Nominals: Inside and Out

by Miriam Butt (Editor), Tracy Holloway King (Editor)

Overview

Since the early 1970s, the proper treatment and nominals and nominalization has been fundamental to syntactic theory. And yet a satisfactory approach continues to prove elusive. Working within the framework of Lexical-Functional Grammar, this book discusses the precise reasons why pronouns show particular distributions, why nominalized verbs inherit the predicational power of the verbs they're derived from, and what kind of syntactic category derived nominals should be assigned. Recent developments in LFG make it possible to examine discourse clitics and case markers as well, meaning this collection can address both "classic" nominal issues and novel new perspectives.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781575864747
Publisher:	Center for the Study of Language and Inf
Publication date:	07/01/2003
Series:	Studies in Constraint-Based Lexicalism
Edition description:	1
Pages:	280
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Miriam Butt is professor for general and computational linguistics at the University of Konstanz.

Tracy Holloway King is principal scientist in Adobe's Sensei and Search organization, focusing on natural language processing.

Table of Contents

Contributors
Preface and Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
Miriam Butt and Tracy Holloway King
2. Parallel Optimization in Case Systems
Hanjung Lee
3. Discourse Clitics and Constructive Morphology in Hindi
Devyani Sharma
4. Coordination and Asymmetric Agreement in Welsh
Louisa Sadler
5. Reduced Pronominals and Argument Prominence
Anna Siewierska
6. French Psych Verbs and Derived Nouns
Carmen Kelling
7. Modelling Possessor Constructions In LFG: English and Hungarian
Erika Chisarik and John Payne
8. On Oblique Arguments and Adjuncts of Hungarian Event Nominals
Tibor Laczko
9. Hybrid Constructions in Gikuyu: Agentive Nominalizations and Infinitive-gerund Constructions
John M. Mugane
Language Index
Name Index
Subject Index