LFG Morphosyntax

Some not-so recent work on Morphology, Syntax and the Morphology/Syntax Interface

** Please be warned: This page is rather out of date, and some of the links may not work. For more up-to-date references, check out the proceedings of the annual LFG Conference and the LFG Bibliography. **

There is a very great deal of work in morphosyntax in LFG and this page cannot provide a comprehensive listing of even all the recent work (so apologies in advance for all omissions) or even to mention all the various themes under which this work can be grouped. Instead, I hvae picked out a few themes which I think figure rather prominently in recent work. These include the independent contribution of morphology to functional structure, the relationship between inflectional morphology and syntax (and the notion of functional category), the interaction between morphology and syntax as external means of expression (including notions of competition and blocking) and the morpho-syntactic interface (including definitions of wordhood, and complex predication).

Some information about recent work on argument structure and lexical mapping theory is also available.

The Morphology-Syntax Interface:

Miscreant Morphemes. Farrell Ackerman. 1987. Phd. Thesis. UC Berkeley.

Unification and Morphological Blocking. Avery Andrews. 1990. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory.8/4:507-558.

Morphology Competes with Syntax: Explaining Typological Variation in Weak Crossover Effects. Joan Bresnan. On the Archive

Clitics, affixes and parallel correspondence. Kersti Borjars. In the On-Line Proceedings of LFG98 .

Clitics and the Structure-Function Mapping. Louisa Sadler. In the On-Line Proceedings of LFG97

Scandinavian clause structure and object shift. Peter Sells. In the On-Line Proceedings of LFG98

Cliticisation in European Portuguese Using Parallel Morpho-syntactic Constraints . Berthold Crysmann. In the On-Line Proceedings of LFG97
Agreement and pro-drop in some dialects of English. Kersti Borjars and Carol Chapman. 1998. Linguistics 36.1: 71-9.

The morphosyntax of Finnish possession. Ida Toivonen. To appear in NLLT.

Pronominal incorporation: the case of Hungarian prefixal preverbs. Farrell Ackerman. 1987. In I. Kenesei ed. Approaches to Hungarian Vol. 2. Theories and Analyses. JATE, Szeged.

Toward a Lexical Representation of Phrasal Predicates. Farrell Ackerman and Phil LeSourd. 1997. In A. Alsina. et. al., Complex Predicates. CSLI Publications. 67-106.

Syntactic Categories, Head Movement and Split Inflection

Mixed Categories as Head Sharing Constructions . Joan Bresnan. In the On-Line Proceedings of LFG97

The multiple expression of inflectional information and grammatical architecture. Nin~o, Maria Eugenia. 1997. In Empirical Issues in Formal Syntax and Semantics. Selected Papers from the Colloque de Syntaxe et de Semantique de Paris (CSSP 1995), ed. by Francis Corblin, Daniele Godard, Jean-Marie Marandin. Bern: Peter Lang.

Welsh NPs without Head Movement. Louisa Sadler. In the On-Line Proceedings of LFG98

Two issues in the Syntax of Welsh noun phrases: an LFG approach. Sean Williford On the Archive

The syntax of Mandarin ba. Emily Bender. 1998. On the Archive

On the Notion of Predicate and Complex Predicates

A reexamination of the cross-linguistic parametrization of causative predicates: Japanese perspectives. Yo Matsumoto. In the On-Line Proceedings of LFG98

Directionals as complex predicates in Choctaw.George Aaron Broadwell. In the On-Line Proceedings of LFG98

The Construct Predicate: Empirical arguments and theoretical status. Farrell Ackermann and Gert Webelhuth. In the On-Line Proceedings of LFG96

A note on Complex Predicate Formation: Evidence from Auxiliary Selection, Reflexivization and Past Participle Agreement in French and Italian. Anette Frank. In the On-Line Proceedings of LFG96

Complex predicate scrambling. Miriam Butt. 1994. In Miriam Butt, Tracy Holloway King, and Gillian Ramchand, editors, Theoretical Perspectives on Word Order in South Asian Languages. CSLI Publications, Stanford, CA.

The Structure of Complex Predicates in Urdu. Miriam Butt. 1995. CSLI Publications, Stanford, CA. Dissertations in Linguistics series.

Constraining argument merger through aspect. Miriam Butt. 1998. In E. Hinrichs, A. Kathol, and T. Nakazawa, editors, Syntax and Semantics No. 30: Complex Predicates in Nonderivational Syntax, 73-113. Academic Press.

Complex predicates in Urdu. Miriam Butt. 1997. In Alex Alsina, Joan Bresnan, and Peter Sells, editors, Complex Predicates. CSLI Publications, Stanford, CA, pages 107--149.

Preverbs and Complex Predicates: Dimensions of Wordhood. Ackerman, Farrell and Phil LeSourd. 1994. Proceedings of West Conference of Linguistics, 1-16.

A Theory of Predicates. Ackerman Farrell and Gert Webelhuth. 1998. CSLI Publications.

On Strictly Morphological Issues

Double Case and the wimpishness of Morphology. Kersti Borjars and Nigel Vincent. Presented at LFG97 , but contact authors direct.

Identity of Form, Diffrerence in Function: The Person/Number Paradigm in Western Armenian and North Ostyak . Farrell Ackerman and Irina Nikolaeva. In the On-Line Proceedings of LFG97 .

Paradigms, Periphrases and pronominal inflection: a feature-based account. Kersti Borjars, Nigel Vincent and Carol Chapman. In Yearbook of Morphology, 1996. G. Booij and J. van Marle (eds), Kluwer, 1997: 155-180.

On The Morphology-F-structure Mapping

Constructive Case: Dependent Marking Nonconfigurationality in Australia. Rachel Nordlinger. 1998. CSLI Publications.

The case of subordinate clauses in Australian: a constructive approach . Rachel Nordlinger. 1998.

Nonconfigurational Tense in Wambaya. Rachel Nordlinger and Joan Bresnan On the Archive

English Auxiliaries as Tense Inflections. Louisa Sadler. In the Special Issue of Essex Research Reports produced on the occasion of the retirement of Keith Brown, 1998.

Japanese Postposing Involves No Movement. Peter Sells. Presented at the meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain, Lancaster, April 1998.

Have contraction: explaining "trace effects" in a theory without movement". Julia Barron. 1998. Linguistics 36:223-251.

Syntactic analyses for parallel grammars: Auxiliaries and genitive NPs. Miriam Butt, Christian Fortmann, and Christian Rohrer. 1996. In Proceedings of COLING '96 , Copenhagen.

Multilingual processing of auxiliaries in LFG. Miriam Butt, Maria-Eugenia Nino, and Frederique Segond. 1996. In D. Gibbon, editor, Natural Language Processing and Speech Technology: Results of the 3rd KONVENS Conference. Mouton De Gruyter, pages 111--122. Universitat Bielefeld, 7 - 9 October 1996.

Some information about recent work on argument structure and lexical mapping theory is also available.

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