Lexical Functional Syntax 2nd Edition by Joan Bresnan, Ash Asudeh, Ida Toivonen, Stephen Wechsler ISBN 1405187816 9781119105664

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ISBN 10: 1405187816 
ISBN 13: 9781119105664
Author: Joan Bresnan, Ash Asudeh, Ida Toivonen, Stephen Wechsler

Lexical Functional Syntax 2nd Table of contents:

Part I: Motivation for the LFG Architecture

• Introduction

• Note

• Chapter 1: Nonconfigurationality

• Further reading

• Notes

• Chapter 2: Movement Paradoxes

  • 2.1 Theoretical assumptions

  • Further reading and discussion

  • Notes

• Chapter 3: Lexicality and Argument Structure

  • 3.1 Two approaches to passive relation changes

  • 3.2 The lexicality of relation changes

  • 3.3 Passivization with and without movement

  • Further reading and discussion

  • Notes

Part II: Formally Modeling the Architecture

• Introduction

• Chapter 4: A Formal Model of Syntactic Structure

  • 4.1 Design principles

  • 4.2 The definition of f-structures

  • 4.3 The description of f-structures

  • 4.4 The correspondence between c- and f-structures

  • 4.5 The solution algorithm

  • Problems

  • 4.6 Defining versus constraining equations

  • 4.7 Completeness and coherence

  • Problems

  • 4.8 Functional uncertainty

  • 4.9 Sets of f-structures

  • 4.10 Conclusion

  • Further reading

  • Notes

• Chapter 5: Monotonicity and Some of Its Consequences

  • 5.1 Monotonicity

  • 5.2 Relation changes and monotonicity

  • 5.3 Information and form

  • 5.4 Conclusion

  • Notes

Part III: Inflectional Morphology and Phrase Structure Variation

• Introduction

• Chapter 6: A Theory of Structure–Function Mappings

  • 6.1 Grammatical functions

  • 6.2 The organization of c-structure categories

  • Problems

  • 6.3 Exocentric categories

  • 6.4 Toward a typology

  • 6.5 Effects of economy of expression

  • Further reading and discussion

  • Appendix: X′ theory

  • Notes

• Chapter 7: Endocentricity and Heads

  • 7.1 Head mobility

  • 7.2 Endocentricity and extended heads

  • 7.3 Distributed exponence

  • 7.4 Conclusion

  • Problems

  • Exercise

  • Notes

• Chapter 8: Pronoun Incorporation and Agreement

  • 8.1 Chicheŵa

  • 8.2 Navajo

  • Exercise 1

  • Exercise 2

  • 8.3 Plains Cree and inverse agreement

  • Exercise 3

  • Problems

  • Two types of agreement: INDEX and concord

  • Exercise 4

  • Conclusion

  • Further reading and discussion

  • Notes

• Chapter 9: Topicalization and Scrambling

  • 9.1 English topicalization

  • 9.2 Russian topicalization

  • 9.3 Economy of expression

  • Problems

  • Topicalization versus scrambling

  • 9.5 Detecting empty categories

  • Exercise

  • Further reading and discussion

  • Notes

Part IV: On Functional Structures: Binding, Predication, and Control

• Introduction

• Chapter 10: Basic Binding Theory

  • 10.1 Basic concepts

  • 10.2 A toy binding theory

  • 10.3 Principle C

  • Further reading and discussion

  • 10.4 Formalization of the binding constraints

  • Notes

• Chapter 11: Types of Bound Anaphors

  • 11.1 Dimensions of anaphoric binding

  • 11.2 Icelandic: subjective and anti-subjective pronouns

  • 11.3 Norwegian: subjective/nuclear pronouns

  • 11.4 Logophoricity versus subjectivity

  • Further reading and discussion

  • 11.5 The typology of reflexives and the origins of nuclearity

  • Further reading and discussion

  • 11.6 Formalization

  • Notes

• Chapter 12: Predication Relations

  • 12.1 Predicate complements versus adjuncts

  • 12.2 F-structures of XCOMPs

  • Exercise 1

  • Exercise 2

  • 12.3 F-structure of PP complements

  • 12.4 C-structure of predicate complements

  • 12.5 Raising

  • Further reading and discussion

  • Notes

• Chapter 13: Anaphoric Control

  • 13.1 Gerundive versus participial VPs in English

  • 13.2 Structure of gerundive VPs

  • 13.3 Anaphoric control versus functional control

  • 13.4 Conclusion

  • Problems

  • Further reading and discussion

  • Notes

• Chapter 14: From Argument Structure to Functional Structure

  • 14.1 What is argument structure?

  • 14.2 The theory of a-structures

  • 14.3 Mapping a-structures to syntactic functions

  • 14.4 Examples and consequences

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