Genady Beryozkin (Technion): The Lost Reading of Control Sentences and Plural Semantics in Glue.
M.Sc. thesis under supervision of Prof. Nissim Francez.

Abstract
Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) is a linguistic theory that provides a formal framework for description
of natural languages, such as Hebrew or English. The main focus of LFG is the syntactic and grammatical relations
between the parts of a sentence. Glue Semantics complements LFG by providing a bridge between LFG analysis of a sentence
and its formal semantic representation.
Until recently, the combination of LFG and Glue did not provide an adequate semantic analysis of split control sentences such as
"John persuaded Mary to meet in the restaurant". The desired meaning of this sentence is that it will be John and Mary
meeting in the restaurant. At the semantic level, both the meaning of  "John" and the meaning of "Mary" contribute to the meaning of
the understood subject of the controlled verb "(to) meet".
Two extensions of LFG and Glue are proposed in order to derive  the meaning of such sentences. The "multi-functional control" extension
to the standard LFG analysis proposes a new way to represent the contribution of multiple grammatical functions to the understood subject
of the controlled sentence. The "meta meaning constructors" extension of  Glue describes how to derive the meaning of such representation.
As an additional result, meta-meaning constructors can be used to solve the problem of coordination of more than two conjuncts.

The work was presented at the LFG04 Conference, Christchurch, NZ.