Modular design of grammar : linguistics on the edge / edited by I. Wayan Arka, Ash Asudeh, Tracy Holloway King.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Arka, I Wayan, editor.

Asudeh, Ash, editor.

King, Tracy Holloway, 1966- editor.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lexical-functional grammar.

Linguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (449 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

This volume presents the latest research in linguistic modules and interfaces in Lexical-Functional Grammar. It draws on data from a range of typologically diverse languages, including Arabic, Icelandic, Kelabit, Polish, and Urdu, and will be of interest to all those working on linguistic interfaces from a variety of theoretical standpoints.

Contents:

Cover

Modular Design of Grammar

Copyright

Contents

Preface

List of Abbreviations

The Contributors

Introduction

Ronald M. Kaplan and Joan Bresnan

Part I. Architecture and ontology

Part II. Constructions and agreement in a modular architecture

Part III. Argument structure and grammatical functions

Part IV. Categories: synchrony and diachrony

Part V. Representations beyond syntax

Part I architecture and ontology

A speculation about what linguistic structures might be

Avery Andrews

2.1 Early generative practice

2.1.1 Phrase structure

2.1.2 Transformational Grammar

2.1.3 Later developments

2.2 Proof equivalence

2.3 Structures as equivalence classes of computations

2.4 Conclusion

The unrealized and the unheard

Ash Asudeh

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Capturing the unrealized and the unheard

