Lexical functional grammar / Mary Dalrymple.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dalrymple, Mary.

Series:

Syntax and Semantics 34.

Syntax and semantics, 0092-4563 ; v. 34

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lexical-functional grammar.

Semantics.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (498 p.)

Place of Publication:

San Diego : Academic Press.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Volume 34 of Syntax and Semantics is a thorough and accessible overview and introduction to Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG), a theory of the content and representation of different aspects of linguistic structure and the relations that hold between them. The book motivates and describes the two syntactic structures of LFG: surface phrasal organization is represented by a context-free phrase structure tree, and more abstract functional syntactic relations like subject and object are represented separately, at functional structure.The book also presents a theory of semantics and the syntax-semantics interface in which the meaning of an utterance is obtained via deduction from semantic premises contributed by its parts. Clear explication of the formal aspects of the theory is provided throughout, and differences between LFG and other linguistic theories are explored. The theory is illustrated by the analysis of a varied set of linguistic phenomena, including modification, control, anaphora, coordination, and long-distance dependencies. Besides its interest to linguists, LFG also has practical applications in computational linguistics and computer science.This book offers thorough overview of the state of the art in Lexical Functional Grammar. It presents clear explanation of the formal tools of the theory. It also offers introduction to the \'glue\' semantics, a theory of the syntax-semantics interface. It also presents in-depth syntactic and semantic analysis of a variety of linguistic constructions.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

1: Background And Theoretical Assumptions

2: Functional Structure

3: Constituent Structure

4: Syntactic Correspondences

5: Describing Syntactic Structures

6: Syntactic Relations And Syntactic Constraints

7: Beyond Syntax: Nonsyntactic Structures

8: Argument Structure And Mapping Theory

9: Meaning And Semantic Composition

10: Modification

11: Anaphora

12: Functional And Anaphoric Control

13: Coordination

14: Long-Distance Dependencies

15: Related Research Threads And New Directions

Appendix: Proof Rules For Linear Logic

Bibliography

Author Index

Language Index

Subject Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 435-461) and indexes.

ISBN:

9780585492216

0585492212

9781849500104

184950010X

OCLC:

54380564

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9781849500104 DOI