Architectures, Rules, and Preferences
Variations on Themes by Joan W. Bresnan
edited by Annie Zaenen, Jane Simpson, Tracy Holloway King, Jane Grimshaw, Joan Maling, and Chris Manning
Architectures, Rules, and Preferences reflects the interests and
honors the influence of Joan W. Bresnan's two decades of
foundational work on Lexical-Functional Grammar. This comprehensive
volume includes contributions by leading linguists on language
typology, synchronic variation, language change, constituent
structure, function identification, subject condition, control,
complex predicates, NP internal structure, wh-constructions,
syntactic features, and lexical issues. Featuring an impressive
range of empirical and theoretical research, this collection covers
more than a dozen spoken languages as well as American Sign
Language.
Language typology and synchronic variation are addressed by Borjars,
Nordlinger, Sadler, Seiler, and Vincent. Language change is discussed by
Allen, Borjars, Butt, Ishikawa, and Vincent.
Several papers explore specific syntactic problems of constituent
structure, including NP internal structure (Allen, Yehuda Falk, Fassi
Fehri, Grimshaw, Seiler, and Vinet), function identification (Berman),
the subject condition (Alsina), control (Asudeh and Toivonen), complex
predicates (Ishikawa), traceless accounts of wh-constructions (Dalrymple,
Kaplan, and King) and syntactic features (Alvarez, Borjars, Frederking,
Good, Levin, and Vincent). Lexical issues are explored by Kroeger, Levin,
Peterson, and Rappoport Hovav.
Extensions of the parallel architecture of LFG to information
structure find an expression in work by Butt, Mchombo, Neidle, and Simpson.
Work in LFG incorporating insights from Optimality Theory (OT) is
found in Cho, Choi, Lee and Siaki, whereas Andrews shows how to
develop an OT-LFG with semantic interpretation. Jaeger and Maslova
consider the foundations of stochastic OT.
Annie Zaenen is Principal Scientist at the Palo Alto Research Center and consulting professor at Stanford University.
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- I Division of Labor: Phrase Structure and Functional Structure
- 1 Variation in the NP/DP in Old English
Cynthia L. Allen
- 2 Apparent Copular Inversion and the Theory of Null Subjects
Alex Alsina
- 3 Copy Raising and its Consequences for Perceptual Reports
Ash Asudeh and Ida Toivonen
- 4 Functional Identification of Complement Clauses in German
Judith Berman
- 5 The Absence of Traces: Evidence from Weak Crossover
Mary Dalrymple, Ronald M. Kaplan, and Tracy Holloway King
- 6 Constituent Structure and GFs in the Hebrew Nominal Phrase
Yehuda N. Falk
- 7 Interplay between Manual and Nonmanual Expressions
Carol Neidle
- 8 Verbless Clauses: Revealing the Structure Within
Rachel Nordlinger and Louisa Sadler
- II Morpho-Syntax: Features of Words and their Syntactic Effects
- 9 Number and Classfinder Distributions in Arabic and Chinese
Abdelkader Fassi Fehri and Marie-Thérèse Vinet
- 10 Boxes and Piles and What's in Them
Jane Grimshaw
- 11 An Analysis of Japanese Honorific Predicates
Akira Ishikawa
- 12 Morphosyntactic vs. Morphosemantic Function
Paul Kroeger
- 13 Automatc Learning of Grammatical Encoding
Lori Levin, Jeff good, Alison Alvarez, Robert Frederking
- 14 Number and Case ‘Agreement’ in Coordination
Peter Peterson
- 15 Feature Resolution and the Content of Features
Nigel Vincent and Kersti Börjars
- III Meaning: Semantics and Information Structure
- 16 Input and Glue in OT-LFG
Avery D. Andrews
- 17 The Role of Pronominal Suffices in Punjabi
Miriam Butt
- 18 Dislocation and Split NPs in Chicheŵa
Sam Mchombo
- 19 Deconstructing Thematic Hierarchies
Malka Rappaport Hovav and Beth Levin
- 13 Automatc Learning of Grammatical Encoding
Lori Levin, Jeff good, Alison Alvarez, Robert Frederking
- 20 Expressing Pragmatic Constraints on Word Order
Jane Simpson
- IV Variation
- 21 Melody, Rhythm, and Prosodic Structure in Linguistic Chants
Young-Mee Yu Cho and Mariko Saiki
- 22 Morphological Variation of l-Verbs in Korean
Hye-Won Choi
- 23 Maximum Entropy Models and Stochastic Optimality Theory
Gerhard Jäger
- 24 Constraint Subhierarchies as Syntactic Universals
Hanjung Lee
- 25 Stochastic OT as model of constraint interaction
Elena Maslova
- 26 Microvariation in LFG and OT
Guido Seiler
- Index
December 2007
ISBN (Paperback): 1575865602 (9781575865607)
ISBN (Electronic): 1575868628 (9781575868622)
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