· 2015
Lexical-functional syntax
- 1,983citations
- 2015year
Short summary
This work presents a comprehensive framework for lexical-functional syntax, detailing its architecture from universal grammar to phrase structure variation and functional structures.
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Key points
- Explores nonconfigurationality and movement paradoxes as core aspects of universal grammar.
- Presents a formal model for syntactic structure and its consequences.
- Details theories of structure-function mappings, endocentricity, and heads.
- Analyzes pronoun incorporation, agreement, topicalization, and scrambling.
- Covers binding theory, predication relations, and anaphoric control.
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Abstract
Acknowledgements. Prologue. Part I: On the Architecture of Universal Grammar:. 1. Nonconfigurationality. 2. Movement Paradoxes. 3. Lexicality and Argument Structure. Part II: Formally Modelling the Architecture:. 4. A Formal Model of Syntactic Structure. 5. Monotonicity and Some of Its Consequences. Part III: Inflectional Morphology and Phrase Structure Variation:. 6. A Theory of Structure-Function Mappings. 7. Endocentricity and Heads. 8. Pronoun Incorporation and Agreement. 9. Topicalization and Scrambling. Part IV: On Functional Structures: Binding, Predication, and Control:. 10. Basic Binding Theory. 11. Types of Bound anaphors. 12. Predication Relations. 13. Anaphoric Control. 14. From Argument Structure to Functional Structure. Problem Sets and Solutions. References. Index.
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