Formal Issues In Lexical Functional Grammar

Author : Mary Dalrymple
Publisher : Center for the Study of Language (CSLI)
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1995-11-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1881526372

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Formal Issues in Lexical-Functional Grammar by Mary Dalrymple Pdf

Lexical-Functional Grammar was first developed by Joan Bresnan and Ronald M. Kaplan in the late 1970s, and was designed to serve as a medium for expressing and explaining important generalisations about the syntax of human languages and thus to serve as a vehicle for independent linguistic research. An equally important goal was to provide a restricted, mathematically tractable notation that could be interpreted by psychologically plausible and computationally efficient processing mechanisms. The formal architecture of LFG provides a simple set of devices for describing the common properties of all human languages and the particular properties of individual languages. This volume presents work conducted over the past several years at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, Stanford University, and elsewhere. The different sections link mathematical and computational issues and the analysis of particular linguistic phenomena in areas such as wh-constructions, anaphoric binding, word order and coordination.

Author : Mary Dalrymple
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:947127367

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Formal Issues in Lexical-functional Grammar by Mary Dalrymple Pdf

Author : Mary Dalrymple
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2001-08-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781849500104

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Lexical Functional Grammar by Mary Dalrymple Pdf

Presents an 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. This book also presents a theory of semantics and the syntax-semantics interface.

Author : Mary Dalrymple
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 2192 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783961104246

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The Handbook of Lexical Functional Grammar by Mary Dalrymple Pdf

Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) is a nontransformational theory of linguistic structure, first developed in the 1970s by Joan Bresnan and Ronald M. Kaplan, which assumes that language is best described and modeled by parallel structures representing different facets of linguistic organization and information, related by means of functional correspondences. This volume has five parts. Part I, Overview and Introduction, provides an introduction to core syntactic concepts and representations. Part II, Grammatical Phenomena, reviews LFG work on a range of grammatical phenomena or constructions. Part III, Grammatical modules and interfaces, provides an overview of LFG work on semantics, argument structure, prosody, information structure, and morphology. Part IV, Linguistic disciplines, reviews LFG work in the disciplines of historical linguistics, learnability, psycholinguistics, and second language learning. Part V, Formal and computational issues and applications, provides an overview of computational and formal properties of the theory, implementations, and computational work on parsing, translation, grammar induction, and treebanks. Part VI, Language families and regions, reviews LFG work on languages spoken in particular geographical areas or in particular language families. The final section, Comparing LFG with other linguistic theories, discusses LFG work in relation to other theoretical approaches.

Author : Kersti Börjars,Rachel Nordlinger,Louisa Sadler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107170568

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Lexical-Functional Grammar by Kersti Börjars,Rachel Nordlinger,Louisa Sadler Pdf

A step-by-step introduction to lexical-functional grammar, using data from English and a range of typologically diverse languages.

Author : Robert Borsley,Kersti Börjars
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781444395020

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Non-Transformational Syntax by Robert Borsley,Kersti Börjars Pdf

This authoritative introduction explores the four main non-transformational syntactic frameworks: Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Lexical-Functional Grammar, Categorial Grammar, and Simpler Syntax. It also considers a range of issues that arise in connection with these approaches, including questions about processing and acquisition. An authoritative introduction to the main alternatives to transformational grammar Includes introductions to three long-established non-transformational syntactic frameworks: Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Lexical-Functional Grammar, and Categorial Grammar, along with the recently developed Simpler Syntax Brings together linguists who have developed and shaped these theories to illustrate the central properties of these frameworks and how they handle some of the main phenomena of syntax Discusses a range of issues that arise in connection with non-transformational approaches, including processing and acquisition

Author : Stefan Müller
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 877 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783961102020

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Grammatical theory by Stefan Müller Pdf

This book introduces formal grammar theories that play a role in current linguistic theorizing (Phrase Structure Grammar, Transformational Grammar/Government & Binding, Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar, Lexical Functional Grammar, Categorial Grammar, Head-​Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Construction Grammar, Tree Adjoining Grammar). The key assumptions are explained and it is shown how the respective theory treats arguments and adjuncts, the active/passive alternation, local reorderings, verb placement, and fronting of constituents over long distances. The analyses are explained with German as the object language. The second part of the book compares these approaches with respect to their predictions regarding language acquisition and psycholinguistic plausibility. The nativism hypothesis, which assumes that humans posses genetically determined innate language-specific knowledge, is critically examined and alternative models of language acquisition are discussed. The second part then addresses controversial issues of current theory building such as the question of flat or binary branching structures being more appropriate, the question whether constructions should be treated on the phrasal or the lexical level, and the question whether abstract, non-visible entities should play a role in syntactic analyses. It is shown that the analyses suggested in the respective frameworks are often translatable into each other. The book closes with a chapter showing how properties common to all languages or to certain classes of languages can be captured. This book is a new edition of http://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/25 and http://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/195.

Author : Andrew Carnie,Heidi Harley,MaryAnn Willie
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2003-03-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027296900

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Formal Approaches to Function in Grammar by Andrew Carnie,Heidi Harley,MaryAnn Willie Pdf

The contributions making up this volume in honor of Eloise Jelinek are written from a formalist perspective that deals with stereotypically functionalist questions about language. Jelinek's pioneering work in formalist syntax has shown that autonomous syntax need not exist in a vacuum. Her work has highlighted the importance of incorporating the effects of discourse and information structure on the syntactic representation. This book aims to invoke Jelinek's work either in substance or spirit. The focus is on Jelinek's influential Pronominal Argument Hypothesis as an "non-configurational" language; the influence of discourse-related interface phenomena on syntactic structure; the syntactic analysis of the grammaticalization; interactions between morphology, phonology and phonetics; and foundational issues about the link between formal grammar and function of language, as well as the methodological issues underlying the different approaches to linguistics.

