Research interests of LFG researchers

Note: see Research Languages for linguists working on specific languages and language families.

• agreement--Erika Z. CHISARIK, Brian O'HERIN
• anaphora--Julia BERND, George Aaron BROADWELL, Christopher CULY, Presley IFUKOR, P. UMARANI
• argument structure--Alex ALSINA, Peter AUSTIN, Anna KIBORT, Stella MARKANTONATOU, Elisabeth MAYER, Tara Warrier MOHANAN, Michael PUTNAM, Louisa SADLER, Thomas WIER
• apposition--Peter PETERSON
• automatic acquisition of knowledge--Franck LE DUFF
• Austronesian syntax--Paul KROEGER
• automatic annotation of treebanks--Mairead MCCARTHY, Andy WAY
• automatic proofreading--Victoria ROSÉN
• auxiliaries--Yehuda FALK
  
  
• bilingualism--Michael PUTNAM
• binding theory--Joan BRESNAN, George Aaron BROADWELL, Tania E. STRAHAN
  
  
• case marking/assignment--Avery ANDREWS, Peter AUSTIN, Yehuda FALK, Tracy Holloway KING, Valia KORDONI, Hanjung LEE, Joan MALING, Rachel NORDLINGER, Ryo OTOGURO, Sebastian SULGER, Thomas WIER
• case theory--Cathryn DONOHUE
• categorial grammar--Luis CASILLAS
• clefts--Ilona SPECTOR
• clitics--Kersti BÖRJARS, George Aaron BROADWELL, Tracy Holloway KING, Elisabeth MAYER, Lunella MEREU
• clitic doubling--Bruno ESTIGARRIBIA, Florian JAEGER, Elisabeth MAYER
• cognitive linguistics-- Yuhong LIU, Andrei PREOBRAZHENSKY
• cognitive science--Ash ASUDEH, Jean-Philippe MARCOTTE
• cognograph--Gerard PEREGRIN
• comparative linguistics--Andrei PREOBRAZHENSKY
• comparison of theories--Julia BERND
• complementation--Julia BARRON
• complex predicates--Alex ALSINA, Avery ANDREWS, Julia BARRON, George Aaron BROADWELL, Christopher MANNING, Masako OHARA
• computational dialectology--Jorge Antonio LEONI de León, Andréa Feitosa dos SANTOS
• computational grammar--Helge J. Jakhelln DYVIK, Stella MARKANTONATOU,P. UMARANI
• computational lexica--Gertrud FAAß, Lori LEVIN, Stella MARKANTONATOU, Emrah OZCAN
• computational linguistics--Leonel Figueiredo de ALENCAR, Mohammed ATTIA, Miriam BUTT, Rudolfo DELMONTE, Ronald KAPLAN, Lauri KARTTUNEN, Tracy Holloway KING, Miltiadis Kokkonidis, Jonas KUHN, Jorge Antonio LEONI de León, Iddo LEV, Christopher MANNING, Rajar Kumar MOHANTY, Masanori OYA, Emrah OZCAN, Veit REUER, Andréa Feitosa dos SANTOS, P. UMARANI, Tuyet Dao VAN, Aline VILLAVICENCIO
• computational models of parsing and acquisition--Mark JOHNSON
• computational morphology--Kemal OFLAZER, Rigardt PRETORIUS
• computational psycholinguistics--Roger LEVY
• computational semantics--Syed Muhammad Jafar RIZVI
• computational syntax--Rigardt PRETORIUS, Syed Muhammad Jafar RIZVI
• computer assisted language learning/teaching--John MUGANE, Veit REUER
• computer-mediated communication--Massimiliano DEMATA
• computer tools for linguists--Simon MUSGRAVE
• configurationalityFlorian JAEGER
• conjunction--Julia BERND
• c-structure--Adam J. DEXTER
• constructions--Bruno ESTIGARRIBIA,
• contrastive analysis--Gabriel AMORES
• controlled vocabularies--Simon MUSGRAVE
• coordination--Peter PETERSON
• copula--Sebastian SULGER
• corpus annotation--Josef van GENABITH, Ruth O'DONOVAN
• corpus-based linguistics--Gertrud FAAß, Martin FORST, Anette FRANK, Chu-Ren HUANG, Valia KORDONI, Jonas KUHN, Masanori OYA, P. UMARANI
• cross-linguistic databases--Simon MUSGRAVE
  
