The 33rd South of England LFG Meeting, a student-friendly meeting for presentations and discussion of various topics in linguistics from the perspective of Lexical-Functional Grammar, will be held on 29 Oct 2022 from 1:00-4:30 PM (UK) as an online event with an in-person gathering at the Oriental Institute, University of Oxford. Contact Joey Lovestrand with any questions (jl119@soas.ac.uk).
For an intro to LFG see: Lexical-Functional Grammar: An overview
The hybrid meeting will be held simultaneously in person at the Oriental Institute, University of Oxford and online via Zoom.
If you will be arriving late to the in-person meeting, the front door will be locked. Be sure you can contact someone in the meeting to come let you in.
Link to attend via Zoom: https://soas-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97819788724
1:00 - 1:45 Chit Fung Lam / Lawrence (University of Manchester)
Chinese Control Relations in Glue Semantics/PCDRT terms
Abstract: In this talk, I will present some interesting empirical patterns observed in my ongoing work on Mandarin-Chinese control relations, and explore ways for those patterns to be modelled in Glue Semantics/PCDRT terms. The patterns involve the possibility of two equi classes and how to differentiate between them, a subtype of partial control, implicit control initiated by OBJ drop, obligatory split control, etc. The ultimate goal of my project is to develop a fine-grained analysis for a typology of detailed control relations attested within this language, with considerations of the syntax-semantics-discourse interface.
1:45 - 2:30 Péter Szűcs (University of Debrecen)
Unification and adjunction in the analysis of propositional proforms
Abstract (click here for PDF)
2:30 - 2:45 Tea Break
2:45 - 3:30 Chihiro Taguchi (University of Edinburgh)
Cross-linguistic analysis of the Mermaid Constructions in LFG
Abstract: This study analyses the syntactic structure of the Mermaid Constructions (MCs) with Lexical Functional Grammar. My previous work at LFG22 demonstrated that the MCs can be reanalysed as part of raising and control with a nominal predicate. However, differences among the instances of the MCs across languages were left unanalysed. In this ongoing work, I will show the following two points: first, raising MC nouns trigger subject-to-subject raising; second, in control MCs, controllers can be SUBJ, OBJ, or OBJθ, depending on the predicate and languages.
3:30 - 4:15 Ash Asudeh (University of Rochester)
Modelling Exponents
Abstract (click here for PDF)
Handout (click here for PDF)
4:15 - 4:30 Planning the next SE-LFG meeting