Argument Realization (Studies in Constraint-Based Lexicalism) - Softcover

Butt, Miriam

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1575862662 ISBN 13: 9781575862668

Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Information, 2001

Synopsis

This volume presents seven essays that survey fundamental argument realization issues within a typologically broad range of languages. The papers examine, within the architecture of Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG), the variety of ways in which arguments of a predicate may be realized in the syntax. LFG allows for the complex interactions of arguments, syntactic positions and grammatical functions. Regardless of the complexity or simplicity of the predicational structure of a clause, the papers included show how the relationship between arguments and their overt realization can be dealt with. The papers also treat multiple case marking in Australian languages, possessor alternation in Welsh, directional complex predicates in American Indian languages and causatives in Japanese. They discuss representational issues that encompass underspecification and the encoding of semantic information needed to determine the correspondence of thematic arguments to their overt syntactic realization.

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About the Author

Miriam Butt is professor for general and computational linguistics at the University of Konstanz. Tracy Holloway King is principal scientist in Adobe's Sensei and Search organization, focusing on natural language processing.

Edition details

• Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Information
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1575862662
• ISBN 13: 9781575862668
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 254