Author : Joan Bresnan,Ash Asudeh,Ida Toivonen,Stephen Wechsler
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781119099215

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Lexical-Functional Syntax by Joan Bresnan,Ash Asudeh,Ida Toivonen,Stephen Wechsler Pdf

Lexical-Functional Syntax, 2nd Edition, the definitive text for Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) with a focus on syntax, is updated to reflect recent developments in the field. Provides both an introduction to LFG and a synthesis of major theoretical developments in lexical-functional syntax over the past few decades Includes in-depth discussions of a large number of syntactic phenomena from typologically diverse languages Features extensive problem sets and solutions in each chapter to aid in self-study Incorporates reader feedback from the 1st Edition to correct errors and enhance clarity

Author : Mary Dalrymple,Louise Mycock
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 856 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198733300

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The Oxford Reference Guide to Lexical Functional Grammar by Mary Dalrymple,Louise Mycock Pdf

This volume is the most comprehensive reference work to date on Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG). The authors provide detailed and extensive coverage of the analysis of syntax, semantics, morphology, prosody, and information structure, and how these aspects of linguistic structure interact in the nontransformational framework of LFG. The book is divided into three parts. The first part examines the syntactic theory and formal architecture of LFG, with detailed explanations and comprehensive illustration, providing an unparalleled introduction to the fundamentals of the theory. Part two explores non-syntactic levels of linguistic structure, including the syntax-semantics interface and semantic representation, argument structure, information structure, prosodic structure, and morphological structure, and how these are related in the projection architecture of LFG. Chapters in the third part illustrate the theory more explicitly by presenting explorations of the syntax and semantics of a range of representative linguistic phenomena: modification, anaphora, control, coordination, and long-distance dependencies. The final chapter discusses LFG-based work not covered elsewhere in the book, as well as new developments in the theory. The volume will be an invaluable reference for graduate and advanced undergraduate students and researchers in a wide range of linguistic sub-fields, including syntax, morphology, semantics, information structure, and prosody, as well as those working in language documentation and description.

Author : Peter Sells
Publisher : Center for the Study of Language and Information Publications
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1575862433

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Formal and Empirical Issues in Optimality Theoretic Syntax by Peter Sells Pdf

This book collects recent work in OT-LFG (Optimality Theoretic Lexical Functional Grammar) which is developing the empirical coverage of the approach as well as the formal foundations of the OT approach. The papers deal with phenomena in a wide range of languages, including English, Fore, Hindi, Kashmiri, Korean, Marathi. Central to the general approach is the issue of typological implication and the notion of markedness. Additionally, some papers here take up issues related to language production and comprehension (in terms of bidirectional optimization), and some explore the formal foundations. This is a collection of papers which involve a new approach to syntax bringing together Optimality Theory (OT) and Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG). Its importance is precisely in this new approach, which differs from other OT approaches to syntax.

Author : J. Guéron,H.-G. Obenauer,J. -Y. Pollock
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783112328064

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Grammatical Representation by J. Guéron,H.-G. Obenauer,J. -Y. Pollock Pdf

The architecture of the human language faculty has been one of the main foci of the linguistic research of the last half century. This branch of linguistics, broadly known as Generative Grammar, is concerned with the formulation of explanatory formal accounts of linguistic phenomena with the ulterior goal of gaining insight into the properties of the 'language organ'. The series comprises high quality monographs and collected volumes that address such issues. The topics in this series range from phonology to semantics, from syntax to information structure, from mathematical linguistics to studies of the lexicon. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Birgit Sievert

Author : Lori Levin,Malka Rappaport Hovav,Annie Else Zaenen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Functionalism (Linguistics)
ISBN : UCSC:32106006633082

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Papers in Lexical-functional Grammar by Lori Levin,Malka Rappaport Hovav,Annie Else Zaenen Pdf

Author : Mary Dalrymple
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0262041715

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Semantics and Syntax in Lexical Functional Grammar by Mary Dalrymple Pdf

This introduction to and overview of the "glue" approach is the first book to bring together the research of the major contributors to the field. A new, deductive approach to the syntax-semantics interface integrates two mature and successful lines of research: logical deduction for semantic composition and the Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) approach to the analysis of linguistic structure. It is often referred to as the "glue" approach because of the role of logic in "gluing" meanings together. The "glue" approach has attracted significant attention from, among others, logicians working in the relatively new and active field of linear logic; linguists interested in a novel deductive approach to the interface between syntax and semantics within a nontransformational, constraint-based syntactic framework; and computational linguists and computer scientists interested in an approach to semantic composition that is grounded in a conceptually simple but powerful computational framework.This introduction to and overview of the "glue" approach is the first book to bring together the research of the major contributors to the field. Contributors Richard Crouch, Mary Dalrymple, John Fry, Vineet Gupta, Mark Johnson, Andrew Kehler, John Lamping, Dick Oehrle, Fernando Pereira, Vijay Saraswat, Josef van Genabith

Author : Marcel den Dikken
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107354586

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The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax by Marcel den Dikken Pdf

Syntax – the study of sentence structure – has been at the centre of generative linguistics from its inception and has developed rapidly and in various directions. The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax provides a historical context for what is happening in the field of generative syntax today, a survey of the various generative approaches to syntactic structure available in the literature and an overview of the state of the art in the principal modules of the theory and the interfaces with semantics, phonology, information structure and sentence processing, as well as linguistic variation and language acquisition. This indispensable resource for advanced students, professional linguists (generative and non-generative alike) and scholars in related fields of inquiry presents a comprehensive survey of the field of generative syntactic research in all its variety, written by leading experts and providing a proper sense of the range of syntactic theories calling themselves generative.