Links up to September 2001 are now on a separate page.
Links up to October 2000 are now on a separate page.
Links up to August 1999 are on a separate page.
Links up to August 1998 are on a separate page.
Yes, there are some official links, too: start with Essex LFG and Stanford LFG, to find more internet-accessible information about current research, publications, people, and events.
The handout and write-up of Brady Clark's paper, "A Stochastic Optimality theory approach to English clause structure change" was given at the recent LSA meetings (Jan. 2002) can be found on-line: http://www.stanford.edu/~bzack/lsa_OTtalk.pdf.Check out the new links on the lfg-dop webpage:
Rens Bod and Ronald Kaplan, 2001. A Data-Oriented Parsing Model for Lexical-Functional Grammar. (35 pp) Submitted for publication.Andy Way's webpage has many useful resources for LFG-related computational projects.Andy Way, 2001. Solving Headswitching Translation Cases in LFG-DOT. Proceedings of the LFG'01 Conference. University of Hong Kong, China.
Andy Way, 2001. LFG-DOT: A Hybrid Archtecture for Robust MT. PhD thesis, University of Essex, UK.
Jonas Kuhn's 2001 Ph.D. dissertation (University of Stuttgart) is now available on the ROA (Rutgers Optimality Archive): Formal and Computational Aspects of Optimality-theoretic Syntax.
I have received another new LFG dissertation:
Philippa Helen Cook. 2001. Coherence in German: An information structure approach. University of Manchester Ph.D. dissertation.Chris Manning's website now has his revised paper, "Probabilistic Syntax" to appear in Rens Bod, Jennifer Hay, and Stefanie Jannedy (eds.), Probability Theory in Linguistics, MIT Press. This includes a discussion of the research first reported in the paper:Joan Bresnan and Shipra Dingare and Chris Manniing. 2001. "Soft Constraints Mirror Hard Constraints: Voice and Person in English and Lummi". On-line, LFG-01 Proceedings.
Some very nice papers were given at the LFG-01 in Hong Kong, and many of them have made it into the on-line proceedings. I would like particularly to note the following papers, though they are only a partial list:
Sheila Glasbey: Tense, Aspect and the Temporal Structure of Discourse: Towards an LFG AccountI found myself so busy this past academic year that I couldn't keep up my unofficial links, especially this summer, when I travelled to LFG 2001 in Hong Kong at the end of June, then on returning, immediately embarked on a self-supported 1550-mile cycling trip from Vancouver, Canada to Portola Valley, California which lasted for the entire month of July, and soon after travelled to Duesseldorf in August for the conference on The Lexicon in Linguistic Theory, where I gave one of the invited papers. Both conferences were full of fascinating new work of very high quality. I hope I will have a chance to report on these events in more detail.Carmen Kelling : Agentivity and Suffix Selection
Anna Kibort: The Polish Passive and Impersonal in Lexical Mapping Theory
Anette Frank and Josef van Genabith: Glue Tag: Linear Logic based Semantics Construction for LTAG - and What it Teaches Us About the Relation Between LFG and LTAG
Louisa Sadler and Rachel Nordlinger: Nominal Tense with Nominal Scope: A Preliminary Sketch
Yehuda Falk: Constituent Structure and Grammatical Functions in the Hebrew Action Nominal
Farrell Ackerman and John Moore: Dowtyian Proto-properties and Lexical Mapping Theory (not submitted as a paper, but the handout is available)
Helge Lodrup: Pseudocoodinations in Norwegian and Control Theory
Two excellent new books on LFG have appeared:
Mary Dalrymple (2001) Lexical Functional Grammar. Syntax and Semantics, vol. 23. New York: Academic Press.Yehuda's is recommended as a first text in LFG for those who have previous exposure to Minimalism/P&P models. It focusses on English. Mary's is a handbook covering many topics not discussed in other texts (e.g. coordination, semantic interpretation). Both provide much useful material not covered in my own text:Yehuda Falk (2001) Lexical-Functional Grammar. An Introduction to Parallel Constraint-Based Syntax. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications.
Joan Bresnan (2001) Lexical-Functional Grammar. Oxford: BlackwellPeter Sells' collection of papers in OT-LFG is now out--Peter Sells, ed. (2001) Formal and Empirical Issues in Optimality Theoretic Syntax. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publicaitons.--as is his monograph in OT-LFG:Peter Sells (2001) Structure, Alignment and Optimality in Swedish. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications.This work is a full-scale theory of clausal word order with an extensive and detailed syntactic analysis of object shift and other important phenomena in Swedish. While many OT works take a broad typological perspective that leaves out the details and wrinkles, Peter's new work gives a full formal treatment. It has further enormous theoretical interest in showing how the kinds of typological generalizations that Richie Kayne brought to prominence with his work on the anti-symmetry of syntax within a transformational framework can be explained within the data-driven perspective of OT.Don't miss the long-awaited collection:
Geraldine Legendre, Jane Grimshaw, and Sten Vikner (eds.) (2001) Optimality-Theoretic Syntax. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
I am very pleased to note that Elena Maslova is now a Visiting Scholar in the Linguistics Department at Stanford University. Her Stanford webpage has a wealth of information about Yukaghir (bibliography, grammars, texts, papers-on-line, people, etc.) and her other research interests: stochastic models, syntactic typology, and computers for linguistics. Many of you will know that an entire issue of Linguistic Typology (volume 4 number 3, 2000) is devoted to her work on "A dynamic approach to the verification of distributional universals", with commentary and her reply, "Stochastic models in typology: obstacle or prerequisite?"I am also very happy that Jonas Kuhn is joining us at Stanford this year on a postdoctoral fellowship from the German government. Jonas has completed, with distinction, his doctoral dissertation, which may be downloaded from his website at the University of Stuttgart:
Jonas Kuhn (2001): Formal and Computational Aspects of Optimality-theoretic Syntax. IMS, Universität Stuttgart.Jonas will be working on computing OT (generation, parsing, and learning) here at Stanford. His formal and computational development of OT syntax, building on the well-defined LFG representational basis and including issues of generation and parsing, is very important.Several other dissertations and theses related to OT and/or LFG have come to my hands:
Shipra Dingare (2001) The Effect of Feature Hierarchies on Frequencies of Passivization in English. Stanford, California: Stanford University Department of Linguistics M.A. thesis.Alex Alsina has a new paper "On the nonsemantic nature of argument structure" in Language Sciences 23 (2001): 355-389.Hanjung Lee, (2001) Optimization in Argument Expression and Interpretation: A Unified Approach. Stanford, California: Stanford University Department of Linguistics Ph.D. dissertation. (Available on the ROA)
Ida Toivonen (2001) The Phrase Structure of Non-Projecting Words. Stanford, California: Stanford University Department of Linguistics Ph.D. dissertation.
Simon Musgrave (2001) Non-Subject Arguments in Indonesian. Melbourne, Australia: University of Melbourne Department of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics Ph.D. dissertation.
More very useful information available on the web: see Reinhard Blutner's website. Follow the links under Courses to "Language and Optimality", where there is a wealth of information, including course lectures, readings, a page of links to researchers working in OT, and a list of references in various subareas of OT including overviews, phonology, syntax/morphology, learning, computation, and semantics. This is an excellent resource.