FHCG 98 Conference

The annual HPSG conference this year was held jointly with the Formal Grammar Conference on 14.-16. August in Saarbrücken. The well-attended conference included a special session on information packaging and a symposium on unbounded dependencies. The program can be found at http://www.dfki.de/events/hpsg98/schedule.html

Current Topics in Constraint-Based Theories of German Syntax Workshop

A workshop on ``Current Topics in Constraint-Based Theories of German Syntax'' took place as part of the ESSLLI-98 Summer School, from 17.-21. August 98. The proceedings are available on-line at http://www.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de/~dm/esslli98/

Other ESSLLI 98 activities

• Ann Copestake, Dan Flickinger and Stephan Oepen cotaught a 1-week course entitled: ``Practical HPSG Grammar Engineering.'' Rob Malouf, Brady Clark, and Judith Tonhauser also contributed to the success of this popular course.

• Andreas Kathol and Ivan Sag cotaught a 2-week course called: ``Constructions -- an HPSG Perspective.''

Colloque ``La Cliticisation''

At the Bordeaux Colloque ``La Cliticisation'' (Sept 23-26), organized by Claude Muller, the following HPSG related papers were presented:

• Ann Abeille & Daniele Godard: La distribution des interrogatifs que et quoi

• Valia Kordoni: Cliticization and Psych Verb constructions

• Marie Labelle & Paul Hirshbuehler: L' hypothese affixale pour les clitiques en francais

• Philip Miller: Le statut morphosyntaxique des articles en anglais et en francais: clitiques postlexicaux ou affixes syntagmatiques?

• Paola Monachesi: Linearization properties of Romanian clitics

HPSG-related talks at other events

• Anna Kupsc Morphological Aspects of Verbal Negation in Polish
  2nd International Conference on Formal Description of Slavic Languages. Potsdam, Germany, November 20-22, 1997 (To appear in the proceedings.)

• Anna Kupsc NC and WHE in Polish: a Lexicalist HPSG Approach
  7th Annual Workshop on Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics 8-10 May, 1998, Seattle, WA, USA (Submitted to the proceedings.)

• Paola Monachesi Linearization properties of the Romanian verbal complex
  WECOL 98. 9-11 Oct 98. Arizona State University. Tempe. USA.

• Paola Monachesi Syntactic and prosodic properties of Italian restructuring verbs
  NELS 29. 16-18 Oct 98. University of Delaware. Newark. USA.

• Jong-Bok Kim Constraints on the formation of Korean and English Resultatives
  NELS 29 (non-presenting alternate)

• Ken Vanbik & Andreas Kathol (Berkeley) Morphology-Syntax Interface in Lai Internally-Headed Relative
  Clauses. NELS 29 (non-presenting alternate)

• Anna Kupsc Haplology of the Polish Reflexive Marker
  Slavic in HPSG Seminar. 12th November 1998, Tuebingen, Germany (To appear in ``Slavic in HPSG'' eds. B.Borsley & A.Przepiorkowski.)

• Anna Kupsc Position of Polish Clitics: an HPSG Approach
  Ninth CLIN Meeting, 11th December 1998, Leuven, Belgium

• Adam Przepiorkowski Don't we need the ECP in Italian?
  Going Romance, 10.-11. December 1998, Utrecht, NL

• António Branco & Berthold Crysmann Deriving Negative Concord in Portuguese
  Going Romance (non-presenting alternate)

• Anne Abeillé , Daničle Godard and Ivan Sag Interrogative Verbs in French
  Going Romance, Workshop Lexicon, 12. December 1998, Utrecht, NL

Some Recent Activities at Stanford

• Carl Pollard visited CSLI for 3 weeks in September. He has been collaborating with Ann Copestake, Dan Flickinger and Ivan Sag in the development of MRS semantics. In addition, while he was here, he produced a draft of a new paper on temporal modifiers.

• Ash Asudeh has arrived (to begin our PhD program). He has recently finished (but not yet defended) his Edinburgh MPhil entitled: Anaphora and Argument Structure: Topics in the Syntax and Semantics of Reflexives and Reciprocals.

• Jesse Tseng is visiting from Edinburgh for October-December. He is working on prepositions [see dissertation abstract below].

• Marianne Desmets is visiting for the year from Nanterre. She is and has been working on causatives and unbounded dependency constructions, among other problems in French grammar.

• Myong-Hi Chai is visiting for the year from Kwang-ju. Her dissertation (A Constraint-Based Analysis of Unbounded Dependency Constructions in English -- Chonnam National University, 1996) was on a family of extraction-related constructions in English. She is now working on Korean interrogatives and complex predicates.

• Marie Labelle (UQAM) and Paul Hirschbuhler (U Ottawa) are visiting CSLI for two quarters this year. They are working on various problems in French grammar (including cliticization) and are writing a syntax textbook.