Lexical-Functional Syntax, 2nd Edition, the definitive text for Lexical Functional Grammar
(LFG) with a focus on syntax, is updated to reflect recent developments in the field. Provides …

This book takes a detailed look at two differing complex predicates in the South Asian
language Urdu. The Urdu permissive in particular brings into focus the problem of the syntax …

The lexical integrity principle has been called into question by recent work which
hypothesizes a syntactic phrasal source for inflected words. Bantu morphology provides a …

This study examines the transferability of five Japanese indirect request strategies to
corresponding English request contexts. Pragmatic transferability was operationally defined …

The syntax of the Australian Aboriginal language Warlpiri has led to two opposing models of
non-configurationality: a dual structure hypothesis, which abandons the projection principle …

University in 1992 under the title On the Wordhood of Complex Predicates in Japanese.
Revisions have been made extensively in every chapter, but except for a few sections in …

The interface between syntax and meaning, both semantic and pragmatic, has emerged as
perhaps the richest and most fascinating area of current linguistics theory. This study applies …

Lexical-Functional Grammar was first developed by Joan Bresnan and Ronald M. Kaplan in
the late 1970s, and was designed to serve as a medium for expressing and explaining …

This chapter presents the LFG view of two closely related areas of inquiry: argument
structure, a level of structure which represents the syntactically realisable arguments of a …

This paper examines the syntactic, semantic, morphological, and phonological properties of
a certain type of noun-verb sequence in Hindi, and argues that it is an instance of noun …