33.407, Books: Modular Design of Grammar: Arko, Asudeh, King (eds.)

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Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2022 09:58:48
From: Tyler Simnick [Tyler.Simnick at oup.com]
Subject: Modular Design of Grammar: Arko, Asudeh, King (eds.)

 


Title: Modular Design of Grammar 
Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/modular-design-of-grammar-9780192844842?utm_source=linguistlist&utm_medium=listserv&utm_campaign=linguistics 


Editor: I Wayan Arko
Editor: Ash Asudeh
Editor: Tracy Holloway King

Hardback: ISBN:  9780192844842 Pages: 448 Price: U.S. $ 115


Abstract:

This volume presents the latest research in linguistic modules and interfaces
in Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG). LFG has a highly modular design that
models the linguistic system as a set of discreet submodules that include,
among others, constituent structure, functional structure, argument structure,
semantic structure, and prosodic structure; each module has its own coherent
properties and is related to other modules by correspondence functions.

Following a detailed introduction, Part I examines the nature of linguistic
structures, interfaces, and representations in LFG's architecture and
ontology. Parts II and III are concerned with problems, analyses, and
generalizations associated with linguistic phenomena of long-standing
theoretical significance, including agreement, reciprocals, possessives,
reflexives, raising, subjecthood, and relativization, demonstrating how these
phenomena can be naturally accounted for within LFG's modular architecture.
Part IV explores issues of the synchronic and diachronic dynamics of syntactic
categories in grammar, such as unlike category coordination, fuzzy categorial
edges, and consequences of decategorialization, providing explicit LFG
solutions to such problems, including those resulting from language change in
progress. The final part re-examines and refines the precise representations
and interfaces of syntax with morphology, semantics, and pragmatics to account
for challenging facts such as suspended affixation, prosody in multiple
question word interrogatives and information structure, anaphoric
dependencies, and idioms. The volume draws on data from a range of
typologically diverse languages, including Arabic, Chinese, Icelandic,
Kelabit, Polish, and Urdu, and will be of interest not only to those working
in LFG and related frameworks, but to all those working on linguistic
interfaces from a variety of theoretical standpoints.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories
                     Syntax


Written In: English  (eng)

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