Lexical-Functional Grammar

Börjars, Kersti; Nordlinger, Rachel; Sadler, Louisa

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“…45 (40) Lexical entry for 46 The notation gf* specifies a possibly empty chain of nested grammatical functions, allowing nonlocal dependencies between the auxiliary's subject and its host. For this and other details of the formalism see Börjars et al 2019or Dalrymple et al 2019 Experimental psycholinguistic studies have found phrase frequency effects on production (e.g. Bannard & Matthews 2008, Janssen & Barber 2012, Arnon & Cohen Priva 2013, Shao et al 2019; see Jacobs et al 2016 for a review of frequency effects of word sequences in production and comprehension.…”

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Formal grammar, usage probabilities, and auxiliary contraction

Bresnan¹

2021

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This article uses formal and usage-based data and methods to argue for a hybrid model of English tensed auxiliary contraction combining lexical syntax with a dynamic exemplar lexicon. The hybrid model can explain why the contractions involve lexically specific phonetic fusions that have become morphologized and lexically stored, yet remain syntactically independent, and why the probability of contraction itself is a function of the adjacent cooccurrences of the subject and auxiliary in usage, yet is also subject to the constraints of the grammatical context. Novel evidence includes a corpus study and a formal analysis of a multiword expression of classic usage-based grammar.

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Formal grammar, usage probabilities, and auxiliary contraction

Bresnan¹

2021

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“…In this study, we explore these puzzling phenomena and suggest a formal account of both noun class agreement with adjectives and semantically motivated use of noun class markers in Kafire. Our formal account is grounded in the lexicalist constraint-based framework of Lexical-Functional Grammar (see Kaplan & Bresnan 1982 for an early formal outline of general principles; Dalrymple et al 2019 for a recent comprehensive overview; Falk 2001, Bresnan et al 2015, Börjars et al 2019 for student-level introductions). We use Lexical-Functional Grammar as our theoretical framework because of its flexible lexicalist architecture: as we explain in the paper, it allows us to treat different kinds of challenging phenomena at different levels of structure.…”

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Noun class agreement in Kafire (Senufo): A Lexical-Functional Grammar account

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2022

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A major challenge presented by noun class systems of Senufo languages is the non-trivial interaction between the agreement features of the noun phrase and the noun class specification on the head noun. In Kafire (Senufo, Côte d’Ivoire), demonstratives normally agree with the head noun independent of whether or not the head noun is modified by adjectives. Some adjectives, however, are exceptions to the general rule: in their presence the demonstrative appears in Class 2 or 3 (depending on the adjective), and fails to agree with the head noun. We present an account of the exceptional behavior of such adjectives within the framework of Lexical-Functional Grammar. We show that agreement in Kafire is a heterogeneous phenomenon that is best viewed as transitional between a system of semantically motivated agreement and a system of noun classes that is no longer dependent on meaning. Vestiges of the old system have been preserved in a variety of phenomena that have to be addressed individually using different kinds of formal tools provided by the framework. The variety of formal devices required to describe the functioning of the agreement system reflects the complex diachrony and the cross-modal (lexico-syntactic) synchronic nature of agreement phenomena.

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“…The notation gf* specifies a possibly empty chain of nested grammatical functions, allowing nonlocal dependencies between the auxiliary's subject and its host. For this and other details of the formalism seeBörjars et al 2019or Dalrymple et al 2019 Experimental psycholinguistic studies have found phrase frequency effects on production (e.g Bannard & Matthews 2008, Janssen & Barber 2012, Arnon & Cohen Priva 2013, Shao et al 2019(Hopper & Traugott 2003).…”

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