Full Description
This volume presents the latest research in linguistic modules and interfaces in Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG). LFG has a highly modular design that models the linguistic system as a set of discreet submodules that include, among others, constituent structure, functional structure, argument structure, semantic structure, and prosodic structure; each module has its own coherent properties and is related to other modules by correspondence functions.
Following a detailed introduction, Part I examines the nature of linguistic structures, interfaces, and representations in LFG's architecture and ontology. Parts II and III are concerned with problems, analyses, and generalizations associated with linguistic phenomena of long-standing theoretical significance, including agreement, reciprocals, possessives, reflexives, raising, subjecthood, and relativization, demonstrating how these phenomena can be naturally accounted for within LFG's modular architecture. Part IV explores issues of the synchronic and diachronic dynamics of syntactic categories in grammar, such as unlike category coordination, fuzzy categorial edges, and consequences of decategorialization, providing explicit LFG solutions to such problems, including those resulting from language change in progress. The final part re-examines and refines the precise representations and interfaces of syntax with morphology, semantics, and pragmatics to account for challenging facts such as suspended affixation, prosody in multiple question word interrogatives and information structure, anaphoric dependencies, and idioms. The volume draws on data from a range of typologically diverse languages, including Arabic, Chinese, Icelandic, Kelabit, Polish, and Urdu, and will be of interest not only to those working in LFG and related frameworks, but to all those working on linguistic interfaces from a variety of theoretical standpoints.
Contents
1: Ronald M. Kaplan and Joan Bresnan: Introduction
Part I: Architecture and ontology
2: Avery Andrews: A speculation about what linguistic structures might be
3: Ash Asudeh: The unrealized and the unheard
Part II: Constructions and agreement in a modular architecture
4: Bozhil Hristov: An LFG analysis of AANN constructions: 'A staggering ten doctoral dissertations'
5: Louisa Sadler: On the construct state in Arabic
6: Miriam Butt and Tracy Holloway King: Agreement in Urdu adjectival adverbials
7: Peter Hurst and Rachel Nordlinger: An LFG approach to Icelandic reciprocal constructions
Part III: Argument structure and grammatical functions
8: Annie Zaenen and Elisabet Engdahl: Four Swedish verbs and a functional distinction
9: Helge Lødrup: Deagentivizing Norwegian verbs with reflexive and body part objects
10: Ida Toivonen: Perception verbs, copy raising, and evidentiality in Swedish and English
11: Charlotte Hemmings: Subjects in Austronesian: Evidence from Kelabit
12: I Wayan Arka: Pivot and puzzling relativization in Indonesian
Part IV: Categories: Synchrony and diachrony
13: Adam Przepiórkowski and Agnieszka Patejuk: Coordinate structures without syntactic categories
14: Kersti Börjars and John Payne: Decategorialization and Chinese nouns
15: Nigel Vincent: The 'of' word
Part V: Representations beyond syntax
16: Oleg Belyaev: Paradigm structure influences syntactic behaviour: Ossetic case inflection
17: Louise Mycock, Chenzi Xu, and Aditi Lahiri: 'Wh'-question intonation in Standard Colloquial Bengali: An LFG analysis
18: Dick Crouch and Aikaterini-Lida Kalouli: Collectivist semantics
19: Andrew Kehler: Asymmetric anaphoric dependencies determine available readings for VP-ellipsis
20: Jamie Y. Findlay: Meaning in LFG