  
• dialogue systems--Gabriel AMORES
• discourse analysis--Massimiliano DEMATA
• discourse dependencies in semantics--Richard CROUCH
• discourse functions--Amy DAHLSTROM, Victoria ROSÉN
• DRT--Mike CALCAGNO, Marie Fellbaum KORPI
• discourse markers--Florian JAEGER
• discourse structure--Muhammad ALZAIDI, Massimiliano DEMATA, Presley IFUKOR, Tracy Holloway KING
• dummy objects--Tania E. STRAHAN
  
  
• education (cross-cultural exchange)--Tiffany Zenith IVINS
• education (linguistics)--KP MOHANAN
• education (refugees)--Tiffany Zenith IVINS
• e-lexicography--Gertrud FAAß
• ELT--Khalil AHMED, Alec PONGWENI
• empty pronouns--Victoria ROSÉN
• endangered languages--Simon MUSGRAVE
• ergativity--Miriam BUTT, Tracy Holloway KING, Christopher MANNING, Brian O'HERIN, Thomas WIER
• event structure--Tara Warrier MOHANAN, Michael PUTNAM
• expressive speech--Kathleen MORTON
  
  
• finite-state morphology--Mohammed ATTIA, Ronald KAPLAN, Lauri KARTTUNEN
• finite-state techniques--Valia KORDONI, Kemal OFLAZER
• floating quantifiers--Ilona SPECTOR
• formal grammars--Sanja SELJAN
• formal linguistics--Jorge Antonio LEONI de León, Andréa Feitosa dos SANTOS
• functional grammar--NGUYEN Tuan Dang, Massimiliano DEMATA, Yuhong LIU, Andrei PREOBRAZHENSKY
• formal language theory and automata--Tuyet Dao VAN
  
  
• GB--Leonel Figueiredo de ALENCAR, Paul HIRSCHBÜHLER
• Gender empowerment--Tiffany Zenith IVINS
• generation--Aoife CAHILL, Koenraad DE SMEDT, Ronald KAPLAN, John T. MAXWELL III
• glue semantics--Ash ASUDEH, Richard CROUCH, Josef van GENABITH, Iddo LEV
• grammar formalisms--Presley IFUKOR, Nisheeth JOSHI
• grammar induction--Aoife CAHILL, Ruth O'DONOVAN, Natalie SCHLUTER
• grammar writing and engineering--Christopher CULY, Tracy Holloway KING, Bjarne OERSNES, Veit REUER, Victoria ROSÉN
• grammatical functions/relations--Anna KIBORT, Tara Warrier MOHANAN, Thomas WIER
• grammatical theory--Ronald KAPLAN
  
  
• historical linguistics--Kersti BÖRJARS, Miriam BUTT, Adam J. DEXTER
• historial morphology--Cynthia ALLEN
• historical syntax--Cynthia ALLEN, Paul HIRSCHBÜHLER
• HPSG--Valia KORDONI, Louisa SADLER
• human language comprehension and production--Roger LEVY
• hybrid machine translation--Andy WAY
  
  
• imperatives--P. UMARANI
• inflection--Kersti BÖRJARS
• information science--Gertrud FAAß
• information structure--Muhammad ALZAIDI, Maia ANDRÉASSON, Hye-Won CHOI, Presley IFUKOR, Florian JAEGER, Tracy Holloway KING, Elisabeth MAYER, Rob O'CONNOR, Ryo OTOGURO
• information structure interactions--Rob O'CONNOR
• interface phenomena--Alex ALSINA
• internet technology--Yvan CLOUTIER
• interrogatives--Bruno ESTIGARRIBIA
  
  
• knowledge representation--Marie Fellbaum KORPI, Franck LE DUFF, Rajar Kumar MOHANTY, Iti MATHUR
  
