Lexical-Functional Syntax

Informationen zum Autor Joan Bresnan is Sadie Dernham Patek Professor in Humanities Emerita at Stanford University and a Senior Researcher at Stanford's Center for the Study of Language and Information. One of the principal architects of lexical-functional grammar, Bresnan is a former President of the Linguistic Society of America, an inaugural Fellow of the LSA, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society, a Fellow of the Center for the Advanced Study of the Behavioral Sciences, and a Guggenheim Fellow. Ash Asudeh is University Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Oxford, Hugh Price Fellow at Jesus College, and Associate Professor of Cognitive Science at Carleton University. He is a recipient of an Early Researcher Award from the Province of Ontario and the E.W. Beth Prize. He is the author of The Logic of Pronominal Resumption  (2012). Ida Toivonen is Associate Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science at Carleton University. She has published on phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics; and is the author of Non-Projecting Words (2001), and co-editor of Saami Linguistics (2007). Stephen Wechsler is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Texas. He is the author of The Semantic Basis of Argument Structure (1995), and co-author of The Many Faces of Agreement (2003). Klappentext Lexical-Functional Syntax, 2nd Edition, the definitive text for Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) with a focus on syntax, is updated to reflect recent developments in the field.* Provides both an introduction to LFG and a synthesis of major theoretical developments in lexical-functional syntax over the past few decades* Includes in-depth discussions of a large number of syntactic phenomena from typologically diverse languages* Features extensive problem sets and solutions in each chapter to aid in self-study* Incorporates reader feedback from the 1st Edition to correct errors and enhance clarity Zusammenfassung Lexical-Functional Syntax, 2nd Edition, the definitive text for Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) with a focus on syntax, is updated to reflect recent developments in the field. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface to the First Edition xi Preface to the Second Edition xv Acknowledgments xvii I Motivation for the LFG Architecture 1 1 Nonconfigurationality 3 Further reading 10 2 Movement Paradoxes 11 2.1 Theoretical assumptions 15 Further reading and discussion 19 3 Lexicality and Argument Structure 21 3.1 Two approaches to passive relation changes 21 3.2 The lexicality of relation changes 23 3.2.1 English passive verb forms 24 3.2.2 Adjectives versus verbs 24 3.2.3 Participle-adjective conversion 25 3.2.4 Passive participles convert to adjectives 25 3.2.5 Differences between adjectival and verbal passives explained 27 3.2.6 Differences between adjectival and verbal passives unexplained 28 3.2.7 Conclusion: passivization is lexical 32 3.3 Passivization with and without movement 32 Further reading and discussion 36 II Formally Modeling the Architecture 39 4 A Formal Model of Syntactic Structure 41 4.1 Design principles 41 4.1.1 Principle I: variability 41 4.1.2 Principle II: universality 42 4.1.3 Principle III: monotonicity 43 4.2 The definition of f-structures 44 4.3 The description of f-structures 46 4.4 The correspondence between c- and f-structures 48 4.5 The solution algorithm 54 Problems 58 4.6 Defining versus constraining equations 59 4.7 Completeness and coherence 62 Problems 63 4.8 Functional uncertainty 63 4.9 Sets of f-structures 70 4.10 Conc...

List of contents

Preface to the First Edition xi
 
Preface to the Second Edition xv
 
Acknowledgments xvii
 
I Motivation for the LFG Architecture 1
 
1 Nonconfigurationality 3
 
Further reading 10
 
2 Movement Paradoxes 11
 
2.1 Theoretical assumptions 15
 
Further reading and discussion 19
 
3 Lexicality and Argument Structure 21
 
3.1 Two approaches to passive relation changes 21
 
3.2 The lexicality of relation changes 23
 
3.2.1 English passive verb forms 24
 
3.2.2 Adjectives versus verbs 24
 
3.2.3 Participle-adjective conversion 25
 
3.2.4 Passive participles convert to adjectives 25
 
3.2.5 Differences between adjectival and verbal passives explained 27
 
3.2.6 Differences between adjectival and verbal passives unexplained 28
 
3.2.7 Conclusion: passivization is lexical 32
 
3.3 Passivization with and without movement 32
 
Further reading and discussion 36
 
II Formally Modeling the Architecture 39
 
4 A Formal Model of Syntactic Structure 41
 
4.1 Design principles 41
 
4.1.1 Principle I: variability 41
 
4.1.2 Principle II: universality 42
 
4.1.3 Principle III: monotonicity 43
 
4.2 The definition of f-structures 44
 
4.3 The description of f-structures 46
 
4.4 The correspondence between c- and f-structures 48
 
4.5 The solution algorithm 54
 
Problems 58
 
4.6 Defining versus constraining equations 59
 
4.7 Completeness and coherence 62
 
Problems 63
 
4.8 Functional uncertainty 63
 
4.9 Sets of f-structures 70
 
4.10 Conclusion 71
 
Further reading 72
 
5 Monotonicity and Some of Its Consequences 73
 
5.1 Monotonicity 73
 
5.2 Relation changes and monotonicity 76
 
5.3 Information and form 79
 
5.3.1 The fragmentability of language 79
 
5.3.2 The nonconfigurationality of language 82
 
5.3.3 Apparent information flow through external structure 83
 
5.3.4 Noncompositionality 84
 
5.4 Conclusion 85
 
III Inflectional Morphology and Phrase Structure Variation 87
 
6 A Theory of Structure-Function Mappings 89
 
6.1 Grammatical functions 94
 
6.1.1 Basics of grammatical functions 94
 
6.1.2 Classification of grammatical functions 100
 
6.2 The organization of c-structure categories 101
 
6.2.1 Endocentricity and X' structures 101
 
6.2.2 Endocentric mapping to f-structure 104
 
Problems 111
 
6.3 Exocentric categories 112
 
6.3.1 Lexocentricity and S 112
 
6.3.2 S and endocentricity 115
 
6.3.3 Nonprojecting words 116
 
6.3.4 Summary of the structure-function principles 117
 
6.4 Toward a typology 118
 
6.5 Effects of economy of expression 119
 
Further reading and discussion 124
 
Appendix: X' theory 125
 
7 Endocentricity and Heads 129
 
7.1 Head mobility 129
 
7.1.1 Verb order in Welsh 130
 
7.2 Endocentricity and extended heads 135
 
7.3 Distributed exponence 138
 
7.3.1 Wambaya c-structure 139
 
7.3.2 The Wambaya tense system 144
 
7.4 Conclusion 146
 
Problems 147
 
Exercise 147
 
8 Pronoun Incorporation and Agreement 151
 
8.1 Chichew^ a 157
 
8.1.1 Word order 161
 
8.1.2 Independent pronouns 162
 
8.1.3 Contrastive focus 164
 
8.1.4 Interrogatives and relatives 165
 
8.1.5 Other syntactic and phonological differences 166
 
8.1.6 Fu

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• Authors: As Asudeh, Ash Asudeh, Asudeh Ash, J Bresnan, Joa Bresnan, Joan Bresnan, Joan Asudeh Bresnan, Joan W Bresnan, Joan W. Bresnan, Joan W. Asudeh Bresnan, Bresnan Joan, Ida Toivonen, Ida et al Toivonen, Toivonen Ida, Stephen Wechsler, Wechsler Stephen
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.08.2015
• EAN: 9781405187817
• ISBN: 978-1-4051-8781-7
• No. of pages: 544
• Series: Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics; Blackwell Textbooks in Linguis; Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes > Adult education class / course materials (language); Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies; Syntax, Linguistics, Sprachwissenschaften, Grammar, syntax and morphology