Lexical Mapping Theory

Some recent work on Argument Structure and Lexical Mapping Theory

There is an LMT bibliography under construction at http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg/bresnan/lmtbib.html

Ackerman, Farrell. 1992a. Complex predicates and morpholexical relatedness: locative alternation in Hungarian. In Ivan Sag and Anna Szabolcsi, editors, Lexical Matters. CSLI Publications, Stanford, CA, pages 55--83. CSLI Lecture Notes, number 24.

Alsina, Alex. 1992b. On the argument structure of causatives. Linguistic Inquiry, 23(4):517--555.

Alsina, Alex and Smita Joshi. 1991. Parameters in causative constructions. In Lise M. Dobrin, Lynn Nichols, and Rosa M. Rodriguez, editors, Proceedings of CLS, volume 27, pages 1--15.

Austin, Peter. 1997. Causatives and applicatives in Australian Aboriginal languages. In Kazuto Matsumura and Tooru Hayashi, editors, The Dative and Related Phenomena. Hitsuji Shobo, Tokyo, pages 165--225.

Bresnan, Joan and Annie Zaenen. 1990. Deep unaccusativity in LFG. In Katarzyna Dziwirek, Patrick Farrell, and Errapel Mejias-Bikandi, editors, Grammatical Relations. A Cross-Theoretical Perspective. CSLI Publications, Stanford, CA, pages 45--57.

Bresnan, Joan. 1990c. Monotonicity and the theory of relation-changes in LFG. Language Research, 26(4):637--652.

Joshi, Smita. 1993. Selection of Grammatical and Logical Functions in Marathi. Ph.D. thesis, Stanford University, Department of Linguistics.

Laczko, Tibor. 1995. The Syntax of Hungarian Noun Phrases -- A Lexical-Functional Approach. Peter Lang GmbH, Frankfurt am Main/Berlin/Bern/New York/Paris/Wien. ISBN 3-631-47791-0.

Markantonatou, Stella. 1995. Modern Greek deverbal nominals: an LMT approach. Journal of Linguistics, 31:267--299.

Mchombo, Sam A., editor. 1993d. Theoretical Aspects of Bantu Grammar. CSLI Publications, Stanford, CA. CSLI Lecture Notes, number 38.

Zaenen, Annie. 1994. Unaccusativity in Dutch: Integrating syntax and lexical semantics. In James Pustejovsky, editor, Semantics and the Lexicon. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, pages 129--161.

Zaenen, Annie and Elisabet Engdahl. 1994. Descriptive and theoretical syntax in the lexicon. In B. T. S. Atkins and Antonio Zampolli, editors, Computational Approaches to the Lexicon: Automating the Lexicon II. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pages 181--212.

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