LFG 2015: Program

Program

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10:00-	Opening
	Session 1 [Chair: Mary Dalrymple]
10:15-11:00	Miriam Butt, Maike Müller and Mark-Matthias Zymla (University of Konstanz)
	Modelling the common ground for discourse particles
11:00-11:30	Coffee break
	Session 2 [Chair: Tibor Laczkó]
11:30-12:15	I Wayan Arka (ANU / Udayana University)
	On the constructed middle in Marori
12:15-13:00	Anna Kibort (University of Oxford) and Joan Maling (Brandeis University)
	Modelling the syntactic ambiguity of the active vs passive impersonal in LFG
13:00-14:30	Lunch
	Session 3 [Chair: Miriam Butt]
14:30-15:15	Oleg Belyaev (Lomonosov Moscow State University), Mary Dalrymple (University of Oxford)
	and John Lowe (University of Oxford)
	Number mismatches in coordination: an LFG analysis
15:15-15:45	Dissertation session talk
	Stephen Jones (University of Oxford)
	Number in Meryam Mir
15:45-16:15	Coffee break
	Session 4 [Chair: John Lowe]
16:15-17:00	Tibor Laczkó (University of Debrecen)
	On a realistic LFG treatment of the periphrastic irrealis mood in Hungarian
17:00-17:45	Shaimaa ElSadek and Louisa Sadler (University of Essex)
	Egyptian Arabic perceptual reports

9:30-10:30	Invited talk
	Andrew Spencer (University of Essex)
	Individuating Lexemes in LFG
10:30-11:00	Coffee break
	Session 5 [Chair: Ida Toivonen]
11:00-11:45	Mary Dalrymple (University of Oxford)
	Morphology in the LFG architecture
11:45-12:30	Marjolein Poortvliet (University of Oxford)
	An LFG approach to nested dependencies in Dutch
12:30-14:20	Lunch followed by poster session (Room 303/304/305)
	Tibor Laczkó (University of Debrecen) On negative particles and negative polarity in Hungarian Agnieszka Patejuk (Polish Academy of Sciences) Phraseological information in an XLE/LFG grammar of Polish Rickard Ramhöj (University of Gothenburg) On clausal subjects and extraposition in the history of English John Payne and Kersti Börjars (University of Manchester) Features and selection in LFG: the English VP
14:20-14:30	Short break (303/304/305 to B107)
	Session 6 [Chair: Adam Przepiórkowski]
14:30-15:15	Christin Schätzle (University of Konstanz), Kristina Kotcheva (University of Freiburg)
	and Miriam Butt (University of Konstanz)
	The diachronic development of dative subjects in Icelandic
15:15-16:00	John Lowe (University of Oxford)
	Gradual degrammaticalization: a lexical-sharing approach to the evolution of the English possessive
16:00-16:30	Coffee break
16:30-17:30	ILFGA Business Meeting
18:00-20:00	Conference dinner

	Session 7 [Chair: Ryo Otoguro]
9:30-10:15	Adam Przepiórkowski and Agnieszka Patejuk (Polish Academy of Sciences)
	Two representations of negation in LFG: evidence from Polish
10:15-11:00	John Lowe (University of Oxford) and Oleg Belyaev (Lomonosov Moscow State University)
	Clitic 'movement' in Ossetic
11:00-11:30	Coffee break
	Session 8 [Chair: Oleg Belyaev]
11:30-12:15	Tibor Laczkó (University of Debrecen)
	Focusing on the specific features of Hungarian Spec,VP from an LFG perspective
12:15-13:00	Kersti Börjars, Safiah Madkhali and John Payne (University of Manchester)
	Masdars and mixed category constructions
13:00-14:30	Lunch
	Session 9 [Chair: Anna Kibort]
14:30-15:15	Agnieszka Patejuk and Adam Przepiórkowski (Polish Academy of Sciences)
	LFG analysis of SIĘ marker in Polish
15:15-16:00	Marie-Odile Junker and Ida Toivonen (Carleton University)
	East Cree ghost participants
16:00-	Closing

The workshop is organized by Andrew Spencer and Ryo Otoguro. The following speakers have been confirmed. The program is available here.