Publication: Papers in LFG now reprinted by CSLI
Tracy Holloway King
thking at parc.com
Fri Apr 7 17:44:30 UTC 2006
New CSLI LFG Publication!
Lexical Semantics in LFG
Ed. Miriam Butt and Tracy Holloway King
Blurb:
This volume is a reissue of `Papers in Lexical Functional Grammar,'
originally published in 1983 and out of print for years.
The papers herein deserve renewed access as they contain foundational
ideas about the interaction between syntax and lexical semantics that
remain highly relevant for current linguistic thinking. Written by
contributors whose relevance in the field has withstood the test of
time, the topics covered include Italian unaccusatives, Malayalam
causatives, derived nominals, resultatives, and non-nominative subjects
in Icelandic. The papers are concerned with how and where lexical
semantic information should be represented and its interaction with the
syntax. All of the papers advocate a representation that allows
operations on predicate-argument relations and grammatical relations to
be independent of structural configurations.
Miriam Butt is professor of linguistics at the University of Konstanz.
Tracy Holloway King is a member of the research staff at the Palo Alto
Research Center.
ISBN:
1575865114 (hardback) $70.00
1575865122 (paperback) $27.50
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