  
• language acquisition--Farrell ACKERMAN, Bruno ESTIGARRIBIA, Jean-Philippe MARCOTTE, John MUGANE, Peter PETERSON, Ricardo SAITO, Ida TOIVONEN
• language attrition--Michael PUTNAM
• language documentation--I Wayan ARKA, Lakhan GUSAIN
• language engineering--Jonas KUHN, Jose QUESADA
• language in contact--Jane SIMPSON
• language maintenance--Jane SIMPSON
• language modelling--Jorge Antonio LEONI de León
• language teaching--One-Soon HER, Emrah OZCAN
• learnability--Jean-Philippe MARCOTTE
• lexical aquisition--Ruth O'DONOVAN, Bjarne OERSNES
• lexical conceptual structure--Sunny LEE
• Lexical Decomposition Grammar--Leonel Figueiredo de ALENCAR
• lexical mapping theory--Leonel Figueiredo de ALENCAR, Erika Z. CHISARIK
• lexical semantics--Farrell ACKERMAN, Adams BODOMO, George Aaron BROADWELL, Paul HIRSCHBÜHLER, Chu-Ren HUANG, Carmen KELLING, Valia KORDONI, Michael PUTNAM, Christoph SCHWARZE, P. UMARANI
• lexical structure--Joan BRESNAN
• lexically based grammars--Sombat KHRUATHONG
• lexicography--Maraimalai ILAKKUVANAR, Jorge Antonio LEONI de León, Emrah OZCAN, Ricardo SAITO, Jane SIMPSON
• lexicon--Christoph SCHWARZE
• LFG formalism--Avery ANDREWS
• linear logic--Richard CROUCH, Iddo LEV
• linguistic metatheory--Helge J. Jakhelln DYVIK, KP MOHANAN
• linkers--Jan STRUNK
• linking--Leonel Figueiredo de ALENCAR, Valia KORDONI
• literacy and development--Tiffany Zenith IVINS
• logic--Miltiadis Kokkonidis
• long distance dependencies--Yehuda Falk
• long distance reflexives--Tania E. STRAHAN
  
  
• machine translation--Gabriel AMORES, Aoife CAHILL, Helge J. Jakhelln DYVIK, One-Soon HER, Sombat KHRUATHONG, Lori LEVIN, Nisheeth JOSHI, Iti MATHUR, John T. MAXWELL III, Rajar Kumar MOHANTY, Kemal OFLAZER, Emrah OZCAN, Jose QUESADA, Victoria ROSÉN, Sanja SELJAN, P. UMARANI, Andy WAY
• machine translation of spoken language--Lori LEVIN
• metadata--Simon MUSGRAVE
• minimalism and interface issues--Andréa Feitosa dos SANTOS
• modality--Gyorgy RAKOSI, P. UMARANI
• morphology--Farrell ACKERMAN, Ansu BERG, Kersti BÖRJARS, Lakhan GUSAIN, Ki-Sun HONG, Maraimalai ILAKKUVANAR, Carmen KELLING, Ernest JAKAZA, Tibor LACZKO, Helge LODRUP, Ana LUIS, Sozinho Francisco MATSINHE, Sam MCHOMBO, Lunella MEREU, KP MOHANAN, John MUGANE, Rachel NORDLINGER, Brian O'HERIN, Ryo OTOGURO, Rigardt PRETORIUS, Cuthbert RAMOS, Christoph SCHWARZE, Peter SELLS, Andrew SPENCER, Ida TOIVONEN, P. UMARANI, Thomas WIER, Kenji YOKOTA
• morphology-syntax interface--Julia BARRON, Erika Z. CHISARIK, Ana LUIS, Masako OHARA, Ryo OTOGURO, Louisa SADLER, Thomas WIER
• morpho-syntax--Peter AUSTIN, Joan BRESNAN, Miriam BUTT, Lejla CEHIC, Christopher CULY, Amy DAHLSTROM, Cathryn DONOHUE, Gertrud FAAß, Martin FORST, Anna KIBORT, Tracy Holloway KING, Rachel NORDLINGER, Andrew SPENCER, Veit REUER, Yu-Ching TSENG
• morpho-syntax of Indonesian languages--I Wayan ARKA
• morpho-syntax typlogy--Stuart ROBISON
• multilingual information extraction--Thierry DECLERCK
• multimedia indexing--Thierry DECLERCK
  
