LFG98: INTERNATIONAL LEXICAL FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR CONFERENCE

Further information: 
    *REGISTRATION*: http://www.cltr.uq.edu.au:8000/ali98/rego2.html
                    We strongly encourage advance registration!
    
    GENERAL: http://www.sultry.arts.usyd.edu.au/LFG98
             lfg98@sultry.arts.usyd.edu.au

    WORKSHOPS: http://www.sultry.arts.usyed.edu.au/LFG98/workshops.html

       CORRESPONDENCES Workshop: Nigel Vincent nigel.vincent@man.ac.uk
                                 Kersti Borjars kersti.borjar@man.ac.uk
       AUSTRONESIAN Workshop: Simon Musgrave 
                              s.musgrave@linguistics.unimelb.edu.au
                         Peter Austin p.austin@linguistics.unimelb.edu.au
       CHINESE Workshop: Patrizia Pacioni p.pacioni@asian.unimelb.edu.au


Program

TUESDAY 30 June

8:30-9:00	Coffee

9:00-10:00	Keynote talk: A Perspective on Serial Verbs
                AVERY ANDREWS
			CHAIR	Chris Manning

10:00-10:30	Break

10:30-11:00	JOAN BRESNAN
                Pidgin Genesis in OT
11:00-11:30     RENS BOD and RON KAPLAN
                Grammaticality, Robustness, and Specificity in a
                Probabilistic Approach to Lexical Functional Analysis
11:30-12:00     JOSEF VAN GENABITH, ANETTE FRANK, and MICHAEL DORNA 
                Transfer Constructors
			CHAIR	Mary Dalrymple

12:00-1:30	Lunch

1:30-2:00       YUKIKO MORIMOTO
                Dative Objects in Japanese -sa Nominalization
2:20-2:30       YO MATSUMOTO
                A Reexamination of the Cross-linguistic
                Parameterization of Causative Predicates: Japanese
                Perspectives
			CHAIR	Peter Austin

2:30-3:00	Break

3:00-3:30       GEORGE AARON BROADWELL
                Directionals as complex predicates in Choctaw
3:30-4:00       LOUISA SADLER
                On the Analysis of Celtic Noun Phrases
			CHAIR	Rachel Nordlinger

4:00-4:15	Break

4:15-6:30	CORRESPONDENCES WORKSHOP
                Organizers: Kersti Bo"rjars and Nigel Vincent

                *If you are interested in participating in this
                 workshop, please see above website for details
                 and contact the organizers.*

WEDNESDAY 1 July

8:30-9:00	Coffee

9:00-9:30       MIRIAM BUTT and TRACY HOLLOWAY KING
                Interfacing Phonology with LFG
9:30-10:00      FARRELL ACKERMAN
                Constructions and Mixed Categories: Determining the
                Semantic Interpretation of Person/number Marking
			CHAIR	Avery Andrews

10:00-10:30	Break

10:30-11:00     KUMARA HENADEERAGE
                Anaphoric Binding in Colloquial Sinhala
11:00-11:30     KERSTI BO"RJARS
                Clitics, affixes and parallel correspondence 
11:30-12:00	WAYAN ARKA and CHRISTOPHER D. MANNING 
                On the Three Subjects in Indonesian: Evidence from Binding
			CHAIR	Peter Peterson

12:00-1:30	Lunch

1:30-6:30	AUSTRONESIAN WORKSHOP
                Organizers: Simon Musgrave and Peter Austin

                PETER AUSTIN and SIMON MUSGRAVE
                Introduction: The problem of voice in Austronesian
                languages

                BILL FOLEY
                Symmetrical Voice Systems and Precategoriality in
                Philippine Languages 

                PAUL KROEGER
                Response to Foley

                BILL FOLEY
                Reply to Kroeger

                I WAYAN ARKA and JANE SIMPSON
                Control of Complex Arguments in Balinese

                MIKE DUKES
                Evidence for Grammatical Functions in Tongan


7:00		ILFGA Business Meeting


THURSDAY 2 July

8:30-9:00	Coffee

9:00-9:30       ANETTE FRANK, TRACY HOLLOWAY KING, JONAS KUHN, and
                JOHN MAXWELL
                Optimality Theory Style Constraint Ranking in
                Large-scale LFG Grammars
9:30-10:00      NORBERT BRO"KER 
                A Projection Architecture for Dependency Grammar and
                How it Compares to LFG
			CHAIR	Marilyn Ford


10:00-10:30	Break

10:30-11:00     LIAN-CHENG CHIEF, CHU-REN HUANG, KEH-JIANN CHEN,
                MEI-CHIH TSAI, and LILI CHANG 
                What Can Near Synonyms Tell Us
11:00-11:30     YEHUDA N. FALK 
                Case: Interaction Between Syntax and Discourse Grammar
11:30-12:00	RACHEL NORDLINGER 
                The case of subordinate clauses in Australian
                languages: a constructive approach
			CHAIR	Jane Simpson

12:00-1:30	Lunch

1:30-2:00       PETER SELLS
                Scandinavian Clause Structure and Object Shift
2:00-2:30       JUDITH BERMAN, STEFANIE DIPPER, CHRISTIAN FORTMANN,
                and JONAS KUHN 
                Argument Clauses and Correlative `es' in German --
                Deriving Discourse Properties in a Unification Analysis
			CHAIR	Cindy ALLEN

2:30-3:00	Break

3:00-6:30	CHINESE WORKSHOP
                Organizers: PATRIZIA PACIONI

                ONE-SOON HER
                Lexical Mapping in Chinese Inversion Constructions

                CHU-REN HUANG
                Classifying Event Structure Attributes: A Verbal
                Semantic Perspective from Chinese.

                HAIHUA PAN
                An LFG Account of Chinese Passive Construction.

                DISCUSSANTS: *please contact the organizer if you
                              wish to be a discussant.*