Complex Predicates and Information Spreading in LFG (Stanford Monographs in Linguistics) - Softcover

Andrews, Avery D.; Manning, Christopher D.

 
9781575861647: Complex Predicates and Information Spreading in LFG (Stanford Monographs in Linguistics)
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ISBN 10: 157586164X ISBN 13: 9781575861647
Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Inf, 1999

Synopsis

This book provides a simple but precise framework for describing complex predicates and related constructions, and applies it principally to the analysis of complex predicates in Romance, and certain serial verb constructions in Tariana and Miskitu. The authors argue for replacing the projection architecture of LFG with a notion of differential information spreading within a unified feature structure. Another important feature is the use of the conception of argument-structure in Chris Manning's Ergativity to facilitate the description of how complex predicates are assembled. In both of these aspects the result is a framework that preserves the descriptive parsimony of LFG while taking on key ideas from HPSG.

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Book Description

This book provides a simple but precise framework for describing complex predicates and related constructions, and applies it principally to the analysis of complex predicates in Romance, and certain serial verb constructions in Tariana and Miskitu.

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Publisher
Center for the Study of Language and Inf
Publication date
1999
Language
English
ISBN 10 
157586164X
ISBN 13 
9781575861647
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
164

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