Formal Issues in Lexical-Functional Grammar

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Preface Part I. Formal Architecture: 1. The formal architecture of Lexical Functional Grammar Ronald M. Kaplan 2. Lexical Functional Grammar: a formal system for grammatical representation Ronald M. Kaplan and Joan Bresnan Part II. Nonlocal Dependencies: 3. Long-distance dependencies, constituent structure, and functional uncertainty Ronald M. Kaplan and Annie Zaenen 4. Modeling syntactic constrants on anaphoric binding Mary Dalrymple, John T. Maxwell III, and Annie Zaenen 5. An algorithm for functional uncertainty Ronald M. Kaplan and John T. Maxwell III 6. Constituent coordination in lexical functional grammar Ronald M. Kaplan and John T. Maxwell III Part III. Word Order: 7. Formal devices for linguisic generalizations: West Germanic world order in lexical functional grammar Annie Zaenen and Ronald M. Kaplan 8. Linear order, syntactic rank, and empty categories: on weak crossover Joan Bresnan Part IV. Semantics and Translation: 9. Projections and semantic description in lexical-functional grammar Per-Kristian Halvorsen and Ronald M. Kaplan 10. Situation semantics and semantic interpretation in constraint-based grammars Per-Kristian Halvorsen 11. Translation by structural correspondences Ronald M. Kaplan, Klaus Netter, Jurgen Wedekind and Annie Zaenen Part V. Mathematical and Computational Issues: 12. Three seductions of computational psycholinguistics Ronald M. Kaplan 13. Logic and feature structures Mark Johnson 14. A method for disjunctive constraint satisfaction John T. Maxwell III and Ronald M. Kaplan 15. The interface between phrasal and functional constraints John T. Maxwell III and Ronald M. Kaplan.