3.2.1 Null elements

3.2.2 Semantically required optional elements

3.2.3 Argument structure alternations

3.2.4 Constructional effects

3.3 Conclusion

Part II constructions and agreement in a modular architecture

An LFG analysis of AANN constructions

Bozhil Hristov

4.1 Introduction

4.2 A new proposal

4.2.1 Phrase structure

4.2.2 F-structure: the concord and index attributes

4.2.3 Scope and merits of the current proposal

4.2.4 Summary and further illustration of the proposal

4.2.4.1 AANN

4.2.4.2 Other quantified NPs

4.2.4.3 Post-modifying relative clauses

4.2.4.4 Individuating adjectives and non-measure nouns

4.2.4.5 A note on noun-modifier agreement

4.2.4.6 A note on verb agreement

4.2.5 Formalizing the proposal

4.3 Conclusion

On the construct state in Arabic

Louisa Sadler

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Basic description

5.3 Constituent structure

5.4 Functional structure

5.4.1 Falk's analysis of Modern Hebrew.

5.5 An analysis for Arabic

5.6 Conclusion

Agreement in Urdu adjectival adverbials

Miriam Butt and Tracy Holloway King

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Basic Agreement in Urdu

6.2.1 Adjectival agreement

6.2.2 Verbal agreement

6.3 Adjectival adverbs

6.3.1 Analysis of resultatives

6.3.2 AdjAdv agreement

6.3.3 AdjAdv phrase structure

6.4 LFG analysis

6.5 Conclusion

An LFG approach to Icelandic reciprocal constructions

Peter Hurst and Rachel Nordlinger

7.1 Introduction

7.2 Reciprocals in Icelandic: standard construction

7.2.1 Gender in the reciprocal construction

7.2.2 Number in the reciprocal construction

7.3 Case and word order

7.4 Analysis

7.4.1 Hver as a determiner

7.4.2 Annar

7.4.3 Anaphoric reciprocal constructions

7.4.4 The phrasal reciprocal construction

7.4.5 The fixed case reciprocal construction

7.4.6 A short note on reciprocal semantics

7.5 Conclusion

Part III argument structure and grammatical functions

Four Swedish verbs and a functional distinction

Annie Zaenen and Elisabet Engdahl

8.1 Introduction

8.2 COMP and OBJ verbs

8.2.1 tro

8.2.2 anta

8.2.3 yrka

8.2.4 glo¨mma

8.3 Conclusion

Deagentivizing Norwegian verbs with reflexive and body part objects

Helge Lødrup

9.1 Introduction

9.2 Verbs in the skade `hurt' group

9.2.1 Argument structure

9.2.2 The status of the subject

9.2.3 The status of the object

9.3 Verbs in the operere `operate' group

9.4 Conclusion

Perception verbs, copy raising, and evidentiality in Swedish and English

Ida Toivonen

10.1 Introduction

10.2 Evidentiality

10.3 The copy pronoun

10.4 Variation

10.5 English and Swedish truth-judgement experiments

10.6 Concluding remarks

Subjects in Austronesian

Charlotte Hemmings

11.1 Introduction.

11.2 Western Austronesian verbal morphology

11.3 The subject debate

11.4 Grammatical functions in Kelabit

11.4.1 Privileged argument as subject

11.4.1.1 Coding

11.4.1.2 Preverbal position

11.4.1.3 Relativization

11.4.1.4 Raising

11.4.1.5 Control

11.4.2 Privileged argument as topic

11.4.3 The non-privileged actor and undergoer as object

11.4.3.1 Coding

11.4.3.2 Post-verbal position

11.4.3.3 No adjunct fronting

11.5 Implications of the analysis

11.6 Conclusion

Pivot and puzzling relativizationin Indonesian

I Wayan Arka

12.1 Introduction

12.2 The relativization puzzles

12.3 SUBJECT, SI, and CI: an overview

12.4 Analysis

12.4.1 Pivot and the prominence of FOC

12.4.2 Prominence, structural adjacency, and the filler-gap identification

12.4.3 Voice and verbal voice morphology

12.4.4 The puzzles explained

12.4.4.1 Unacceptable with or without pronominal copy

12.4.4.2 Acceptable relativization of OBJ with the nasal (AV) verb: FOC-C SUBJ

12.4.4.3 Acceptable relativization of OBJ with an oral AV verb in CI

12.4.4.4 Pronominal copy

12.5 Conclusions

Part IV Categories: synchrony and diachrony

Coordinate structures without syntactic categories

Adam Przepio´rkowski and Agnieszka Patejuk

13.1 Introduction

13.2 Dalrymple (2017)

13.3 Against syntactic categories of coordinate structures

13.4 Morphosyntactic and lexical features in c-structure?

13.5 Syntactic categories within f-structure

13.6 Syntactic categories, distributivity, and co-heads

13.7 Conclusion

Decategorialization and Chinese nouns

Kersti Bo¨rjars and John Payne

14.1 Introduction

14.2 Origins

14.2.1 Development of unit word system

14.2.2 Development of individual unit words

14.3 Properties of measure words

14.3.1 Comparison with nouns.

14.3.2 Comparison with classifiers

14.4 Analysis

14.5 Conclusions

The `of' word

Nigel Vincent

Part V representations beyond syntax

Paradigm structure influences syntactic behaviour

Oleg Belyaev

16.1 Introduction

16.2 Ossetic: Trivia

16.3 Case in Ossetic: An overview

16.3.1 Noun

16.4 Morphosyntactic challenge: The data

16.4.1 Suspended affixation

16.4.2 The preposition 3n3

16.5 Analysis

16.5.1 Informal proposal

16.5.2 Syntax

16.5.2.1 Nouns

16.5.2.2 Pronouns

16.5.2.3 Preposition

16.5.3 Alternatives to lexical sharing

16.5.3.1 Edge feature spreading

16.5.3.2 Case markers as clitics

16.5.4 Morphology-syntax interface

16.5.4.1 Ossetic nominal morphology in PFM

16.5.4.2 Mapping morphology to syntax

16.6 Conclusion

`Wh'-question intonation in Standard Colloquial Bengali

Louise Mycock, Chenzi Xu, and Aditi Lahiri

17.1 Introduction

17.2 Background: Intonational phonology and Bengali

17.3 Methodology

17.4 Results

17.4.1 Single-clause `wh'-questions in SCB

17.4.2 Multi-clause `wh'-questions in SCB

17.4.3 `Wh' scope marking

17.4.4 Summary

17.5 LFG analysis of multiple and multi-clause`wh'-question intonation in SCB

17.5.1 Analysing intonational phonology in LFG

17.5.2 Multiple and multi-clause `wh'-question intonation in SCB

17.5.2.1 Indirect multiple `wh'-question

17.5.2.2 Multi-clause matrix multiple `wh'-question

17.6 Conclusions

Collectivist semantics

Dick Crouch and Aikaterini-Lida Kalouli

18.1 Introduction

18.2 Description Logics

18.3 Description Logic without individuals

18.3.1 Nominal concepts

18.3.2 Role restrictions and semantic roles

18.3.3 Conceptual interpretation

18.3.3.1 Concept lattices

18.3.3.2 Concept Lattices and ALC

18.4 Graphical Knowledge Representation (GKR).

18.4.1 Brief history

18.4.2 The Representation

18.5 A Semantics for GKR

18.6 Conclusion

Asymmetric anaphoric dependencies determine available readings for VP-ellipsis

Andrew Kehler

19.1 Background

19.2 Sloppy readings, missing readings, and anaphoric dependencies

19.3 Augmenting DSP

19.4 VPE as an anaphoric form

19.4.1 Augmented DSP solution

19.5 Conclusion

Meaning in LFG

Jamie Y. Findlay

20.1 Introduction

20.2 Background

20.2.1 Constraint-based grammar

20.2.2 The projection architecture

20.2.3 Co-description and description by analysis

20.3 Meaning in the projection architecture

20.3.1 Pre-Glue

20.3.2 Post-Glue

20.3.2.1 Semantic structure as the interface with information structure

20.3.2.2 The feature index

20.3.2.3 Connected semantic structures

20.3.3 New glue

20.3.4 Summary

20.4 Proposal

20.4.1 Two kinds of constraint

20.4.2 Meaning constraints vs. meaning constructors

20.4.3 A simple example

20.4.4 Quantifiers

20.4.5 Modification

20.4.6 From s-structure to a model-theoretic interpretation

20.5 Applications/implications

20.5.1 Idioms

20.5.2 Information structure

20.6 Conclusions

References

Index.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-193720-7

0-19-265929-4