Programme
MONDAY 13 July • TUESDAY 14 July • WEDNESDAY 15 July • THURSDAY 16 July
MONDAY 13 July 2009
| 8:30 - 10:05 | REGISTRATION |
| 10:05 - 10:15 | WELCOME |
| 10:15 - 11:00 | 'A treatment of clitics via prosodic phonology in LFG' Tina Bögel, Miriam Butt, Ron Kaplan, Tracy Holloway King & John Maxwell III |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | TEA/COFFEE |
| 11:30 - 12:15 | 'Looking out for number one: Greek word order' Eirik Welo |
| 12:15 - 13:00 | 'Irish clefting and information-structure' Sebastian Sulger |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | LUNCH |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Dissertation talk: 'Object functions and the syntax of double object constructions in Lexical Functional Grammar' Olivia Lam |
| 14:30 - 15:15 | 'OBJθ without OBJ: a typology
of Meskwaki objects' Amy Dahlstrom |
| 15:15 - 16:00 | 'The prepositional passive as structure-sharing' Alex Alsina |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | TEA/COFFEE |
| 16:30 - 18:00 | 'SPEED PAPER' SESSION: 'Empirical challenges to LFG' This session, including 5-minute presentations followed by discussion among circulating participants, will feature local non-LFG linguists offering empirical challenges to LFG theory. 'Addressee agreement in Siwi demonstratives' Lameen Souag 'Opacity and optionality in the morphology-syntax-phonology mapping: the case of ni-insertion and lla-displacement in Quechua' Neil Myler 'On the origin of adjective dualism in Germanic' Arturas Ratkus 'Word order and functional features in West Flemish verb clusters' George Walkden 'The Final-Over-Final Constraint' Theresa Biberauer, Anders Holmberg, Ian Roberts & Michelle Sheehan |
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TUESDAY 14 July 2009
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| 9:00 - 9:45 | 'Negation in Modern Standard Arabic' Ahmad Alsharif & Louisa Sadler |
| 9:45 - 10:30 | 'The adjectival construct in Arabic' Budour Al Sharifi & Louisa Sadler |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Dissertation talk: 'Hebrew floating quantifiers' Ilona Spector |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | TEA/COFFEE |
| 11:30 - 12:15 | 'F-structure transfer-based statistical machine translation' Yvette Graham, Anton Bryl & Josef van Genabith |
| 12:15 - 13:00 | 'Cross-lingual projection of LFG f-structures: resource induction for Polish' Alina Tokarczyk & Anette Frank |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | LUNCH |
| 14:00 - 16:45 | THEMATIC SESSION: 'LFG perspectives on Scandinavian' |
| 14:00 - 14:45 | 'med - the syntax and semantics of concomitance in Norwegian' Dag Haug |
| 14:45 - 15:30 | 'Looking possessor raising in the mouth: Norwegian possessor raising with unergatives' Helge Lødrup |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | TEA/COFFEE |
| 16:00 - 16:45 | 'Outside-in binding of reflexives in Insular Scandinavian' Tania Strahan |
| 16:45 - 17:45 | INVITED TALK 'Affix ordering and the morphosyntax of object marking in Moro' Farrell Ackerman (UCSD) |
| 18:00 - 19:30 | EVENING EVENT Wine reception at Cambridge University Press bookshop (1 Trinity Street, Cambridge), the oldest bookshop site in the UK. This event is sponsored by CUP. |
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WEDNESDAY 15 July 2009
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THURSDAY 16 July 2009
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| 9:00 - 12:30 | WORKSHOP:
'Blurring Component Boundaries: levels of analysis or growth of information?' Chair: Nigel Vincent |
| Workshop and public debate on Dynamic Syntax and Lexical-Functional Grammar, with keynote contributions by the original developers of both formalisms: Ruth Kempson (King's College London) and Joan Bresnan (Stanford University). The Workshop is partially funded by the Mont Follick Fund, University of Manchester. | |
| 9:00 - 9:10 | Introduction by Nigel Vincent |
| 9:10 - 9:50 | '"What do you do?" Variation in interrogative predicates' Louise Mycock |
| 9:50 - 10:30 | 'Narrowing the competence-performance gap: syntax as
time-linear growth of semantic representation' Ruth Kempson & Jieun Kiaer |
| 10:30 - 10:50 | TEA/COFFEE |
| 10:50 - 11:30 | 'Clitics as calcified processing strategies: the case study
of Spanish clitic placement and the PCC as a tree-logic restriction' Miriam Bouzouita & Stergios Chatzikyriakidis |
| 11:30 - 12:10 | 'The dynamics of syntax: implications for LFG' Joan Bresnan |
| 12:10 - 12:30 | General discussion |
| 12:30 - 13:00 | ILFGA Business Meeting |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | LUNCH |
| 14:00 | END |
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