scholarly journals Gender Representation in the Lexical Functional Grammar

2021 ◽  
Vol 04 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kparou, Hanoukoume Cyril ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Generative Grammar ◽  
Grammatical Gender ◽  
French Language ◽  
Gender Representation ◽  
Functional Information ◽  
Structure Mapping ◽  
Functional Grammar ◽  
Lexical Functional Grammar ◽  
Comprehensive Development ◽  
Language Universal

Gender marking is a language universal, although some languages have a stronger Gender-marking grammar. The Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG), a linguistic theory, has a set of rules and levels to render for Gender marking. Bornee and developed within the larger framework of the Generative Grammar, the Lexical Functional Grammar has become a standalone autonomous theoretical theory. This paper draws data from French language to present a comprehensive development of Gender-marking analysis within the Lexical Functional Grammar Framework. Fundamentally, the LSG posits for four phrase structures, which are the C-structure representing lexical entries, the F-structure, which deals with the functional information, the A-structure, which structures predicate-argument relationships, and the ơ-structure, which handles semantic representations. Although the grammatical gender is arrayed all over the four structures, it is mainly presented in this paper as a feature in the lexicon, typically integrated in the C-structure and F-structure mapping.

Background and theoretical assumptions

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Mary Dalrymple ◽  
John J. Lowe ◽  
Louise Mycock
Keyword(s):  
Generative Grammar ◽  
Functional Grammar ◽  
Linguistic Structure ◽  
Lexical Functional Grammar ◽  
Theoretical Assumptions ◽  
Primary Focus ◽  
Syntactic Relations

This chapter sets the scene for the rest of the work. The chapter first describes the historical roots and development of Lexical Functional Grammar, a nontransformational theory of linguistic structure, within the tradition of generative grammar. The chapter then explains the fundamental assumptions of the theory, its lexicalist orientation, and the central role that functional syntactic relations play. Subsequently, the structure of the rest of the book is set out, providing detailed accounts of each part, with brief summaries of each chapter. The chapterthen provides advice on how best to use the book, highlighting the primary focus of chapters and how the chapters relate to specific areas of linguistic structure and analysis, before concluding with references on other LFG overviews and introductions to the theory.

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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