Abstract
A. Zaenen & M. Dalrymple : The syntactic analysis of French causative constructions relies on the distinction, crucial in the LFG formalism, between the constituent structure (hierarchical : faire takes a VP complement) and the functional structure (flat : faire and the infinitival V form a complex predicate in a unique functional structure). The semantic representation is constructed from the f-structure, lexical semantic information (which specifies semantic roles associated with each predicate), and independent rules which map functions onto semantic roles. This construction takes the general form of a deduction in linear logic, whose property of resource sensitivity is exploited to give the effect of completeness and coherence, which are general constraints on linguistic structures.
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