Abstract
<p>This paper aims to give an account of controversial behaviours of complex interaction of verb inection, auxiliary/copula constructions in Japanese in a constraint-based lexicalist formalism, Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG; Kaplan and Bresnan 1982, Bresnan 2001, Dalrymple 2001, Falk 2001). Building on the insight from a construction-based approach to morphosyntax, the present study proposes that multiple lexical items interact with each other to realise a set of TAM features, while maintaining their phrase-structural autonomy. Crucially, the proposal enables us to capture `constructional' exponents realising a certain combination of morphosyntactic features in the inectional paradigm as well as the internal structure of the construction, so that we can observe the emergent properties of the construction in the grammar.</p>
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