Program

Saturday, July 16

Optional pre-conference mountain hiking in the Bergen city mountains. See the Options page for details.

Sunday, July 17

Optional pre-conference excursion with organized transportation to Fantoft Stavkirke and Lysøen. See the Options page for details.

Monday, July 18

8:30–8:50	Registration
9:00–9:20	Welcome
9:20–10:20	Invited talk
	Dan Flickinger: Weighing the Utility of Types in Grammatical Description
10:20–10:40	Coffee
10:40–12:00	Session 1A (Chair: Kersti Börjars)
	Ingo Mittendorf and Louisa Sadler: Numerals, Nouns and Number in Welsh NPs
	Alex Alsina, Tara Mohanan, and KP Mohanan: How to get rid of the COMP
12:00–13:20	Lunch
13:20–14:50	Student session (Chair: Peter Sells)
	Jan Strunk: Pro-Drop in Nominal Possessive Constructions
	Rob O'Connor: Information Structure in Lexical-Functional Grammar: The Discourse-Prosody Correspondence in English and Serbo-Croatian
	Miltiadis Kokkonidis: Why glue your donkey to an f-structure, when you can constrain and bind it instead?
14:50–15:10	Coffee
15:10–16:30	Session 1B (Chair: Jonas Kuhn)
	Michael Burke, Josef van Genabith and Andy Way: Evaluating Automatically Acquired F-Structures against Propbank
	John Judge, Michael Burke, Aoife Cahill, Ruth O' Donovan, Josef van Genabith and Andy Way: Strong Domain Variation and Treebank-Induced LFG Resources
16:30–18:30	Workshop1
	Mary Dalrymple, Stephen Wechsler, Louisa Sadler, Aline Villavincencio and Irina Nikolaeva: Agreement and its role in grammar

Tuesday, July 19

9:00–10:20	Session 2A (Chair: Andrew Spencer)
	Ryo Otoguro: Agreement Path in Icelandic
	Peter Sells: The Peripherality of the Icelandic Expletive
10:20–10:40	Coffee
10:40–12:40	Session 2B (Chair: Miriam Butt)
	Christian Fortmann: On Parentheticals (in German)
	Stefanie Dipper: German Quantifiers – Determiners or Adjectives?
	Leonel Figueiredo de Alencar and Carmen Kelling: Are Reflexive Constructions Transitive or Intransitive? Evidence from German and Romance
12:40–14:10	Lunch
14:10–15:30	Session 2C (Chair: Louisa Sadler)
	Louise Mycock: Wh-in-situ in Constituent Questions
	Kersti Börjars and Nigel Vincent: Objects: Position vs function
15:30–16:00	Coffee
16:00–18:00	Workshop 2
	Tracy Holloway King: LFG Approaches to Clitics: Introduction
	Michael Wescoat: English nonsyllabic auxiliary contractions: An analysis in LFG with lexical sharing
	Ana Luis and Ryo Otoguro: Morphological and syntactic well-formedness: The case of European Portuguese proclitics
	Rob O'Connor: Clitics in LFG - Prosodic Structure and Phrasal Affixation
19:15	Banquet at Lyststedet Bellevue (see Options page)

Wednesday, July 20

9:00–10:20	Session 3A (Chair: Josef van Genabith)
	Martin Forst, Jonas Kuhn and Christian Rohrer: Corpus-based learning of OT constraint rankings for large-scale LFG grammars
	Helge Dyvik, Victoria Rosén and Paul Meurer: LFG, Minimal Recursion Semantics and Translation
10:20–10:40	Coffee
10:40–12:00	Session 3B (Chair: Alex Alsina)
	Bruno Estigarribia: Direct Object Clitic Doubling in OT-LFG: A New Look at Rioplatense Spanish
	Ruth O'Donovan, Aoife Cahill, Josef van Genabith and Andy Way: Automatic Acquisition of Spanish LFG Resources from the CAST3LB Treebank
12:00–14:00	Poster session and Lunch
	Dorothee Beermann, Jonathan Brindle, Lars Hellan, Solomon Tedla, Florence Bayiga, Janicke Furberg, Yvonne Otoo and Mary Esther Kropp Dakubu: Constraints on Comparatives in a Lexical-Functional Approach
	George Aaron Broadwell: It ain't necessarily S(V)O: Two kinds of VSO languages
	Helge Dyvik, Victoria Rosén, Dorothee Beermann, John Carroll, Dan Flickinger, Lars Hellan, Janne Bondi Johannessen, Jan Tore Lønning, Paul Meurer, Torbjørn Nordgård, Stephan Oepen and Erik Velldal: LOGON:Towards a Machine Translation System Integrating LFG and HPSG
	Yehuda N. Falk: Open Argument Functions
	Anna Kibort: The ins and outs of the Participle-Adjective Conversion Rule
	Victoria Rosén and Koenraad de Smedt: Constructing a Parsed Corpus with a Large LFG Grammar
	Gerold Schneider: A Broad-Coverage, Representationally Minimalist LFG-like Parser: Chunks and F-Structures Are Enough
	Karene Wong, Wee Lian Hee, Tara Mohanan, and Chin Seok Koon: Delimiters in Singapore English
14:00–15:20	Session 3C (Chair: Nigel Vincent)
	Miriam Butt and Tracy Holloway King: Restriction for Morphological Valency Alternations: The Urdu Causative
	Andrew Spencer: Case in Hindi-Urdu
15:20–15:40	Coffee
15:40–17:00	Session 3D (Chair: Carmen Kelling)
	György Rákosi and Tibor Laczkó: The Categorial Status of Agreement-Marked Infinitives in Hungarian
	Caroline Féry and Sam Mchombo and Yukiko Morimoto: Partitioning discourse information: a case of Chichewa split NPs
17:00–18:00	ILFGA business meeting

Thursday, July 21

9:00–12:00	Tutorial
	Josef van Genabith: Treebank-Based Rapid Induction of Wide-Coverage Lexical-Functional Grammar Resources
	The tutorial will be in the building HF-bygget.