  
• natural language databases--Michael BRAMANTE
• natural language processing (NLP)--Gabriel AMORES, Michael BRAMANTE, Christopher CULY, Gertrud FAAß, Chu-Ren HUANG, Presley IFUKOR, Tracy Holloway KING, Roger LEVY, Andréa Feitosa dos SANTOS, Seddik SIDRINE, P. UMARANI, Tuyet Dao VAN
• negation--P. UMARANI
• neurolinguistics--Marie Fellbaum KORPI
• non-configurationality--Peter AUSTIN, Amy DAHLSTROM
• noun phrases--Kersti BÖRJARS, Luis CASILLAS, Erika Z. CHISARIK, Jan STRUNK
  
  
• object asymmetries--Alex ALSINA
• object shift--Maia ANDREASSON
• OCP--Yu-Ching TSENG
• ontology--Franck LE DUFF, Simon MUSGRAVE
• optimality theory--Maia ANDRÉASSON, Joan BRESNAN, George Aaron BROADWELL, Hye-Won CHOI, Jonas KUHN, Peter SELLS, Yu-Ching TSENG, Lian Hee WEE
• oral literature--Alec PONGWENI
  
  
• parsing--Mohammed ATTIA, Aoife CAHILL, Lionel CLÉMENT, Nisheeth JOSHI, Ronald KAPLAN, Valia KORDONI, Jorge Antonio LEONI de León, Iti MATHUR, John T. MAXWELL III, Rajar Kumar MOHANTY, Jose QUESADA
• parsing preferences--Hanjung LEE
• phonology--Lakhan GUSAIN, KP MOHANAN, Lian Hee WEE, Karene WONG
• phonology-LFG interface--Tracy Holloway KING, KP MOHANAN, Rob O'CONNOR, Yu-Ching TSENG
• politics of language in Africa-- Sozinho Francisco MATSINHE, Sam MCHOMBO
• possessive phrases--Jan STRUNK
• pragmatics--Miltiadis Kokkonidis
• pragmatics interfaces--Muhammad ALZAIDI
• probabilistic LFG and OT--Joan BRESNAN, Jonas KUHN
• probabilistic models--Roger LEVY
• probabilistic parsing--Martin FORST, Natalie SCHLUTER
• production and perception--Kathleen MORTON
• pronominal demonstratives--Tania E. STRAHAN
• prosody-semantics interface--Muhammad ALZAIDI
• prosody-syntax interface--Muhammad ALZAIDI
• psycholinguistics--Ash ASUDEH, Marie Fellbaum KORPI, Jean-Philippe MARCOTTE
• psych verbs--Valia KORDONI
  
  
• reference-tracking systems--Amy DAHLSTROM
• relevance theory--Muhammad ALZAIDI
• relative clauses--Peter PETERSON, Ilona SPECTOR
• robust parsing--Valia KORDONI, Veit REUER
  
