From quirky case to representing space : papers in honor of Annie Zaenen / edited by Tracy Holloway King and Valeria de Paiva.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Zaenen, Annie E. (Annie Else), 1941-

King, Tracy Holloway, 1966-

De Paiva, Valeria.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lexical-functional grammar.

Linguistics.

Physical Description:

ix, 232 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Center for the Study of Language and Information, [2013]

Summary:

Annie Zaenen's research has broadly influenced the field of linguistics from details of lexical representation to the architecture of formal linguistic theories. The papers in this volume reflect three major themes from her research: Mapping from arguments to syntax; views on syntax; semantics and beyond. These contributions reflect Zaenen's academic rigor and honesty, and her insistence that research must involve an unerring devotion to the details of the languages themselves and to the theories which account for the phenomena that those details reveal. Zaenen's seminal work on Lexical Mapping Theory, which governs the mapping from thematic roles to grammatical functions, is a cornerstone of Lexical Functional Grammar and has been a topic of active research for over twenty years. Her work on syntax covers a broad range of concerns from the fundamental role of syntax in the broader architecture of linguistic theory to the (non-) existence of traces and their role in word order constraints cross-linguistically. Zaenen's early work on mapping between thematic role information and syntax grew into research on the semantic representation of verbs, their arguments, and the events which they comprise, resulting in fundamental research on interaction of the lexicon, the syntax and then the semantics. Her work has played a key role both in the evolution of linguistic theory and in establishing the complexity of the data which must be accounted for. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Introduction / Daniel G. Bobrow Bobrow, Daniel G., Ronald M. Kaplan Kaplan, Ronald M., Tracy Holloway King King, Tracy Holloway, Valeria de Paiva Paiva, Valeria de 1

I Mapping from Arguments to Syntax 7

2 Proto-Properties in Argument Realization / Farrell Ackerman Ackerman, Farrell, John Moore Moore, John 9

3 Do You Always Fear What Frightens You? / Beth Levin Levin, Beth, Jason Grafmiller Grafmiller, Jason 21

4 Mismatched Spanish Unaccusativity Tests / Raúl Aranovich Aranovich, Raúl 33

5 Lexical Mapping Theory Revisited: One-Soon Her 47

6 Argument Structure of Quirky Algonquian Verbs / Amy Dahlstrom Dahlstrom, Amy 61

II Views on Syntax 73

7 A Tour of Grammar Formalisms / Anette Frank Frank, Anette 75

8 They Whispered me the Answer / Marilyn Ford Ford, Marilyn, Joan Bresnan Bresnan, Joan 95

9 Nothing Personal? / Joan Maling Maling, Joan, Sigrídur Sigurjónsdóttir Sigurjónsdóttir, Sigrídur 109

10 Down with Obliques? / György Rákosi Rákosi, György 127

11 Nested and Crossed Dependencies and the Existence of Traces / Mary Dalrymple Dalrymple, Mary, Tracy Holloway King King, Tracy Holloway 139

III Semantics and Beyond 153

12 Representing Paths of Motion in VerbNet / Jena D. Hwang Hwang, Jena D., Martha Palmer Palmer, Martha, Annie Zaenen Zaenen, Annie 155

13 You Will Be Lucky To Break Even / Lauri Karttunen Karttunen, Lauri 167

14 On Presenting Something in English and Hungarian / Tibor Laczkó Laczkó, Tibor 181

15 A Semantic Account of Contextual Valence Shifting / Livia Polanyi Polanyi, Livia, Martin Henk van den Berg Berg, Martin Henk van den 195

16 Two Maps of Manhattan / Hinrich Schütze Schütze, Hinrich 209

IV Annie Zaenen: Curriculum Vitae and Bibliography 221

17 Curriculum Vitae and Bibliography / Annie Zaenen Zaenen, Annie 223.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1575866625

9781575866628

OCLC:

833574487