scholarly journals Constructional Paradigm in Constraint-based Morphosyntax: A Case of Japanese Verb Inflection

2012 ◽  
Vol 38 ◽  
pp. 371
Author(s):  
Ryo Otoguro
Keyword(s):  
Internal Structure ◽  
Complex Interaction ◽  
Emergent Properties ◽  
Functional Grammar ◽  
Lexical Functional Grammar ◽  
Verb Inflection ◽  
Lexical Items

<p>This paper aims to give an account of controversial behaviours of complex interaction of verb inection, auxiliary/copula constructions in Japanese in a constraint-based lexicalist formalism, Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG; Kaplan and Bresnan 1982, Bresnan 2001, Dalrymple 2001, Falk 2001). Building on the insight from a construction-based approach to morphosyntax, the present study proposes that multiple lexical items interact with each other to realise a set of TAM features, while maintaining their phrase-structural autonomy. Crucially, the proposal enables us to capture `constructional' exponents realising a certain combination of morphosyntactic features in the inectional paradigm as well as the internal structure of the construction, so that we can observe the emergent properties of the construction in the grammar.</p>

PROJECTION OF MULTI-WORDED LEXICAL ENTITIES IN AN INFLECTIONAL LANGUAGE

1995 ◽  
Vol 09 (06) ◽  
pp. 1015-1028 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. SENGUPTA ◽  
B.B. CHAUDHURI
Keyword(s):  
Syntactic Processing ◽  
Functional Grammar ◽  
Implementation Phase ◽  
Lexical Functional Grammar ◽  
Lexical Items ◽  
Two Phases ◽  
Traditional Approaches ◽  
Level Of Analysis

A formalism for lexical projection in a Lexical Functional Grammar based syntactic processing environment, where lexical items may consist of more than one word, has been discussed. It is an extension of an earlier formalism that assumed single-worded lexical entities. It has been shown that traditional approaches of handling multi-worded lexical entities in an LFG environment are not quite suitable for Bangla, the language under study, because these approaches assume configurationality whereas Bangla is non-configurational. A “Supra-Lexical” level of analysis has been proposed and a formalism for such analyses introduced. The proposed formalism consists of two phases—an off-line specification phase and an implementation phase. Some tools that are required, along with the syntax for supra-lexical specification has been introduced with examples. Compilation of the specifications has been discussed.

Typological and theoretical implications

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
John J. Lowe
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Analysis ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Functional Grammar ◽  
Lexical Functional Grammar ◽  
Mixed Categories

This chapter briefly considers the evidence for transitive nouns and adjectives in early Indo-Aryan in both a typological and a theoretical perspective. The fact that most transitive nouns and adjectives in early Indo-Aryan fall under the traditional heading of ‘agent nouns’ (subject-oriented formations) is typologically notable, since while action nouns with verbal government are well-known, the possibility of relatively verbal agent nouns has not always been acknowledged. The theoretical analysis is framed within Lexical-Functional Grammar, and makes use of the concept of ‘mixed’ categories to effect a clear formalization of transitive nouns and adjectives which captures their transitivity while allowing them to remain fundamentally nouns and adjectives in categorial terms.

Lexical-Functional Grammar

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernd Heine ◽  
Heiko Narrog ◽  
Ash Asudeh ◽  
Ida Toivonen
Keyword(s):  
Functional Grammar ◽  
Lexical Functional Grammar

Glue semantics for HPSG

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ash Asudeh ◽  
Richard Crouch
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Semantic Interpretation ◽  
Alternative Form ◽  
Quantifier Scope ◽  
Functional Grammar ◽  
Scope Ambiguity ◽  
Lexical Functional Grammar ◽  
Highly Efficient ◽  
Glue Semantics ◽  
Syntactic Theories

‎The glue approach to semantic interpretation has been developed principally for Lexical Functional Grammar. Recent work has shown how glue can be used with a variety of syntactic theories and this paper outlines how it can be applied to HPSG. As well as providing an alternative form of semantics for HPSG, we believe that the benefits of HPSG glue include the following: (1) simplification of the Semantics Principle; (2) a simple and elegant treatment of modifier scope, including empirical phenomena like quantifier scope ambiguity, the interaction of scope with raising, and recursive modification; (3) an analysis of control that handles agreement between controlled subjects and their coarguments while allowing for a property denotation for the controlled clause; (4) re-use of highly efficient techniques for semantic derivation already implemented for LFG, and which target problems of ambiguity management also addressed by Minimal Recursion Semantics. 

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