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1 online resource (xx, 835 pages) |
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Note continued: 11.1. Prosody and grammar -- 11.2. Prosody: an independent level of structure? -- 11.2.1. Direct versus indirect reference -- 11.2.2. Units, constraints, and internal structure -- 11.3. Representing prosodic structure in LFG: early approaches -- 11.4. Modeling the prosody-syntax interface -- 11.4.1. The p-string and the s-string -- 11.4.2. Edge features -- 11.5. Declarative questions -- 11.6. Prosodic focus marking -- 11.7. Further reading and related issues -- 12. The interface to morphology -- 12.1. The morphological component and the lexicon -- 12.1.1. The lexical entry -- 12.1.2. Lexemic entries and the Lexemic Index -- 12.1.3. Morphological features -- 12.1.4. The morphological realization relation R -- 12.1.5. The functional description function D -- 12.1.6.C defined in terms of D, LE, and R -- 12.2. Morphological features and morphological classes -- 12.2.1. Simple D-mappings -- 12.2.2.C-structurally relevant m-features -- 12.2.3. Mixed categories -- 12.2.4. Deponency -- 12.2.5. Lexical exceptions: f-descriptionM dependent on Lexemic Index -- 12.2.6. Feature defaults -- 12.2.7.Complex m-feature specifications -- 12.3. The description function D -- 12.3.1. Previous definitions of D -- 12.3.2. Definition of D -- 12.3.2.1. Dcat: defining the c-structure category -- 12.3.2.2. Dfeats: f-descriptions corresponding to m-features -- 12.3.2.3. Ddefault: privative m-feature and defaults -- 12.3.3. Dfeat: examples -- 12.3.3.1. Simple D-mappings from m-features to f-descriptions -- 12.3.3.2. Context-sensitive D-mappings -- 12.3.3.3. Vacuous D-mappings -- 12.3.3.4.D-mapping dependent on the LI -- 12.3.3.5.D-mapping for complex m-feature specifications -- 12.3.3.6. Case stacking and constructive case -- 12.4. Further reading and related issues -- pt. III PHENOMENA -- 13. Modification -- 13.1. Syntax of adjectival modification -- 13.1.1. Modification at functional structure -- 13.1.2. Constituent structure constraints -- 13.2. Semantic classes of adjectives -- 13.2.1. Intersective adjectives -- 13.2.2. Subsective adjectives -- 13.2.3. Nonsubsective adjectives -- 13.3. Modifiers and semantic composition -- 13.3.1. Adjectival modification -- 13.3.2. Gradable adjectives -- 13.3.3. Nonsubsective adjectives -- 13.4. Recursive modification -- 13.4.1. Meaning constructors for modifiers -- 13.4.2. Modification of modifiers -- 13.4.3. Modified gradable adjectives -- 13.4.4. Modified nonsubsective adjectives -- 13.5. Adverbial modification -- 13.5.1. Adverbs at c-structure and f-structure -- 13.5.2. Adverbs and semantic composition -- 13.5.2.1. Adverb meaning -- 13.5.2.2. Adverbs and meaning assembly -- 13.6. Further reading and related issues -- 14. Anaphora -- 14.1. Incorporated pronouns and pro-drop -- 14.2. Binding relations -- 14.2.1. Positive binding constraints -- 14.2.2. Negative binding constraints -- 14.2.3. Positive and negative binding constraints -- 14.3. Binding and prominence -- 14.3.1. Prominence and the grammatical function hierarchy -- 14.3.2. Prominence and f-precedence -- 14.3.3. Prominence and argument structure -- 14.3.4. Prominence constraints -- 14.4. Anaphora and semantic composition -- 14.4.1. Anaphora in context -- 14.4.2. Meaning and context update -- 14.4.3. Anaphora and meaning assembly -- 14.4.3.1. Positive binding constraints -- 14.4.3.2. Negative binding constraints -- 14.4.3.3. Intersentential anaphora -- 14.4.3.4. Discourse Representation Structures and meaning assembly -- 14.4.3.5. Context update -- 14.4.3.6. Anaphora: combining clauses -- 14.4.3.7. Indefinites in context -- 14.4.3.8. Indefinites as antecedents -- 14.4.4. Context and quantifiers -- 14.5. Further reading and related issues -- 15. Functional and anaphoric control -- 15.1. Open complements and functional control -- 15.1.1. Evidence for functional control -- 15.1.2. Constituent structure and functional constraints -- 15.1.3. Backward control and subsumption -- 15.2. Raising verbs and semantic composition -- 15.2.1. Semantics of raising verbs -- 15.2.2. Raising verbs and meaning assembly -- 15.2.3. Copy raising -- 15.3. Closed complements and anaphoric control -- 15.3.1. Obligatory anaphoric control -- 15.3.2. Anaphoric versus functional control -- 15.3.3. Constituent structure and functional constraints -- 15.4. Equi verbs and semantic composition -- 15.4.1. Semantics of equi verbs -- 15.4.2. Equi and obligatory anaphoric control -- 15.4.3. Equi and functional control -- 15.5. Arbitrary anaphoric control -- 