This volume is a reissue of Papers in Lexical Functional Grammar,
originally published in 1983 and out of print for years.
The papers herein deserve renewed access as they contain foundational ideas
about the interaction between syntax and lexical semantics that remain
highly relevant for current linguistic thinking. Written by contributors
whose relevance in the field has withstood the test of time, the topics
covered include Italian unaccusatives, Malayalam causatives, derived
nominals, resultatives, and non-nominative subjects in Icelandic. The papers
are concerned with how and where lexical semantic information should be
represented and its interaction with the syntax. All of the papers advocate
a representation that allows operations on predicate-argument relations and
grammatical relations to be independent of structural configurations.
Miriam Butt is a lecturer in Computational Linguistics at the Centre for
Computational Linguistics at UMIST. Tracy Holloway King is a member of the
research staff at the Palo Alto Research Center.
