Look Who’s Talking: Stanford Linguists at LFG21

Stanford Linguistics alumni and faculty presented at the 26th International Lexical-Functional Grammar Conference (LFG21) held virtually on July 13-16, 2021.

Alum Ida Toivonen (Ph.D. ’01) presented a keynote talk titled “Arguments and adjuncts across levels”

Alum Stephen Wechsler (Ph.D. ’91) presented a keynote talk  title“Language Evolution and LFG: The Origins of Grammatical Relations”

Alum Alessandro Jaker (Ph.D. ’12) presented the poster “The 'productive' vs. 'thematic' prefix distinction in Tetsǫ́t'ıné: an LFG formalization”

Joan Bresnan presented a talk "A hybrid model of auxiliary contraction: evidence in child speech" building on her recent article "Formal grammar, usage probabilities, and auxiliary contraction" in Language 97: 1, March 2021, pp. 108-150.