15.5.1. Syntax of arbitrary control -- 15.5.2. Semantics of arbitrary control -- 15.5.3. Arbitrary control and meaning assembly -- 15.6. Partial (quasi-obligatory) control -- 15.7. The controller in anaphoric or functional control -- 15.7.1. Syntactic requirements -- 15.7.2. Semantic requirements -- 15.8. Control in adjuncts -- 15.8.1. Functional control and XADJ -- 15.8.2. Open adjuncts and semantic composition -- 15.8.3. Anaphoric control and ADJ -- 15.8.4. Controlled adjuncts and semantic composition -- 15.9. Further reading and related issues -- 16. Coordination -- 16.1. Clausal coordination -- 16.2. Predicate coordination -- 16.3. Syntactic properties of coordinate structures -- 16.4. Nonconstituent coordination -- 16.4.1. Constituent structure constraints -- 16.4.2. Functional annotations -- 16.5. Unlike category coordination -- 16.5.1. Unlike category coordination as nonconstituent coordination -- 16.5.2. Unlike category coordination as true coordination -- 16.6. Coordination patterns crosslinguistically -- 16.7. Coordination and semantic composition -- 16.7.1. Clausal coordination -- 16.7.2. Subsentential coordination -- 16.8. Noun phrase coordination -- 16.8.1. Nominal features in coordination -- 16.8.1.1. Feature resolution in coordination: PERS and GEND -- 16.8.1.2. Distinguished conjunct agreement -- 16.8.2. Semantics of noun phrase coordination -- 16.8.3. Noun phrase coordination and meaning assembly -- 16.9. Further reading and related issues -- 17. Long-distance dependencies -- 17.1. Syntax of long-distance dependencies -- 17.1.1. Topicalization and dislocation -- 17.1.1.1. Topicalization -- 17.1.1.2. Left and right dislocation -- 17.1.2. Relative clauses -- 17.1.2.1. Category of the displaced phrase -- 17.1.2.2. Grammatical function of the displaced phrase -- 17.1.2.3. Grammatical function of the relative pronoun -- 17.1.2.4. Correlatives -- 17.1.3. Constituent questions -- 17.1-3-1. Category of the displaced phrase -- 17.1.3.2. Grammatical function of the displaced phrase -- 17.1.3.3. Grammatical function of the interrogative element -- 17.1.3.4. The Complementizer-Adjacent Extraction constraint -- 17.1.3.5. Multiple questions -- 17.1.4. The ̀tough' construction -- 17.2. Resumptive pronouns -- 17.3. Morphological marking of LDD paths -- 17.3.1. Kikuyu -- 17.3.2. Irish -- 17.4. Traces and empty categories -- 17.4.1. Outside-in or inside-out? -- 17.4.2. Evidence for traces -- 17.4.2.1. Weak crossover -- 17.4.2.2. Nested dependencies -- 17.4.2.3. Wanna contraction -- 17.5. Multiple-gap constructions -- 17.6. Relative clauses and semantic composition -- 17.6.1. Semantics of relative clauses -- 17.6.2. Relative clauses and meaning assembly -- 17.6.3. Nonrestrictive relative clauses -- 17.6.4. Resumptive pronouns and semantic composition -- 17.7. Constituent questions and semantic composition -- 17.8. Further reading and related issues -- 18. Related research threads and new directions -- 18.1. Psychological reality: processing and acquisition -- 18.1.1. Data-Oriented Parsing -- 18.1.2. Second language acquisition: Processability Theory -- 18.1.3. LFG and Optimality Theory -- 18.2. Diachrony and change -- 18.3.Computational issues: parsing, generation, and implementation -- 18.3.1. Parsing -- 18.3.2. Generation -- 18.3.3. LFG-based grammar development platforms -- 18.3.4. The PARGRAM Project |
| Summary |
This volume is the most comprehensive reference work to date on Lexical Functional Grammar. The authors provide detailed and extensive coverage of the analysis of syntax, morphology, prosody, and information structure, and how these aspects of linguistic structure interact in the nontransformational framework of LFG |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 737-805) and index |
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Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 02, 2019) |
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Lexical-functional grammar.
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Lexical-functional grammar
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Electronic book
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Lowe, John J. (John Jeffrey), 1982- author.
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Mycock, Louise, author.
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| ISBN |
9780191047954 |
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0191047953 |
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9780191874246 |
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0191874248 |
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