The Mental Representation of Grammatical RelationsJoan Bresnan The editor of this volume, who is also author or coauthor of five of the contributions, has provided an introduction that not only affords an overview of the separate articles but also interrelates the basic issues in linguistics, psycholinguistics and cognitive studies that are addressed in this volume. The twelve articles are grouped into three sections, as follows: "I. Lexical Representation: " The Passive in Lexical Theory (J. Bresnan); On the Lexical Representation of Romance Reflexive Clitics (J. Grimshaw); and Polyadicity (J. Bresnan)."II. Syntactic Representation: " Lexical-Functional Grammar: A Formal Theory for Grammatical Representation (R. Kaplan and J. Bresnan); Control and Complementation (J. Bresnan); Case Agreement in Russian (C. Neidle); The Representation of Case in Icelandic (A. Andrews); Grammatical Relations and Clause Structure in Malayalam (K. P. Monahan); and Sluicing: A Lexical Interpretation Procedure (L. Levin)."III. Cognitive Processing of Grammatical Representations: " A Theory of the Acquisition of Lexical Interpretive Grammars (S. Pinker); Toward a Theory of Lexico-Syntactic Interactions in Sentence Perception (M. Ford, J. Bresnan, and R. Kaplan); and Sentence Planning Units: Implications for the Speaker's Representation of Meaningful Relations Underlying Sentences (M. Ford). |
Contents
List of Contributors | xi |
Grammars Joan Bresnan | xvii |
COGNITIVE PROCESSING | xxiv |
Copyright | |
10 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
accusative adjectival passives adjective adjuncts analysis anaphoric control appear apply baby Bresnan case-marked chapter child child-nom Chomsky clause clitics complement configurations constituent structure constraint constructions controllee corresponding craned dative derived direct object domain English equations example f-description f-structure finite follows formal functional control functional structure girl given grammatical functions grammatical relations hypothesis instantiated interpretation intransitive Jane Fonda Joan Bresnan John Kayne language lexical analysis lexical categories lexical entry lexical form lexical items lexical rule lexical theory lexical-functional lexical-functional grammar linguistic Malayalam mapping Mary matical ment metavariables morphological node nominative noun NP Extraposition OBJ2 passive participle passivized verbs PCASE phrase structure phrase structure rules place-holder predicate argument structure prepositional pronoun properties reflexive Reflexivization representation restrictions schema schemata SCOMP semantic form sentence string subcategorization surface syntactic encoding tabs TENSE thematic roles theme tion transformational transformational grammar transitive verb variable VCOMP SUBJ verbal XCOMP