Lexical-Functional Syntax is the definitive text for Lexical-Functional Grammar in the field of syntax. Complete with integrated pedagogy and problem sets to support the text, this book provides an accessible, empirically-motivated treatment of the mathematical architecture of LFG. It also covers the theoretical linguistic ideas that LFG can model, and discusses the wide range of cross-linguistic syntactic phenomena to which it has been applied.
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"This is a clear, user-friendly, and authoritative presentation of LFG by one its principal architects. Readers of all kinds - neophytes, LFG-insiders, and aficionados of other models - will find much to enthuse and entertain them. This is a major contribution to the theoretical syntactic literature." Nigel Vincent, University of Manchester
"This is a very important book. Bresnan combines her famously lucid prose style, her unobtrusive erudition, and a penetrating grasp of the issues to provide an overview of LFG that will be greatly welcomed by advanced student and researcher alike. The remarkable empirical and theoretical breadth of the work make this essential reading for all serious students of syntax and morphosyntax, regardless of their theoretical persuasion." Andrew Spencer, University of Essex
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Lexical-Functional Syntax is the definitive text for Lexical-Functional Grammar in the field of syntax. Complete with integrated pedagogy and problem sets to support the text, this book provides an accessible, empirically motivated treatment of the mathematical architecture of LFG. It also covers the theoretical linguistic ideas that LFG can model, and discusses the wide range of crosslinguistic syntactic phenomena to which it has been applied.
The volume is essential to students and researchers who wish to look outside the Chomskyan framework for syntax. It shows why the Chomskyan formal architecture of structural transformations is less attractive for certain types of syntactic phenomena than an architecture of imperfect correspondences between parallel information structures. The book also illustrates how the best ideas from the transformational framework can be captured in a natural way. It gives a clear introduction to the fundamentals of a feature-logic based framework for syntax and provides extensive discussion of crosslinguistic applications, of particular interest to practitioners of feature-logic based approaches such as HPSG and Categorical Unification Grammar.
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One fundamental problem for the design of universal grammar is the great variability in modes of expression of languages. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
morpholexical specifications, nonargument functions, minimal nucleus containing, endocentric principles, grammaticalized discourse functions, logophoric condition, topicality condition, configurational design, extended coherence condition, pronoun hann, grammatical agreement marker, syntactic rank, lexical mapping theory, minimal finite clause, subject outranks, semantic expressivity, anaphoric control, inherent lexical content, incorporated pronoun, initial syntactic structure, adjective conversion, functional schemata, nonsubject antecedents, logophoric reference, functional uniqueness Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Nom Dat, West Flemish, Plains Cree, Old English, Nom Acc, Nom Neg, Relative Head, Southern Californian, Ulster Irish, Acc Tetar, Adele Goldberg, Discourse Representation Theory, Eugene Onegin, Fassi Fehri, Nstem Vsuff, West African New!
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One fundamental problem for the design of universal grammar is the great variability in modes of expression of languages. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
morpholexical specifications, nonargument functions, minimal nucleus containing, endocentric principles, grammaticalized discourse functions, logophoric condition, topicality condition, configurational design, extended coherence condition, pronoun hann, grammatical agreement marker, syntactic rank, lexical mapping theory, minimal finite clause, subject outranks, semantic expressivity, anaphoric control, inherent lexical content, incorporated pronoun, initial syntactic structure, adjective conversion, functional schemata, nonsubject antecedents, logophoric reference, functional uniqueness Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Nom Dat, West Flemish, Plains Cree, Old English, Nom Acc, Nom Neg, Relative Head, Southern Californian, Ulster Irish, Acc Tetar, Adele Goldberg, Discourse Representation Theory, Eugene Onegin, Fassi Fehri, Nstem Vsuff, West African New!
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- Lexical-Functional Grammar (Syntax and Semantics, Volume 34) (Syntax and Semantics) (Syntax and Semantics) by Mary Dalrymple in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Complex Predicates (Center for the Study of Language and Information - Lecture Notes) by Alex Alsina in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Eugene Onegin (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature) by A.S. Pushkin on page 186, and page 187
- Optimality-Theoretic Syntax (Language, Speech, and Communication) by Géraldine Legendre in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Eugene Onegin (Everyman's Library Pocket Poet) by Aleksandr Pushkin on page 186, and page 187
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- Syntax: A Generative Introduction (Introducing Linguistics) by Andrew Carnie on page 357, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Semantic Role Universals And Argument Linking: Theoretical, Typological, And Psycholinguistic Perspectives (Trends in Linguistics: Studies and Monographs 165) by Ina Bornkessel on page 124, and page 233
- Non-Projecting Words: A Case Study of Swedish Particles (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory) by I. Toivonen in Back Matter
- Treebanks: Building and Using Parsed Corpora (Text, Speech and Language Technology) by A. Abeillé in Back Matter
- A History of English: A Sociolinguistic Approach (Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics) by Barbara Fennell in Front Matter
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