Formal Issues in Lexical-Functional Grammar
Published on 1. June 1994
Book
Paperback/Softback
400 pages
978-1-881526-36-0 (ISBN)
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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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Stanford
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Paperback (trade)
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Height: 228 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
641 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-881526-36-0 (9781881526360)
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Content
Preface; Part I. Formal Architecture: 1. The formal architecture of Lexical Functional Grammar Ronald M. Kaplan; 2. Lexical Functional Grammar: a formal system for grammatical representation Ronald M. Kaplan and Joan Bresnan; Part II. Nonlocal Dependencies: 3. Long-distance dependencies, constituent structure, and functional uncertainty Ronald M. Kaplan and Annie Zaenen; 4. Modeling syntactic constrants on anaphoric binding Mary Dalrymple, John T. Maxwell III, and Annie Zaenen; 5. An algorithm for functional uncertainty Ronald M. Kaplan and John T. Maxwell III; 6. Constituent coordination in lexical functional grammar Ronald M. Kaplan and John T. Maxwell III; Part III. Word Order: 7. Formal devices for linguisic generalizations: West Germanic world order in lexical functional grammar Annie Zaenen and Ronald M. Kaplan; 8. Linear order, syntactic rank, and empty categories: on weak crossover Joan Bresnan; Part IV. Semantics and Translation: 9. Projections and semantic description in lexical-functional grammar Per-Kristian Halvorsen and Ronald M. Kaplan; 10. Situation semantics and semantic interpretation in constraint-based grammars Per-Kristian Halvorsen; 11. Translation by structural correspondences Ronald M. Kaplan, Klaus Netter, Jurgen Wedekind and Annie Zaenen; Part V. Mathematical and Computational Issues: 12. Three seductions of computational psycholinguistics Ronald M. Kaplan; 13. Logic and feature structures Mark Johnson; 14. A method for disjunctive constraint satisfaction John T. Maxwell III and Ronald M. Kaplan; 15. The interface between phrasal and functional constraints John T. Maxwell III and Ronald M. Kaplan.