Program

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Day 1: Saturday, 18 July (Room 303/304/305, Building 8)

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
11:00-11:30Coffee 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
13:00-14:30Lunch
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
15:45-16:15Coffee 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

Day 2: Sunday, 19 July (Room B107, Building 8, except lunch and poster session)

9:30-10:30Invited talk
Andrew Spencer (University of Essex)
Individuating Lexemes in LFG
10:30-11:00Coffee 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
12:30-14:20Lunch followed by poster session (Room 303/304/305)
14:20-14:30Short 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
16:00-16:30Coffee break
16:30-17:30 ILFGA Business Meeting
18:00-20:00 Conference dinner

Day 3: Monday, 20 July (Room 303/304/305, Building 8)

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
11:00-11:30Coffee 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
13:00-14:30Lunch
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

Workshop on Morphology: Tuesday, 21 July (Room 303/304/305, Building 8)

The workshop is organized by Andrew Spencer and Ryo Otoguro. The following speakers have been confirmed. The program is available here.
  • Oleg Belyaev (Russian Academy of Sciences)
  • Miriam Butt (University of Konstanz)
  • Mary Dalrymple (University of Oxford)
  • Ryo Otoguro (Waseda University)
  • John Payne and Kersti Börjars (University of Manchester)
  • Andrew Spencer (University of Essex)