: ‘Converting CCG into Typed Feature Structure Grammars' Joshua Crowgey and Emily M. Bender: ‘Analysing Interacting Phenomena: Word Order and Negation in Basque' Frank Van Eynde: ‘The Serial Verbs of Dutch' George Aaron Broadwell: ‘Surrogate Possession in Copala Triqui' 23 August: Workshop on Information Structure in Formal Grammar 9:00- 9:10 Welcome 9:10-10:10 Mats Rooth (invited talk): TBA 10:10-10:30 Coffee break 10:30-11:10 Jean-Marie Marandin: ‘Information Structure and its Alternatives: In Search of the Common Features of Subject Inversion in French' 11:10-11:50 Caitlin Light: ‘The Information Structure of Subject Extraposition in Early New High German' 11:50-12:30 Jong-Bok Kim: ‘Floating Numeral Classifiers in Korean: A Thematic-Structure Perspective' 12:30-14:30 Lunch Break 14:30-15:10 Sanghoun Song and Emily M. Bender: ‘Using Information Structure to Improve Transfer-based MT' 15:10-15:50 Jon Stevens: ‘Information Structure as Parallel Tree Building' 15:50-16:10 Coffee Break 16:10-16:50 Anne Bjerre: ‘Topic and Focus in Local Subject Extractions in Danish' 16:50-17:30 Anna Gazdik: ‘On the Syntax-Discourse Interface in Hungarian' 17:30-18:10 Kordula De Kuthy and Detmar Meurers: ‘Integrating GIVENness into a Structured Meaning Approach in HPSG' Alternates: Sanghoun Song and Varya Gracheva: ‘Parallel Text Annotation for Information Structure: Using the Little Prince' Amélie Rocquet: ‘The Discourse Marking Effect of Phi-doubling in French' Local Organiser: Emily Bender (U Washington) Programme Committee (main conference): Anne Abeillé Doug Arnold Emily M. Bender Philippe Blache Olivier Bonami Robert Borsley Gosse Bouma Rui Chaves Berthold Crysmann (chair) Dan Flickinger Danièle Godard Lars Hellan Anke Holler Jong-Bok Kim Jean-Pierre Koenig Valia Kordoni Anna Kupsc Robert Levine Rob Malouf Nurit Melnik Philip Miller Stefan Müller Gerald Penn Adam Przepiorkowski Frank Richter Ivan Sag Manfred Sailer Jesse Tseng Frank Van Eynde Gert Webelhuth Stephen Wechsler Shuichi Yatabe Programme Committee (workshop): Felix Bildhauer Daniel Büring Berthold Crysmann (chair) Kordula De Kuthy Elisabet Engdahl Claire Gardent Jonathan Ginzburg Tracy Holloway King Manfred Krifka Jean-Marie Marandin Laura Michaelis Stefan Müller Irina Nikolaeva Patrizia Paggio Arndt Riester Mats Rooth Mark Steedman Malte Zimmermann Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 15-Jun-2011       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.