Abstract
In this paper I discuss weaknesses in the traditional LFG account of complex predicates and in the XLE implementation of the same. I argue that the concept of predicate composition in general, and the mechanisms required to achieve it, are problematic, but that the most problematic element is the concept of argument fusion. I show that a semantically-integrated account of complex predicate formation is possible within LFG+glue, an account which provides a simple and effective formalization of argument fusion, and which does not suffer from the weaknesses of traditional approaches.
Highlights
In this paper I discuss weaknesses in the traditional Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) account of complex predicates and in the XLE implementation of the same
I present an analysis within LFG augmented with glue semantics (LFG+glue; e.g. Dalrymple 2001; Asudeh 2012), which overcomes the weaknesses in previous approaches and even has the potential to account for data which is problematic for previous accounts
Two main formal approaches have developed: one that might reasonably be called the ‘traditional’ LFG approach, which seeks to integrate the analysis of complex predicates with work on argument structure and ‘linking theory’, and a somewhat different approach which is utilized in the computational implementation of LFG, XLE (Crouch et al 2011)
Summary
In this paper I discuss weaknesses in the traditional LFG account of complex predicates and in the XLE implementation of the same. This works, but it suffers from the same problem that we have seen already with regard to the %pred variable: the argx feature is required to account for predicate composition, and its purpose is to enable the manipulation of an otherwise non-manipulable element of f-structure, the semantic form.[10] this analysis must make use of the restriction operator \, as seen in (9).
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