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

Programme

Here is the programme in pdf format: HPSG06 Programme

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

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)

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