LINGUIST List 22.2683 Tue Jun 28 2011 Confs: Computational Linguistics, Syntax, Semantics/Hong Kong Editor for this issue: Zac Smith <zaclinguistlist.org> LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.     Olivia Lam , 16th International Lexical Functional Grammar Conference Message 1: 16th International Lexical Functional Grammar Conference Date: 28-Jun-2011 From: Olivia Lam <osclamhku.hk> Subject: 16th International Lexical Functional Grammar Conference E-mail this message to a friend 16th International Lexical Functional Grammar Conference Short Title: LFG2011 Date: 16-Jul-2011 - 19-Jul-2011 Location: Hong Kong, China Contact: Adams Bodomo Contact Email: < click here to access email > Meeting URL: http://www.hku.hk/linguist/lfg2011/lfg2011.html Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Semantics; Syntax Meeting Description: The conference aims to promote interaction and collaboration among researchers interested in non-derivational approaches to grammar, where grammar is seen as the interaction of (perhaps violable) constraints from multiple levels of structuring, including those of syntactic categories, grammatical relations, semantics and discourse. LFG 2011 The16th International Lexical Functional Grammar Conference The University of Hong Kong July 16 - 19, 2011 Early registration deadline: July 10, 2011. http://www.hku.hk/linguist/lfg2011/lfg2011.html The Annual Conference of the International Lexical-Functional Grammar Association will take place at the University of Hong Kong from July 16 - 19, 2011 (Sat - Tues) in P1, Chong Yuet Ming Chemistry Building. This is a prestigious annual gathering of top linguists around the world. These linguists work in various areas, including natural language processing, which is at the confluence of cutting edge research in language and information technology. Linguistic expertise and information technology are important ingredients in the bid to attain sustainable development in any society. Invited Talks: One-Soon Her -Graduate Institute of Linguistics & Research Center of Mind, Brain, and Learning National Chengchi University, Taiwan Structure of Classifiers and Measure Words: A Lexical Functional Account Rachel Nordlinger -Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, School of Languages & Linguistics; The University of Melbourne, Australia LFG and Language Documentation Accepted Papers John Lowe: Word Order and Second Position in Rgvedic Sanskrit Damir Cavar and Melanie Seiss: Clitic Placement, Syntactic Discontinuity, and Information Structure Stephanie Needham and Ida Toivonen: Adjuncts, Arguments and Derived Arguments Sebastian Sulger: A Parallel Analysis of Have-Type Copular Constructions in Two Have-Less Indo-European Languages Melanie Seiss: Implementing the Morphology-Syntax Interface: Challenges from Murrinh-Patha Verbs Gianluca Giorgolo and Ash Asudeh: Multimodal Communication in LFG: Gestures and the Correspondence Architecture Yehuda Falk: Multiple Gap Constructions Maris Camilleri and Louisa Sadler: Maltese Restrictive Relative Clauses and the Theory of Resumption Ghulam Raza and Tafseer Ahmed: Argument Scrambling within Urdu NPs Kyle Mahowald: An LFG Account of Word Order Freezing Dag Haug: Backward Control and Phrase Structure in New Testament Greek Rajesh Bhatt, Tina Bögel, Miriam Butt, Annette Hautli and Sebastian Sulger: Urdu Modals Mary Dalrymple and Louise Mycock: The Prosody-Semantics Interface Tibor Laczko and György Rákosi: On Locative Dependencies Involving Particle Verbs in Hungarian György Rákosi and Tibor Laczko: Inflecting spatial Ps and shadows of the past in Hungarian Doug Arnold and Louisa Sadler: Resource Splitting and Reintegration with Supplementals Gianluca Giorgolo and Ash Asudeh: Multidimensional Semantics with Unidimensional Glue Logic George Aaron Broadwell, Gregg Castellucci and Megan Knickerbocker: An Optimal Approach to Partial Agreement in Kaqchikel I Wayan Arka: Constructive number systems in Marori and beyond Helge Lodrup: Norwegian Possessive Pronouns: Phrases, Words or Suffixes? Workshop on LFG & Other Lexicalist Analyses of Binding Adams Bodomo: Reflexivity without Apparent Marking: The Case of Mashan Zhuang Mary Dalrymple: A Very Long-Distance Anaphor? Accepted Posters Leslie Lee and Farrell Ackerman: Thai Passives and the Morphology-Syntax Interface Bozhil Hristov: Coordination and Case Assignment in English Leslie Lee and Farrell Ackerman: Mandarin resultative compounds: a family of lexical constructions Roman Rädle, Michael Zöllner and Sebastian Sulger: eXLEpse: An Eclipse-Based, Easy-to-Use Editor for Computational LFG Grammars Anna Gazdik and Andras Komlosy: Hungarian focus and discourse structure in LFG Organization The conference will take place at The University of Hong Kong. The local organizers are Adams Bodomo, Olivia Lam, Haihua Pan, and Yanhong Pan, Please send emails to lfg2011gmail.com for questions about local arrangements. Sponsors Cambridge University Press (http://www.cambridge.org/) John Benjamins Publishing Co. 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