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.
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