SE-LFG20 (21/05/2016, SOAS)
20th South of England LFG Meeting
The 20th South of England LFG meeting, a student-oriented meeting for presentations and discussion of various topics from an LFG perspective, will be held on Saturday, 21st May 2016, at SOAS, London. Please feel free to attend if you are interested, or if you would like more information please get in touch with Mary Dalrymple.
Meeting details:
Saturday, 21 May 2016, Room 116 (ground floor), SOAS main building, Russell Square. Note that this is not the same room as usual.
For directions to SOAS see here: http://www.soas.ac.uk/visitors/location/maps/ (also see map opposite). To view any planned engineering works affecting your journey within London, click here.
Sign in at the reception when you arrive to get a visitor sticker that allows you to enter the SOAS main building.
Meeting agenda:
11:00-12:00: John Lowe, Oxford: Mixed categories and participles
In this paper I critically assess some recent work in LFG that provides ‘mixed category’ analyses either of participles or related non-finite verb categories in different languages. I show that two distinct phenomena have become conflated under the ‘mixed category’ heading, and argue that the term ‘mixed category’ should be reserved for only one of these. The other does not, in fact, require a mixed category analysis within LFG.
12:00-12:30: Stephen Jones, Oxford: LFG and incremental language processing
This is early work in progress, which looks at recent evidence about the relationship between grammar and wider language processing. There is also discussion of some questions raised in attempting to develop LFG accounts of differences between on-line and off-line grammaticality judgements.
12:30-1:30: Lunch
1:30-2:30: Tina Bögel, University of Konstanz: Parallelity, modularity, psychological reality: crucial notions at the interfaces
In this talk I would like to discuss the three notions of parallelity, modularity, and psychological reality with respect to the current approaches to the prosody-syntax interface in LFG. By referring to a number of examples related to postlexical phonology/prosody (in short: p-structure), I will show that modularity needs communication, parallelity is not opposed to directionality, and that psychological reality should be the underlying concept of everything.
2:30-3:30: Siavash Rafiee Rad and John Payne, Manchester: Complex predicate constructions in the history of Persian
3:30-4:00: Break
4:00-5:00: Miriam Butt, University of Konstanz: Case: From Spatial Term to Participant Marker (and more...)
5:00-5:15: Planning for next time