Complex Predicates And Information Spreading In Lfg

Download or read book Complex Predicates and Information Spreading in LFG written by Avery Delano Andrews and published by Stanford Univ Center for the Study. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a simple but precise framework for describing complex predicates and related constructions, and applies it principally to the analysis of complex predicates in Romance, and certain serial verb constructions in Tariana and Miskitu. The authors argue for replacing the projection architecture of LFG with a notion of differential information spreading within a unified feature structure. Another important feature is the use of the conception of argument-structure in Chris Manning's Ergativity to facilitate the description of how complex predicates are assembled. In both of these aspects the result is a framework that preserves the descriptive parsimony of LFG while taking on key ideas from HPSG.