| Description |
1 online resource (449 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
A speculation about what linguistic structures might be / Avery Andrews -- The unrealized and the unheard / Ash Asudeh -- An LFG analysis of AANN constructions: 'a staggering ten doctoral dissertations' / Bozhil Hristov -- On the construct state in Arabic / Louisa Sadler -- Agreement in Urdu adjectival adverbials / Miriam Butt and Tracy Holloway King -- An LFG approach to Icelandic reciprocal constructions / Peter Hurst and Rachel Nordlinger -- Four Swedish verbs and a functional distinction / Annie Zaenen and Elisabeth Engdahl -- Deagentivizing Norwegian verbs with reflexive and body part objects / Helge Lødrup -- Perception verbs, copy raising, and evidentiality in Swedish and English / Ida Toivonen -- Subjects in Austronesian: evidence from Kelabit / Charlotte Hemmings -- Pivot and puzzling relativization in Indonesian / I Wayan Arka -- Coordinate structures without syntactic categories / Adam Przepiórkowski and Agnieszka Patejuk -- Decategorialization and Chinese nouns / Kersti Börjars and John Payen -- The 'of' word / Nigel Vincent -- Paradigm structure influences syntactic behaviour: Ossetic case inflection / Oleg Belyaev -- 'Wh'-question intonation in Standard Colloquial Bengali: a lexical-functional grammar analysis / Louise Mycock et al. -- Collectivist semantics / Dick Crouch and Aikaterini-Lida Kalouli -- Asymmetric anaphoric dependencies determine available readings for VP-ellipsis / Andrew Kehler -- Meaning in LDF / Jamie Y. Findlay |
| Summary |
"Modular design of grammar: Linguistics on the edge presents the cutting edge of research on 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, with each module having its coherent properties and being related to each other by correspondence functions. Following a detailed introduction, Part I scrutinises the nature of linguistic structures, interfaces and representations in LFG's architecture and ontology. Parts II and III are concerned with problems, analyses and generalisations associated with linguistic phenomena which are of long-standing theoretical significance, including agreement, reciprocals, possessives, reflexives, raising, subjecthood, and relativisation, 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 which result 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"--Publisher's description |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed on July 28, 2022) |
| Subject |
Lexical-functional grammar.
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Lexical-functional grammar
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Arka, I Wayan, editor.
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Asudeh, Ash, editor.
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King, Tracy Holloway, 1966- editor.
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| ISBN |
9780192659293 |
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0192659294 |
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9780191937200 |
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0191937207 |
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