HPSG 2006 The 13th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar

Programme

 

The conference is sponsored by:

       BIS-21++ – a Sixth Framework Programme Project.

       OntoText, Semantic Technology Lab, Sofia

 

Here is the programme in pdf format: HPSG06 Programme

Tutorials:

 

24th July 2006

 

Tutorial 1

Frank Richter and Laura Kallmeyer
Semantics within and beyond HPSG: LRS and LTAG

09:00-10:30

Coffee Break

10:30-11:00

Frank Richter and Laura Kallmeyer
Semantics within and beyond HPSG: LRS and LTAG

11:00-12:30

Tutorial 2
Ivan Sag
Construction-Based Grammar

09:00-10:30

Coffee Break

10:30-11:00

Ivan Sag
Construction-Based Grammar

11:00-12:30

Lunch

12:30-14:30

Tutorial 3
Carl Pollard
HPSG meets Categorial Grammar

14:30-16:00

Coffee Break

16:00-16:30

Carl Pollard
HPSG meets Categorial Grammar

16:30-18:00

Berthold Crysmann and Gerald Penn
Implementation: Recent developments in LKB and TRALE

14:30-16:00

Coffee Break

16:00-16:30

Berthold Crysmann and Gerald Penn
Implementation: Recent developments in LKB and TRALE

16:30-18:00

 

Workshop:

 

25th July 2006


Welcome / Announcements

09:00-09:10

Frank van Eynde (Leuven)
Invited talk: A regular treatment of some irregular constructions.

09:10-10:10

Bonami/Boye
Deriving inflectional irregularity

10:10-10:40

Coffee Break

10:40-11:00

Brindle
Uncovering regularities: On the Notion of Bare and Evaluated Controllers in Tigrinya

11:00-11:30

Richter/Soehn
Braucht niemanden zu scheren: NPI Licensing in German

11:30-12:00

Lunch

12:00-14:00

Venkova
Unexpressed Object Alternations of Bulgarian verbs in HPSG

14:00-14:30

Hahm
Number Agreement in Russian Predicates

14:30-15:00

Coffee Break/Discussion

15:00-15:45

Demo Session

15:45-16:45

Haugereid
Demonstration of an HPSG grammar where the argument structure is composed in the syntax
Ionescu/Barbu
Valency dictionary of Romanian
Osenova/Simov
Special Linguistic Phenomena in the Bulgarian HPSG-based Treebank (BulTreeBank)

 

Main conference:

 

26th July 2006


Announcements

09:00-09:10

Stefan Müller (Bremen)
Invited Talk: Persian Complex Predicates and the Limits of Inheritance-Based Analyses

09:10-10:10

Hahm
Person and Number Agreement in American Sign Language

10:10-10:40

Coffee Break

10:40-11:00

Melnik
Hybrid Agreement as a Conflict Resolution Strategy

11:00-11:30

Nakanishi
A Unified Approach to Questions, Quantifiers and Coordination in Japanese

11:30-12:00

Lunch

12:00-14:00

Godard/Marandin
Reinforcing Negation: the Case of Italian

14:00-14:30

Richter/Sailer
Modelling Typological Markedness in Semantics: The Case of Negative Concord

14:30-15:00

Break

15:00-15:10

Tily/Sag
A Unified Analysis of French Causatives

15:10-15:40

Nakazawa
Motion event and deictic motion verbs as Pathconflating verbs

15:40-16:10

Avgustinova
Functional Typology of Copular “BE”: Towards HPSG Formalisation

16:10-16:40

Coffee Break

16:40-17:00

Poster Session

17:00-18:00

Copestake/Terkourafi
Conventional Speech Act Formulae in HPSG
Flouraki
Constraining Aspectual Composition
Fokkens/Kordoni
Control, Raising and Case: from the Perspective of Passives
Maekawa
Long and Short Adjunct Fronting in HPSG

 

27th July 2006


Announcements

09:00-09:10

Shravan Vasishth (Potsdam)
Invited Talk: Locality in human sentence comprehension: Empirical and computational investigations

09:10-10:10

Bonami/Delais-Roussarie
Metrical phonology in HPSG

10:10-10:40

Coffee Break

10:40-11:00

Branco/Costa
Noun Ellipsis without Empty Categories

11:00-11:30

Chaves
Coordination of Unlikes without Unlike Categories

11:30-12:00

Lunch

12:00-14:00

Abeillé/Borsley/Espinal
The syntax of comparative correlatives in French and Spanish

14:00-14:30

Mouret
A phrase structure approach to argument cluster coordination in French

14:30-15:00

Break

15:00-15:10

Crysmann
Floating affixes in Polish

15:10-15:40

Sato
A Proposed Lexicalised Linearisation Grammar: a monostratal alternative

16:10-16:40

Borsley
A Linear Approach to Negative Prominence

15:40-16:10

Coffee Break and Closing the Conference

16:40-17:00