A lexicalist account of argument structure : template-based phrasal LFG approaches and a lexical HPSG alternative / Stefan Müller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Müller, Stefan, 1968- author.

Series:

Conceptual foundations of language science ; 2.

Conceptual foundations of language science ; 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Construction grammar.

Lexical grammar.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 92 pages) : charts; PDF, digital file(s).

Place of Publication:

Berlin Language Science Press 2018

Berlin, Germany : Language Science Press, [2018]

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Currently, there are two prominent schools in linguistics: Minimalism (Chomsky) and Construction Grammar (Goldberg, Tomasello). Minimalism comes with the claim that our linguistic capabilities consist of an abstract, binary combinatorial operation (Merge) and a lexicon. Most versions of Construction Grammar assume that language consists of flat phrasal schemata that contribute their own meaning and may license additional arguments. This book examines a variant of Lexical Functional Grammar, which is lexical in principle but was augmented by tools that allow for the description of phrasal constructions in the Construction Grammar sense. These new tools include templates that can be used to model inheritance hierarchies and a resource driven semantics. The resource driven semantics makes it possible to reach the effects that lexical rules had, for example remapping of arguments, by semantic means. The semantic constraints can be evaluated in the syntactic component, which is basically similar to the delayed execution of lexical rules. So this is a new formalization that might be suitable to provide solutions to longstanding problems that are not available for other formalizations.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

CC BY

ISBN:

9783961101214

3961101213