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Table of Contents
Introduction
To the Student
1.1 Introduction
1.2 "Lexical"
1.3.1 Grammatical Functions
1.3.2 F-structure
1.3.3 Motivation
1.3.4 Consequences
1.4 "Grammar"
Exercises
2.1 Constituent structure in LFG
2.2.1 Lexical categories and their projections
2.2.2 Functional categories
2.2.3 Endocentricity
2.3 Phrase structure rules
2.4 Exocentricity
Exercises
3.1 Grammatical functions
3.2 Well-formedness conditions
3.3.1 Overview
3.3.2 Correspondence
3.3.3 F-descriptions
3.3.4 Functional annotations
3.3.5 Tying it all together
3.3.6 Constraining equations, etc.
3.3.7 Outside-in vs. inside-out designators
3.4 More on c-structure and f-structure
3.5 Appendix: Verbal inflectional features
Exercises
4.1 Function-changing processes
4.2 Problems with the remapping analysis
4.3.1 Thematic structure
4.3.2 Mapping
4.3.3 Unergatives and unaccusatives
4.3.4 Passives and ditransitives
4.4 Appendix: Romance causatives
Exercises
5.1 Preliminary survey
5.2 Equi: Anaphoric control
5.3.1 Raising-to-subject
5.3.2 Raising-to-object
5.3.3 Licensing functional control
5.4 Equi complements
5.5 C-structure
Additional readings
Exercises
6.1 Overview
6.2.1 Functional uncertainty
6.2.2 Direction of licensing
6.2.3 Subjects vs. nonsubjects
6.2.4 On empty categories
6.3 Islands and pied piping
6.4 Relative clauses
6.5 Subjects revisited
Exercises
7.1 Overview
7.2 Prominence
7.3.1 English
7.3.2 Other languages
7.4 Formalization
7.5 On INDEX
Additional readings
Exercises
8.1 Summary
8.2 LFG and other constraint-based theories
8.3 Optimality Theory
8.4 Formalism vs. functionalism
8.5 ILFGA and Internet resources
Additional readings
Appendix A. Glossary
ID rules
LP rules
Operations on a-structure
Lexical entries
References
Index
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