Reducing grammatical functions in LFG

  • The aim of this paper is to reexamine the rich repertoire of grammatical functions assumed in LFG and provide novel arguments for the claim, voiced earlier for example in Alsina et al. 2005, that most of them are redundant. We also demonstrate that a textbook LFG test for the sameness of grammatical functions of different predicates fails on closer scrutiny. Constructively, we propose a more constrained approach to grammatical functions, which, however, has the advantage of formalising the grammatical function hierarchy, assumed in LFG analyses of diverse phenomena but apparently not previously formalised.

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Author:Agnieszka PatejukORCiD, Adam PrzepiórkowskiORCiDGND
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-734765
DOI:https://doi.org/10.21248/hpsg.2016.28
ISSN:1535-1793
Parent Title (English):Proceedings of the ... International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG)
Publisher:CSLI Publications
Place of publication:Stanford, CA
Document Type:Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2016/12/16
Year of first Publication:2016
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Contributing Corporation:Joint Conference on Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar and Lexical Functional (2016 : Warschau)
Release Date:2024/09/12
GND Keyword:Grammatische Relation
Volume:23.2016
Page Number:19
First Page:541
Last Page:559
Dewey Decimal Classification:4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache
4 Sprache / 41 Linguistik / 410 Linguistik
Sammlungen:Linguistik
Linguistik-Klassifikation:Linguistik-Klassifikation: Syntax
Licence (German):License LogoCreative Commons - CC BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International