  
• second language systems--Bruno DI BIASE, Marie Fellbaum KORPI, KP MOHANAN
• semantic case--Valia KORDONI
• semantic underspecification--Richard CROUCH, Iddo LEV
• partial semantics--Thierry DECLERCK
• semantics--Muhammad ALZAIDI, Ash ASUDEH, Lionel CLÉMENT, Mary DALRYMPLE, Helge J. Jakhelln DYVIK, Anette FRANK, Lakhan GUSAIN, Ki-Sun HONG, Lauri KARTTUNEN, Miltiadis Kokkonidis, Valia KORDONI, Jonas KUHN, Ernest JAKAZA, Iddo LEV, Sam MCHOMBO, KP MOHANAN, Tara Warrier MOHANAN, NGUYEN Tuan Dang, Gyorgy RAKOSI, Cuthbert RAMOS, Sanja SELJAN, Jane SIMPSON, Tuyet Dao VAN
• semantics-morphology interface--Julia BARRON
• semantics-syntax interface--Carmen KELLING
• serial verbs--Avery ANDREWS, Julia BERND, Christopher MANNING
• spoken dialogue systems--Björn GAMBÄCK, Jose QUESADA
• statistical approaches to stylistics--Stella MARKANTONATOU
• statistical methods in linguistic theory--Aoife CAHILL, Christopher MANNING, Tuyet Dao VAN
• statistical natural language processing--Mike CALCAGNO, Christopher MANNING, Tuyet Dao VAN
• subjecthood--Yehuda FALK
• switch-reference--Peter AUSTIN, Adams BODOMO, George Aaron BROADWELL
• syntactic theory--Cynthia ALLEN, Mohammed ATTIA, Joan MALING, Jean-Philippe MARCOTTE
• syntactic typology--Joan BRESNAN, Christopher MANNING
• syntax--Farrell ACKERMAN, Khalil AHMED, Alex ALSINA, Muhammad ALZAIDI, Maia ANDRÉASSON, Ash ASUDEH, Ansu BERG, Kersti BÖRJARS, Hye-Won CHOI, Lionel CLÉMENT, Christopher CULY, Mary DALRYMPLE, Bruno ESTIGARRIBIA, Martin FORST, Lakhan GUSAIN, Anette FRANK, Paul HIRSCHBÜHLER, Alexander HORNUNG, Carmen KELLING, Tracy Holloway KING, Valia KORDONI, Jonas KUHN, Ernest JAKAZA, Tibor LACZKO, Roger LEVY, Helge LODRUP, Joan MALING, Sozinho Francisco MATSINHE, Sam MCHOMBO, Lunella MEREU, KP MOHANAN, Tara Warrier MOHANAN, John MUGANE, Bjarne OERSNES, Peter PETERSON, Rigardt PRETORIUS, Gyorgy RAKOSI, Cuthbert RAMOS, Victoria ROSÉN, Christoph SCHWARZE, Sanja SELJAN, Peter SELLS, Jane SIMPSON, Ilona SPECTOR, Ida TOIVONEN, P. UMARANI, Thomas WIER, Kenji YOKOTA, Annie ZAENEN
• syntax-discourse interface--Julia BERND
• syntax-pragmatics interface--Lunella MEREU, Victoria ROSÉN, Ilona SPECTOR
• syntax-semantics interface--Leonel Figueiredo de ALENCAR, Julia BARRON, Adams BODOMO, Luis CASILLAS, Mike CALCAGNO, Richard CROUCH, Mary DALRYMPLE, Josef van GENABITH, Iddo LEV, Dianyu LI, Yo MATSUMOTO, Bjarne OERSNES, Masako OHARA, Michael PUTNAM, Victoria ROSÉN, Andréa Feitosa dos SANTOS, Sebastian SULGER, Ida TOIVONEN, Karene WONG
• speech synthesis--Kathleen MORTON
• surface realization--Aoife CAHILL
  
  
• terminology--Yvan CLOUTIER, Emrah OZCAN, Ricardo SAITO
• text technology--Presley IFUKOR
• thematic roles--Adam J. DEXTER
• tone--George Aaron BROADWELL, Cathryn DONOHUE
• transfer--Anette FRANK
• translation--Helge J. Jakhelln DYVIK, John T. MAXWELL III, Andrei PREOBRAZHENSKY
• tree banks--Koenraad DE SMEDT, Victoria ROSÉN, Andy WAY
• treebank-based acquisition of LFG resources--Grzegorz CHRUPALA
• typology--Alexander HORNUNG, Anna KIBORT, Hanjung LEE, Tara Warrier MOHANAN, Simon MUSGRAVE, Rachel NORDLINGER, P. UMARANI
• typos--Alexander HORNUNG
  
  
• UMLS--Franck LE DUFF
• unification--Jose QUESADA
• unification-based shallow parsing--Thierry DECLERCK
• unification-based syntax and semantics--Björn GAMBÄCK
  
  
• variation--Julia BERND, Michael PUTNAM
• voice and valency--Leonel Figueiredo de ALENCAR, Thomas WIER
  
  
• word order--Maia ANDRÉASSON, George Aaron BROADWELL, Hye-Won CHOI, Nisheeth JOSHI, Hanjung LEE, Iti MATHUR
  
  
• X-bar theory--Adam J. DEXTER, Yehuda FALK