04519nam 2200697 450 991081271540332120230418164143.09781119099215 (Ebook)1-119-09920-X(CKB)3710000000437300(EBL)2050967(SSID)ssj0001516335(PQKBManifestationID)11816867(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001516335(PQKBWorkID)11482602(PQKB)10284503(DLC) 2015010032(MiAaPQ)EBC2050967(Au-PeEL)EBL2050967(CaPaEBR)ebr11069738(CaONFJC)MIL803619(OCoLC)918985239(EXLCZ)99371000000043730020150708h20162016 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrLexical-functional syntax /Joan Bresnan [and three others]Second edition.Chichester, [England] :Wiley Blackwell,2016.©20161 online resource (533 p.)Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics ;16Description based upon print version of record.1-4051-8781-6 1-119-10566-8 Includes bibliographical references and indexes.Lexical-Functional Syntax; Contents; Preface to the First Edition; What is LFG?; How is it different?; What is in this book?; What is not in this book?; How to use this book; Preface to the Second Edition; Acknowledgments; First edition; Second edition; Part I Motivation for the LFG Architecture; Introduction; 1 Nonconfigurationality; Further reading; 2 Movement Paradoxes; 2.1 Theoretical assumptions; Further reading and discussion; 3 Lexicality and Argument Structure; 3.1 Two approaches to passive relation changes; 3.2 The lexicality of relation changes; 3.2.1 English passive verb forms3.2.2 Adjectives versus verbs3.2.3 Participle-adjective conversion; 3.2.4 Passive participles convert to adjectives; 3.2.5 Differences between adjectival and verbal passives explained; 3.2.6 Differences between adjectival and verbal passives unexplained; 3.2.7 Conclusion: passivization is lexical; 3.3 Passivization with and without movement; Further reading and discussion; Part II Formally Modeling the Architecture; Introduction; 4 A Formal Model of Syntactic Structure; 4.1 Design principles; 4.1.1 Principle I: variability; 4.1.2 Principle II: universality; 4.1.3 Principle III: monotonicity4.2 The definition of f-structures4.3 The description of f-structures; 4.4 The correspondence between c- and f-structures; 4.5 The solution algorithm; Problems; 4.6 Defining versus constraining equations; 4.7 Completeness and coherence; Problems; 4.8 Functional uncertainty; 4.9 Sets of f-structures; 4.10 Conclusion; Further reading; 5 Monotonicity and Some of Its Consequences; 5.1 Monotonicity; 5.2 Relation changes and monotonicity; 5.3 Information and form; 5.3.1 The fragmentability of language; 5.3.2 The nonconfigurationality of language5.3.3 Apparent information flow through external structure5.3.4 Noncompositionality; 5.4 Conclusion; Part III Inflectional Morphology and Phrase Structure Variation; Introduction; 6 A Theory of Structure-Function Mappings; 6.1 Grammatical functions; 6.1.1 Basics of grammatical functions; 6.1.2 Classification of grammatical functions; 6.2 The organization of c-structure categories; 6.2.1 Endocentricity and X' structures; 6.2.2 Endocentric mapping to f-structure; Problems; 6.3 Exocentric categories; 6.3.1 Lexocentricity and S; 6.3.2 S and endocentricity; 6.3.3 Nonprojecting words8.1.4 Interrogatives and relatives"Provides both an introduction to LFG and a synthesis of major theoretical developments in lexical-functional syntax over the past few decades"--Provided by publisher.Blackwell textbooks in linguistics ;16.Grammar, Comparative and generalSyntaxLexical-functional grammarGrammar, Comparative and generalSyntax.Lexical-functional grammar.415LAN009060bisacshBresnan Joan164628Bresnan JoanMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910812715403321Lexical-functional syntax4114201UNINA